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Large‐Area and High‐Quality 2D Transition Metal Telluride
Author(s) -
Zhou Jiadong,
Liu Fucai,
Lin Junhao,
Huang Xiangwei,
Xia Juan,
Zhang Bowei,
Zeng Qingsheng,
Wang Hong,
Zhu Chao,
Niu Lin,
Wang Xuewen,
Fu Wei,
Yu Peng,
Chang TayRong,
Hsu ChuangHan,
Wu Di,
Jeng HorngTay,
Huang Yizhong,
Lin Hsin,
Shen Zexiang,
Yang Changli,
Lu Li,
Suenaga Kazu,
Zhou Wu,
Pantelides Sokrates T.,
Liu Guangtong,
Liu Zheng
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
advanced materials
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 10.707
H-Index - 527
eISSN - 1521-4095
pISSN - 0935-9648
DOI - 10.1002/adma.201603471
Subject(s) - stacking , materials science , transition metal , bilayer , telluride , superconductivity , chemical vapor deposition , nanotechnology , transmission electron microscopy , engineering physics , condensed matter physics , chemistry , metallurgy , physics , biochemistry , organic chemistry , membrane , catalysis
Large‐area and high‐quality 2D transition metal tellurides are synthesized by the chemical vapor deposition method. The as‐grown WTe 2 maintains two different stacking sequences in the bilayer, where the atomic structure of the stacking boundary is revealed by scanning transmission electron microscopy. The low‐temperature transport measurements reveal a novel semimetal‐to‐insulator transition in WTe 2 layers and an enhanced superconductivity in few‐layer MoTe 2 .