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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 6, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/srep19624
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- National Key Project for Basic Research [2014CB921002]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [11504254, 11374225, 11574227, 11304193]
- Research Grant Council of Hong Kong [701813]
- Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions
- USTS Cooperative Innovation Center for Functional Oxide Films and Optical Information
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Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), a layered transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD), has recently demonstrated an extremely large magnetoresistance effect, which is unique among TMDs. This fascinating feature seems to be correlated with its special electronic structure. Here, we report the observation of 6 Raman peaks corresponding to the A(2)(4), A(1)(9), A(1)(8), A(1)(6), A(1)(5) and A(1)(2) phonons, from the 33 Raman-active modes predicted for WTe2. This provides direct evidence to distinguish the space group of WTe2 from those of other TMDs. Moreover, the Raman evolution of WTe2 from bulk to monolayer is clearly revealed. It is interesting to find that the A(2)(4) mode, centered at similar to 109.8 cm(-1), is forbidden in a monolayer, which may be attributable to the transition of the point group from C-2v (bulk) to C-2h (monolayer). Our work characterizes all observed Raman peaks in the bulk and few-layer samples and provides a route to study the physical properties of two-dimensional WTe2.
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