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Stable 2R van der Waals heterostructures of NbS2 and MSe2 for M=Mo and W

Tetsuro Habe

  • Nagamori Institute of Actuators, Kyoto University of Advanced Science, Kyoto 615-8577, Japan

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Phys. Rev. B 107, L241404 – Published 14 June, 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.107.L241404

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In this letter, we investigate the stable and commensurate van der Waals heterostructures of metallic and semiconducting 1H transition-metal dichalcogenides, NbS2 and MoSe2 (WSe2), which possess almost the same lattice constant of the pristine honeycomb structure. In the most stable structure, the metallic and semiconducting layers are stacked in a similar manner to 3R stacking but the period is a pair consisting of a metallic layer and a semiconducting layer. The heterostructure aligns the spin polarization in each valley among all layers and induces spin-selective charge transfer between the metallic and semiconducting layers. Especially in heterotrilayers, the electronic spin is conserved due to mirror symmetry along the out-of-plane axis in contrast to the 3R stacking structure. A drastic enhancement of spin Hall effect is numerically shown as an example of electronic spin transport phenomena in the heterotrilayers.

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Phys. Rev. B 107, L241404– Published 14 June, 2023
  • Received 15 January 2023
  • Revised 31 May 2023
  • Accepted 2 June 2023
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