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EPL
Volume 100, Number 2, October 2012
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| Article Number | 27002 | |
| Number of page(s) | 6 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/100/27002 | |
| Published online | 29 October 2012 | |
Plasmon evolution and charge-density wave suppression in potassium intercalated 2H-TaSe2
1 IFW Dresden, Institute for Solid State Research - P. O. Box 270116, D-01171 Dresden, Germany
2 Institut de Physique de la Matière Condensée, EPFL - CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
Received: 25 June 2012
Accepted: 20 September 2012
We have investigated the influence of potassium intercalation on the formation of the charge-density wave (CDW) instability in 2H-TaSe2 by means of electron energy-loss spectroscopy and density functional theory. Our observations are consistent with a filling of the conduction band as indicated by a substantial decrease of the plasma frequency in experiment and theory. In addition, elastic scattering clearly points to a destruction of the CDW upon intercalation as can be seen by a vanishing of the corresponding superstructures. This is accompanied by a new superstructure, which can be attributed to the intercalated potassium. Based on the behavior of the c-axis upon intercalation we argue in favor of interlayer sites for the alkali metal and that the lattice remains in the 2H modification.
PACS: 71.45.Lr – Charge-density-wave systems / 71.20.Tx – Fullerenes and related materials; intercalation compounds / 71.15.Mb – Density functional theory, local density approximation, gradient and other corrections
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