Two Phases of Monolayer Tantalum Sulfide on Au(111).

Dombrowski, Daniela; Samad, Abdus; Murray, Clifford; Petrović, Marin; Ewen, Pascal; Michely, Thomas; Kralj, Marko; Schwingenschlögl, Udo et al. · ACS Nano · 2021

basic_science · Level V

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Abstract

We prepared monolayers of tantalum sulfide on Au(111) by evaporation of Ta in a reactive background of H<sub>2</sub>S. Under sulfur-rich conditions, monolayers of 2H-TaS<sub>2</sub> formed, whereas under sulfur-poor conditions TaS<sub>2-<i>x</i></sub> with 0 ≤ <i>x</i> ≤ 1 were found. We identified this phase as TaS, a structure that can be derived from 2H-TaS<sub>2</sub> by removal of the bottom S layer.