Abdollah Motmaen Dadgar, Declan Scullion, Kyungnam Kang, Daniel V. Esposito et al.
We describe a facile technique based on polymer encapsulation to apply several percent controllable strains to monolayer and few-layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs). We use this technique to study the lattice response to strain via polarized Raman spectroscopy in monolayer WSe2 and WS2. Th...