a Laboratoire de Physique des Solides de Bellevue, CNRS, UPR 1332, 1 Place Aristide Briand, 92195, Meudon, France
b Department of Materials and Interfaces, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot 76100, Israel
Abstract:
Molybdenum sulphide was cathodically electrodeposited from aqueous solutions of sodium tetrathiomolybdate. The as-deposited films were X-ray amorphous with a composition, measured by microprobe analysis, close to MoS2. Annealing these films in Ar resulted in highly-textured films of MoS2 with the van der Waals planes parallel to the substrate. A small expansion in the c spacing of the annealed films was explained by the presence of oxygen in the crystals. A direct bandgap of 1.78 eV was found for the annealed films.