ArXiv · 2026
Two-dimensional materials are promising candidates for electronic applications beyond the operating limits of conventional semiconductor technologies. Within this class, transition-metal dichalcogenides offer attractive properties for field-effect transistor operation, with tungsten disulphide (WS₂) emerging as a particularly promising material for operation at cryogenic temperatures. Here, we investigate the electrical performance of a back-gated multilayer WS₂ transistor at deep cryogenic temperature, down to 20 mK. The device remains strongly gate-tunable throughout the cryogenic regime, with an effective on/off current ratio exceeding 10⁵. Most notably, the low-temperature turn-on characteristics exhibit reproducible shoulder-like features, which we describe using a phenomenological model comprising multiple effective conduction branches operating in parallel.
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