Abstract
Discovery of two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) demonstrates tremendous potential in the field of thermoelectric since the last decade. Here, we have synthesized 2D TI, Sb2Te3 of various thicknesses in the range 65–400 nm using mechanical exfoliation and studied temperature coefficient in the range 100–300 K using micro-Raman spectroscopy. The temperature dependence of the peak position and line width of phonon modes have been analyzed to determine the temperature coefficient, which is found to be in the order of 10–2 cm−1/K, and it decreases with a decrease in Sb2Te3 thickness. Such low-temperature coefficient would favor to achieve a high figure of merit (ZT) and pave the way to use this material as an excellent candidate for thermoelectric materials. We have estimated the thermal conductivity of Sb2Te3 flake with the thickness of 115 nm supported on 300-nm SiO2/Si substrate which is found to be ~ 10 W/m–K. The slightly higher thermal conductivity value suggests that the supporting substrate significantly affects the heat dissipation of the Sb2Te3 flake.
Introduction
Topological insulators (TIs) are the new class of quantum materials having a wide energy gap in the bulk and surface gap less Dirac-like states, which are protected under time-reversal symmetry [1,2,3]. These materials hold great promise for a broad range of potential applications, including field-effect transistors [4, 5], infrared-THz detectors [6], magnetic field sensors [7, 8] and thermoelectricity [9, 10]. The thermoelectric performance of any material at a temperature T is governed by the dimensionless figure of merit ZT (ZT = S2σT/κ, where S, σ and κ denote the Seebeck coefficient, electrical conductivity and thermal conductivity, respectively [11, 12]. Reduced dimensionality of these materials has been proven to be one of the most common approaches to minimize the thermal conductivity and to obtain high ZT [13]. To minimize the thermal conductivity, it is very important to understand the phonon dynamics in this type of material, particularly the phonon–phonon and electron–phonon interactions, all of which have a great impact on the thermoelectric device performance [14, 15].
Raman scattering has been proved as an important tool for probing the vibrational modes in a material based on its non-destructive and microscopic nature [16, 17]. It also provides important information on doping, strain engineering and crystal phases [18, 19]. While the room-temperature Raman characterizations of phonon modes in various 2D TIs have been well studied in the literature [20, 21], temperature dependence Raman characterizations are still in the nascent stage. Furthermore, it is well known that change of temperature can vary inter-atomic distances and affect various phonon modes in the crystal [14]. Therefore, temperature-dependent Raman spectra are well suitable to obtain information on the thermal conductivity of materials, as well as isotopic effects and phonon lifetimes [22, 23].
In this work, we present power-dependent Raman spectroscopy at room temperature and temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy in the temperature range between 100 and 300 K of 2D Sb2Te3 crystals of various thicknesses. The variation of Raman peak position and full width at half maximum (FWHM) with respect to temperature and power have been analyzed, and the results are interpreted to determine the thermal expansion coefficient and thermal conductivity of Sb2Te3 flakes in the context of thermometry study. The value of thermal conductivity for Sb2Te3 flake with a thickness of 115 nm has been estimated, and the role of the substrate to enhance the thermal conductivity has been discussed.
Methods
Mechanical exfoliation was carried out on high-quality bulk Sb2Te3 crystal (2D Semiconductors, USA) using standard scotch tape technique [24] to obtain Sb2Te3 flakes of different thickness (65 nm, 80 nm, 115 nm, 200 nm and 400 nm) on 300-nm SiO2/Si substrates. Exfoliated samples were identified with the help of an optical microscope (LV100ND- Nikon Microscope). The lateral sizes of the Sb2Te3 nanoflakes are found in the range of 5–7 μm. Park NX-10 AFM (atomic force microscopy) was used to measure the thickness of the Sb2Te3 flakes using non-contact mode.
The Raman spectra were measured on various flakes using a HORIBA LabRAM confocal micro-Raman system in a backscattering geometry using a 632-nm laser excitation. A laser with spot size ~ 1 µm and tunable optical power from ~ 0.4 to 2.6 mW was used as the excitation source. The spectra were collected using a spectrometer equipped with a liquid-nitrogen-cooled CCD camera. The spectra were acquired in the frequency range from 100 to 200 cm−1 with a spectral resolution of 1 cm−1. All the measurements were taken using an integration time of 10 s, acquisitions of 10, and 1800 grating. For room temperature (RT) measurements, 100 × objective was used, while long working distance 50 × objective was used for low-temperature measurements.
