Pub Date : 2024-05-23DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ad4720
Shoaib Khalid, Anderson Janotti and Bharat Medasani
Like in any other semiconductor, point defects in transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are expected to strongly impact their electronic and optical properties. However, identifying defects in these layered two-dimensional materials has been quite challenging with controversial conclusions despite the extensive literature in the past decade. Using first-principles calculations, we revisit the role of chalcogen vacancies and hydrogen impurity in bulk TMDs, reporting formation energies and thermodynamic and optical transition levels. We show that the S vacancy can explain recently observed cathodoluminescence spectra of MoS2 flakes and predict similar optical levels in the other TMDs. In the case of the H impurity, we find it more stable sitting on an interstitial site in the Mo plane, acting as a shallow donor, and possibly explaining the often observed n-type conductivity in some TMDs. We also predict the frequencies of the local vibration modes for the H impurity, aiding its identification through Raman or infrared spectroscopy.
与其他半导体一样,过渡金属二卤化物(TMDs)中的点缺陷预计会对其电子和光学特性产生强烈影响。然而,尽管过去十年间有大量文献报道,但识别这些层状二维材料中的缺陷一直颇具挑战性,而且结论也存在争议。利用第一原理计算,我们重新审视了查尔根空位和氢杂质在块状 TMD 中的作用,报告了形成能量以及热力学和光学转变水平。我们发现,S 空位可以解释最近观测到的 MoS2 薄片阴极发光光谱,并预测其他 TMD 中也存在类似的光学水平。至于 H 杂质,我们发现它位于 Mo 平面的一个间隙位点上更为稳定,起到浅供体的作用,并可能解释在某些 TMD 中经常观察到的 n 型导电性。我们还预测了 H 杂质的局部振动模式频率,有助于通过拉曼光谱或红外光谱对其进行识别。
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Pub Date : 2024-05-21DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ad4b38
Jithin T Surendran, Yunus Waheed, Sumitra Shit, Indrajeet D Prasad, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi and Santosh Kumar
A van der Waals heterostructure containing an atomically thin monolayer (ML) transition-metal dichalcogenide as a single-photon emitting layer is emerging as an intriguing solid-state quantum-photonic platform. Here, we report the utilization of spin-coating of silica nanoparticles for semi-deterministically creating the spectrally isolated, energetically stable, and narrow-linewidth single-photon emitters in ML-WS2. We also demonstrate that long-duration low-temperature annealing of the photonic heterostructure in the vacuum removes the energetically unstable emitters that are present due to fabrication-associated residue and lead to the emission of single-photons in a 25 nm narrowband visible spectral range centered at ~620 nm. This work may pave the way toward realizing a hybrid-quantum-photonic platform containing a van der Waals heterostructure/device and an atomic-vapor system emitting/absorbing in the same visible spectral range.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-10DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ad4611
Nicholas G Richardson, Andrew O’Hara, Sokrates T Pantelides
Ferroelectricity with out-of-plane polarization has so far been found in several two-dimensional (2D) materials, including monolayers comprising three to five planes of atoms, e.g. α-In2Se3 and MoTe2. Here, we explore the generation of out-of-plane polarization within a one-atom-thick monolayer material, namely hexagonal boron nitride. We performed density-functional-theory calculations to explore inducing ferroelectric-like distortions through incorporation of isovalent substitutional impurities that are larger than the host atoms. This disparity in bond lengths causes a buckling of the h-BN, either up or down, which amounts to a dipole with two equivalent energies and opposing orientations. We tested several impurities to explore the magnitude of the induced dipole and the switching energy barrier for dipole inversion. The effects of strain, dipole–dipole interactions, and vertical heterostructures with graphene are further explored. Our results suggest a highly-tunable system with ground state antiferroelectricity and metastable ferroelectricity. We expect that this work will help foster new ways to include functionality in layered 2D-material-based applications.
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Pub Date : 2024-05-09DOI: 10.1088/2053-1583/ad3e0a
N Khan, D Kumar, V Kumar, Y Shemerliuk, S Selter, B Büchner, K Pal, S Aswartham, Pradeep Kumar
The Mermin–Wagner theorem forbids spontaneous symmetry breaking of spins in one/two-dimensional (2D) systems at a finite temperature and rules out the stabilization of this ordered state. However, it does not apply to all types of phase transitions in low dimensions, such as the topologically ordered phase rigorously shown by Berezinskii–Kosterlitz–Thouless (BKT) and experimentally realized in very limited systems such as superfluids and superconducting thin films. Quasi-2D van der Waals magnets provide an ideal platform to investigate the fundamentals of low-dimensional magnetism. We explored the quasi-2D honeycomb antiferromagnetic single crystals of (Ni