Annealing (glass)

Spectroscopy

Quantum mechanics

Epitaxy

Catalysis

Phase (matter)

Chemical physics

Metallurgy

Materials science

Phase transition

Metastability

Layer (electronics)

Crystal structure

Transition metal

Biochemistry

Semiconductor

Molecular beam epitaxy

Physics

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Nanotechnology

Organic chemistry

Monoclinic crystal system

Condensed matter physics

Monolayer

Scanning tunneling microscope

Crystallography

Chemistry

Quantum dot

Optoelectronics

ACS Nano

Monolayer (ML) transition-metal dichalcogenides exist in different phases, such as hexagonal (2H) and monoclinic (1T') structures. They show very different properties: semiconducting for 2H-MoTe2 and semimetallic for 1T'-MoTe2. The formation energy difference between 2H- and 1T'-phase MoTe2 is small, so there is a high chance of tuning the structures of MoTe2 and thereby introducing applications of phase-change electronics. In this paper, we report the growth of both 2H- and 1T'-MoTe2 MLs by molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) and demonstrate its tenability by changing the conditions of MBE. We attribute the latter to an effect of Te adsorption. By scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, we reveal not only the atomic structures and intrinsic electronic properties of the two phases of MoTe2 but also quantum confinement and quantum interference effects in the 2H- and 1T'-MoTe2 domains, respectively, as effected by domain boundaries in the samples.

Quantum Effects and Phase Tuning in Epitaxial Hexagonal and Monoclinic MoTe<sub>2</sub> Monolayers

Quantum Effects and Phase Tuning in Epitaxial Hexagonal and Monoclinic MoTe2 Monolayers

Quantum Effects and Phase Tuning in Epitaxial Hexagonal and Monoclinic MoTe₂ Monolayers