title: Study of Grains and Boundaries of Molybdenum Diselenide and Tungsten Diselenide Using Liquid Crystal.
abstract: Direct observation of grains and boundaries is a vital factor in altering the electrical and optoelectronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), that is, MoSe2and WSe2. Here, we report visualization of grains and boundaries of chemical vapor deposition grown MoSe2and WSe2on silicon, using optical birefringence of two-dimensional layer covered with nematic liquid crystal (LC). An in-depth study was performed to determine the alignment orientation of LC molecules and their correlation with other grains. Interestingly, we found that alignment of liquid crystal has discrete preferential orientations. From computational simulations, higher adsorption energy for the armchair direction was found to force LC molecules to align on it, compared to that of the zigzag direction. We believe that these TMDs with three-fold symmetric alignment could be utilized for display applications.
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Muhammad Arslan
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9322-6425
authors.initials: MA
authors.lastname: Shehzad
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Sajjad
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hussain
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Junsu
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Jongwan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Jung
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Naesung
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Gunn
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kim
authors.affiliation: Graphene Research Institute, ‡Faculty of Nanotechnology and Advanced Materials Engineering, and §Department of Physics and Astronomy, Sejong University , Seoul 143-747, Republic of Korea.
authors.forename: Yongho
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-5695-5493
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Seo
keywords: 2D material; CVD growth; MoSe2; WSe2; grain; grain boundaries; liquid crystal alignment