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Gu Y, Cai H, Dong J, Yu Y, Hoffman AN, Liu C, Oyedele AD, Lin YC, Ge Z, Puretzky AA, Duscher G, Chisholm MF, Rack PD, Rouleau CM, Gai Z, Meng X, Ding F, Geohegan DB, Xiao K. Two-Dimensional Palladium Diselenide with Strong In-Plane Optical Anisotropy and High Mobility Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition. Adv Mater 2020; 32:e1906238. [PMID: 32173918 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201906238] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/23/2019] [Revised: 12/14/2019] [Accepted: 02/18/2020] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Two-dimensional (2D) palladium diselenide (PdSe2 ) has strong interlayer coupling and a puckered pentagonal structure, leading to remarkable layer-dependent electronic structures and highly anisotropic in-plane optical and electronic properties. However, the lack of high-quality, 2D PdSe2 crystals grown by bottom-up approaches limits the study of their exotic properties and practical applications. In this work, chemical vapor deposition growth of highly crystalline few-layer (≥2 layers) PdSe2 crystals on various substrates is reported. The high quality of the PdSe2 crystals is confirmed by low-frequency Raman spectroscopy, scanning transmission electron microscopy, and electrical characterization. In addition, strong in-plane optical anisotropy is demonstrated via polarized Raman spectroscopy and second-harmonic generation maps of the PdSe2 flakes. A theoretical model based on kinetic Wulff construction theory and density functional theory calculations is developed and described the observed evolution of "square-like" shaped PdSe2 crystals into rhombus due to the higher nucleation barriers for stable attachment on the (1,1) and (1,-1) edges, which results in their slower growth rates. Few-layer PdSe2 field-effect transistors reveal tunable ambipolar charge carrier conduction with an electron mobility up to ≈294 cm2 V-1 s-1 , which is comparable to that of exfoliated PdSe2 , indicating the promise of this anisotropic 2D material for electronics.
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- Yiyi Gu
- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Bredesen Center for Interdisciplinary Research and Graduate Education, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37966, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Materials Sciences and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37830, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 37996, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center of Materials Science and Optoelectronics Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100049, China
- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100190, China
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
- Center for Multidimensional Carbon Materials, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Ulsan, 44919, Republic of Korea
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 37831, USA
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Hoffman AN, Gu Y, Tokash J, Woodward J, Xiao K, Rack PD. Layer-by-Layer Thinning of PdSe 2 Flakes via Plasma Induced Oxidation and Sublimation. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2020; 12:7345-7350. [PMID: 31951704 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.9b21287] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/12/2023]
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Controlled O2/Ar plasma exposure and subsequent low temperature inert atmosphere annealing of chemical vapor deposition (CVD) grown PdSe2 flakes etch PdSe2 layer-by-layer in an atomic layer etching-like (ALE) process. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) shows that exposure to a remote inductively coupled plasma (ICP) oxygen plasma oxidizes the top layer of the PdSe2 to form PdO2 and SeO2. After an in situ annealing, XPS shows no trace of PdO2 or SeO2, suggesting the byproducts are volatile at low temperature. Atomic force microscopy of PdSe2 exposed to various O2 + Ar plasmas (O2 = 25-100%) demonstrates a clear trend between the oxygen concentration and the number of layers etched per cycle. PdSe2 field effect transistors (FETs) were characterized at various stages of two ALE-like cycles, and the electrical properties are correlated to the oxidation and byproduct desorption and layer reduction.
