We report the structural and electrical characterization of tungsten oxides formed by illuminating multi-layer tungsten diselenide (WSe2) nanosheets with an intense laser beam in the ambient environment. A noninvasive microwave impedance microscope (MIM) was used to perform electrical imaging of the samples. The local conductivity ~100 S/m of the oxidized product, measured by the MIM and conventional transport experiments, is much higher than that of the pristine WSe2, suggesting the formation of sub-stoichiometric WO3-x polycrystals with n-type carriers. With further efforts to improve the conductivity of the oxides, the laser-assisted oxidation process may be useful for patterning conductive features on WSe2 or forming electrical contacts to various transition metal dichalcogenides.
@article{arxiv.1602.06639,
title = {Laser-assisted Oxidation of Multi-layer Tungsten Diselenide Nanosheets},
author = {Cheng Tan and Yingnan Liu and Harry Chou and Joon-Seok Kim and Di Wu and Deji Akinwande and keji Lai},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06639},
year = {2016}
}
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12 pages, 3 figures To be published in Appl. Phys. Lett.,2016