Research Update: Van-der-Waals epitaxy of layered chalcogenide Sb2Te3 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

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2017
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5
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5
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Melville, NY : AIP Publ.
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An attempt to deposit a high quality epitaxial thin film of a two-dimensionally bonded (layered) chalcogenide material with van-der-Waals (vdW) epitaxy is of strong interest for non-volatile memory application. In this paper, the epitaxial growth of an exemplary layered chalcogenide material, i.e., stoichiometric Sb2Te3 thin films, is reported. The films were produced on unreconstructed highly lattice-mismatched Si(111) substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The films were grown by vdW epitaxy in a two-dimensional mode. X-ray diffraction measurements and transmission electron microscopy revealed that the films possess a trigonal Sb2Te3 structure. The single atomic Sb/Te termination layer on the Si surface was formed initializing the thin film growth. This work demonstrates a straightforward method to deposit vdW-epitaxial layered chalcogenides and, at the same time, opens up the feasibility to fabricate chalcogenide vdW heterostructures by PLD.

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Antimony, Chalcogenides, Data storage equipment, Deposition, Deposits, Digital storage, Film growth, High resolution transmission electron microscopy, Inorganic compounds, Pulsed laser deposition, Pulsed lasers, Thin films, Transmission electron microscopy, Van der Waals forces, X ray diffraction
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Hilmi, I., Lotnyk, A., Gerlach, J. W., Schumacher, P., & Rauschenbach, B. (2017). Research Update: Van-der-Waals epitaxy of layered chalcogenide Sb2Te3 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. 5(5). https://doi.org//10.1063/1.4983403
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