中国物理B ›› 2018, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (8): 86804-086804.doi: 10.1088/1674-1056/27/8/086804

• SPECIAL TOPIC—Recent advances in thermoelectric materials and devices • 上一篇    下一篇

High quality PdTe2 thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

En Li(李恩), Rui-Zi Zhang(张瑞梓), Hang Li(李航), Chen Liu(刘晨), Geng Li(李更), Jia-Ou Wang(王嘉鸥), Tian Qian(钱天), Hong Ding(丁洪), Yu-Yang Zhang(张余洋), Shi-Xuan Du(杜世萱), Xiao Lin(林晓), Hong-Jun Gao(高鸿钧)   

  1. 1 Institute of Physics & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • 收稿日期:2018-04-28 修回日期:2018-05-04 出版日期:2018-08-05 发布日期:2018-08-05
  • 通讯作者: Xiao Lin, Hong-Jun Gao E-mail:xlin@ucas.ac.cn;hjgao@iphy.ac.cn

High quality PdTe2 thin films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

En Li(李恩)1, Rui-Zi Zhang(张瑞梓)1, Hang Li(李航)1, Chen Liu(刘晨)2, Geng Li(李更)1, Jia-Ou Wang(王嘉鸥)2, Tian Qian(钱天)1, Hong Ding(丁洪)1, Yu-Yang Zhang(张余洋)1, Shi-Xuan Du(杜世萱)1, Xiao Lin(林晓)1, Hong-Jun Gao(高鸿钧)1   

  1. 1 Institute of Physics & University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China;
    2 Institute of High Energy Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
  • Received:2018-04-28 Revised:2018-05-04 Online:2018-08-05 Published:2018-08-05
  • Contact: Xiao Lin, Hong-Jun Gao E-mail:xlin@ucas.ac.cn;hjgao@iphy.ac.cn

摘要:

PdTe2, a member of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has aroused significant research interest due to the coexistence of superconductivity and type-Ⅱ Dirac fermions. It provides a promising platform to explore the interplay between superconducting quasiparticles and Dirac fermions. Moreover, PdTe2 has also been used as a substrate for monolayer antimonene growth. Here in this paper, we report the epitaxial growth of high quality PdTe2 films on bilayer graphene/SiC(0001) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Atomically thin films are characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), and Raman spectroscopy. The band structure of 6-layer PdTe2 film is measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Moreover, our air exposure experiments show excellent chemical stability of epitaxial PdTe2 film. High-quality PdTe2 films provide opportunities to build antimonene/PdTe2 heterostructure in ultrahigh vacuum for future applications in electronic and optoelectronic nanodevices.

关键词: two-dimensional materials, transition-metal dichalcogenides, PdTe2, molecular beam epitaxy

Abstract:

PdTe2, a member of layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), has aroused significant research interest due to the coexistence of superconductivity and type-Ⅱ Dirac fermions. It provides a promising platform to explore the interplay between superconducting quasiparticles and Dirac fermions. Moreover, PdTe2 has also been used as a substrate for monolayer antimonene growth. Here in this paper, we report the epitaxial growth of high quality PdTe2 films on bilayer graphene/SiC(0001) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Atomically thin films are characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), X-ray photoemission spectroscopy (XPS), low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), and Raman spectroscopy. The band structure of 6-layer PdTe2 film is measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES). Moreover, our air exposure experiments show excellent chemical stability of epitaxial PdTe2 film. High-quality PdTe2 films provide opportunities to build antimonene/PdTe2 heterostructure in ultrahigh vacuum for future applications in electronic and optoelectronic nanodevices.

Key words: two-dimensional materials, transition-metal dichalcogenides, PdTe2, molecular beam epitaxy

中图分类号:  (Scanning tunneling microscopy (including chemistry induced with STM))

  • 68.37.Ef
68.55.-a (Thin film structure and morphology) 81.15.Hi (Molecular, atomic, ion, and chemical beam epitaxy) 61.05.jh (Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) and reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED))