A Delamination Strategy for Thinly Layered Defect-Free High-Mobility Black Phosphorus Flakes

Angewandte Chemie
Sheng YangXinliang Feng

Abstract

Extraordinary electronic and photonic features render black phosphorus (BP) an important material for the development of novel electronics and optoelectronics. Despite recent progress in the preparation of thinly layered BP flakes, scalable synthesis of large-size, pristine BP flakes remains a major challenge. An electrochemical delamination strategy is demonstrated that involves intercalation of diverse cations in non-aqueous electrolytes, thereby peeling off bulk BP crystals into defect-free flakes comprising only a few layers. The interplay between tetra-n-butylammonium cations and bisulfate anions promotes a high exfoliation yield up to 78 % and large BP flakes up to 20.6 μm. Bottom-gate and bottom-contact field-effect transistors, comprising single BP flakes only a few layers thick, exhibit a high hole mobility of 252±18 cm2  V-1  s-1 and a remarkable on/off ratio of (1.2±0.15)×105 at 143 K under vacuum. This efficient and scalable delamination method holds great promise for development of BP-based composites and optoelectronic devices.

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Jan 23, 2020·Advanced Materials·Guillaume SchweicherYves H Geerts
Feb 1, 2020·Advanced Materials·Sheng YangXinliang Feng
Mar 13, 2020·Chemistry : a European Journal·Thanh-Hai LeHyeonseok Yoon
Jan 30, 2020·Advanced Science·Shameel Thurakkal, Xiaoyan Zhang
Jun 10, 2020·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America·Zhen ZhangXinliang Feng
Oct 30, 2020·Nanoscale·Qicheng ZhangXiaobin Fan
Aug 26, 2021·Royal Society Open Science·Lin TaoNengjie Huo

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