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Directionally-Resolved Phononic Properties of Monolayer 2D Molybdenum Ditelluride (MoTe2) under Uniaxial Elastic
Zhewen Yin1, Wyatt Panaccione1, Anjun Hu2
1Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida 33620, United States.
Abstract:
Understanding the phonon characteristics of two-dimensional (2D) molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) under strain is critical to manipulating its multiphysical properties. Although there have been numerous computational efforts to elucidate the strain-coupled phonon properties of monolayer MoTe2, empirical validation is still lacking. In this work, monolayer 1H-MoTe2 under uniaxial strain is studied via in situ micro-Raman spectroscopy. Directionally dependent monotonic softening of the doubly degenerate in-plane E2g1 phonon mode is observed with increasing uniaxial strain, where the E2g1 peak red-shifts -1.66 ± 0.04 cm-1/% along the armchair direction and -0.80 ± 0.07 cm-1/% along the zigzag direction. The corresponding Grüneisen parameters are calculated to be 1.09 and 0.52 along the armchair and zigzag directions, respectively. This work provides the first empirical quantification and validation of the orientation-dependent strain-coupled phonon response in monolayer 1H-MoTe2 and serves as a benchmark for other prototypical 2D transition-metal tellurides.
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