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Nature Communications, volume 11, issue 1, publication number 4604

Transition metal dichalcogenide metamaterials with atomic precision

Munkhbat Battulga ¹

Yankovich A B ¹

Baranov Denis G. ^{1, 2}

Verre Ruggero ¹

Olsson E. ¹

Shegai Timur O. ¹

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Department of Physics, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden |

Center for Photonics and 2D Materials, Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology, Dolgoprudny, Russia |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2020-09-14

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Journal: Nature Communications

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ISSN: 20411723

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-18428-2

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PubMed ID: 32929093

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Abstract

The ability to extract materials just a few atoms thick has led to the discoveries of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other important two-dimensional materials. The next step in promoting the understanding and utility of flatland physics is to study the one-dimensional edges of these two-dimensional materials as well as to control the edge-plane ratio. Edges typically exhibit properties that are unique and distinctly different from those of planes and bulk. Thus, controlling the edges would allow the design of materials with combined edge-plane-bulk characteristics and tailored properties, that is, TMD metamaterials. However, the enabling technology to explore such metamaterials with high precision has not yet been developed. Here we report a facile and controllable anisotropic wet etching method that allows scalable fabrication of TMD metamaterials with atomic precision. We show that TMDs can be etched along certain crystallographic axes, such that the obtained edges are nearly atomically sharp and exclusively zigzag-terminated. This results in hexagonal nanostructures of predefined order and complexity, including few-nanometer-thin nanoribbons and nanojunctions. Thus, this method enables future studies of a broad range of TMD metamaterials through atomically precise control of the structure.

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DO - 10.1038/s41467-020-18428-2

UR - https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41467-020-18428-2

TI - Transition metal dichalcogenide metamaterials with atomic precision

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AU - Munkhbat, Battulga

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AU - Shegai, Timur O.

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@article{2020_Munkhbat,

author = {Battulga Munkhbat and A B Yankovich and Denis G. Baranov and E. Olsson and Timur O. Shegai and Ruggero Verre},

title = {Transition metal dichalcogenide metamaterials with atomic precision},

journal = {Nature Communications},

year = {2020},

volume = {11},

publisher = {Springer Nature},

month = {sep},

url = {https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fs41467-020-18428-2},

number = {1},

doi = {10.1038/s41467-020-18428-2}

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