Possible Luttinger liquid behavior of edge transport in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals

Guanhua Yang, Yan Shao, Jiebin Niu, Xiaolei Ma, Congyan Lu, Wei Wei, Xichen Chuai, Jiawei Wang, Jingchen Cao, Hao Huang, Guangwei Xu, Xuewen Shi, Zhuoyu Ji, Nianduan Lu, Di Geng, Jing Qi, Yun Cao, Zhongliu Liu, Liwei Liu, Yuan HuangLei Liao, Weiqi Dang, Zhengwei Zhang, Yuan Liu, Xidong Duan, Jiezhi Chen, Zhiqiang Fan, Xiangwei Jiang, Yeliang Wang, Ling Li*, Hong Jun Gao, Xiangfeng Duan, Ming Liu

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Abstract

In atomically-thin two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, the nonuniformity in current flow due to its edge states may alter and even dictate the charge transport properties of the entire device. However, the influence of the edge states on electrical transport in 2D materials has not been sufficiently explored to date. Here, we systematically quantify the edge state contribution to electrical transport in monolayer MoS2/WSe2 field-effect transistors, revealing that the charge transport at low temperature is dominated by the edge conduction with the nonlinear behavior. The metallic edge states are revealed by scanning probe microscopy, scanning Kelvin probe force microscopy and first-principle calculations. Further analyses demonstrate that the edge-state dominated nonlinear transport shows a universal power-law scaling relationship with both temperature and bias voltage, which can be well explained by the 1D Luttinger liquid theory. These findings demonstrate the Luttinger liquid behavior in 2D materials and offer important insights into designing 2D electronics.

Original languageEnglish
Article number659
JournalNature Communications
Volume11
Issue number1
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 1 Dec 2020

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Yang, G., Shao, Y., Niu, J., Ma, X., Lu, C., Wei, W., Chuai, X., Wang, J., Cao, J., Huang, H., Xu, G., Shi, X., Ji, Z., Lu, N., Geng, D., Qi, J., Cao, Y., Liu, Z., Liu, L., ... Liu, M. (2020). Possible Luttinger liquid behavior of edge transport in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals. Nature Communications, 11(1), Article 659. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14383-0