Issue 37, 2021

Electrical and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides on talc dielectrics

Abstract

Advanced van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure devices rely on the incorporation of high quality dielectric materials which need to possess a low defect density as well as being atomically smooth and uniform. In this work we explore the use of talc dielectrics as a potentially clean alternative substrate to hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) for few-layer transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) transistors and excitonic TMDC monolayers. We find that talc dielectric transistors show small hysteresis which does not depend strongly on sweep rate and show negligible leakage current for our studied dielectric thicknesses. We also show narrow photoluminescence linewidths down to 10 meV for different TMDC monolayers on talc which highlights that talc is a promising material for future van der Waals devices.

Graphical abstract: Electrical and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides on talc dielectrics

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
20 Jul 2021
Accepted
29 Aug 2021
First published
30 Aug 2021
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2021,13, 15853-15858

Electrical and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenides on talc dielectrics

D. Nutting, G. A. Prando, M. Severijnen, I. D. Barcelos, S. Guo, P. C. M. Christianen, U. Zeitler, Y. Galvão Gobato and F. Withers, Nanoscale, 2021, 13, 15853 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR04723J

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