• 文献标题:   Nanometer-Scale Lateral p-n Junctions in Graphene/alpha-RuCl3 Heterostructures
  • 文献类型:   Article
  • 作  者:   RIZZO DJ, SHABANI S, JESSEN BS, ZHANG J, MCLEOD AS, RUBIOVERDU C, RUTA FL, COTHRINE M, YAN JQ, MANDRUS DG, NAGLER SE, RUBIO A, HONE JC, DEAN CR, PASUPATHY AN, BASOV DN
  • 作者关键词:   scanning tunneling microscopy, scanning tunneling spectroscopy, scanning nearfield optical microscopy, plasmon, twodimensional material, charge transfer
  • 出版物名称:   NANO LETTERS
  • ISSN:   1530-6984 EI 1530-6992
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  • 被引频次:   12
  • DOI:   10.1021/acs.nanolett.1c04579
  • 出版年:   2022

▎ 摘  要

The ability to create nanometer-scale lateral p-n junctions is essential for the next generation of two-dimensional (2D) devices. Using the charge-transfer heterostructure graphene/alpha-RuCl3, we realize nanoscale lateral p-n junctions in the vicinity of graphene nanobubbles. Our multipronged experimental approach incorporates scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and spectroscopy (STS) and scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) to simultaneously probe the electronic and optical responses of nanobubble p-n junctions. Our STM/STS results reveal that p-n junctions with a band offset of similar to 0.6 eV can be achieved with widths of similar to 3 nm, giving rise to electric fields of order 10(8) V/m. Concurrent s-SNOM measurements validate a point-scatterer formalism for modeling the interaction of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) with nanobubbles. Ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations corroborate our experimental data and reveal the dependence of charge transfer on layer separation. Our study provides experimental and conceptual foundations for generating p-n nanojunctions in 2D materials.