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    Dimensionality-driven orthorhombic MoTe2 at room temperature

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    Abstract

    We use a combination of Raman spectroscopy and transport measurements to study thin flakes of the type-II Weyl semimetal candidate MoTe2 protected from oxidation. In contrast to bulk crystals, which undergo a phase transition from monoclinic to the inversion symmetry breaking, orthorhombic phase below ~250 K, we find that in moderately thin samples below ~12 nm, a single orthorhombic phase exists up to and beyond room temperature. This could be due to the effect of c-axis confinement, which lowers the energy of an out-of-plane hole band and stabilizes the orthorhombic structure. Our results suggest that Weyl nodes, predicated upon inversion symmetry breaking, may be observed in thin MoTe2 at room temperature.

     

    © He, R., Zhong, S., Kim, H. H., Ye, G., Ye, Z., Winford, L., McHaffie, D., Rilak, I., Chen, F., Luo, X., Sun, Y., & Tsen, A. W. (2018). Dimensionality-driven orthorhombic MoTe2 at room temperature. Physical Review B, 97(4). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevb.97.041410

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    Rui He, Shazhou Zhong, Hyun Ho Kim, Gaihua Ye, Zhipeng Ye, Logan Winford, Daniel McHaffie, Ivana Rilak, Fangchu Chen, Xuan Luo, Yuping Sun, Adam W. Tsen

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    Two-Dimensional Quantum Materials and Heterostructures

    Date

    2018-01-18

    Publication

    Physical Review B

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