Oxygen-Induced In Situ Manipulation of the Interlayer Coupling and Exciton Recombination in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D Heterostructures
Abstract
Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures are more than a sum of the parent 2D materials, but are also a product of the interlayer coupling, which can induce new properties. In this paper, we present a method to tune the interlayer coupling in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D heterostructures by regulating the oxygen presence in the atmosphere, while applying laser or thermal energy. Our data suggest that the interlayer coupling is tuned through the diffusive intercalation and deintercalation of oxygen molecules. When one layer of Bi2Se3 is grown on monolayer MoS2, an influential interlayer coupling is formed, which quenches the signature photoluminescence (PL) peaks. However, thermally treating in the presence of oxygen disrupts the interlayer coupling, facilitating the emergence of the MoS2 PL peak. Our density functional theory calculations predict that intercalated oxygen increases the interlayer separation ∼17%, disrupting the interlayer coupling and inducing the layers to behave more electronically independent. The interlayer coupling can then be restored by thermally treating in N2 or Ar, where the peaks will requench. Hence, this is an interesting oxygen-induced switching between “non-radiative” and “radiative” exciton recombination. This switching can also be accomplished locally, controllably, and reversibly using a low-power focused laser, while changing the environment from pure N2 tomore »
- Authors:
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- Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States). Dept. of Physics
- Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA (United States). Physics Dept. and Center for Interdisciplinary Research on Complex Systems
- Naval Research Lab. (NRL), Washington, DC (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) (United States). Center for Complex Materials from First Principles (CCM); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States). National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1527368
- Grant/Contract Number:
- FG02-07ER46352; AC02-05CH11231; SC0012575
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 17; Journal ID: ISSN 1944-8244
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society (ACS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE; transition metal dichalcogenides; bismuth selenide; 2D materials; interlayer coupling; intercalation
Citation Formats
Hennighausen, Zachariah, Lane, Christopher, Benabbas, Abdelkrim, Mendez, Kevin, Eggenberger, Monika, Champion, Paul M., Robinson, Jeremy T., Bansil, Arun, and Kar, Swastik. Oxygen-Induced In Situ Manipulation of the Interlayer Coupling and Exciton Recombination in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D Heterostructures. United States: N. p., 2019.
Web. doi:10.1021/acsami.9b02929.
Hennighausen, Zachariah, Lane, Christopher, Benabbas, Abdelkrim, Mendez, Kevin, Eggenberger, Monika, Champion, Paul M., Robinson, Jeremy T., Bansil, Arun, & Kar, Swastik. Oxygen-Induced In Situ Manipulation of the Interlayer Coupling and Exciton Recombination in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D Heterostructures. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b02929
Hennighausen, Zachariah, Lane, Christopher, Benabbas, Abdelkrim, Mendez, Kevin, Eggenberger, Monika, Champion, Paul M., Robinson, Jeremy T., Bansil, Arun, and Kar, Swastik. Mon .
"Oxygen-Induced In Situ Manipulation of the Interlayer Coupling and Exciton Recombination in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D Heterostructures". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.9b02929. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1527368.
@article{osti_1527368,
title = {Oxygen-Induced In Situ Manipulation of the Interlayer Coupling and Exciton Recombination in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D Heterostructures},
author = {Hennighausen, Zachariah and Lane, Christopher and Benabbas, Abdelkrim and Mendez, Kevin and Eggenberger, Monika and Champion, Paul M. and Robinson, Jeremy T. and Bansil, Arun and Kar, Swastik},
abstractNote = {Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures are more than a sum of the parent 2D materials, but are also a product of the interlayer coupling, which can induce new properties. In this paper, we present a method to tune the interlayer coupling in Bi2Se3/MoS2 2D heterostructures by regulating the oxygen presence in the atmosphere, while applying laser or thermal energy. Our data suggest that the interlayer coupling is tuned through the diffusive intercalation and deintercalation of oxygen molecules. When one layer of Bi2Se3 is grown on monolayer MoS2, an influential interlayer coupling is formed, which quenches the signature photoluminescence (PL) peaks. However, thermally treating in the presence of oxygen disrupts the interlayer coupling, facilitating the emergence of the MoS2 PL peak. Our density functional theory calculations predict that intercalated oxygen increases the interlayer separation ∼17%, disrupting the interlayer coupling and inducing the layers to behave more electronically independent. The interlayer coupling can then be restored by thermally treating in N2 or Ar, where the peaks will requench. Hence, this is an interesting oxygen-induced switching between “non-radiative” and “radiative” exciton recombination. This switching can also be accomplished locally, controllably, and reversibly using a low-power focused laser, while changing the environment from pure N2 to air. This allows for the interlayer coupling to be precisely manipulated with submicron spatial resolution, facilitating site-programmable 2D light-emitting pixels whose emission intensity could be precisely varied by a factor exceeding 200×. Our results show that these atomically thin 2D heterostructures may be excellent candidates for oxygen sensing.},
doi = {10.1021/acsami.9b02929},
journal = {ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces},
number = 17,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Mon Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2019},
month = {Mon Apr 08 00:00:00 EDT 2019}
}
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