TY - JOUR
T1 - Large magnetotransport properties in mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures of graphene foam
AU - Rehman Sagar, Rizwan Ur
AU - Shabbir, Babar
AU - Hasnain, Syed Muhammad
AU - Mahmood, Nasir
AU - Zeb, Muhammad Husnain
AU - Shivananju, B. N.
AU - Ahmed, Taimur
AU - Qasim, Irfan
AU - Malik, Muhammad Imran
AU - Khan, Qasim
AU - Shehzad, Khurram
AU - Younis, Adnan
AU - Bao, Qiaoliang
AU - Zhang, Min
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2020/4/15
Y1 - 2020/4/15
N2 - Mixed dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (MD-vdWhs) open a huge potential to fabricate novel devices based on numerous metamaterials with superior magnetotransport properties. In conventional vdWhs, a variety of two dimensional (2D) layers has been stacked together to demonstrate vdWhs with phenomenal functionalities. However, fabricating 2D materials and their vdWhs over large areas with excellent magnetoresistance (MR) characteristics remains a major challenge. Graphene foam (GF), a 3D form of Dirac graphene continued to gather much attention for magnetotransport applications due to its gram-scale/cost effective production and better magnetoresistance properties. Also, many combinations could be possible with GF to create numerous MD-vdWhs with hybrid functionalities, potentially giving access to explore novel devices with unique hybrid properties. Herein, we demonstrate MD-vdWhs (2D+3D) of GF with molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) to investigate magnetotransport properties. Remarkably, MR of GF is increased from ∼130% to ∼210% at 5 K under an applied magnetic field of 5 T by fabricating its MD-vdWhs with MoS2. Our systematic investigations show that distinct magnetotransport properties in GF/MoS2 vdWhs are strongly correlated to the enhancement in spin-orbit-coupling of the MD-vdWhs. Together, these results present a promising path toward the fabrication of future sensing and memory devices.
AB - Mixed dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (MD-vdWhs) open a huge potential to fabricate novel devices based on numerous metamaterials with superior magnetotransport properties. In conventional vdWhs, a variety of two dimensional (2D) layers has been stacked together to demonstrate vdWhs with phenomenal functionalities. However, fabricating 2D materials and their vdWhs over large areas with excellent magnetoresistance (MR) characteristics remains a major challenge. Graphene foam (GF), a 3D form of Dirac graphene continued to gather much attention for magnetotransport applications due to its gram-scale/cost effective production and better magnetoresistance properties. Also, many combinations could be possible with GF to create numerous MD-vdWhs with hybrid functionalities, potentially giving access to explore novel devices with unique hybrid properties. Herein, we demonstrate MD-vdWhs (2D+3D) of GF with molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) to investigate magnetotransport properties. Remarkably, MR of GF is increased from ∼130% to ∼210% at 5 K under an applied magnetic field of 5 T by fabricating its MD-vdWhs with MoS2. Our systematic investigations show that distinct magnetotransport properties in GF/MoS2 vdWhs are strongly correlated to the enhancement in spin-orbit-coupling of the MD-vdWhs. Together, these results present a promising path toward the fabrication of future sensing and memory devices.
KW - Chemical vapor deposition
KW - Graphene foam
KW - Magnetoresistance
KW - Mixed-dimensional heterostructures
KW - Molybdenum disulfide
KW - Spin-orbit coupling
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U2 - 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.01.001
DO - 10.1016/j.carbon.2020.01.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85077658179
SN - 0008-6223
VL - 159
SP - 648
EP - 655
JO - Carbon
JF - Carbon
ER -