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. 2016 Jan 22;6:19624. doi: 10.1038/srep19624

Raman fingerprint for semi-metal WTe2 evolving from bulk to monolayer

Y C Jiang 1,2, J Gao 2,a, L Wang 2,3
PMCID: PMC4726394  PMID: 26797573

Abstract

Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2), a layered transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD), has recently demonstrated an extremely large magnetoresistance effect, which is unique among TMDs. This fascinating feature seems to be correlated with its special electronic structure. Here, we report the observation of 6 Raman peaks corresponding to the Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic phonons, from the 33 Raman-active modes predicted for WTe2. This provides direct evidence to distinguish the space group of WTe2 from those of other TMDs. Moreover, the Raman evolution of WTe2 from bulk to monolayer is clearly revealed. It is interesting to find that the Inline graphic mode, centered at ~109.8 cm1, is forbidden in a monolayer, which may be attributable to the transition of the point group from C2v (bulk) to C2h (monolayer). Our work characterizes all observed Raman peaks in the bulk and few-layer samples and provides a route to study the physical properties of two-dimensional WTe2.


Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of the MX2 type, where M refers to Mo and W, and X refers to S, Se and Te, have attracted much attention as graphene-like semiconductors with remarkable electric, spintronic and optical properties1,2,3,4,5,6,7. The basic structure of bulk MX2 comprises two-dimensional (2D) X-M-X layers stacked through Van der Waals forces. Mono- and few-layer MX2 can be fabricated by the mechanical exfoliation method8. The physical properties of MX2 are greatly dependent on the number of layers9,10,11. Weak Van der Waals forces play a very important role in the interlayer bands and atomic vibration. As the thickness decreases, MX2 exhibits a transition from indirect to direct gaps, while the frequency of the Raman peaks shift away from those of the bulk sample12,13.

Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is a unique TMD as it has the large interlayer spacing, an orthorhombic lattice structure and a semi-metal electronic structure1,14,15,16. This material has drawn extensive interest since the recent discovery of an extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR) effect in diamagnetic WTe2 single crystal, which has not been observed in other TMDs1. Such a fascinating feature implies potential spintronic applications for mono- and few-layer WTe2. However, to date no study has examined the physical properties of the 2D WTe2 system. Raman spectroscopy is a powerful tool for investigating the symmetries of 2D semiconductors; it is necessary, therefore, to characterize the Raman fingerprint of WTe2 as it evolves from a 3D to a 2D system.

This article reports the observation of Raman scattering in bulk and few-layer WTe2 samples. Six optical vibrational modes, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic, were observed at room temperature. Density functional perturbation theory (DFPT) was used to calculate phonon branches, simulate Raman spectra and verify their corresponding optical phonons. Group analysis demonstrated that the lattice symmetry differentiated WTe2 from other TMDs17,18. In our experiments, WTe2 flakes, exfoliated from a piece of bulk, showed strong thickness-dependent Raman spectra. As the number of layers increased, the Inline graphic, and Inline graphic modes softened (red-shift) and the Inline graphic and Inline graphic mode stiffened (blue-shift). It was also interesting to find that the Inline graphic mode was absent in the monolayer. This phenomenon may be attributable to the transition of the point group from C2v to C2h. Our results provide a well-defined and reliable method for determining the number of layers using Raman spectroscopy.

Results and Discussions

Figure 1a shows the layered crystal structure of WTe2, in which tungsten layers are sandwiched between two neighboring tellurium sheets. The distance (0.703 nm) between two adjacent sandwich layers is the largest of all known TMDs. Most TMDs exhibit a hexagonal structure with the space group D46h. However, naturally formed WTe2 reveals an orthorhombic unit cell with the space group C72v (Pmn21), which may be derived from a distorted hexagonal net1,15. The unit cell contains two tungsten atoms and four tellurium atoms. The two tungsten atoms (distinguished by W1 and W2) are not equivalent to each other and the W-Te bond length ranges from 2.7 to 2.8 Å. WTe2 bulk exhibits the Td stacking order, in which the atoms in the upper layer are rotated by 180 degrees with respect to those in the lower layer17. And the tungsten atoms shift away from the center of the octahedron formed by the tellurium atoms. Therefore, the vibrational modes of Td-WTe2 are very different from those of 2H-MX2, and the previous calculation of vibrational modes, based on 2H-WTe2, is inapplicable to our experimental Raman results19.

