Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus
Abstract
The strength of interlayer coupling critically affects the physical properties of 2D materials such as black phosphorus (BP), where the electronic structure depends sensitively on layer thickness. Rigid-layer vibrations reflect directly the interlayer coupling strength in 2D van der Waals solids, but measurement of these characteristic frequencies is made difficult by sample instability and small Raman scattering cross sections in atomically thin elemental crystals. Here, we overcome these challenges in BP by performing resonance-enhanced low-frequency Raman scattering under an argon-protective environment. Interlayer breathing modes for atomically thin BP were previously unobservable under conventional (nonresonant) excitation but became strongly enhanced when the excitation energy matched the sub-band electronic transitions of few-layer BP, down to bilayer thicknesses. The measured out-of-plane interlayer force constant was found to be 10.1 × 1019 N/m3 in BP, which is comparable to graphene. Accurate characterization of the interlayer coupling strength lays the foundation for future exploration of BP twisted structures and heterostructures.
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- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States); Boston Univ., MA (United States)
- Massachusetts Inst. of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA (United States)
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Tohoku Univ., Sendai (Japan)
- Boston Univ., MA (United States)
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1805022
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC05-00OR22725
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nano Letters
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 21; Journal Issue: 11; Journal ID: ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical Society
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 77 NANOSCIENCE AND NANOTECHNOLOGY; rigid-layer lattice vibrations; black phosphorus; resonance Raman scattering; interlayer interaction; interband electronic transitions
Citation Formats
Mao, Nannan, Lin, Yuxuan, Bie, Ya-Qing, Palacios, Tomás, Liang, Liangbo, Saito, Riichiro, Ling, Xi, Kong, Jing, and Tisdale, William A. Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus. United States: N. p., 2021.
Web. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00917.
Mao, Nannan, Lin, Yuxuan, Bie, Ya-Qing, Palacios, Tomás, Liang, Liangbo, Saito, Riichiro, Ling, Xi, Kong, Jing, & Tisdale, William A. Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus. United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00917
Mao, Nannan, Lin, Yuxuan, Bie, Ya-Qing, Palacios, Tomás, Liang, Liangbo, Saito, Riichiro, Ling, Xi, Kong, Jing, and Tisdale, William A. Fri .
"Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus". United States. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00917. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1805022.
@article{osti_1805022,
title = {Resonance-Enhanced Excitation of Interlayer Vibrations in Atomically Thin Black Phosphorus},
author = {Mao, Nannan and Lin, Yuxuan and Bie, Ya-Qing and Palacios, Tomás and Liang, Liangbo and Saito, Riichiro and Ling, Xi and Kong, Jing and Tisdale, William A.},
abstractNote = {The strength of interlayer coupling critically affects the physical properties of 2D materials such as black phosphorus (BP), where the electronic structure depends sensitively on layer thickness. Rigid-layer vibrations reflect directly the interlayer coupling strength in 2D van der Waals solids, but measurement of these characteristic frequencies is made difficult by sample instability and small Raman scattering cross sections in atomically thin elemental crystals. Here, we overcome these challenges in BP by performing resonance-enhanced low-frequency Raman scattering under an argon-protective environment. Interlayer breathing modes for atomically thin BP were previously unobservable under conventional (nonresonant) excitation but became strongly enhanced when the excitation energy matched the sub-band electronic transitions of few-layer BP, down to bilayer thicknesses. The measured out-of-plane interlayer force constant was found to be 10.1 × 1019 N/m3 in BP, which is comparable to graphene. Accurate characterization of the interlayer coupling strength lays the foundation for future exploration of BP twisted structures and heterostructures.},
doi = {10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c00917},
journal = {Nano Letters},
number = 11,
volume = 21,
place = {United States},
year = {Fri May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021},
month = {Fri May 28 00:00:00 EDT 2021}
}
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