Inversion Domain Boundary Induced Stacking and Bandstructure Diversity in Bilayer MoSe2
arXiv:1709.00562 · doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b02600
Abstract
Interlayer rotation and stacking were recently demonstrated as effective strategies for tuning physical properties of various two-dimensional materials. The latter strategy was mostly realized in hetero-structures with continuously varied stacking orders, which obscure the revelation of the intrinsic role of a certain stacking order in its physical properties. Here, we introduce inversion-domain-boundaries into molecular-beam-epitaxy grown MoSe2 homo-bilayers, which induce unusual-fractional lattice translations to their surrounding domains, accounting for the observed diversity of large-area and uniform stacking sequences. Unusual low-symmetric stacking orders were observed using transmission electron microscopy and detailed geometries were identified by density functional theory. A linear relation was also revealed between interlayer distance and stacking energy. These stacking sequences yield various energy alignments between the valence states at Γ and K, showing stacking dependent bandgaps and valence band tail states in the measured scanning tunneling spectroscopy. These results may benefit the design of two-dimensional multilayers with manipulable stacking orders.
to be published in Nano Letters
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