Figure 1. Lattice structure.

Figure 1

(a) Crystal structure of WTe2 along the a-axis direction, showing the orthorhombic unit cell. (b) Atomic displacements of Raman active modes in WTe2 bulk and monolayer. Here, “×” and “·” indicate that the Te atoms move into and out of the bc plane, respectively.

Due to the C72v symmetry group, the irreducible representations of the optical phonons in the bulk WTe2 at the center of the Brillouin zone (Γ point) are

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where all of the vibrational modes are Raman active, and the 11A1, 11B1 and 5B2 modes are infrared active. Here, the Raman tensors corresponding to different symmetries can be written as

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Although 33 Raman vibrations are predicted by group theory, only 6 Raman peaks were observed in our experiments. To distinguish these vibrational modes, we use Inline graphic (Z = A or B; m = 1 or 2; n = integer) to represent them. The frequency of Inline graphic mode is smaller than that of Inline graphic mode if n is larger than l. This method allows us to name all appropriate vibrational modes.

DFPT has been used to calculate all 33 Raman vibrational modes. Among them, the atomic displacements of the six Raman active modes that could potentially explain our Raman results are shown in Fig. 1b. The Raman spectra of WTe2 bulk at room temperature are presented in Fig. 2a. Raman peaks centered at ~109.8 cm1, ~130.4 cm1 ~162.5 cm1 and 208.4 cm1 were observed with Laser I applied in the z(xx)Inline graphic geometry. Another two Raman peaks, centered at ~119.6 cm1 and ~139.1 cm1, were observed with Laser II applied in the y(zz)Inline graphic geometry. Due to the non-polarized Raman measurement, the Inline graphic and Inline graphic vectors are not along a- or c- axis in the either geometry. Thus, a total of six Raman peaks were identified in our experiments. Due to the non-polarized Raman measurements, the assignment of these Raman peaks could not be performed through symmetry analysis. Instead, we calculated the Raman intensities and spectrum (green curve in Fig. 2a) to verify the phonon modes corresponding to the observed Raman peaks. Only 6 Raman peaks were observed in comparison with 33 Raman modes in theory, which suggests that only those modes with high Raman intensities might appear experimentally. For example, Table 1 shows that for the first Raman peak (centered at ~109.8 cm1), the Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes were all candidates, with frequencies close to ~110 cm1. Only the Inline graphic mode exhibited a sufficiently strong Raman intensity, whereas the intensities of the others were very weak. Therefore, the Inline graphic mode should be assigned to the first peak. Similarly, the Inline graphic (~119.6 cm1),Inline graphic (~130.4 cm1), Inline graphic (~139.1 cm1), Inline graphic (~162.5 cm1) and Inline graphic (~208.4 cm1) modes were assigned frequencies from low to high, which agrees with the results in ref. 20. It should be noted that although the Inline graphic mode was associated with the peak centered at ~208.4 cm1, the Inline graphic mode still exhibited a strong Raman intensity theoretically and could not be neglected. It is very possible that the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes both exist, but the difference between their frequencies is so small that they cannot be distinguished in the Raman spectra.

Figure 2. Experimental and calculated phonons.

Figure 2

(a) Raman spectra of the bulk sample with incident Laser I and Laser II along the c- and b-axes at room temperature, respectively. The calculated Raman spectrum is plotted for comparison. (b) Calculated phonon dispersion curve along the Γ-Y-X-Γ-Z direction in the orthorhombic Brillouin zone (BZ), and the vibrational density of states (DOS) for WTe2 bulk at the equilibrium volume. The blue and green curves are the optical and acoustic vibrational branches, respectively.

Table 1. All of the possible optical phonons investigated through calculations and experiments.

