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NATURE ELECTRONICS
Volume 2, Issue 2, Pages 60-65Publisher
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/s41928-019-0207-4
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- Center for Computational Study of Excited State Phenomena in Energy Materials - US Department of Energy, Office of Science, Basic Energy Sciences, Materials Sciences and Engineering Division [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation EFRI Program [EFMA-1542741]
- Office of Science of the US Department of Energy [DE-AC02-05CH11231]
- National Science Foundation [ACI-1548562]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KL 2961/1-1]
- Singapore National Research Foundation (Clean Energy) PhD Scholarship
- JSPS Overseas Research Fellowship Program
- NSF CAREER award [NSF DMR 1552220]
- Elemental Strategy Initiative
- JSPS
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Owing to their low dimensionality, two-dimensional semiconductors, such as monolayer molybdenum disulfide, have a range of properties that make them valuable in the development of nanoelectronics. For example, the electronic bandgap of these semiconductors is not an intrinsic physical parameter and can be engineered by manipulating the dielectric environment around the monolayer. Here we show that this dielectric-dependent electronic bandgap can be used to engineer a lateral heterojunction within a homogeneous MoS2 monolayer. We visualize the heterostructure with Kelvin probe force microscopy and examine its influence on electrical transport experimentally and theoretically. We observe a lateral heterojunction with an approximately 90 meV band offset due to the differing degrees of bandgap renormalization of monolayer MoS2 when it is placed on a substrate in which one segment is made from an amorphous fluoropolymer (Cytop) and another segment is made of hexagonal boron nitride. This heterostructure leads to a diode-like electrical transport with a strong asymmetric behaviour.
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