Interplay of crystal thickness and in-plane anisotropy and evolution of quasi-one dimensional electronic character in ReSe2

Lewis Hart, Surani Gunasekera, Marcin Mucha-Kruczynski, James Webb, Jose Avila, Maria-Carmen Asensio, Daniel Wolverson

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Abstract

We study the valence band structure of ReSe2 crystals with varying thickness down to a single layer using nanoscale angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and density functional theory. The width of the top valence band in the direction perpendicular to the rhenium chains decreases with decreasing number of layers, from ~200 meV for the bulk to ~80 meV for monolayer. This demonstrates increase of in-plane anisotropy induced by changes in the interlayer coupling and suggests progressively more one-dimensional character of electronic states in few-layer rhenium dichalcogenides.
Original languageEnglish
Article number035421
JournalPhysical Review B : Condensed Matter and Materials Physics
Volume104
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 15 Jul 2021

Funding

This work was supported by the Centre for Graphene Science of the Universities of Bath and Exeter and by the EPSRC (UK) under Grants No. EP/G036101, No. EP/M022188, and No. EP/P004830. L.S.H. and S.M.G. are supported by the Bath/Bristol Centre for Doctoral Training in Condensed Matter Physics, EPSRC Grant No. EP/L015544. M.M-K. acknowledges support from the University of Bath International Funding Scheme. We thank the SOLEIL synchrotron for the provision of beam time; work at SOLEIL was supported by EPSRC Grant No. EP/P004830/1. The present collaborative research was undertaken in the context of the Associated Unit MATINÉE of the Spanish Scientific Research Council (CSIC). Computational work was performed on the University of Bath's High Performance Computing Facility.

Keywords

  • ARPES
  • ReSe2
  • 2D materials

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Materials Science
  • General Physics and Astronomy

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