Results and Discussion
Sb2Te3 is a TI, which crystallizes in the rhombohedral crystal structure with space group D53d(\(R\overline{3}m\)), and its unit cell contains five atoms [20]. This crystal is formed by stacking five-atom layers along the z-direction, which is known as a quintuple layer (QL) as shown in Fig. 1, with a thickness of about 0.96 nm [20]. From the atomic registry, we can see that the Sb atom is sandwiched between two Te atoms, with the Te(2) atom acting as an inversion centre. This centrosymmetric property of the crystal structure gives rise to mutually independent Raman active modes. The atoms within a single QL are held together by strong covalent forces, while the force between QLs is much weaker and of van der Waal’s type. Due to weak van der Waal force in the out-of-plane direction, it is possible to mechanically exfoliate thin layers of this material from its bulk crystals. Although exfoliated samples retain the composition and structure of bulk crystals, there is a change in phonon dynamics, when its thickness is reduced to the nanoscale level [25, 26].
Optical micrograph (OM) images of three different Sb2Te3 nanoflakes exfoliated on SiO2/Si substrate are shown in Fig. 2a-c. The lateral sizes of the flakes are in the range of 5–7 μm, which are large enough to be observed in OM. One can observe that the color contrast of the flakes is very sensitive to the thickness of the flakes i.e., different thicknesses show different color contrast. The thicknesses of these prepared flakes were measured by atomic force microscopy (AFM), which are displayed in the lower panel of Fig. 2 along with their cross-sectional height profiles (Fig. 2d–f). The thickness values of these flakes were estimated to be 65 nm, 115 nm and 200 nm and were found to be almost uniform except for some bumps. But, all the Raman measurements were taken on the position of the flakes, where uniformity was maintained.
Figure 3 presents the power-dependent Raman spectra of above three flakes measured at room temperature, which consists of four vibrational modes including two Raman active modes E2g and A21g assigned at frequencies ~ 125 cm−1 and ~ 169 cm−1, and two IR active modes A22u and A32u assigned at ~ 115 cm−1 and ~ 144 cm−1, respectively [20, 27]. It is clearly observed that there is a red shift as well as an increase in the peak intensity of all the Raman modes with increase in laser power for all the flakes (65 nm, 115 nm and 200 nm). These changes suggest that the increase in laser power leads to a considerable increase in the local temperature on the surface of the sample [28]. Sb2Te3 flakes with the thicknesses of 115 nm and 200 nm exhibit all the four modes (A22u, E2g, A32u and A21g) for low laser power of 0.402 mW, and A22u and E2g modes are merged together with further increase in power, which can be seen from the asymmetric line width of A22u/E2g modes in Fig. 3b, c. Figure 3a shows Raman spectra of Sb2Te3 flake with a thickness of 65 nm at three different incident laser powers, and the entire spectra exhibit only two Raman modes E2g and A32u at room temperature. In this case, the shape of E2g peaks for all laser powers looks asymmetry, which implies that there is also merging of both A22u and E2g modes similar to thick flakes (115 nm, 200 nm) at high laser power. However, the A21g is completely absent for this thickness. We believe that this mode would be the characteristics of out-of-plane vibration, which would not be so significant for this thickness.
