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DS: Fachverband Dünne Schichten
DS 20: 2D materials: Chalcogenides I (joint session HL/DS)
DS 20.3: Talk
Wednesday, March 14, 2018, 10:00–10:15, A 151
Continually tuning the band gap of monolayer MoS2 via mechanical strain — •Mohammad Bahmani1, Mahdi Faghihnasiri2, and Thomas Frauenheim1 — 1BCCMS, Physics Department, Bremen University, Bremen, Germany — 2Physics Department, Shahrood University of Technology, Shahrood, Iran
The idea of tuning material’s properties in a controllable and continuous manner by applying external mechanical field, is really appealing to researchers, particularly working on flexible devices. Several straining techniques have been employed, like bending of a flexible substrate, using of a piezoelectric substrate, controllably wrinkling, growing on a flexible substrate, and using the tip of an atomic force microscope. Since the discovery and synthesizing of semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) materials, studies have shown their high resilience to mechanical deformations in comparison to the conventional 3D semiconductors. On the other hand, electronic structure of the 2D materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), is proven to be very sensitive to structural deformations. In particular, monolayer of MoS2 undergoes a direct-indirect band gap at around 1.5 percent compression and tensile strain. In addition, a semiconducting-metalic transition happens at more than 10 percent stretches. Therefore, we study the tunability of the electronic structure of monolayer MoS2 under 5 distinguished mechanical strain.