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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
Volume 7, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13843
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- Welch Foundation [F-1672]
- US National Science Foundation [DMR-1306878, EFMA-1542747]
- Academia Sinica
- National Basic Research Program of China [2014CB921102]
- Directorate For Engineering
- Emerging Frontiers & Multidisciplinary Activities [1542747] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- Division Of Materials Research
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien [1306878] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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The van der Waals interaction in vertical heterostructures made of two-dimensional (2D) materials relaxes the requirement of lattice matching, therefore enabling great design flexibility to tailor novel 2D electronic systems. Here we report the successful growth of MoSe2 on single-layer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on the Ru(0001) substrate using molecular beam epitaxy. Using scanning tunnelling microscopy and spectroscopy, we found that the quasi-particle bandgap of MoSe2 on hBN/Ru is about 0.25 eV smaller than those on graphene or graphite substrates. We attribute this result to the strong interaction between hBN/Ru, which causes residual metallic screening from the substrate. In addition, the electronic structure and the work function of MoSe2 are modulated electrostatically with an amplitude of similar to 0.13 eV. Most interestingly, this electrostatic modulation is spatially in phase with the Moire pattern of hBN on Ru(0001) whose surface also exhibits a work function modulation of the same amplitude.
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