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Title: Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors

Abstract

Three-dimensional confinement allows semiconductor quantum dots to exhibit size-tunable electronic and optical properties that enable a wide range of opto-electronic applications from displays, solar cells and bio-medical imaging to single-electron devices. Additional modalities such as spin and valley properties in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provide further degrees of freedom requisite for information processing and spintronics. In nanostructures, however, spatial confinement can cause hybridization that inhibits the robustness of these emergent properties. Here in this paper, we show that laterally-confined excitons in monolayer MoS2 nanodots can be created through top-down nanopatterning with controlled size tunability. Unlike chemically-exfoliated monolayer nanoparticles, the lithographically patterned monolayer semiconductor nanodots down to a radius of 15 nm exhibit the same valley polarization as in a continuous monolayer sheet. The inherited bulk spin and valley properties, the size dependence of excitonic energies, and the ability to fabricate MoS2 nanostructures using semiconductor-compatible processing suggest that monolayer semiconductor nanodots have potential to be multimodal building blocks of integrated optoelectronics and spintronics systems

Authors:
 [1];  [2];  [3];  [3];  [2]; ORCiD logo [4]
  1. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Applied Physics Program
  2. Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States). Center for Nanoscale Materials
  3. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
  4. Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Applied Physics Program; Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
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Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)
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USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Science Foundation (NSF)
OSTI Identifier:
1420072
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC02-06CH11357; SC0012130
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Scientific Reports
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 7; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher:
Nature Publishing Group
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; Electronic properties and materials; Nanoparticles; Quantum dots; Two-dimensional materials

Citation Formats

Wei, Guohua, Czaplewski, David A., Lenferink, Erik J., Stanev, Teodor K., Jung, Il Woong, and Stern, Nathaniel P. Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors. United States: N. p., 2017. Web. doi:10.1038/s41598-017-03594-z.
Wei, Guohua, Czaplewski, David A., Lenferink, Erik J., Stanev, Teodor K., Jung, Il Woong, & Stern, Nathaniel P. Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03594-z
Wei, Guohua, Czaplewski, David A., Lenferink, Erik J., Stanev, Teodor K., Jung, Il Woong, and Stern, Nathaniel P. Mon . "Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-017-03594-z. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1420072.
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title = {Size-tunable Lateral Confinement in Monolayer Semiconductors},
author = {Wei, Guohua and Czaplewski, David A. and Lenferink, Erik J. and Stanev, Teodor K. and Jung, Il Woong and Stern, Nathaniel P.},
abstractNote = {Three-dimensional confinement allows semiconductor quantum dots to exhibit size-tunable electronic and optical properties that enable a wide range of opto-electronic applications from displays, solar cells and bio-medical imaging to single-electron devices. Additional modalities such as spin and valley properties in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides provide further degrees of freedom requisite for information processing and spintronics. In nanostructures, however, spatial confinement can cause hybridization that inhibits the robustness of these emergent properties. Here in this paper, we show that laterally-confined excitons in monolayer MoS2 nanodots can be created through top-down nanopatterning with controlled size tunability. Unlike chemically-exfoliated monolayer nanoparticles, the lithographically patterned monolayer semiconductor nanodots down to a radius of 15 nm exhibit the same valley polarization as in a continuous monolayer sheet. The inherited bulk spin and valley properties, the size dependence of excitonic energies, and the ability to fabricate MoS2 nanostructures using semiconductor-compatible processing suggest that monolayer semiconductor nanodots have potential to be multimodal building blocks of integrated optoelectronics and spintronics systems},
doi = {10.1038/s41598-017-03594-z},
journal = {Scientific Reports},
number = 1,
volume = 7,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017},
month = {Mon Jun 12 00:00:00 EDT 2017}
}

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