Biaxial versus uniaxial strain tuning of single-layer MoS2

Strain engineering has arisen as a powerful technique to tune the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductors like molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Although several theoretical works predicted that biaxial strain would be more effective than uniaxial strain to tune the band struc...

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Autores: Carrascoso Plana, Félix, Frisenda, Riccardo, Castellanos-Gómez, Andrés
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión aceptada para publicación
Fecha de publicación:2021
País:España
Institución:Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC)
Repositorio:DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC
OAI Identifier:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/375687
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/10261/375687
https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85106602559&doi=10.1016%2fj.nanoms.2021.03.001&partnerID=40&md5=c55d835e3790d1754b424cfd0ea76f2e
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:2D materials
biaxial strain
MoS2
reflectance spectra
Strain engineering
uniaxial strain
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Sumario:Strain engineering has arisen as a powerful technique to tune the electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional semiconductors like molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Although several theoretical works predicted that biaxial strain would be more effective than uniaxial strain to tune the band structure of MoS2, a direct experimental verification is still missing in the literature. Here we implemented a simple experimental setup that allows to apply biaxial strain through the bending of a cruciform polymer substrate. We used the setup to study the effect of biaxial strain on the differential reflectance spectra of 12 single-layer MoS2 flakes finding a redshift of the excitonic features at a rate between −40 meV/% and −110 meV/% of biaxial tension. We also directly compare the effect of biaxial and uniaxial strain on the same single-layer MoS2 finding that the biaxial strain gauge factor is 2.3 times larger than the uniaxial strain one. © 2021 Chongqing University