Mirror twin grain boundaries in molybdenum dichalcogenides

M Batzill - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
… are other ways by which closed twin-grain boundary loops may form within a monolayer. …
grain boundary loops form by condensing excess metal atoms into metal rich twin boundaries. …

Electron transport properties of mirror twin grain boundaries in molybdenum disulfide: Impact of disorder

J Park, KH Xue, M Mouis, F Triozon, A Cresti - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
… mirror twin grain boundaries in MoS2. Our results show that the grain boundary conductive
… could be of help in designing electronic devices based on transition metal dichalcogenides. …

Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide

AM Van Der Zande, PY Huang, DA Chenet… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
… We find mirror twin boundaries are stitched together … Finally, we show that individual grain
boundaries strongly … family of layered transition metal dichalcogenides to be synthesized as a …

Functional grain boundaries in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides

P Man, D Srolovitz, J Zhao, TH Ly - Accounts of Chemical …, 2021 - ACS Publications
… (1) Exhibition of a complete library for the structure types of grain boundaries (GBs) in 2D …
twin boundaries, can be formed within existing grains. The relaxed twin boundaries show a …

Engineering the Electronic Properties of Two‐Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides by Introducing Mirror Twin Boundaries

HP Komsa, AV Krasheninnikov - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Molybdenum and tungsten dichalcogenides feature a particular set of 60 mirror twin boundaries,
which … Concerning their characterization, grain boundaries are often visible as lines in …

Metallic Twin Grain Boundaries Embedded in MoSe2 Monolayers Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Y Ma, S Kolekar, H Coy Diaz, J Aprojanz, I Miccoli… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
… For instance, growth of a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) on highly oriented … The
films were grown in more than 10 times higher chalcogen than molybdenum flux at a growth …

[HTML][HTML] The Effect of Twin Grain Boundary Tuned by Temperature on the Electrical Transport Properties of Monolayer MoS2

L Du, H Yu, L Xie, S Wu, S Wang, X Lu, M Liao, J Meng… - Crystals, 2016 - mdpi.com
… Here, monolayer molybdenum disulphide with a twin grain boundary was grown in our … 2
monolayer, the typical layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which shows novel …

[HTML][HTML] Misorientation-angle-dependent electrical transport across molybdenum disulfide grain boundaries

TH Ly, DJ Perello, J Zhao, Q Deng, H Kim… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Grain boundaries in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides have unique atomic defect
… Here, we explore misorientation angle-dependent electrical transport at grain boundaries in …

[HTML][HTML] High density of (pseudo) periodic twin-grain boundaries in molecular beam epitaxy-grown van der Waals heterostructure: MoTe2/MoS2

HC Diaz, Y Ma, R Chaghi, M Batzill - Applied Physics Letters, 2016 - pubs.aip.org
… Growth of transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures by … results in a high density of
mirror-twins within the films. The … co-vapor deposition of molybdenum and tellurium onto a MoS …

Spectroscopic visualization of grain boundaries of monolayer molybdenum disulfide by stacking bilayers

S Park, MS Kim, H Kim, J Lee, GH Han, J Jung, J Kim - ACS nano, 2015 - ACS Publications
Polycrystalline growth of molybdenum disulfide (MoS 2 ) using chemical vapor deposition (CVD)
methods is subject to the formation of grain boundaries (GBs), which have a large effect …