1. Ultrathin epitaxial Bi film growth on 2D HfTe2 template.
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Xenogiannopoulou, Evangelia, Tsoutsou, Dimitra, Tsipas, Polychronis, Fragkos, Sotirios, Chaitoglou, Stefanos, Kelaidis, Nikolaos, and Dimoulas, Athanasios
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PHOTOEMISSION , *MOLECULAR beam epitaxy , *RAMAN spectroscopy , *ELECTRONIC band structure , *PHOTOELECTRON spectroscopy , *X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy - Abstract
Among ultrathin monoelemental two-dimensional (2D) materials, bismuthene, the single layer of heavier group-VÎ' element bismuth (Bi), has been predicted to have large non trivial gap. Here, we demonstrate the growth of Bi films by molecular beam epitaxy on 2D-HfTe2 template. At the initial stage of Bi deposition (1â€"2 bilayers, BL), both the pseudocubic Bi(110) and the hexagonal Bi(111) phases are formed. When reaching 3 BL Bi, a transformation to pure hexagonal Bi(111) occurs. The electronic band structure of 3 BL Bi(111) films was measured by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy showing very good matching with the density functional theory band structure calculations of 3 BL free standing Bi(111). The grown Bi(111) thin film was capped with a protective Al2O3 layer and its stability under ambient conditions, necessary for practical applications and device fabrication, was confirmed by x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and Raman spectroscopy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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