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Raman spectroscopic investigations on transition‐metal dichalcogenides MX 2 (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) at high pressures and low temperature
Author(s) -
Bhatt Sandip V.,
Deshpande M. P.,
Sathe Vasant,
Rao Rekha,
Chaki S. H.
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
journal of raman spectroscopy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.748
H-Index - 110
eISSN - 1097-4555
pISSN - 0377-0486
DOI - 10.1002/jrs.4580
Subject(s) - raman spectroscopy , chalcogen , anharmonicity , chemistry , hydrostatic pressure , analytical chemistry (journal) , isobaric process , phonon , isothermal process , resonance (particle physics) , crystallography , condensed matter physics , thermodynamics , atomic physics , optics , physics , chromatography
Transition‐metal dichalcogenides have been investigated using Raman spectroscopy both being off‐resonance and in resonance. The first‐order Raman spectra of MoS 2 , MoSe 2 , WS 2 and WSe 2 single crystal synthesized by vapor transport technique have been studied as a function of hydrostatic pressure (0–20 GPa) and temperature (80–300 K). Isobaric and isothermal mode‐Grüneisen parameters have been determined from the temperature and pressure‐dependent Raman spectra. The pressure dependence of the chalcogen–chalcogen and metal–chalcogen force constant has been obtained using a central force model. Separation of the temperature dependence of Raman mode wavenumbers into quasi‐harmonic and purely anharmonic contributions using measured high‐pressure Raman data allows us to extract the changes in the phonon wavenumbers arising exclusively due to anharmonic interactions. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.