Normal Strain-Induced Tunneling Behavior Promotion in van der Waals Heterostructures  

作　　者：Yi-Fan He Lei-Xi Wang Zhi-Xing Xiao Ya-Wei Lv Lei Liao Chang-Zhong Jiang 何旖凡;王雷茜;肖智兴;吕亚威;廖蕾;蒋昌忠(Affiliations Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano-Optoelectronic Devices of the Ministry of Education,School of Physics and Electronics,Hunan University,Changsha 410082,China)

机构地区：[1]Affiliations Key Laboratory for Micro/Nano-Optoelectronic Devices of the Ministry of Education,School of Physics and Electronics,Hunan University,Changsha 410082,China

出　　处：《Chinese Physics Letters》2020年第8期189-193,共5页中国物理快报（英文版）

基　　金：Supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(Grant Nos.2018YFB0406603 and 2018YFA0703704);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51991341,61904052,61851403 and 61704051);the Key Research and Development Plan of Hunan Province(Grant No.2018GK2064);the Strategic Priority Research Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences(Grant No.XDB30000000).

摘　　要：Van der Waals heterostructures(vdWHs)realized by vertically stacking of different two-dimensional(2D)materials are a promising candidate for tunneling devices because of their atomically clean and lattice mismatch-free interfaces in which different layers are separated by the vdW gaps.The gaps can provide an ideal electric modulation environment on the vdWH band structures and,on the other hand,can also impede the electron tunneling behavior because of large tunneling widths.Here,through first-principles calculations,we find that the electrically modulated tunneling behavior is immune to the interlayer interaction,keeping a direct band-to-band tunneling manner even the vdWHs have been varied to the indirect semiconductor,which means that the tunneling probability can be promoted through the vdW gap shrinking.Using transition metal dichalcogenide heterostructures as examples and normal strains as the gap reducing strategy,a maximum shrinking of 33%is achieved without changing the direct tunneling manner,resulting in a tunneling probability promotion of more than 45 times.Furthermore,the enhanced interlayer interaction by the strains will boost the stability of the vdWHs at the lateral direction,preventing the interlayer displacement effectively.It is expected that our findings provide perspectives in improving the electric behaviors of the vdWH devices.

关 键 词：TUNNELING INTERLAYER TUNNEL 

分 类 号：TB30[一般工业技术—材料科学与工程] O48[理学—固体物理]