Effect of TCNQ Layer Cover on Oxidation Dynamics of Black Phosphorus

Meingast L, Kolesnik-Gray M, Siebert M, Abellan Saez G, Wild S, Lloret Segura VJ, Mundloch U, Hauke F, Hirsch A, Krstic V (2018)


Publication Status: Published

Publication Type: Journal article, Original article

Publication year: 2018

Journal

Publisher: WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH

Book Volume: 12

Article Number: ARTN 1800179

Journal Issue: 8

DOI: 10.1002/pssr.201800179

Abstract

The puckered surface of black phosphorus represents an ideal substrate for an unconventional arrangement of physisorbed species and the resulting specific two-dimensional chemistry of this system. This opens the way to investigate the chemical and physical properties of locally confined areas of black phosphorus without the necessity for further physical downscaling of the material. We have evaporated tetracyanoquinodimethane (TCNQ) on top of black phosphorus under over-saturation non-equilibrium conditions in vacuum. The evolution of linear density and height of droplets formed through oxidation during exposure to air is studied time dependently by scanning-force microscopy. Our study suggests that the TCNQ molecules spontaneously arrange in a thin layer of the order of a few nm height, which, however, is fragmented with a periodicity of about 100nm. It is shown that within the confined space separating the layer fragments the chemical dynamics of the oxidation process is remarkably different than on a bare black phosphorus surface.

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APA:

Meingast, L., Kolesnik-Gray, M., Siebert, M., Abellan Saez, G., Wild, S., Lloret Segura, V.J.,... Krstic, V. (2018). Effect of TCNQ Layer Cover on Oxidation Dynamics of Black Phosphorus. Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters, 12(8). https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/pssr.201800179

MLA:

Meingast, Laura, et al. "Effect of TCNQ Layer Cover on Oxidation Dynamics of Black Phosphorus." Physica Status Solidi-Rapid Research Letters 12.8 (2018).

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