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Optical Characterization of Few-Layer PtSe₂ Nanosheet Films.

ABSTRACT: Thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides are potential materials for optoelectronic applications. However, the application of these materials in practice requires knowledge of their fundamental optical properties. Many existing methods determine optical constants using predefined models. Here, a different approach was used. We determine the sheet conductance and absorption coefficient of few-layer PtSe₂ in the infrared and UV-vis ranges without recourse to any particular model for the optical constants. PtSe₂ samples with a thickness of about 3-4 layers were prepared by selenization of 0.5 nm thick platinum films on sapphire substrates at different temperatures. Differential reflectance was extracted from transmittance and reflectance measurements from the front and back of the sample. The film thickness, limited to a few atomic layers, allowed a thin-film approximation to calculate the optical conductance and absorption coefficient. The former has a very different energy dependence in the infrared, near-infrared, and visible ranges. The absorption coefficient exhibits a strong power-law dependence on energy with an exponent larger than three in the mid-infrared and near-infrared regions. We have not observed any evidence for a band gap in PtSe₂ thin layers down to an energy of 0.4 eV from our optical measurements.

SUBMITTER: Pribusova Slusna L

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