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Atomically thin NbSe2 is a metallic layered transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) with considerably different crystallographic structure and electronic properties from other TMDs, such as MoS2, MoSe2, WS2 and WSe2. Properties of TMD atomic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-09-05 Rui He , Jeremiah van Baren , Jia-An Yan , Xiaoxiang Xi , Zhipeng Ye , Gaihua Ye , I-Hsi Lu , S. M. Leong , C. H. Lui

Transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$ have attracted enormous interest during recent years. They are van-der-Waals crystals with highly anisotropic properties, which allows exfoliation of individual…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-01 Hans Tornatzky , Roland Gillen , Hiroshi Uchiyama , Janina Maultzsch

We derive the frequency shifts and the broadening of $\Gamma$ point longitudinal optical (LO) and transverse optical (TO) phonon modes, due to electron-phonon interaction, in graphene under uniaxial strain as a function of the electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-19 Mohamed Assili , Sonia Haddad

We present results from light scattering experiments on tetragonal FeS with the focus placed on lattice dynamics. We identify the Raman active A1g and B1g phonon modes, a second order scattering process involving two acoustic phonons, and…

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets exhibit remarkable electronic and optical properties. The 2D features, sizable bandgaps, and recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-04 Xin Zhang , Xiao-Fen Qiao , Wei Shi , Jiang-Bin Wu , De-Sheng Jiang , Ping-Heng Tan

We report Raman spectra measurements on a MoS2 monolayer supported on SiO2 as a function of temperature. Unlike in previous studies, the positions of the two main Raman modes, E2g1 and A1g exhibited nonlinear temperature dependence.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-13 Andrzej Taube , Jarosław Judek , Cezariusz Jastrzębski , Anna Duzynska , Krzysztof Świtkowski , Mariusz Zdrojek

Phonon-phonon anharmonic effects have a strong influence on the phonon spectrum; most prominent manifestation of these effects are the softening (shift in frequency) and broadening (change in FWHM) of the phonon modes at finite temperature.…

The electron-phonon interaction and related transport properties are investigated in monolayer silicene and MoS2 by using a density functional theory calculation combined with a full-band Monte Carlo analysis. In the case of silicene, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-12 Xiaodong Li , Jeffrey T. Mullen , Zhenghe Jin , Kostyantyn M. Borysenko , M. Buongiorno Nardelli , Ki Wook Kim

We report the influence of uniaxial tensile mechanical strain in the range 0-2.2% on the phonon spectra and bandstructures of monolayer and bilayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) two-dimensional crystals. First, we employ Raman spectroscopy to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-23 Hiram J. Conley , Bin Wang , Jed I. Ziegler , Richard F. Haglund , Sokrates T. Pantelides , Kirill I. Bolotin

Bulk black phosphorus (BP) consists of puckered layers of phosphorus atoms. Few-layer BP, obtained from bulk BP by exfoliation, is an emerging candidate as a channel material in post-silicon electronics. A deep understanding of its physical…

We report a study of long-range MoS2-substrate interaction using resonant Raman imaging. We observed a strong thickness-dependent peak shift of a Raman-forbidden mode that can be used as a new method of determining the thickness of…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-12-13 Hongyuan Li , Dmitri V. Voronine

We performed comparable polarized Raman scattering studies of MoTe2 and WTe2. By rotating crystals to tune the angle between the principal axis of the crystals and the polarization of the incident/scattered light, we obtained the angle…

Layered inorganic materials, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have attracted much attention due to their exceptional electronic and optical properties. Reliable synthesis and characterization of these materials must be…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-02-08 Maria OBrien , Niall McEvoy , Damien Hanlon , Toby Hallam , Jonathan N. Coleman , Georg S. Duesberg

Atomically thin layer transition metal dichalcogenides have been intensively investigated for their rich optical properties and potential applications in nano-electronics. In this work, we study the incoherent optical phonon and exciton…

Raman and photoluminescence (PL) measurements were performed on suspended and supported MoS2 up to 6 trilayers (TLs). The difference in the dielectric environment of suspended and supported MoS2 does not lead to large differences in the PL…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-05 Jae-Ung Lee , Kangwon Kim , Hyeonsik Cheong

Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations not only allow to predict the vibrational and optical properties of solids but also to understand and disentangle the mechanisms playing a key role in the generation of coherent optical phonons.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-09 A. Levchuk , R. Busselez , G. Vaudel , P. Ruello , V. Juvé , B. Arnaud

We report a comprehensive Raman study of the phonon behaviour in PdSe$_2$ in the temperature range of 5 K to 300 K. A remarkable change in the Raman spectrum is observed at 120 K: a significant enhancement of the out-of-plane phonon…

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures unravel a new platform to study strongly correlated quantum phases. The interlayer coupling in these heterostructures is sensitive to twist angles ($\theta$) and key to controllably tune several exotic…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-03 Rahul Debnath , Indrajit Maity , Manish Jain , Arindam Ghosh

Tantalum diselenide (TaSe$_{2}$) is a metallic transition metal dichalcogenide whose equilibrium structure and vibrational behavior strongly depends on temperature and thickness, including the emergence of charge density wave (CDW) states…

We report a comprehensive study of the two-phonon inter-valley (2D) Raman mode in graphene monolayers, motivated by recent reports of asymmetric 2D-mode lineshapes in freestanding graphene. For photon energies in the range $1.53 \rm eV -…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-26 Stéphane Berciaud , Xianglong Li , Han Htoon , Louis E. Brus , Stephen K. Doorn , Tony F. Heinz