Amorphous Boron Nitride: A Universal, Ultrathin Dielectric for 2D Nanoelectronics (Postprint)

Abstract

Next-generation nanoelectronics based on 2D materials ideally will require reliable, flexible, transparent, and versatile dielectrics for transistor gate barriers, environmental passivation layers, capacitor spacers, and other device elements. Ultrathin amorphous boron nitride of thicknesses from 2 to 17 nm, described in this work, may offer these attributes, as the material is demonstrated to be universal in structure and stoichiometric chemistry on numerous substrates including flexible polydimethylsiloxane, amorphous silicon dioxide, crystalline Al2O3, other 2D materials including graphene, 2D MoS2, and conducting metals and metal foils. The versatile, large area pulsed laser deposition growth technique is performed at temperatures less than 200 C and without modifying processing conditions, allowing for seamless integration into 2D device architectures.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 21, 2015
Accession Number
AD1032752

Entities

People

  • Al M. Hilton
  • Andrey A. Voevodin
  • Austin T. Blake
  • Christopher A. Grabowski
  • Christopher Muratore
  • Drew M. Hilgefort
  • Jianjun Hu
  • Michael E. McConney
  • Michael F. Durstock
  • Michael L. Jespersen
  • Nicholas R Glavin
  • Phillip T. Hagerty
  • Timothy S. Fisher

Organizations

  • Air Force Research Laboratory Materials and Manufacturing Directorate

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Advanced Electronics

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Ceramic Materials
  • Chemical Vapor Deposition
  • Chemistry
  • Crystals
  • Dielectric Permittivity
  • Dielectric Properties
  • Dielectrics
  • Energy Bands
  • Lasers
  • Materials
  • Materials Laboratories
  • Materials Processing
  • Materials Science
  • Physical Vapor Deposition
  • Pulsed Lasers
  • Two-Dimensional Materials

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Nanocomposite Materials Science
  • Thin Film Deposition Science.

Technology Areas

  • Directed Energy
  • Directed Energy - Pulsed-Laser Deposition
  • Microelectronics
  • Microelectronics - Graphene