Semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are provided. A semiconductor device according to the present disclosure includes a channel member including a first channel layer and a second channel layer over the first channel layer, and a gate structure over the channel member. The first channel layer includes silicon, germanium, a III-V semiconductor, or a II-VI semiconductor and the second channel layer includes a two-dimensional material.

The present invention relates to a method for assembling molecules on the surface of a two-dimensional material formed on a substrate, the method comprises: forming a spacer layer comprising at least one of an electrically insulating compound or a semiconductor compound on the surface of the two-dimensional material, depositing molecules on the spacer layer, annealing the substrate with spacer layer and the molecules at an elevated temperature for an annealing time duration, wherein the temperature and annealing time are such that at least a portion of the molecules are allowed to diffuse through the spacer layer towards the surface of the two-dimensional material to assemble on the surface of the two-dimensional material. The invention also relates to an electronic device.

An electronic or optoelectronic device includes: (1) a layer of a first material; and (2) a layer of a second material disposed on the layer of the first material, wherein the first material is different from the second material, and the layer of the first material is spaced from the layer of the second material by a gap.

There is provided a method of manufacturing a transistor, the method comprising: (a) providing a substrate having a semiconductor surface; (b) providing a graphene layer structure on a first portion of the semiconductor surface, wherein the graphene layer structure has a thickness of n graphene monolayers, wherein n is at least 2; (c) etching a first portion of the graphene layer structure to reduce the thickness of the graphene layer structure in said first portion to from n−1 to 1 graphene monolayers; (d) forming a layer of dielectric material on the first portion of the graphene layer structure; and (e) providing: a source contact on a second portion of the graphene layer structure; a gate contact on the layer of dielectric material; and a drain contact on a second portion of the semiconductor surface of the substrate.

A stacked structure may include a first material layer, a two-dimensional material layer on the first material layer, and a second material layer on the two-dimensional material layer. The two-dimensional material layer may include a plurality of holes that each expose a portion of the first material layer. The second material layer may be coupled to the first material layer through the plurality of holes.

In order to enable simple removal of a substrate used for manufacturing a semiconductor element, a manufacturing method includes forming a graphene layer on a substrate portion formed of a semiconductor, forming an element portion on the graphene layer, the element portion including a semiconductor layer directly formed on the graphene layer, which takes over crystal information relating to the substrate portion when the semiconductor layer is formed on the substrate portion without intermediation of the graphene layer, and performing cutting-off between the substrate portion and the element portion at the graphene layer.

Provided are a layer structure including a configuration capable of increasing the operation characteristics of a device including the layer structure, a method of manufacturing the layer structure, an electronic device including the layer structure, and an electronic apparatus including the electronic device. The layer structure includes a first layer and a second layer on one surface of the first layer and facing the first layer. The first layer and the second layer overlap each other. One layer of the first layer and the second layer has a trace of applied strain, and an other layer of the first layer and the second layer is a strain-inducing layer that applies a strain to the one layer.

A semiconductor device according to an embodiment may include a board, an insulation layer disposed on the board, a threshold voltage control layer disposed on the insulation layer, a first semiconductor layer disposed on the threshold voltage control layer, and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the threshold voltage control layer to cover a portion of the first semiconductor layer. A negative differential resistance device according to an embodiment has an advantageous effect in that the gate voltage enables a peak voltage to be freely controlled within an operation range of the device by forming the threshold voltage control layer.

Disclosed is a method for preparing a graphyne including: supplying a precursor represented by the following Chemical Formula 1 to a chamber including a first zone and a second zone; vaporizing or subliming the precursor in the first zone; and depositing the precursor vaporized or sublimed in the second zone on a metal substrate to form the graphyne:

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A stacked device is provided. The stacked device includes a plurality of dielectric support bridges on a substrate, and a first two-dimensional (2D) channel layer on each of the plurality of dielectric support bridges. The stacked device further includes a gate dielectric sheet on the first two-dimensional (2D) channel layer, and a second two-dimensional (2D) channel layer on the first two-dimensional (2D) channel layer. The stacked device further includes a second gate dielectric layer on the gate dielectric sheets.