Thermal History-Dependent Current Relaxation in hBN/MoS2 van der Waals Dimers.
ACS Nano
; 14(5): 5909-5916, 2020 May 26.
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ABSTRACT
Combining atomically thin layers of van der Waals (vdW) materials in a chosen vertical sequence is an emerging route to create devices with desired functionalities. While this method aims to exploit the individual properties of partnering layers, strong interlayer coupling can significantly alter their electronic and optical properties. Here we explored the impact of the vdW epitaxy on electrical transport in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) when it forms a vdW dimer with crystalline films of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN). We observe a thermal history-dependent long-term (over â¼40 h) current relaxation in the overlap region of MoS2/hBN heterostructures, which is absent in bare MoS2 layers (or homoepitaxial MoS2/MoS2 dimers) on the same substrate. Concurrent relaxation in the low-frequency Raman modes in MoS2 in the heterostructure region suggests a slow structural relaxation between trigonal and octahedral polymorphs of MoS2 as a likely driving mechanism that also results in inhomogeneous charge distribution in the MoS2 layer. Our experiment yields an aspect of vdW heteroepitaxy that can be generic to electrical devices with atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides.
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ACS Nano
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2020
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India