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- Anna N Hoffman
- Department of Materials Science & Engineering , University of Tennessee , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
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- Key Laboratory of Photochemical Conversion and Optoelectronic Materials, Technical Institute of Physics and Chemistry , Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190 , China
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- Y-12 National Security Complex Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37830 , United States
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- Y-12 National Security Complex Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37830 , United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering , University of Tennessee , Knoxville , Tennessee 37996 , United States
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences , Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge , Tennessee 37831 , United States
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Hoffman AN, Stanford MG, Zhang C, Ivanov IN, Oyedele AD, Sales MG, McDonnell SJ, Koehler MR, Mandrus DG, Liang L, Sumpter BG, Xiao K, Rack PD. Atmospheric and Long-term Aging Effects on the Electrical Properties of Variable Thickness WSe 2 Transistors. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces 2018; 10:36540-36548. [PMID: 30256093 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.8b12545] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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Atmospheric and long-term aging effects on electrical properties of WSe2 transistors with various thicknesses are examined. Although countless published studies report electrical properties of transition-metal dichalcogenide materials, many are not attentive to testing environment or to age of samples, which we have found significantly impacts results. Our as-fabricated exfoliated WSe2 pristine devices are predominantly n-type, which is attributed to selenium vacancies. Transfer characteristics of as-fabricated devices measured in air then vacuum reveal physisorbed atmospheric molecules significantly reduced n-type conduction in air. First-principles calculations suggest this short-term reversible atmospheric effect can be attributed primarily to physisorbed H2O on pristine WSe2, which is easily removed from the pristine surface in vacuum due to the low adsorption energy. Devices aged in air for over 300 h demonstrate irreversibly increased p-type conduction and decreased n-type conduction. Additionally, they develop an extended time constant for recovery of the atmospheric adsorbents effect. Short-term atmospheric aging (up to approximately 900 h) is attributed to O2 and H2O molecules physisorbed to selenium vacancies where electron transfer from the bulk and adsorbed binding energies are higher than the H2O-pristine WSe2. The residual/permanent aging component is attributed to electron trapping molecular O2 and isoelectronic O chemisorption at selenium vacancies, which also passivates the near-conduction band gap state, p-doping the material, with very high binding energy. All effects demonstrated have the expected thickness dependence, namely, thinner devices are more sensitive to atmospheric and long-term aging effects.
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering , University of Virginia , Charlottesville , Virginia 22904 , United States
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- Department of Materials Science & Engineering , University of Virginia , Charlottesville , Virginia 22904 , United States
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Pudasaini PR, Stanford MG, Oyedele A, Wong AT, Hoffman AN, Briggs DP, Xiao K, Mandrus DG, Ward TZ, Rack PD. High performance top-gated multilayer WSe 2 field effect transistors. Nanotechnology 2017; 28:475202. [PMID: 28718775 DOI: 10.1088/1361-6528/aa8081] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/07/2023]
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In this paper, high performance top-gated WSe2 field effect transistor (FET) devices are demonstrated via a two-step remote plasma assisted ALD process. High-quality, low-leakage aluminum oxide (Al2O3) gate dielectric layers are deposited onto the WSe2 channel using a remote plasma assisted ALD process with an ultrathin (∼1 nm) titanium buffer layer. The first few nanometers (∼2 nm) of the Al2O3 dielectric film is deposited at relatively low temperature (i.e. 50 °C) and remainder of the film is deposited at 150 °C to ensure the conformal coating of Al2O3 on the WSe2 surface. Additionally, an ultra-thin titanium buffer layer is introduced at the WSe2 channel surface prior to ALD process to mitigate oxygen plasma induced doping effects. Excellent device characteristics with current on-off ratio in excess of 106 and a field effect mobility as high as 70.1 cm2 V-1 s-1 are achieved in a few-layer WSe2 FET device with a 30 nm Al2O3 top-gate dielectric. With further investigation and careful optimization, this method can play an important role for the realization of high performance top gated FETs for future optoelectronic device applications.
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- Pushpa Raj Pudasaini
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN 37996, United States of America
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Hoffman AN, Krigbaum A, Ortiz JB, Mika A, Hutchinson KM, Bimonte-Nelson HA, Conrad CD. Recovery after chronic stress within spatial reference and working memory domains: correspondence with hippocampal morphology. Eur J Neurosci 2011; 34:1023-30. [PMID: 21884554 DOI: 10.1111/j.1460-9568.2011.07820.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 50] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Chronic stress results in reversible spatial learning impairments in the Morris water maze that correspond with hippocampal CA3 dendritic retraction in male rats. Whether chronic stress impacts different types of memory domains, and whether these can similarly recover, is unknown. This study assessed the effects of chronic stress with and without a post-stress delay to evaluate learning and memory deficits within two memory domains, reference and working memory, in the radial arm water maze (RAWM). Three groups of 5-month-old male Sprague-Dawley rats were either not stressed [control (CON)], or restrained (6 h/day for 21 days) and then tested on the RAWM either on the next day [stress immediate (STR-IMM)] or following a 21-day delay [stress delay (STR-DEL)]. Although the groups learned the RAWM task similarly, groups differed in their 24-h retention trial assessment. Specifically, the STR-IMM group made more errors within both the spatial reference and working memory domains, and these deficits corresponded with a reduction in apical branch points and length of hippocampal CA3 dendrites. In contrast, the STR-DEL group showed significantly fewer errors in both the reference and working memory domains than the STR-IMM group. Moreover, the STR-DEL group showed better RAWM performance in the reference memory domain than did the CON group, and this corresponded with restored CA3 dendritic complexity, revealing long-term enhancing actions of chronic stress. These results indicate that chronic stress-induced spatial working and reference memory impairments, and CA3 dendritic retraction, are reversible, with chronic stress having lasting effects that can benefit spatial reference memory, but with these lasting beneficial effects being independent of CA3 dendritic complexity.
