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ArticleNano letters2020

Thermomechanical Nanostraining of Two-Dimensional Materials.

Xia Liu, Amit Kumar Sachan, Samuel Tobias Howell, Ana Conde-Rubio, Armin W Knoll, Giovanni Boero, Renato Zenobi, Jürgen Brugger

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Article in Nano letters, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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13 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Xia LiuMicrosystems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1886-6825
Amit Kumar SachanDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.
Samuel Tobias HowellMicrosystems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Ana Conde-RubioMicrosystems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Armin W KnollIBM Research - Zurich, Säumerstrasse 4, 8803 Rüschlikon, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2301-3149
Giovanni BoeroMicrosystems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.
Renato ZenobiDepartment of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5211-4358
Jürgen BruggerMicrosystems Laboratory, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7710-5930

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Local bandgap tuning in two-dimensional (2D) materials is of significant importance for electronic and optoelectronic devices but achieving controllable and reproducible strain engineering at the nanoscale remains a challenge. Here, we report on thermomechanical nanoindentation with a scanning probe to create strain nanopatterns in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides and graphene, enabling arbitrary patterns with a modulated bandgap at a spatial resolution down to 20 nm. The 2D material is in contact via van der Waals interactions with a thin polymer layer underneath that deforms due to the heat and indentation force from the heated probe. Specifically, we demonstrate that the local bandgap of molybdenum disulfide (MoS

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2D materialslocal bandgapmolybdenum disulfidestrain nanopatternthermal scanning probe lithographytip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy

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PMID33030906
PMCPMC7662931

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