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NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
卷 7, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11983
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- SUTD-MIT International Design Center (IDC)
- Designer Chalcogenides [IDSF1200108OH]
- SUTD Startup Research Grant [SRGEPD2012040]
- SUTD-MIT postdoctoral fellowship
- NSF [DMR-1410636, DMR-1120901]
- Ramon y Cajal programme [RYC-2013-14838]
- Marie Curie Career Integration Grant [PCIG12-GA-2013-618487]
- Fundacio Privada CELLEX
- Severo Ochoa Programme [SEV-2015-0522]
Strain engineering is an emerging route for tuning the bandgap, carrier mobility, chemical reactivity and diffusivity of materials. Here we show how strain can be used to control atomic diffusion in van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) crystals. We use strain to increase the diffusivity of Ge and Te atoms that are confined to 5 angstrom thick 2D planes within an Sb2Te3-GeTe van der Waals superlattice. The number of quintuple Sb2Te3 2D crystal layers dictates the strain in the GeTe layers and consequently its diffusive atomic disordering. By identifying four critical rules for the superlattice configuration we lay the foundation for a generalizable approach to the design of switchable van der Waals heterostructures. As Sb2Te3-GeTe is a topological insulator, we envision these rules enabling methods to control spin and topological properties of materials in reversible and energy efficient ways.
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