Strain-engineered inverse charge-funnelling in layered semiconductors.

ABSTRACT: The control of charges in a circuit due to an external electric field is ubiquitous to the exchange, storage and manipulation of information in a wide range of applications. Conversely, the ability to grow clean interfaces between materials has been a stepping stone for engineering built-in electric fields largely exploited in modern photovoltaics and opto-electronics. The emergence of atomically thin semiconductors is now enabling new ways to attain electric fields and unveil novel charge transport mechanisms. Here, we report the first direct electrical observation of the inverse charge-funnel effect enabled by deterministic and spatially resolved strain-induced electric fields in a thin sheet of HfS₂. We demonstrate that charges driven by these spatially varying electric field

SUBMITTER: De Sanctis A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5916941 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature