Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 18, Issue 9, Pages 5373-5381Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b00946
Keywords
Phosphorene; graphene encapsulation; van der Waals heterostructures; direct write oxidation; transmission electron microscopy; electron beam sculpting; local oxidation lithography
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Funding
- Engineering and Physical Sciences (EPSRC) U.K [EP/G035954/1, EP/K016946/1, EP/R019428/1, EP/J021172/1, EP/P009050/1]
- NowNANO Graphene CDT
- Defense Threat Reduction Agency [HDTRA1-12-1-0013]
- European Graphene Flagship Project
- European Research Council through the Hetero2D Synergy grant
- European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union [ERC-2016-STG-EvoluTEM-715502]
- Royal Society
- EPSRC [EP/P025021/1, EP/M010619/1, EP/G035954/1, EP/P009050/1, EP/K005014/1, EP/R019428/1, EP/J021172/1, EP/K016946/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Atomically thin black phosphorus (BP) has attracted considerable interest due to its unique properties, such as an infrared band gap that depends on the number of layers and excellent electronic transport characteristics. This material is known to be sensitive to light and oxygen and degrades in air unless protected with an encapsulation barrier, limiting its exploitation in electrical devices. We present a new scalable technique for nanopatterning few layered BP by direct electron beam exposure of encapsulated crystals, achieving a spatial resolution down to 6 nm. By encapsulating the BP with single layer graphene or hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), we show that a focused electron probe can be used to produce controllable local oxidation of BP through nanometre size defects created in the encapsulation layer by the electron impact. We have tested the approach in the scanning transmission electron microscope (STEM) and using industry standard electron beam lithography (EBL). Etched regions of the BP are stabilized by a thin passivation layer and demonstrate typical insulating behavior as measured at 300 and 4.3 K. This new scalable approach to nanopatterning of thin air sensitive crystals has the potential to facilitate their wider use for a variety of sensing and electronics applications.
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