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High-yield synthesis and liquid-exfoliation of two-dimensional belt-like hafnium disulphide

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Title High-yield synthesis and liquid-exfoliation of two-dimensional belt-like hafnium disulphide
 
Creator Kaur, Harneet
Yadav, Sandeep
Srivastava, Avanish K.
Singh, Nidhi
Rath, Shyama
Schneider, Jorg J.
Sinha, Om P.
Srivastava, Ritu
 
Subject Materials Science
Applied Physics/Condensed Matter
Nanoscience/ Nanotechnology
Physical Chemistry/Chemical Physics
 
Description Producing environmentally stable monolayers and few-layers of hafnium disulphide (HfS2) with a high yield to reveal its unlocked electronic and optoelectronic applications is still a challenge. HfS2 is a layered two-dimensional material of group-IV transition metal dichalcogenides. For the first time, we demonstrate a simple and cost-effective method to grow layered belt-like nanocrystals of HfS2 with a notably large interlayer spacing followed by their chemical exfoliation. Various microscopic and spectroscopic techniques confirm that these as-grown crystals exfoliate into single or multiple layers in a few minutes using solvent assisted ultrasonification method in N-cyclohexyl-2-pyrrolidone. The exfoliated nanosheets of HfS2 exhibit an indirect bandgap of 1.3 eV with high stability against surface degradation. Furthermore, we demonstrate that these nanosheets hold potential for electronic applications by fabricating a field-effect transistor based on few-layered HfS2, exhibiting a field-effect mobility of 0.95 cm(2)/(V.s) with a high on/off current modulation ratio of 10,000 in ambient conditions. The method is scalable and has a potential significance for both academic and industrial purposes.
 
Publisher Springer Verlag
 
Date 2018-01
 
Type Article
PeerReviewed
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://npl.csircentral.net/3785/1/High-yield%20synthesis%20and.pdf
Kaur, Harneet and Yadav, Sandeep and Srivastava, Avanish K. and Singh, Nidhi and Rath, Shyama and Schneider, Jorg J. and Sinha, Om P. and Srivastava, Ritu (2018) High-yield synthesis and liquid-exfoliation of two-dimensional belt-like hafnium disulphide. AIP Advances , 11 (1). pp. 343-353. ISSN 1998-0124
 
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