Symmetry Raman Activity Infrared Activity Experimental Frequency (cm−1) Calculated Frequency (cm−1)
Inline graphic Y Y   10.9
Inline graphic Y Y   23.9
Inline graphic Y N   29.7
Inline graphic Y Y   69.3
Inline graphic Y Y   84.8
Inline graphic Y Y   99.3
Inline graphic Y N   103.9
Inline graphic Y N 109.8 110.0
Inline graphic Y Y   112.5
Inline graphic Y N   114.0
Inline graphic Y Y   117.4
Inline graphic Y Y 119.6 119.4
Inline graphic Y Y   122.1
Inline graphic Y Y   127.9
Inline graphic Y Y   129.5
Inline graphic Y Y 130.4 130.0
Inline graphic Y Y   136.0
Inline graphic Y Y   137.3
Inline graphic Y Y 139.1 142.3
Inline graphic Y N   160.0
Inline graphic Y Y   160.1
Inline graphic Y Y   163.3
Inline graphic Y Y 162.5 168.5
Inline graphic Y N   180.1
Inline graphic Y Y   181.2
Inline graphic Y Y   188.6
Inline graphic Y Y   189.7
Inline graphic Y Y   217.3
Inline graphic Y Y   218.1
Inline graphic Y Y 208.4 222.2
Inline graphic Y Y   223.1
Inline graphic Y Y   238.1
Inline graphic Y Y   241.7

“Y” or “N” indicates that the chosen mode is allowed or forbidden.

As shown in Fig. 1b, the first five modes originate from the relative movements of Te atoms, while the Inline graphic mode is due to the displacement between adjacent W1 and W2 atoms. Inline graphic and Inline graphic are pure longitudinal and transverse optical modes, respectively. For the in-plane configuration [z(xx)Inline graphic, the B1 and B2 modes are forbidden due to the forms of their Raman tensors. In the case of the out-of-plane configuration [y(zz)Inline graphic, the Inline graphic mode may be forbidden and the Inline graphic Raman intensity vanishes. Instead, the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes reveal significant Raman intensities. Here when we state that one mode is “forbidden”, it means that this Raman mode is prevented from observing by group theory or unable to exist on account of the DFPT calculation, while “vanish” means a Raman mode is active in theory, but in a certain configuration its intensity is too weak to observe due to the specific parameters in its Raman tensor. To clarify this phenomenon, the relationship between Raman intensity and Raman tensor can be written as21

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where es and ei are the scattered light and incident light vectors, respectively. This equation makes it easy to understand the anisotropy of the Inline graphic mode. The specific values of a, b and c in the Raman tensors of the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes determine the dependence on the laser configuration. In the case of Laser I, the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes with very small values of a and b vanish, while the Inline graphic mode appears due to its large value of b. There is a similar effect for Laser II: the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes appear due to their large c values and the Inline graphic mode vanishes due to its very small a and c values. The a, b and c values of the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes are large enough for them to be observed in both configurations.

Figure 2b shows the calculated phonon dispersion curve in the Brillouin zone and the density of states for the WTe2 bulk. There are 3 acoustic (green curves) and 33 optical (blue curves) phonon branches. Table 1 shows all of the calculated and experimental vibrational modes. The calculated Raman intensities of the Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes are strong at frequencies of ~110.0 cm1, ~119.4 cm1, ~130.0 cm1, ~142.3 cm1, ~168.5 cm1 and 222.2 cm1, respectively. The good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results supports our assignment of the Raman vibrational modes. It should be noted that all calculations were performed at zero temperature, while the Raman spectra were investigated at room temperature. Although frequencies of phonon modes depend on the temperature, it is unable to influence the assignment of the Raman modes. The frequency displacements between 5 K and 294 K were less than 4 cm1 for all of the observed Raman peaks20. Such small displacements would not affect the association with specific phonon modes. In addition, the frequencies of all Raman peaks increase as the temperature increases, which may explain why most of the calculated frequencies were higher than those measured in the experiments.

WTe2 flakes were fabricated on a Si substrate with a 300 nm SiO2 layer using the mechanical exfoliation method. As shown in Fig. 3a,b, an ultrathin WTe2 flakes was first identified by optical microscopy, and then imaged by atomic force microscopy (AFM) to determine its thickness. Figure 3c shows that the height of a monolayer WTe2 on the SiO2 layer is about 1.1 nm, while the height of the monolayer on the WTe2 flake is 0.7~0.9 nm and close to the interlayer spacing (about 0.703 nm) of the bulk.

Figure 3. Microscopic Imaging.