The Raman spectra comparison of three different thicknesses (65 nm, 115 nm and 200 nm) samples at a particular laser power 0.402 mW is presented in Fig. 4a. All the observed Raman modes and their assignments are listed in Table 1. It is very interesting to observe that A21g and A22u modes for 200-nm flake possess more intensity than the other two modes (E2g and A32u). A21g and A22u modes are more sensitive to the thickness because it reflects out-of-plane vibrations and the inter layer van der Walls interactions. In the case of Sb2Te3 flakes with the thickness of 65 nm and 115 nm, the shape of E2g peaks for all laser powers looks asymmetry, which implies that there is a merging of both A22u and E2g modes. However, the A21g is completely absent for Sb2Te3 flake with the thickness of 65 nm. This particular Raman mode would originate due to out-of-plane vibration, which might be unresponsive for this thickness. A red shift is observed for E2g and A32u phonon modes in the case of thinner flakes, similar to that reported by Zang et al. [30], whereas A21g mode shows a slightly blue shift (see Table 1). The peak intensities of 65-nm Sb2Te3 flake are found to be more pronounced than thicker ones under the same excitation laser power, and this phenomenon can be attributed to optical interference enhancements occurring for both the excitation laser and the emitted Raman radiation in the layered TI/SiO2/Si system [30], which is also reported for Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3 [26, 31]. From the power-dependent Raman spectra of 115-nm Sb2Te3 flake (Fig. 3b), the Raman frequencies of E2g & A21g modes have been extracted as a function of laser power as shown in Fig. 4b. The change in the phonon frequency with change in the incident laser power i.e., power coefficient (δω/δP) has been estimated from linear fit to extracted data, which is found to be − 1.59 cm−1/mW and − 1.32 cm−1/mW corresponding to E2g and A21g modes.
The temperature-dependent Raman spectra were measured in the temperature range from 100 to 300 K as shown in Fig. 5 for three different flakes with the thicknesses 80 nm, 115 nm and 400 nm, respectively, at 1.16 mW laser power. The OM, AFM images along with height profiles of 80-nm and 400-nm exfoliated Sb2Te3 flakes are given in Additional file 1: supporting information S1. At the lower temperature of 100 K, four characteristics Raman modes (A22u, E2g, A21g and A32u) of Sb2Te3 are clearly distinguishable, whereas A22u and E2g Raman modes get merge together toward higher temperatures i.e., 220 K and 300 K. Red shift and peak broadening were observed all the Raman modes (A22u, E2g, A21g and A32u) with the increase in temperature from 100 to 300 K. In general, temperature-dependent Raman spectroscopy is widely used to investigate the thermal expansion, thermal conduction and interlayer coupling [15, 31, 32]. In addition, the peak frequency has a linear dependence with the temperature, which is given by [15],
where ω0 is the frequency of vibration of these phonon modes at absolute zero temperature, and χ is the first-order temperature coefficient of these phonon modes. It has been reported that thermal expansion and contraction of the crystal and phonon modes may lead to the dependency of the peak position in Raman spectroscopy with temperature [33].
The peak position versus temperature plots of E2g & A21g modes are shown in Fig. 6a, b, respectively, for different thickness samples. The peak position versus temperature plots (Fig. 6a, b) have been linearly fitted using Eq. 1 to calculate the first-order temperature coefficient (χ), and the values of first-order temperature coefficient for E2g & A21g Raman modes are listed in Table 2. The broadening in FWHMs of E2g & A21g Raman modes with increase of the temperature is shown in Fig. 7a, b, respectively. The temperature dependence of the FWHM is a measure of phonon anharmonicity, and it increases linearly with increase in temperature. The simplest anharmonic approximation, known as the symmetrical three phonon coupling model [34], takes into account the optical phonon decay into two phonons with equal energies and opposite momenta. In the present work, we have calculated the first-order temperature coefficient (χ) and thermal conductivity from temperature-dependent Raman spectra. However, we are not analyzing the FWHM in the context of ZT as it has no such direct relevance to it.
