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Van der Waals Epitaxial Growth of 2D Metallic Vanadium Diselenide Single Crystals and their Extra‐High Electrical Conductivity
Author(s) -
Zhang Zhepeng,
Niu Jingjing,
Yang Pengfei,
Gong Yue,
Ji Qingqing,
Shi Jianping,
Fang Qiyi,
Jiang Shaolong,
Li He,
Zhou Xiebo,
Gu Lin,
Wu Xiaosong,
Zhang Yanfeng
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.201702359
Subject(s) - materials science , exfoliation joint , van der waals force , epitaxy , nanotechnology , nanometre , chemical vapor deposition , substrate (aquarium) , condensed matter physics , composite material , layer (electronics) , graphene , chemistry , oceanography , physics , organic chemistry , molecule , geology
2D metallic transition‐metal dichalcogenides (MTMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of materials for the engineering of novel electronic phases, 2D superconductors, magnets, as well as novel electronic applications. However, the mechanical exfoliation route is predominantly used to obtain such metallic 2D flakes, but the batch production remains challenging. Herein, the van der Waals epitaxial growth of monocrystalline, 1T‐phase, few‐layer metallic VSe 2 nanosheets on an atomically flat mica substrate via a “one‐step” chemical vapor deposition method is reported. The thickness of the VSe 2 nanosheets is precisely tuned from several nanometers to several tenths of nanometers. More significantly, the 2D VSe 2 single crystals are found to present an excellent metallic feature, as evidenced by the extra‐high electrical conductivity of up to 10 6 S m −1 , 1–4 orders of magnitude higher than that of various conductive 2D materials. The thickness‐dependent charge‐density‐wave phase transitions are also examined through low‐temperature transport measurements, which reveal that the synthesized 2D metallic 1T‐VSe 2 nanosheets should serve as good research platforms for the detecting novel many‐body states. These results open a new path for the synthesis and property investigations of nanoscale‐thickness 2D MTMDs crystals.