Growth of molybdenum disulphide using iodine

as transport material

RAJIV VAIDYA¹, MADHAVI DAVE¹, S S PATEL², S G PATEL^1,*

and A R JANI¹

¹Department of Physics; 2Department of Electronics, Sardar Patel University,

Vallabh Vidyanagar 388 120, India

E-mail: shantibhaip@yahoo.com

^*Corresponding author

Abstract. In the present paper an attempt has been made to describe the chemical

vapor transport (CVT) technique used for the growth of molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$)

single crystals. Iodine (I$_2$) is used as transporting material for this purpose. The energy

dispersive analysis by X-ray (EDAX) confirmed the stoichiometry of the as-grown crys-

tals. The lattice parameters of these crystals were determined from the X-ray diffraction

analysis. The grown crystals were examined under the optical zoom microscope for their

surface microstructure study.

Keywords. Single crystals; chemical vapor transport; structural characterization.

PACS Nos 62.50.+p; 73.90.+f; 73.61.Ga