Top: Crystal structure of WTe2. Bottom: Single layer of WTe2 viewed from above. (W:gray, Te:red)
Names
Other names
tungsten ditelluride
Identifiers
CAS Number
12067-76-4Y
3D model (JSmol)
Interactive image
ECHA InfoCard
100.031.884
EC Number
235-086-0
PubChem CID
82913
CompTox Dashboard (EPA)
DTXSID3065243
InChI
InChI=1S/2Te.W
Key: WFGOJOJMWHVMAP-UHFFFAOYSA-N
SMILES
[Te]=[W]=[Te]
Properties
Chemical formula
WTe2
Molar mass
439.04 g/mol
Appearance
gray crystals
Density
9.43 g/cm3, solid
Melting point
1,020 °C (1,870 °F; 1,290 K)
Solubility in water
negligible
Solubility
insoluble in ammonia
Structure
Crystal structure
orthorhombic, oP12
Space group
Pmn21, No. 31
Lattice constant
a = 3.50 Å, b = 6.34 Å, c = 15.4 Å[2]
Except where otherwise noted, data are given for materials in their standard state (at 25 °C [77 °F], 100 kPa).
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Chemical compound
Tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) is an inorganic semimetallic chemical compound. In October 2014, tungsten ditelluride was discovered to exhibit an extremely large magnetoresistance: 13 million percent resistance increase in a magnetic field of 60 tesla at 0.5 kelvin.[3] The resistance is proportional to the square of the magnetic field and shows no saturation. This may be due to the material being the first example of a compensated semimetal, in which the number of mobile holes is the same as the number of electrons.[4] Tungsten ditelluride has layered structure, similar to many other transition metal dichalcogenides, but its layers are so distorted that the honeycomb lattice many of them have in common is in WTe2 hard to recognize. The tungsten atoms instead form zigzag chains, which are thought to behave as one-dimensional conductors. Unlike electrons in other two-dimensional semiconductors, the electrons in WTe2 can easily move between the layers.[5]
When subjected to pressure, the magnetoresistance effect in WTe2 is reduced. Above the pressure of 10.5 GPa magnetoresistance disappears and the material becomes a superconductor. At 13.0 GPa the transition to superconductivity happens below 6.5 K.[6]
WTe2 was predicted to be a Weyl semimetal and, in particular, to be the first example of a Type II Weyl semimetal, where the Weyl nodes exist at the intersection of the electron and hole pockets.[7]
It has also been reported that terahertz-frequency light pulses can switch the crystal structure of WTe2 between orthorhombic and monoclinic by altering the material's atomic lattice.[8]
Tungsten ditelluride can be exfoliated into thin sheets down to single layers. Monolayer WTe2 was initially predicted to remain a Weyl semimetal[9] in the 1T' crystal phase. It was later shown with transport measurements that, below 50K, a single layer of WTe2 instead acts like an insulator but with an offset current independent of doping by a local electrostatic gate. When using a contact geometry that shorted out conduction along the device edges, this offset current vanished, demonstrating that this nearly quantized conduction was localized to the edge—behavior consistent with monolayer WTe2 being a two-dimensional topological insulator.[10][11] Identical measurements with two- and three-layer thick samples showed the expected semimetallic response. Subsequent studies using other techniques have been consistent with the transport results, including those using angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy[12][13] and microwave-impedance microscopy.[14] Monolayer WTe2 has also been observed to superconduct at moderate doping,[15] with a critical temperature tunable by doping level.
Two- and three-layer thick WTe2 have also been observed to be polar metals, simultaneously hosting metallic behavior and switchable electric polarization.[16] The polarization was theorized to originate from vertical charge transfer between the layers, which is switched by interlayer sliding.[17]
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^Kang, Defen; Zhou, Yazhou; Yi, Wei; Yang, Chongli; Guo, Jing; Shi, Youguo; Zhang, Shan; Wang, Zhe; Zhang, Chao; et al. (23 July 2015). "Superconductivity emerging from a suppressed large magnetoresistant state in tungsten ditelluride". Nature Communications. 6: 7804. arXiv:1502.00493. Bibcode:2015NatCo...6.7804K. doi:10.1038/ncomms8804. PMC 4525168. PMID 26203807.
^Wu, Sanfeng; Fatemi, Valla; Gibson, Quinn D.; Watanabe, Kenji; Taniguchi, Takashi; Cava, Robert J.; Jarillo-Herrero, Pablo (5 January 2018). "Observation of the quantum spin Hall effect up to 100 kelvin in a monolayer crystal". Science. 359 (6371): 76–79. arXiv:1711.03584. Bibcode:2018Sci...359...76W. doi:10.1126/science.aan6003. PMID 29302010. S2CID 206660894.
^Tang, Shujie; Zhang, Chaofan; Wong, Dillon; Pedramrazi, Zahra; Tsai, Hsin-Zon; Jia, Chunjing; Moritz, Brian; Claassen, Martin; Ryu, Hyejin; Kahn, Salman; Jiang, Juan; Yan, Hao; Hashimoto, Makoto; Lu, Donghui; Moore, Robert G.; Hwang, Chan-Cuk; Hwang, Choongyu; Hussain, Zahid; Chen, Yulin; Ugeda, Miguel M.; Liu, Zhi; Xie, Xiaoming; Devereaux, Thomas P.; Crommie, Michael F.; Mo, Sung-Kwan; Shen, Zhi-Xun (July 2017). "Quantum spin Hall state in monolayer 1T'-WTe2". Nature Physics. 13 (7): 683–687. arXiv:1703.03151. Bibcode:2017NatPh..13..683T. doi:10.1038/nphys4174. S2CID 119327399.
^Sajadi, Ebrahim; Palomaki, Tauno; Fei, Zaiyao; Zhao, Wenjin; Bement, Philip; Olsen, Christian; Luescher, Silvia; Xu, Xiaodong; Folk, Joshua A.; Cobden, David H. (23 November 2018). "Gate-induced superconductivity in a monolayer topological insulator". Science. 362 (6417): 922–925. arXiv:1809.04691. Bibcode:2018Sci...362..922S. doi:10.1126/science.aar4426. PMID 30361385. S2CID 206665871.
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^Yang, Qing; Wu, Menghao; Li, Ju (20 December 2018). "Origin of Two-Dimensional Vertical Ferroelectricity in WTe 2 Bilayer and Multilayer". The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters. 9 (24): 7160–7164. doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.8b03654. PMID 30540485. S2CID 56147713.
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