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Article Dans Une Revue Physical Review B Année : 2022

Alloying two-dimensional VSe 2 with Pt: from a charge density wave state to a disordered insulator

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We have analyzed by means of scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy the atomic and electronic structure of monolayers of 1T-VxPt1-xSe2 alloys grown by molecular beam epitaxy on epitaxial graphene substrates. We have focused on the composition range (0.1≤x≤0.35) where ferromagnetic behaviour has recently been demonstrated. For low Pt concentration, (x=0.07 and x=0.21), small domains (a few nanometres in diameter) exhibiting the characteristic superstructure of the charge density wave (CDW) state of pristine VSe2 monolayer remain visible on most of the sample surface. Thus alloying preserves the short range order of the CDW phase, although it destroys its long range order. For higher Pt concentration (x≈0.35) a disordered alloy forms. It presents a fully developped gap (a few tens meV in width) at the Fermi level and is thus a disordered insulator. This gap exhibits strong variations at the nanometer scale, reflecting the local fluctuations in the composition. An unexpectedly large interaction of the TMD layer with the graphene substrate sets in for this composition range.
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hal-03719563 , version 1 (11-07-2022)

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E Vélez-Fort, P. Mallet, H Boukari, A Marty, C Vergnaud, et al.. Alloying two-dimensional VSe 2 with Pt: from a charge density wave state to a disordered insulator. Physical Review B, 2022, 106 (7), pp.075432. ⟨10.1103/PhysRevB.106.075432⟩. ⟨hal-03719563⟩
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