Electronic structure, surface doping, and optical response in epitaxial WSe2 thin films
- Nanjing Univ., Nanjing (China); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain); Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao (Spain)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Pohang (Korea)
- Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Pohang (Korea); Pusan National Univ., Busan (Korea)
- Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States)
© 2016 American Chemical Society. High quality WSe 2 films have been grown on bilayer graphene (BLG) with layer-by-layer control of thickness using molecular beam epitaxy. The combination of angle-resolved photoemission, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy, and optical absorption measurements reveal the atomic and electronic structures evolution and optical response of WSe 2 /BLG. We observe that a bilayer of WSe 2 is a direct bandgap semiconductor, when integrated in a BLG-based heterostructure, thus shifting the direct-indirect band gap crossover to trilayer WSe 2 . In the monolayer limit, WSe 2 shows a spin-splitting of 475 meV in the valence band at the K point, the largest value observed among all the MX 2 (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) materials. The exciton binding energy of monolayer-WSe 2 /BLG is found to be 0.21 eV, a value that is orders of magnitude larger than that of conventional three-dimensional semiconductors, yet small as compared to other two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogennides (TMDCs) semiconductors. Finally, our finding regarding the overall modification of the electronic structure by an alkali metal surface electron doping opens a route to further control the electronic properties of TMDCs.
- Research Organization:
- SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory (SLAC), Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-76SF00515; AC02-05CH11231
- OSTI ID:
- 1257732
- Alternate ID(s):
- OSTI ID: 1393040
- Report Number(s):
- SLAC-PUB-16566
- Journal Information:
- Nano Letters, Vol. 16, Issue 4; ISSN 1530-6984
- Publisher:
- American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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