Figure 3

(a) Optical microscopic images of mono- to multilayer WTe2 on a Si substrate with a 300 nm SiO2 layer. (b) AFM image of the area (20 × 20 μm2) surrounded by a green dashed line in (a). (c) Height of the flake as a function of the layer number.

Figure 4a illustrates the Raman spectra of WTe2 as it evolved from bulk to monolayer. The four Raman active modes can be observed in the 2L, 3L, 4L and 5L samples. It is interesting to note that the Inline graphic mode is absent in the 1L sample, which may make it convenient to use the Raman spectra to identify the WTe2 monolayer. The frequency difference between the Inline graphic modes of the 2L sample and the bulk is about 2.7 cm1. The Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes stiffen (blue-shift) in frequency as the number of layers increases, while the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes soften (red-shift). The Inline graphic mode is the most stable and the displacement of its Raman shift, caused by the change in thickness, is less than 1 cm1. In contrast, the Inline graphic mode is found to be the most sensitive to the number of layers, and shifts up by about 4.8 cm1 when the number of layers decreases to one.

Figure 4. Raman evolution.

Figure 4

(a) Raman spectra of bulk and few-layer WTe2. (b) Calculated phonon dispersion curve along the Γ-Y-X-Γ direction in the orthorhombic BZ, and DOS for the WTe2 monolayer. Blue and green curves are optical and acoustic vibrational branches, respectively. (c) Calculated Raman spectrum for the WTe2 monolayer. (d) Frequencies of the Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes as functions of the layer number.

With WTe2 evolving from bulk to monolayer, its point group changes from C2v to C2h. The irreducible representation of the optical phonons in a WTe2 monolayer at the Brillion zone center (Γ point) is expressed as:

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where Inline graphic and Inline graphic are Raman active; Inline graphic and Inline graphic are infrared active. Only nine Raman-active modes are allowed in the WTe2 monolayer. This implies that some Raman peaks, observed in bulk, may be forbidden in the monolayer. Based on the group analysis, we calculated phonon dispersion curve in BZ, and DOS for WTe2 monolayer as shown in Fig. 4b. There are three acoustic (green curves) and fifteen optical (blue curves) phonon branches.

The vibrational modes of the WTe2 monolayer are exhibited in Table 2. To compare the vibrational modes of the bulk with those of the monolayer, we used the symmetry symbols of the C2v and C2h groups to name the corresponding modes, respectively. The atomic displacements of the Raman active modes were used to build a bridge between Raman modes of monolayer and bulk WTe2 as shown in Fig. 1b. Two of the vibrational modes in the bulk may correspond to the same modes in the monolayer. For example, the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes correspond to the Inline graphic mode in Table 2, indicating that the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes have the same atomic displacement as that of the Inline graphic mode. For the Inline graphic mode, the upper and lower atom layers exhibit the same phase of the atomic oscillations. But for the Inline graphic mode, the upper atom layer has an anti-phase with respect to the lower atom layer. Both of the modes can be distinguished in the multilayer samples (layer number ≥ 2), but turn into the Inline graphic mode in the monolayer.

Table 2. The calculated vibrational modes of the WTe2 monolayer.

Symmetry Symmetry (bulk) Experimental Frequency (cm−1) Calculated Frequency (cm−1)
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   81.4
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   93.2
Inline graphic Inline graphic   108.5
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   114.3
Inline graphic Inline graphic   118.5
Inline graphic Inline graphic   132.2
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   135.1
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic 132.8 137.2
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   156.6
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic 161.9 164.5
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   185.7
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   190.2
Inline graphic Inline graphic   220.3
Inline graphic Inline graphic 213.2 222.6
Inline graphic Inline graphic or Inline graphic   247.2

Our calculations show the Inline graphic mode is forbidden in the monolayer, which consists with the experiments. Figure 4c shows the calculated Raman spectrum of the WTe2 monolayer. Only the Inline graphic mode is a candidate to correspond to the Inline graphic mode. However, Fig. 1b demonstrates that the atomic displacement of the Inline graphic mode is different from that of the Inline graphic mode, but the same as that of the Inline graphic mode. Therefore, the Inline graphic mode corresponds to the Inline graphic mode instead of the Inline graphic mode. On the basis of the theoretical analysis, the transition of point group from C2v (bulk) to C2h (monolayer) may be responsible for the absence of the Inline graphic mode. In addition, the atomic displacement of the Inline graphic mode shows that only the half of tellurium atoms participate in oscillation, while the other half remains still (see Fig. 1b). In contrast to WTe2 bulk, all of the tellurium atoms participated in oscillation in the monolayer. This phenomenon may be attributed to the interlayer Van der Waals forces which are a dominant interaction between the adjacent atom layers. The loss of Van der Waals forces in the monolayer caused its atomic displacements to differ from those of bulk.

