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J Phys Chem B. 2006 May 25;110(20):9991-4. doi: 10.1021/jp060871g.

Conducting-probe AFM nanoscale joule heating yields charge-density-wave transition detection.

The journal of physical chemistry. B

Olivier Schneegans, Alec Moradpour, Kang Wang, Annie Leblanc, Philippe Molinié

Affiliations

  1. Laboratoire du Génie Electrique de Paris, UMR 8507 of CNRS, Paris VI and Paris-Sud Universities, Supélec, F-Gif-sur-Yvette, France.

PMID: 16706457 DOI: 10.1021/jp060871g

Abstract

Several layered transition-metal dichalcogenides are studied using conducting probe AFM aiming to investigate the probe-mediated thermal processes likely to arise in the probe-substrate vicinity due to the high-current densities involved. A signature of local heating is found in the shape of current-potential (i/V) curves. The latter allows straightforward detection of a charge-density-wave (CDW) transition for 1T-TaSe(2) samples exhibiting it above room temperature. This is an illustration of a new use of conducting probe AFM to investigate solid-state bulk characteristics owing to a distinctive nanoscale Joule heating.

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