A Universal Strategy for Synthesis of 2D Ternary Transition Metal Phosphorous Chalcogenides

Yang Yang; Jijian Liu; Chunyu Zhao; Qingrong Liang; Weikang Dong; Jia Shi; Ping Wang; Denan Kong; Lu Lv; Lin Jia; Dainan Wang; Chun Huang; Shoujun Zheng; Meiling Wang; Fucai Liu; Peng Yu; Jingsi Qiao; Wei Ji; Jiadong Zhou

doi:10.1002/adma.202307237

A Universal Strategy for Synthesis of 2D Ternary Transition Metal Phosphorous Chalcogenides

Adv Mater. 2024 Jan;36(3):e2307237. doi: 10.1002/adma.202307237. Epub 2023 Dec 3.

Authors

Yang Yang¹, Jijian Liu¹, Chunyu Zhao¹, Qingrong Liang¹, Weikang Dong¹, Jia Shi², Ping Wang¹, Denan Kong¹, Lu Lv¹, Lin Jia¹, Dainan Wang¹, Chun Huang³, Shoujun Zheng¹, Meiling Wang⁴, Fucai Liu⁵, Peng Yu⁶, Jingsi Qiao³, Wei Ji⁷, Jiadong Zhou^{1

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Affiliations

¹ Centre for Quantum Physics, Key Laboratory of Advanced Optoelectronic Quantum Architecture and Measurement (MOE), School of Physics, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 10081, China.
² Institute of Information Photonics Technology and School of Physics and Optoelectronics, Faculty of Science, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China.
³ Advanced Research Institute of Multidisciplinary Science, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing, 10081, China.
⁴ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Taiyuan University of Technology, Taiyuan, 030002, China.
⁵ School of Optoelectronic Science and Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, 611731, China.
⁶ School of Materials Science and Engineering, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, 510275, China.
⁷ Beijing Key Laboratory of Optoelectronic Functional Materials & Micro-Nano Devices, Department of Physics, Renmin University of China, Beijing, 100872, China.

PMID: 37776266
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202307237

Abstract

The 2D ternary transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides (TMPCs) have attracted extensive research interest due to their widely tunable band gap, rich electronic properties, inherent magnetic and ferroelectric properties. However, the synthesis of TMPCs via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is still challenging since it is difficult to control reactions among multi-precursors. Here, a subtractive element growth mechanism is proposed to controllably synthesize the TMPCs. Based on the growth mechanism, the TMPCs including FePS₃ , FePSe₃ , MnPS₃ , MnPSe₃ , CdPS₃ , CdPSe₃ , In₂ P₃ S₉ , and SnPS₃ are achieved successfully and further confirmed by Raman, second-harmonic generation (SHG), and scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM). The typical TMPCs-SnPS₃ shows a strong SHG signal at 1064 nm, with an effective nonlinear susceptibility χ⁽²⁾ of 8.41 × 10^-11 m V^-1 , which is about 8 times of that in MoS₂ . And the photodetector based on CdPSe₃ exhibits superior detection performances with responsivity of 582 mA W^-1 , high detectivity of 3.19 × 10¹¹ Jones, and fast rise time of 611 µs, which is better than most previously reported TMPCs-based photodetectors. These results demonstrate the high quality of TMPCs and promote the exploration of the optical properties of 2D TMPCs for their applications in optoelectronics.

Keywords: 2D materials; photodetectors; second-harmonic generation; transition metal phosphorous chalcogenides.

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