The frequencies of the four modes as a function of the number of layers are shown in Fig. 4d. The Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes stiffen and the Inline graphic, and Inline graphic modes soften as the WTe2 monolayer evolves into a bulk. This implies that not only the interlayer Van der Waals coupling, but also stacking-induced structural changes or long-ranged Coulombic interlayer interaction may affect the atomic vibration9,22. If only Van der Waals coupling influenced the atomic vibrations, the Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes should all stiffen with layer number increasing10,23. The softening of the Inline graphic, and Inline graphic modes indicates that stacking-induced structural changes or long-ranged Coulombic interlayer interaction also plays an important role in the atomic vibration9,10,22. Our calculated results for the WTe2 monolayer confirm the shift directions of these vibrational modes.

In summary, we studied bulk and few-layer WTe2 using Raman spectroscopy. The six first-order Raman-active modes observed at room temperature differed from those of all other TMDs. DFPT and group theory were used to analyze the frequencies of the Raman peaks and their corresponding vibration modes. The Raman peaks were found to correlate with the optical phonons of Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic, Inline graphic and Inline graphic. The Inline graphic mode was forbidden in the monolayer due to the transition of the point group from C2v (bulk) to C2h (monolayer). As the number of layers increased, the Inline graphic, and Inline graphic modes softened and the Inline graphic and Inline graphic modes stiffened. Our study characterized all of the Raman peaks observed in bulk and few-layer WTe2 and provides a route to study the physical properties of 2D WTe2.

Methods

The WTe2 single crystals were prepared using a chemical vapor transport method described by ref. 1. WTe2 flakes were mechanically exfoliated from a piece of bulk single crystal onto Si wafers covered with a 300-nm-thick SiO2 layer. The few-layer samples were first identified by optical microscopy, and then measured by atomic-force microscopy (AFM) to determine the thickness. Micro-Raman spectroscopy was used to analyze the WTe2 under ambient conditions. Non-polarized and off-resonance Raman measurements were performed with a 514.5-nm excitation laser. When the WTe2 flakes were investigated, the power of the excitation laser was reduced to 0.5 mW to obtain reliable Raman spectra against the oxidation. Our calculation and analysis were performed on basis of DFPT and group theory, using the experimental lattice parameters a = 3.496 Å, b = 6.282 Å and c = 14.07 Å and the same wavelength of the incident light as that in experiments14. The exchange correlation potential was represented by the local density approximation (LDA). The Brillouin zone integrations were performed with a 16×8×4 Monkhorst-Pack k-point mesh by using a plane-wave energy cutoff of 500 eV. All DFPT calculations model was appropriate for explaining the Raman spectrum using the CASTEP code24.

Additional Information

How to cite this article: Jiang, Y. C. et al. Raman fingerprint for semi-metal WTe2 evolving from bulk to monolayer. Sci. Rep. 6, 19624; doi: 10.1038/srep19624 (2016).

Acknowledgments

The authors thank Dr. An Zhao, Dr. Bairen Zhu and Dr. Xiangbo Liu for their fruitful discussions, and Miss Manxiu Feng for her technique support. This work has been supported by the National Key Project for Basic Research (No. 2014CB921002), the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11504254, 11374225, 11574227, 11304193), and the Research Grant Council of Hong Kong (Project code: 701813). This work is also supported by the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions and the USTS Cooperative Innovation Center for Functional Oxide Films and Optical Information.

Footnotes

Author Contributions J.G. proposed and led the project. Y.C.J. designed and did all the experiments. Y.C.J. and L.W. performed the DFPT calculations. Y.C.J. and J.G. wrote the manuscript and prepared all figures together.

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