ACS Nano
ACS Nano
5 years ago

Thermally Strained Band Gap Engineering of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Bilayers with Enhanced Light–Matter Interaction toward Excellent Photodetectors

Thermally Strained Band Gap Engineering of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenide Bilayers with Enhanced Light–Matter Interaction toward Excellent Photodetectors
Yindong Qu, Hao-Chung Kuo, Chun-Chia Wu, Zhiming Wang, Yu-Lun Chueh, Po-Tsung Lee, Kuo-Bin Hong, Teng-Yu Su, Sheng-Wen Wang, Zhi-Quan Huang, Feng-Chuan Chuang, Arumugam Manikandan, Henry Medina
Integration of strain engineering of two-dimensional (2D) materials in order to enhance device performance is still a challenge. Here, we successfully demonstrated the thermally strained band gap engineering of transition-metal dichalcogenide bilayers by different thermal expansion coefficients between 2D materials and patterned sapphire structures, where MoS2 bilayers were chosen as the demonstrated materials. In particular, a blue shift in the band gap of the MoS2 bilayers can be tunable, displaying an extraordinary capability to drive electrons toward the electrode under the smaller driven bias, and the results were confirmed by simulation. A model to explain the thermal strain in the MoS2 bilayers during the synthesis was proposed, which enables us to precisely predict the band gap-shifted behaviors on patterned sapphire structures with different angles. Furthermore, photodetectors with enhancement of 286% and 897% based on the strained MoS2 on cone- and pyramid-patterned sapphire substrates were demonstrated, respectively.

Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.7b02444

DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.7b02444

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