How does quantum confinement influence the electronic structure of transition metal sulfides TmS2

Abstract

Bulk MoS2, a prototypical layered transition-metal dichalcogenide, is an indirect band gap semiconductor. Reducing its size to a monolayer, MoS2 undergoes a transition to the direct band semiconductor. We support this experimental observation by first principles calculations and show that quantum confinement in layered d-electron dichalcogenides results in tuning the electronic structure at the nanoscale. We further studied the properties of related TmS2 nanolayers (Tm = W, Nb, Re) and show that the isotopological WS2 exhibits similar electronic properties, while NbS2 and ReS2 remain metallic independent on size.

submitted to PRB on 22nd February 2011, still under revision!

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