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  • Size Dependence of Charge-D...
    Huang, Zeping; Song, Xuan; Chen, Yaoyao; Yang, Han; Yuan, Peiwen; Ma, Hang; Qiao, Jingsi; Zhang, Yu; Sun, Jiatao; Zhang, Teng; Huang, Yuan; Liu, Liwei; Gao, Hong-Jun; Wang, Yeliang

    The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2022-Mar-03, 2022-03-03, Volume: 13, Issue: 8
    Journal Article

    Controlling charge-density-wave (CDW) orders in two-dimensional (2D) crystals has attracted a great deal of interest because of their fundamental physics and their demand inse in miniaturized devices. In this work, we systematically studied the size-dependent CDW orders in single-layer hetero/homo-NbSe stacking junctions. We found that the CDW orders in the top 1T-NbSe layer of the junctions are highly dependent on its lateral size. For the 1T/2H-NbSe heterojunction, the critical lateral size of 1T-NbSe islands for the formation of well-defined CDW orders is ∼26 nm, whereas below 15 nm, the CDW orders melt. However, for the 1T/1T-NbSe homojunction, the CDW orders in the islands can persist even with a lateral size of <11 nm. Our findings illuminate the fresh phenomenon of size-dependent CDW orders existing in 2D van der Waals hetero/homojunctions and provide useful information for the control of CDW orders.