Engineering magnetic correlations in 2D tungsten diselenide via in situ adatom doping of Nb.

Authors

Abhijith M B, Subhendu Mishra, Sourav Paul, Sriram Sankar, Vineet Pandey, Sandhya Susarla, Abhishek Kumar Singh, Vidya Kochat

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Nanoscale. Sep 08, 2026. Epub Sep 08, 2026.

Abstract

Heteroatom doping is a potential strategy for tailoring the electronic and optoelectronic properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Conventional doping techniques employing elemental substitution are often constrained by factors such as lattice strain and phase instability. In this work, we develop a novel doping strategy implemented through in situ adatom engineering where the strong ionicity in TMDs facilitates charge transfer from the adatoms leading to modulation of carrier concentration in 2D TMDs. This is demonstrated using in situ addition of Nb adatoms on the surface of monolayer WSe₂ during chemical vapour deposition growth which resulted in n-doping in WSe₂ and Fano resonances due to enhanced electron-phonon interactions. The electron transfer from Nb adatoms generated localized magnetic moments in WSe₂ at low doping, while competing interactions between spins at higher concentrations drives the system into a spin cluster glass like system. These observations are further supported through spin-polarized DFT calculations and charge transfer analysis. Our work demonstrates a new route to controllably grow doped 2D TMDs and 2D dilute magnetic semiconductors offering great promise for spintronic applications based on 2D materials.

PMID:
42707023
Bibliographic data and abstract were imported from PubMed on 08 Sep 2026.

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