Large Memory Window of van der Waals Heterostructure Devices Based on MOCVD-Grown 2D Layered Ge₄Se₉

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have drawn much interest over the last decade owing to their absence of dangling bonds and their intriguing low-dimensional properties. The emergence of 2D materials has enabled the achievement of significant progress in both the discovery of physical phenomena and the realization of superior devices. In this work, the group IV metal chalcogenide 2D-layered Ge₄Se₉ is introduced as a new selection of insulating vdW material. 2D-layered Ge₄Se₉ is synthesized with a rectangular shape using the metalcorganic chemical vapor deposition system using a liquid germanium precursor at 240 °C. By stacking the Ge₄Se₉ and MoS₂, vdW heterostructure devices are fabricated with a giant memory window of 129 V by sweeping back gate range of ±80 V. The gate-independent decay time reveals that the large hysteresis is induced by the interfacial charge transfer, which originates from the low band offset. Moreover, repeatable conductance changes are observed over the 2250 pulses with low non-linearity values of 0.26 and 0.95 for potentiation and depression curves, respectively. The energy consumption of the MoS₂/Ge₄Se₉ device is about 15 fJ for operating energy and the learning accuracy of image classification reaches 88.3%, which further proves the great potential of artificial synapses.