@article{2c3156e9ffb3415691fb31bcdd5262d8,
title = "Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS 2 /MoS 2 monolayers",
abstract = "Layer-by-layer stacking or lateral interfacing of atomic monolayers has opened up unprecedented opportunities to engineer two-dimensional heteromaterials. Fabrication of such artificial heterostructures with atomically clean and sharp interfaces, however, is challenging. Here, we report a one-step growth strategy for the creation of high-quality vertically stacked as well as in-plane interconnected heterostructures of WS 2 /MoS 2 via control of the growth temperature. Vertically stacked bilayers with WS 2 epitaxially grown on top of the MoS 2 monolayer are formed with preferred stacking order at high temperature. A strong interlayer excitonic transition is observed due to the type II band alignment and to the clean interface of these bilayers. Vapour growth at low temperature, on the other hand, leads to lateral epitaxy of WS 2 on MoS 2 edges, creating seamless and atomically sharp in-plane heterostructures that generate strong localized photoluminescence enhancement and intrinsic p-n junctions. The fabrication of heterostructures from monolayers, using simple and scalable growth, paves the way for the creation of unprecedented two-dimensional materials with exciting properties.",
author = "Yongji Gong and Junhao Lin and Xingli Wang and Gang Shi and Sidong Lei and Zhong Lin and Xiaolong Zou and Gonglan Ye and Robert Vajtai and Yakobson, {Boris I.} and Humberto Terrones and Mauricio Terrones and Tay, {Beng Kang} and Jun Lou and Pantelides, {Sokrates T.} and Zheng Liu and Wu Zhou and Ajayan, {Pulickel M.}",
note = "Funding Information: We thank A. Lupini for providing the script for STEM image quantification. This work was supported by the Army Research Office MURI grant W911NF-11-1-0362, US DOE grant DE-FG02-09ER46554 (J.L., S.T.P.), a Wigner Fellowship through the Laboratory Directed Research and Development Program of Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), managed by UT-Battelle, LLC, for the US DOE (W.Z.), the FAME Center, one of six centres of STARnet, a Semiconductor Research Corporation program sponsored by MARCO and DARPA, the US Office of Naval Research MURI grant N000014-09-1-1066, NSF grant ECCS-1327093 and MOE Academic Research Fund (AcRF) Tier 1 RG81/12 project Singapore and Si-COE project, Singapore. This research was also supported through a user project supported by ORNL{\textquoteright}s Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences (CNMS), which is sponsored by the Scientific User Facilities Division, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, US DOE. This research used resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center, which is supported by the Office of Science of the US Department of Energy under Contract No. DE-AC02-05CH11231. This work was also supported by the Singapore National Research Foundation under NRF RF Award No. NRF-RF2013-08, the start-up funding from Nanyang Technological University (M4081137.070). Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2014 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved.",
year = "2014",
month = dec,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1038/nmat4091",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "13",
pages = "1135--1142",
journal = "Nature Materials",
issn = "1476-1122",
publisher = "Nature Publishing Group",
number = "12",
}