Journal
FRONTIERS OF PHYSICS
Volume 15, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
HIGHER EDUCATION PRESS
DOI: 10.1007/s11467-020-0952-x
Keywords
two-dimensional materials; metal-insulator transition; layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs); surface oxidation
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- Guangdong Innovative and Entrepreneurial Research Team Program, China [2016ZT06D348]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11574128, 11874193]
- Shenzhen Fundamental Subject Research Program, China [JCYJ20170817110751776]
- NSF [DMR-1808491]
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Recently, the layered transition metal dichalcogenide 1T '-MoTe2 has generated considerable interest due to their superconducting and non-trivial topological properties. Here, we present a systematic study on 1T '-MoTe2 single-crystal and exfoliated thin-flakes by means of electrical transport, scanning tunnelling microscope (STM) measurements and band structure calculations. For a bulk sample, it exhibits large magneto-resistance (MR) and Shubnikov-de Hass oscillations in rho xx and a series of Hall plateaus in rho xy at low temperatures. Meanwhile, the MoTe2 thin films were intensively investigated with thickness dependence. For samples, without encapsulation, an apparent transition from the intrinsic metallic to insulating state is observed by reducing thickness. In such thin films, we also observed a suppression of the MR and weak anti-localization (WAL) effects. We attributed these effects to disorders originated from the extrinsic surface chemical reaction, which is consistent with the density functional theory (DFT) calculations and in-situ STM results. In contrast to samples without encapsulated protection, we discovered an interesting superconducting transition for those samples with hexagonal Boron Nitride (h-BN) film protection. Our results indicate that the metallic or superconducting behavior is its intrinsic state, and the insulating behavior is likely caused by surface oxidation in few layer 1T'-MoTe2 flakes.
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