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Impact of 150keV and 590keV proton irradiation on monolayer MoS2

Burcu Ozden·Ethan Khan·Sunil Uprety·Tianyi Zhang·Joseph Razon·Ke Wang·Tamara Isaacs-Smith·Minseo Park·Mauricio Terrones
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We present a comprehensive study on the effects of proton irradiation at different energies (150 and 590 keV) with the fluence of 1x 1012 proton/cm2 on monolayer MoS2. This study not only improves our understanding of the influence of high-energy proton beams on MoS2 but also has implications for radiation-induced changes in device processing and engineering of devices from multilayer MoS2 starting material. Increasing defect density with decreasing proton irradiation energy was observed from photoluminescence spectroscopy study. These defects are attributed to sulfur vacancies observed through x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy analysis and confirmed by transmission electron microscope imaging. Scanning electron microscopy images showed the creation of grain boundaries after proton irradiation. A higher degree of surface deformation was detected with lower irradiation energies through atomic force microscopy. Inter-defect distance is increased with the increase in proton energy irradiation as estimated by transmission electron microscopy imaging. Raman spectroscopy reveals negligible structural changes in the crystal quality after the irradiation. These deformation damages due to proton irradiation are insignificant at the MoS2 layer. Based on the overall influence of low energy proton irradiation on the material characteristics, ML-MoS2 materials can be considered robust and reliable building blocks for 2D material based devices for space applications.

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Burcu Ozden, Ethan Khan, Sunil Uprety, Tianyi Zhang, Joseph Razon, Ke Wang, Tamara Isaacs-Smith, Minseo Park, Mauricio Terrones. 2020-08-11. Impact of 150keV and 590keV proton irradiation on monolayer MoS2. https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.04895

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