Surface dependence of electronic growth of Cu(111) on MoS2

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Harms, Haley A. [1 ]
Cunningham, Connor J. [1 ]
Kidd, Timothy E. [1 ]
Stollenwerk, Andrew J. [1 ]
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[1] Univ Northern Iowa, Phys Dept, Cedar Falls, IA 50614 USA
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美国国家科学基金会;
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10.1063/5.0215887
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O59 [应用物理学];
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Scanning tunneling microscopy shows that copper deposited at room temperature onto a freshly exfoliated MoS2 surface forms Cu(111) clusters with periodic preferred heights of 5, 8, and 11 atomic layers. These height intervals correlate with Fermi nesting regions along the necks of the bulk Cu Fermi surface, indicating a connection between physical and electronic structures. Density functional theory calculations of freestanding Cu(111) films support this as well, predicting a lower density of states at the Fermi level for these preferred heights. This is consistent with other noble metals deposited on MoS2 that exhibit electronic growth, in which the metal films self-assemble as nanostructures minimizing quantum electronic energies. Here, we have discovered that it is critical for the metal deposition to begin on a clean MoS2 surface. If copper is deposited onto an already Cu coated surface, even if the original film displays electronic growth, the resulting Cu film lacks quantization. Instead, the preferred heights of the Cu clusters simply increase linearly with the amount of Cu deposited upon the surface. We believe this is due to different bonding conditions during the initial stages of growth. Newly deposited copper would bond strongly to the already present copper clusters, rather than the weak bonding, which exists to the van der Waals terminated surface of MoS2. The stronger bonding with previously deposited clusters hinders additional Cu atoms from reaching their lowest quantum energy state. The interface characteristics of the van der Waals surface enable surface engineering of self-assembled structures to achieve different applications.
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