Bulletin of the American Physical Society
APS March Meeting 2021
Volume 66, Number 1
Monday–Friday, March 15–19, 2021; Virtual; Time Zone: Central Daylight Time, USA
Session L57: 2D Materials: Metals, Superconductors, and Correlated Materials - 1
8:00 AM–10:48 AM,
Wednesday, March 17, 2021
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DMP
Chair: Darius Torchinsky, Temple University
Abstract: L57.00005 : Photocurrent imaging of Multi-Memristive Charge Density Wave Switching in Two-Dimensional 1T-TaS2
8:48 AM–9:00 AM
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Presenter:
Tarun Patel
(University of Waterloo)
Authors:
Tarun Patel
(University of Waterloo)
Junichi Okamoto
(Institute of Physics, University of Freiburg)
Tina Dekker
(University of Waterloo)
Bowen Yang
(University of Waterloo)
Jingjing Gao
(Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei)
Xuan Luo
(Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei)
Wenjian Lu
(Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei)
Yuping Sun
(Institute of Solid State Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Hefei)
Adam W Tsen
(University of Waterloo)
Transport studies of atomically thin 1T-TaS2 have demonstrated the presence of intermediate resistance states across the nearly commensurate (NC) to commensurate (C) charge density wave (CDW) transition, which can be further switched electrically. While this presents exciting opportunities for memristor applications, the switching mechanism could be potentially attributed to the formation of inhomogeneous C and NC domains. Here, we present combined electrical driving and photocurrent imaging of ultrathin 1T-TaS2 in a heterostructure geometry. While micron-sized CDW domains are seen upon cooling, electrically driven transitions are largely uniform, indicating that the latter likely induces true metastable CDW states, which we then explain by a free energy analysis. Additionally, we are able to perform repeatable and bidirectional switching across the intermediate states without changing sample temperature, demonstrating that atomically thin 1T-TaS2 can be further used as a robust and reversible multimemristor material for the first time.
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