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APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
Volume 104, Issue 17, Pages -Publisher
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.4872002
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- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
- National Centre of Competence in Research
- SNF Sinergia grant on atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides
- EU Graphene Flagship
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We perform scanning photocurrent microscopy on WS2 ionic liquid-gated field effect transistors exhibiting high-quality ambipolar transport. By properly biasing the gate electrode, we can invert the sign of the photocurrent showing that the minority photocarriers are either electrons or holes. Both in the electron- and hole-doping regimes the photocurrent decays exponentially as a function of the distance between the illumination spot and the nearest contact, in agreement with a two-terminal Schottky-barrier device model. This allows us to compare the value and the doping dependence of the diffusion length of the minority electrons and holes on a same sample. Interestingly, the diffusion length of the minority carriers is several times larger in the hole accumulation regime than in the electron accumulation regime, pointing out an electron-hole asymmetry in WS2. (C) 2014 AIP Publishing LLC.
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