Electron-Doping Induced Semiconductor to Metal Transitions in ZrSe2 Layers via Copper Atomic Intercalation
arXiv:1803.08242
Abstract
Atomic intercalation in two dimensional (2D) layered materials can engineer the electronic structure at the atomic scale, bringing out tunable physical and chemical properties which are quite distinct in comparison with pristine one. Among them, electron-doped engineering induced by intercalation is an efficient route to modulate electronic states in 2D layers. Herein, we demonstrate a semiconducting to the metallic phase transition in zirconium diselenide (ZrSe2) single crystal via controllable incorporation of copper (Cu) atoms. Combined with first-principles density functional theory (DFT) calculations, our angle resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) characterizations clearly revealed the emergence of conduction band dispersion at M/L point of Brillouin zone due to Cu-induced electron doping in ZrSe2 interlayers. Moreover, the field-effect transistor (FET) fabricated on ZrSe2 displayed a n-type semiconducting transport behavior, while the Cu-intercalated ZrSe2 posed linear Ids vs Vds curves with metallic character shows n-type doping. The atomic intercalation approach has high potential for realizing transparent electron-doping systems for many specific 2D-based nano-electronics.
arXiv commentThe DFT calculations and ARPES results revealed a transition from semiconducting to metallic characteriztics, indicating by the emergence of conduction band dispersion at M/L point in the Brillouin zone due to the electron doping in ZrSe2 layers originated from atomic Cu intercalation
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