TY - JOUR
T1 - Unusual lattice vibration characteristics in whiskers of the pseudo-one-dimensional titanium trisulfide TiS3
AU - Wu, Kedi
AU - Torun, Engin
AU - Sahin, Hasan
AU - Chen, Bin
AU - Fan, Xi
AU - Pant, Anupum
AU - Wright, David Parsons
AU - Aoki, Toshihiro
AU - Peeters, Francois M.
AU - Soignard, Emmanuel
AU - Tongay, Sefaattin
N1 - Funding Information:
S.T. acknowledges support from the National Science Foundation (DMR-1552220) and (CMMI-1561839). F.M.P., H.S. and E.T. were supported by the Flemish Science Foundation (FWO-Vl). Computational resources were partially provided by TUBITAK ULAKBIM, High Performance and Grid Computing Center (TR-Grid e Infrastructure). H.S. acknowledges support from Bilim AkademisiThe Science Academy, Turkey under the BAGEP programme. F.P. acknowledges the funding from Flemish Science Foundation (FWO-Vl). K.W. acknowledges helpful discussions with H. Cai, W. Kong and X. Meng. We gratefully acknowledge the use of facilities within the LeRoy Eyring Center for Solid State Science at Arizona State University.
Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2016/9/22
Y1 - 2016/9/22
N2 - Transition metal trichalcogenides form a class of layered materials with strong in-plane anisotropy. For example, titanium trisulfide (TiS3) whiskers are made out of weakly interacting TiS3 layers, where each layer is made of weakly interacting quasi-one-dimensional chains extending along the b axis. Here we establish the unusual vibrational properties of TiS3 both experimentally and theoretically. Unlike other two-dimensional systems, the Raman active peaks of TiS3 have only out-of-plane vibrational modes, and interestingly some of these vibrations involve unique rigid-chain vibrations and S-S molecular oscillations. High-pressure Raman studies further reveal that the AgS-S S-S molecular mode has an unconventional negative pressure dependence, whereas other peaks stiffen as anticipated. Various vibrational modes are doubly degenerate at ambient pressure, but the degeneracy is lifted at high pressures. These results establish the unusual vibrational properties of TiS3 with strong in-plane anisotropy, and may have relevance to understanding of vibrational properties in other anisotropic two-dimensional material systems.
AB - Transition metal trichalcogenides form a class of layered materials with strong in-plane anisotropy. For example, titanium trisulfide (TiS3) whiskers are made out of weakly interacting TiS3 layers, where each layer is made of weakly interacting quasi-one-dimensional chains extending along the b axis. Here we establish the unusual vibrational properties of TiS3 both experimentally and theoretically. Unlike other two-dimensional systems, the Raman active peaks of TiS3 have only out-of-plane vibrational modes, and interestingly some of these vibrations involve unique rigid-chain vibrations and S-S molecular oscillations. High-pressure Raman studies further reveal that the AgS-S S-S molecular mode has an unconventional negative pressure dependence, whereas other peaks stiffen as anticipated. Various vibrational modes are doubly degenerate at ambient pressure, but the degeneracy is lifted at high pressures. These results establish the unusual vibrational properties of TiS3 with strong in-plane anisotropy, and may have relevance to understanding of vibrational properties in other anisotropic two-dimensional material systems.
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U2 - 10.1038/ncomms12952
DO - 10.1038/ncomms12952
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84988734796
VL - 7
JO - Nature Communications
JF - Nature Communications
SN - 2041-1723
M1 - 12952
ER -