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MoS2 Nanosheets Sensitized with Quantum Dots for Room-Temperature Gas Sensors

https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0394-6
Jingyao Liu
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Zhixiang Hu
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Yuzhu Zhang
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Hua‑Yao Li
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Naibo Gao
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Zhilai Tian
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Licheng Zhou
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Baohui Zhang
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Jiang Tang
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Jianbing Zhang
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Fei Yi
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China
Huan Liu
School of Optical and Electronic Information, Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, 1037 Luoyu Road, Wuhan 430074, People’s Republic of China

Corresponding Author: Huan Liu

huan@hust.edu.cn

Nano-Micro Letters, Vol. 12 (2020), Article Number: 59

Abstract

The Internet of things for environment monitoring requires high performance with low power-consumption gas sensors which could be easily integrated into large-scale sensor network. While semiconductor gas sensors have many advantages such as excellent sensitivity and low cost, their application is limited by their high operating temperature. Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials, typically molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanosheets, are emerging as promising gas-sensing materials candidates owing to their abundant edge sites and high in-plane carrier mobility. This work aims to overcome the sluggish and weak response as well as incomplete recovery of MoS2 gas sensors at room temperature by sensitizing MoS2 nanosheets with PbS quantum dots (QDs). The huge amount of surface dangling bonds of QDs enables them to be ideal receptors for gas molecules. The sensitized MoS2 gas sensor exhibited fast and recoverable response when operated at room temperature, and the limit of NO2 detection was estimated to be 94 ppb. The strategy of sensitizing 2D nanosheets with sensitive QD receptors may enhance receptor and transducer functions as well as the utility factor that determine the sensor performance, offering a powerful new degree of freedom to the surface and interface engineering of semiconductor gas sensors.


Highlights:


1 Highly sensitive and selective room-temperature NO2 gas sensors by sensitizing MoS2 nanosheets with PbS quantum dots were demonstrated. In this device architecture, the receptor and transduction function as well as the utility factor of semiconductor gas sensors could be enhanced simultaneously.
2 The strategy of sensitizing 2D semiconductors with quantum dots as sensitive and selective receptors for gas molecules may offer a powerful new degree of freedom to the surface and interface engineering of semiconductor gas sensors.

Keywords

Gas sensor Room temperature Molybdenum disulfide Quantum dot Nitrogen dioxide
Liu, Jingyao, Zhixiang Hu, Yuzhu Zhang, Hua‑Yao Li, Naibo Gao, Zhilai Tian, Licheng Zhou, Baohui Zhang, Jiang Tang, Jianbing Zhang, Fei Yi, and Huan Liu. 2020. “MoS2 Nanosheets Sensitized With Quantum Dots for Room-Temperature Gas Sensors”. Nano-Micro Letters 12 (February):59. https://doi.org/10.1007/s40820-020-0394-6.
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