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(abstract)Engineering thermal strain is crucial for tuning the properties and functionalities of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Thermal strain arises from the thermal expansion coefficient (TEC) mismatch between TMDs and substrates, but conventional substrates often induce inhomogeneous broadening in the electronic structure, mainly due to surface roughness and charged impurities. Here, we demonstrate uniform thermal strain in monolayer WSe2 via van der Waals epitaxy on graphene/SiC(0001) substrates. Compared to WSe2 grown on graphite, its photoluminescence peaks show a redshift and line width narrowing of about 30%. These results suggest that uniform tensile strain is introduced to WSe2 due to the small TEC of SiC, and interfacial graphene suppresses the inhomogeneous broadening. Furthermore, tensile-strained monolayer MoS2 grown on graphene/SiC exhibits enhanced catalytic activity for the hydrogen evolution reaction. Our findings highlight the potential of the graphene/SiC substrate as a platform for improved strain engineering in TMDs, enabling future applications in electronics, optoelectronics, and electrocatalysis.
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This document is the Accepted Manuscript version of a Published Work that appeared in final form in Nano Letters, copyright © 2025 American Chemical Society after peer review and technical editing by the publisher. To access the final edited and published work see https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02492.
キーワード: transition metal dichalcogenide, graphene/SiC, van der Waals epitaxy, strain engineering, photoluminescence, hydrogen evolution reaction
刊行年月日: 2025-08-27
出版者: American Chemical Society (ACS)
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原稿種別: 著者最終稿 (Accepted manuscript)
MDR DOI: https://doi.org/10.48505/nims.5679
公開URL: https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.5c02492
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更新時刻: 2025-08-28 13:36:01 +0900
MDRでの公開時刻: 2026-08-06 08:26:22 +0900
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