Journal
NANO LETTERS
Volume 19, Issue 4, Pages 2647-2652Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b00513
Keywords
2D materials; photothermoelectric effect; anisotropic energy dispersion; WTe2 crystal; electro-optic applications
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- RIE2020 AME programmatic grant: Spin Orbit Technologies for Intelligence at the Edge
- National Research Foundation Singapore under NRF RF award [NRF-RF2013-08]
- MOE Tier 2 grants [MOE2016-T2-2-153, MOE2015-T2-2-007]
- [MOE2015-T2-1-099]
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Band structures are vital in determining the electronic properties of materials. Recently, the two-dimensional (2D) semimetallic transition metal tellurides (WTe2 and MoTe2) have sparked broad research interest because of their elliptical or open Fermi surface, making distinct from the conventional 2D materials. In this study, we demonstrate a centrosymmetric photothermoelectric voltage distribution in WTe2 nanoflakes, which has not been observed in common 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2. Our theoretical model shows the anomalous photothermoelectric effect arises from an anisotropic energy dispersion and micrometer-scale hot carrier diffusion length of WTe2. Further, our results are more consistent with the anisotropic tilt direction of energy dispersion being aligned to the b-axis rather than the a-axis of the WTe2 crystal, which is consistent with the previous first-principle calculations as well as magneto-transport experiments. Our work shows the photothermoelectric current is strongly confined to the anisotropic direction of the energy dispersion in WTe2, which opens an avenue for interesting electro-optic applications such as electron beam collimation and electron lenses.
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