Tuesday, November 20, 2012

1211.4486 (Pradyumna Goli et al.)

Charge Density Waves in Exfoliated Thin Films of Van der Waals Materials    [PDF]

Pradyumna Goli, Javed Khan, Darshana Wickramaratne, Roger K. Lake, Alexander A. Balandin
A number of the charge-density-wave materials reveal a transition to the macroscopic quantum state around 200 K. We used graphene-like mechanical exfoliation of titanium diselenide crystals to prepare a set of films with different thicknesses. The transition temperature to the charge-density-wave state was determined via modification of Raman spectra of titanium diselenide films. It was established that the transition temperature can increase from its bulk value to ~240 K as the thickness of the van-der-Waals films reduces to the nanometer range. The obtained results are important for the proposed applications of such materials in the collective-state information processing, which require room-temperature operation.
View original: http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.4486

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