Journal
SMALL
Volume 15, Issue 44, Pages -Publisher
WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH
DOI: 10.1002/smll.201903159
Keywords
1T ' MoTe2; complex refractive indices; grain boundary; optical properties; orientation identification
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- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [3102017jc01001, 3102016QD071, 19SH0304] Funding Source: Medline
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [21825103, 51802266, 11634010] Funding Source: Medline
- Natural Science Basic Research Plan in Shaanxi Province of China [2018JQ5192] Funding Source: Medline
- Shaanxi's Key Project of Research and Development Plan [2018KA110052] Funding Source: Medline
- Science and Technology Program of Shaanxi Province [2017KJXX-16] Funding Source: Medline
- Key Research and Development Program [2017YFA0303800] Funding Source: Medline
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Semimetal 1T ' MoTe2 crystals have attracted tremendous attention owing to their anisotropic optical properties, Weyl semimetal, phase transition, and so on. However, the complex refractive indices (n-ik) of the anisotropic semimetal 1T ' MoTe2 still are not revealed yet, which is important to applications such as polarized wide spectrum detectors, polarized surface plasmonics, and nonlinear optics. Here, the linear dichroism of as-grown trilayer 1T ' MoTe2 single crystals is investigated. Trilayer 1T ' MoTe2 shows obvious anisotropic optical absorption due to the intraband transition of d(z)(2) orbits for Mo atoms and p(x) orbits for Te atoms. The anisotropic complex refractive indices of few-layer 1T ' MoTe2 are experimentally obtained for the first time by using the Pinier equation analysis. Based on the linear dichroism of 1T ' MoTe2, angle-resolved polarized optical microscopy is developed to visualize the grain boundary and identify the crystal orientation of 1T ' MoTe2 crystals, which is also an excellent tool toward the investigation of the optical absorption properties in the visible range for anisotropic 2D transition metal chalcogenides. This work provides a universal and nondestructive method to identify the crystal orientation of anisotropic 2D materials, which opens up an opportunity to investigate the optical application of anisotropic semimetal 2D materials.
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