Epitaxial Growth and Determination of Band Alignment of Bi2Te3–WSe2 Vertical van der Waals HeterojunctionsShow others and affiliations
2020 (English)In: ACS Materials Letters, E-ISSN 2639-4979, Vol. 2, no 10, p. 1351-1359Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]
Artificial heterojunctions formed by vertical stacking of dissimilar two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer materials in a chosen sequence hold tantalizing prospects for futuristic atomically thin circuits. The emergence of 2D topological insulators (TI), including Bi2Te3, Bi2Se3, and Sb2Te3, represents a new class of 2D building blocks and can complement the existing artificial heterojunctions as a result of their intriguing surface states protected by the time-reversal symmetry. However, the determination of band alignments of such 2D TI/TMD vertical heterojunctions, the key parameter for designing HJ-based electronic/photonic devices, which lies in the development of epitaxy growth, remains in its infancy. Here, we demonstrate the epitaxy growth of 2D TI/TMD vertical heterojunctions comprised of Bi2Te3/WSe2 with atomically clean interfaces that are spectroscopically accessible, and theoretically tractable. Cross-sectional scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) images and the presence of interlayer-coupled characteristics from Raman spectroscopy collectively confirm the neat stacking of Bi2Te3/WSe2 with the absence of unwanted containments. Microbeam X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (ΌXPS) measurement coupled with the density functional theory (DFT) calculations and electrical characteristics of field effect transistors quantitatively reveals the type-II alignment of vertically stacked of quintuple layers (QL) Bi2Te3/WSe2. Meanwhile, the type-III band emerges when transitioning to multi-quintuple layer (MQL) Bi2Te3/WSe2. The finding here provides a well-defined example of the epitaxy growth paradigm, the interlayer coupling-electronic properties relationship, for these emerging 2D TI/TMDs vertical heterojunctions. © 2020 American Chemical Society.
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American Chemical Society (ACS), 2020. Vol. 2, no 10, p. 1351-1359
Keywords [en]
Alignment, Density functional theory, Electric field effects, Electronic properties, Field effect transistors, Heterojunctions, High resolution transmission electron microscopy, Scanning electron microscopy, Transition metals, Van der Waals forces, X ray photoelectron spectroscopy, Cross-sectional scanning, Electrical characteristic, Electronic/photonic devices, Interlayer coupling, Time reversal symmetries, Transition metal dichalcogenides, Two Dimensional (2 D), Vertical stacking, Bismuth compounds
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Applied Physics
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URN: urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-81359DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.0c00254ISI: 000580377900009Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85094927800OAI: oai:DiVA.org:ltu-81359DiVA, id: diva2:1499767
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Validerad;2020;Nivå 2;2020-11-10 (johcin)
2020-11-102020-11-102023-09-05Bibliographically approved