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ACS NANO
卷 15, 期 2, 页码 2497-2505出版社
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.0c06596
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2D electronic material; scanning tunneling microscopy; honeycomb BeO structure; epitaxial growth; beryllium oxide; molecular beam epitaxy
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资金
- National Science Foundation through the Center for Dynamics and Control of Materials: an NSF MRSEC [DMR-1720595]
- Welch Foundation [F-1672]
- U.S. National Science Foundation [DMR-1808751, EFMA-1542747, EFMA-1542798]
- U.S. Airforce [FA2386-18-1-4097]
- Academia Sinica [AS-TP-106-M07]
The synthesis of a single atomic sheet of honeycomb structure BeO (h-BeO) grown on Ag(111) thin films on Si(111) wafers using molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is reported. The h-BeO has a lattice constant of 2.65 A and an insulating band gap of 6 eV. Weak interaction between h-BeO layer and Ag(111) substrate is found, making h-BeO an attractive candidate for future technological applications.
The emergence of two-dimensional (2D) materials launched a fascinating frontier of flatland electronics. Most crystalline atomic layer materials are based on layered van der Waals materials with weak interlayer bonding, which naturally leads to thermodynamically stable monolayers. We report the synthesis of a 2D insulator composed of a single atomic sheet of honeycomb structure BeO (h-BeO), although its bulk counterpart has a wurtzite structure. The h-BeO is grown by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) on Ag(111) thin films that are also epitaxially grown on Si(111) wafers. Using scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (STM/S), the honeycomb BeO lattice constant is determined to be 2.65 A with an insulating band gap of 6 eV. Our low-energy electron diffraction measurements indicate that the h-BeO forms a continuous layer with good crystallinity at the millimeter scale. Moire' pattern analysis shows the BeO honeycomb structure maintains long-range phase coherence in atomic registry even across Ag steps. We find that the interaction between the h-BeO layer and the Ag(111) substrate is weak by using STS and complementary density functional theory calculations. We not only demonstrate the feasibility of growing h-BeO monolayers by MBE, but also illustrate that the large-scale growth, weak substrate interactions, and long-range crystallinity make h-BeO an attractive candidate for future technological applications. More significantly, the ability to create a stable single-crystalline atomic sheet without a bulk layered counterpart is an intriguing approach to tailoring 2D electronic materials.
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