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Granted Patent B2
US 9,935,184 · App. 14/528,338 · Granted Apr 3, 2018

Electronic device including a tunneling layer

Inventors: Kyungeun Byun (Uijeongbu-si, KR); Jisoo Kyoung (Seoul, KR); Seongjun Park (Seoul, KR); Hyeonjin Shin (Suwon-si, KR); Hyunjae Song (Hwaseong-si, KR); Jaeho Lee (Seoul, KR)
Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
H01L29/66977H01L29/456H01L29/78
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Patent No.
US 9,935,184
App. No.
14/528,338
Granted
Apr 3, 2018
Kind
B2
Abstract

An electronic device includes a semiconductor layer, a tunneling layer formed of a material including a two-dimensional (2D) material so as to directly contact a certain region of the semiconductor layer, and a metal layer formed on the tunneling layer.

Claims (12)

1. An electronic device comprising:

a semiconductor layer;

a tunneling layer including a two-dimensional (2D) material directly contacting a certain region of the semiconductor layer; and

a metal layer formed on the tunneling layer and in direct contact with the tunneling layer;

the semiconductor layer having a doping density that is 10 19 cm −3 or less only in the certain region.

2. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling layer includes the 2D material configured to pass electrons therethrough.

3. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling layer includes a 2D laminated transition metal chalcogenide nanosheet.

4. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling layer comprises at least one layer of a plate-shaped structure material including a combination of at least one of titanium (Ti), zirconium (Zr), hafnium (Hf), vanadium (V), niobium (Nb), tantalum (Ta), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), technetium (Tc), rhenium (Re), cobalt (Co), rhodium (Rh), iridium (Ir), nickel (Ni), palladium (Pd), and platinum (Pt), and at least one of sulfur (S), selenium (Se), and tellurium (Te).

5. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling layer comprises at least one layer of a plate-shaped structure material including a hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN).

6. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the tunneling layer comprises a dopant capable of changing a Fermi level of a plate-shaped structure material.

7. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor layer comprises a semiconductor substrate.

8. The electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the semiconductor layer comprises at least one of silicon, germanium, silicon-germanium, II-VI group semiconductors, and III-V group semiconductors.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Oct 30, 2014
From: BYUN, KYUNGEUN; KYOUNG, JISOO; PARK, SEONGJUN; SHIN, HYEONJIN; SONG, HYUNJAE; LEE, JAEHO
To: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.
Reel/Frame 034073/0186 →
Priority Claims (1)
KR 10-2013-0147524 · Nov 29, 2013 · national
Continuity (1)
Related Publication 20150155374A1 · Jun 4, 2015