Controllable Tunneling Triboelectrification of Two-Dimensional Chemical Vapor Deposited MoS2

Tunneling triboelectrification of chemical vapor deposited monolayer MoS 2 has been characterized at nanoscale with contact-mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Kelvin force microscopy (KFM). Although charges can be trapped on insulators like SiO 2 by conventional triboelectrification, triboelectr...

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Published in:Scientific reports 2019-01, Vol.9 (1), p.334-334, Article 334
Main Authors: Wang, He, Huang, Chung-Che, Polcar, Tomas
Format: Article
Language:English
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Atomic force microscopy
Humanities and Social Sciences
Microscopy
Molybdenum disulfide
multidisciplinary
Polarity
Science
Science (multidisciplinary)
Silicon dioxide
Vapors
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Summary:Tunneling triboelectrification of chemical vapor deposited monolayer MoS 2 has been characterized at nanoscale with contact-mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) and Kelvin force microscopy (KFM). Although charges can be trapped on insulators like SiO 2 by conventional triboelectrification, triboelectric charges tunneling through MoS 2 and localized at the underlying substrate exhibit more than two orders of magnitude longer lifetime. Their polarity and density can be modified by triboelectric process with various bias voltages applied to Pt-coated AFM tips, and the saturated density is almost 30 times higher than the reported result of SiO 2 . Thus, the controllable tunneling triboelectric properties of MoS 2 on insulating substrates can provide guidance to build a new class of two-dimensional (2D) MoS 2 -based nanoelectronic devices.
ISSN:2045-2322
2045-2322
DOI:10.1038/s41598-018-36830-1