Compliant substrate epitaxy: Au on MoS2

Zhou, Yuzhi; Kiriya, Daisuke; Haller, E. E.; Ager, Joel W.; Javey, Ali; Chrzan, D. C.

doi:10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054106

Title: Compliant substrate epitaxy: Au on ${MoS}_{2}$

Journal Article · Fri Feb 05 00:00:00 EST 2016 · Physical Review B

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.93.054106· OSTI ID:1633219

Zhou, Yuzhi ^[1]; Kiriya, Daisuke ^[1]; Haller, E. E. ^[1]; Ager, Joel W. ^[1]; Javey, Ali ^[1]; Chrzan, D. C. ^[1]

Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

A theory for the epitaxial growth of Au on MoS₂ is developed and analyzed. The theory combines continuum linear elasticity theory with density functional theory to analyze epitaxial growth in this system. It is demonstrated that if one accounts for interfacial energies and strains, the presence of misfit dislocations, and the compliance of the MoS₂ substrate, the experimentally observed growth orientation is favored despite the fact that it represents a larger elastic mismatch than two competing structures. The stability of the experimentally preferred orientation is attributed to the formation of a large number of strong Au-S bonds, and it is noted that this strong bond may serve as a means to exfoliate and transfer large single layers sheets of MoS₂, as well as to engineer strain within single layers of MoS₂. The potential for using a van der Waals-bonded layered material as a compliant substrate for applications in 2D electronic devices and epitaxial thin film growth is discussed.

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Research Organization:: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-05CH11231

OSTI ID:: 1633219

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1237112

Journal Information:: Physical Review B, Vol. 93, Issue 5; ISSN 2469-9950

Publisher:: American Physical Society (APS)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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