Faculty Publications

Document Type

Article

Publication Version

Published Version

Keywords

AUGMENTED-WAVE METHOD, EMISSION MICROSCOPY, ROOM-TEMPERATURE, TRANSISTORS, HETEROSTRUCTURES, CONTACTS, SPECTROSCOPY, TRANSITIONS, ABSORPTION, NANOSHEETS

Journal/Book/Conference Title Title

JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Volume

123

Issue

17

Abstract

Ballistic electron emission microscopy (BEEM) has been used to study the processes affecting electron transport along the [0001] direction of finite layer MoS2 flakes deposited onto the surface of Au/Si(001) Schottky diodes. Prominent features present in the differential spectra from the MoS2 flakes are consistent with the density of states of finite layer MoS2 calculated using density functional theory. The ability to observe the electronic structure of the MoS2 appears to be due to the relatively smooth density of states of Si in this energy range and a substantial amount of elastic or quasi-elastic scattering along the MoS2/Au/Si(001) path. Demonstration of these measurements using BEEM suggests that this technique could potentially be used to study electron transport through van der Waals heterostructures, with applications in a number of electronic devices.

Department

Department of Physics

Comments

First published in The Journal of Applied Physics v.123 n.17 (May 2018), by AIP Publishing.

Original Publication Date

5-2018

DOI of published version

10.1063/1.5026397

Repository

UNI ScholarWorks, University of Northern Iowa, Rod Library

Copyright

@Holzapfel, et al.

Language

en

File Format

application/pdf

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Physics Commons

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