Room
temperature electron mobility of >100 cm2 V–1 s–1 is achieved for a few-layer
MoS2 transistor by use of a polyanionic proton conductor
as the top-gate dielectric of the device. The use of a proton conductor
that inherently exhibits a cationic transport number close to 1 yields
unipolar electron transport in the MoS2 channel. The high
mobility value is attributed to the effective formation of an electric
double layer by the proton conductor, which facilitates electron injection
into the MoS2 channel, and to the effective screening of
the charged impurities in the vicinity of the device channel. Through
careful temperature-dependent transistor and capacitor measurements,
we also confirm quenching of the phonon modes in the proton-conductor-gated
MoS2 channel, which should also contribute to the achieved
high mobility. These devices are then used to assemble a simple resistive-load
inverter logic circuit, which can be switched at high frequencies
above 1 kHz.