Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 3187-3192Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/nl301164v
Keywords
Molybdenum disulfide nanosheets; atomically thin crystal; laser-induced thinning; patterning mechanical exfoliation
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- European Union
- Dutch organization for Fundamental Research on Matter (FOM)
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Single-layer MoS2 is an attractive semiconducting analogue of graphene that combines high mechanical flexibility with a large direct bandgap of 1.8 eV. On the other hand, bulk MoS2 is an indirect bandgap semiconductor similar to silicon, with a gap of 1.2 eV, and therefore deterministic preparation of single MoS2 layers is a crucial step toward exploiting the large direct bandgap of monolayer MoS2 in electronic, optoelectronic, and photovoltaic applications. Although mechanical and chemical exfoliation methods can be used to obtain high quality MoS2 single layers, the lack of control in the thickness, shape, size, and position of the flakes limits their usefulness. Here we present a technique for controllably thinning multilayered MoS2 down to a single-layer two-dimensional crystal using a laser. We generate single layers in arbitrary shapes and patterns with feature sizes down to 200 nm and show that the resulting two-dimensional crystals have optical and electronic properties comparable to that of pristine exfoliated MoS2 single layers.
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