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Title: Electronic structure, surface doping, and optical response in epitaxial WSe2 thin films

Journal Article · · Nano Letters
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  1. Nanjing Univ., Nanjing (China); SLAC National Accelerator Lab., Menlo Park, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  2. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); CIC nanoGUNE, Donostia-San Sebastian (Spain); Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science, Bilbao (Spain)
  3. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
  4. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst., Troy, NY (United States)
  5. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Univ. Autonoma de Madrid, Madrid (Spain)
  6. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Pohang (Korea)
  7. Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai (China)
  8. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  9. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States); Stanford Univ., Stanford, CA (United States); Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  10. Pohang Univ. of Science and Technology, Pohang (Korea); Pusan National Univ., Busan (Korea)
  11. Univ. of Oxford, Oxford (United Kingdom)
  12. Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States); Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
  13. 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
Citation Metrics:
Cited by: 130 works
Citation information provided by
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