It is observed that the value of first-order temperature coefficients (χ) for E2g and A21g mode is in order of 10–2 cm−1/K. The value of χ corresponding to A21g mode decreases from − 2 × 10–2 to − 1 × 10–2 cm−1/K when the thickness of Sb2Te3 flake is reduced from 400 to 80 nm. Such low χ would give low thermal conductivity and favor to get a high figure of merit (ZT). However, the value of χ corresponding to E2g mode is almost constant and is independent of thickness. Now, we have calculated an approximate value of thermal conductivity of Sb2Te3 flake using the power coefficient and first-order temperature coefficient values. The heat conduction through a surface with the cross-sectional area S can be evaluated from the following equation: \(\partial Q/\partial t = -\kappa{\oint }\nabla T.dS,\) where Q is the amount of heat transferred over the time t and T is the absolute temperature. Considering the radial heat flow, Balandin et al. [40] have derived an expression for thermal conductivity of graphene, which is given by
where h is the thickness of the 2D film of the material and the local temperature rise ΔT is due to the change in heating power ΔP. By differentiating Eq. (1) with respect to power and substituting (ΔP/ΔT) in expression (2), the thermal conductivity can be written as follows,
where κ is thermal conductivity, h is the thickness of the 2D film of the material, χ is the first-order temperature coefficient, and (δω/δP) is change in the phonon frequency with change in the incident laser power i.e., power coefficient of particular Raman modes. The calculated thermal conductivity is found to be ~ 10 W/m–K for Sb2Te3 flake with the thickness of 115 nm supported on 300-nm SiO2/ Si substrate. This value is relatively higher than the reported thermal conductivity of other TI [41]. The slight enhancement in thermal conductivity suggests that the supporting substrate plays a more sensitive role i.e., the value of thermal conductivity might be dependent on interfacial charges [42]. This higher thermal conductivity at the substrate-supported sample can also explain the smaller temperature rise under high laser power in comparison with the suspended sample. The similar substrate effect is also reported in Su et al. for black phosphorus layers [42]. Guo et al. also reported that, in certain regions, the effect of phonon scattering can be suppressed and the thermal conductivity of nanomaterials can be surprisingly increased due to the coupling induced shift of phonon band to the low wave vector [43]. Recently, a theoretical study on the substrate effect of the thermal conductivity of graphene has been also reported. The authors also found that both the reduction and the increment of thermal conductivity can be induced by the substrate, depending on the coupling condition [44]. From Eq. 3, thermal conductivity is directly proportional to the first-order temperature coefficient, and it is well known that figure of merit (ZT) is inversely proportional to the thermal conductivity. Hence, low χ and κ are promising to achieve high ZT.
Further work is in the process to achieve Sb2Te3 nanoflake with thickness less than 7 QL, which is the confinement limit of 2D TI using exfoliation technique with help of special-type scotch tape or by using chemical vapor deposition. Such low thickness flakes are expected to yield a very low-temperature coefficient (~ 10–3 to 10–4 cm−1/K) and a high ZT. With high ZT, 2D Sb2Te3 would have great potential in the field of thermoelectric applications.
Conclusions
In conclusion, we have successfully synthesized 2D Sb2Te3 of various thicknesses in the range of 65–400 nm using mechanical exfoliation and studied the thermometry of these nanoflakes. The temperature dependence of the peak position and line width of phonon modes A21g and E2g modes were analyzed to determine the temperature coefficient, which is found to be in the order of 10–2 cm−1/K. The temperature coefficient in the out-of-plane direction decreases with decrease in Sb2Te3 thickness. Such a low-temperature coefficient would favor to achieve a high ZT and pave the way to use this material as excellent candidates of thermoelectric materials. Using temperature coefficient and power coefficient values, the thermal conductivity of 115-nm Sb2Te3 flake supported on 300-nm SiO2/ Si substrate was estimated to be ~ 10 W/m–K. The slightly higher thermal conductivity compared to other TIs suggests that the supporting substrate significantly affects the heat dissipation of the Sb2Te3 flake.
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Abbreviations
- TIs:
-
Topological insulators
- ZT :
-
Figure of merit
- OM:
-
Optical micrograph
- AFM:
-
Atomic force microscopy
- FWHM :
-
Full width at half maximum
- QL:
-
Quintuple layer
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P.K.N. acknowledges the financial support from Department of Science and Technology, Government of India (DST-GoI), with sanction Order No. SB/S2/RJN-043/2017 under Ramanujan Fellowship. This work was partially supported by DST-GoI that led to the establishment of Nano Functional Materials Technology Centre (NFMTC) (SR/NM/NAT/02−2005 and DST/NM/JIIT-01/2016 (C)).
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Singh, M.P., Mandal, M., Sethupathi, K. et al. Study of Thermometry in Two-Dimensional Sb2Te3 from Temperature-Dependent Raman Spectroscopy. Nanoscale Res Lett 16, 22 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s11671-020-03463-1
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