Atomic Healing of Defects in Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

作者:Lu Junpeng; Carvalho Alexandra; Chan Xinhui Kim; Liu Hongwei; Liu Bo; Tok Eng Soon; Loh Kian Ping; Neto A H Castro*; Sow Chorng Haur
来源:Nano Letters, 2015, 15(5): 3524-3532.
DOI:10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b00952

摘要

As-grown transition metal dichalcogenides are usually chalcogen deficient and therefore contain a high density of chalcogen vacancies, deep electron traps which can act as charged scattering centers, reducing the electron mobility. However, we show that chalcogen vacancies can be effectively passivated by oxygen, healing the electronic structure of the material. We proposed that this can be achieved by means of surface laser modification and demonstrate the efficiency of this processing technique, which can enhance the conductivity of monolayer WSe2 by similar to 400 times and its photoconductivity by similar to 150 times.

  • 出版日期2015-5