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- A N Hoffman
- Department of Psychology, Arizona State University, Box 1104, Tempe, AZ 85287-1104, USA
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Lamale LM, Lutgendorf SK, Hoffman AN, Kreder KJ. Symptoms and cystoscopic findings in patients with untreated interstitial cystitis. Urology 2006; 67:242-5. [PMID: 16442603 DOI: 10.1016/j.urology.2005.08.054] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2004] [Revised: 08/01/2005] [Accepted: 08/25/2005] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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OBJECTIVES To examine the relationships between symptoms and cystoscopic findings in women newly diagnosed with interstitial cystitis who had not previously received treatment. METHODS Twelve newly diagnosed and not previously treated women with interstitial cystitis completed a bladder symptom questionnaire the day before undergoing cystoscopy, hydrodistension, and biopsy. The daily voiding frequency was reported. Cystoscopic findings were converted to a numerical scale, and the data were analyzed using Pearson correlations. RESULTS Pain symptoms had consistent positive correlations with the cystoscopic findings. An increase in pain with bladder filling was associated with inflammation (P = 0.011), ulceration, and smaller bladder capacity. Pain relief after voiding correlated with smaller bladder capacity (P = 0.019), hematuria, and total cystoscopic score. Pain intensity in the urethra was related to ulceration and hematuria, and pain in the lower abdomen was related to a smaller bladder capacity (P = 0.047), glomerulations, and a larger total cystoscopic score. Daytime frequency correlated negatively with most cystoscopic findings, and nocturnal frequency had a positive relationship with most cystoscopic findings and was significantly associated with a smaller bladder capacity (P = 0.010). Urgency showed no strong associations with any cystoscopic findings. CONCLUSIONS In patients with untreated interstitial cystitis, a strong correlation between pain and cystoscopic findings was observed. The differences between our results and those of previous studies that found no relationship between symptom reports and cystoscopic findings suggest possible effects of treatment on pain perception and therapeutic influence on cystoscopic findings.
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- Leah M Lamale
- Department of Urology, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1089, USA
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Kreutz LC, Donis R, Gil LH, Lima M, Hoffman AN, Garcez DC, Flores EF, Weiblen R. Production and characterization of monoclonal antibodies to Brazilian isolates of bovine viral diarrhea virus. Braz J Med Biol Res 2000; 33:1459-66. [PMID: 11105099 DOI: 10.1590/s0100-879x2000001200010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [What about the content of this article? (0)] [Affiliation(s)] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Three Brazilian isolates of bovine viral diarrhea virus (BVDV), antigenically distinct from the standard North American isolates, were selected to immunize BALB/c mice in order to obtain hybridoma cells secreting anti-BVDV monoclonal antibodies (mAbs). Two hybridoma clones secreting mAbs, reacting specifically with BVDV-infected cells (mAbs 3.1C4 and 6.F11), were selected after five fusions and screening of 1001 hypoxanthine-aminopterin-thymidine-resistant clones. These mAbs reacted in an indirect fluorescent antibody (IFA) assay with all 39 South and North American BVDV field isolates and reference strains available in our laboratory, yet failed to recognize other pestiviruses, namely the hog cholera virus. The mAbs reacted at dilutions up to 1:25,600 (ascitic fluid) and 1:100 (hybridoma culture supernatant) in IFA and immunoperoxidase (IPX) staining of BVDV-infected cells but only mAb 3.1C4 neutralized virus infectivity. Furthermore, both mAbs failed to recognize BVDV proteins by IPX in formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissues and following SDS-PAGE and immunoblot analysis of virus-infected cells, suggesting they are probably directed to conformational-type epitopes. The protein specificity of these mAbs was then determined by IFA staining of CV-1 cells transiently expressing each of the BVDV proteins: mAb 3. 1C4 reacted with the structural protein E2/gp53 and mAb 6.F11 reacted with the structural protein E1/gp25. Both mAbs were shown to be of the IgG2a isotype. To our knowledge, these are the first mAbs produced against South American BVDV isolates and will certainly be useful for research and diagnostic purposes.
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- L C Kreutz
- Laboratório de Virologia, Departamento de Medicina Veterinária Preventiva, Microbiologia e Parasitologia, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, RS, Brasil.
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