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The two-dimensional layer of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently attracted much interest due to its direct-gap property and potential applications in optoelectronics and energy harvesting. However, the synthetic approach to obtain high…

Synthesis of large-scale, uniform, easily transferable, and highly crystalline monolayer (1L) molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) on different substrates is a challenge and could decide its suitability for opto-electronic device applications.…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-29 Aditya Singh , Monika Moun , Madan Sharma , Arabinda Barman , Ashok Kumar Kapoor , Rajendra Singh

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMdC) are promising candidates for realization of a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The optical properties of these two-dimensional materials, however, vary from flake to flake, or…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-01-22 Pavel V. Kolesnichenko , Qianhui Zhang , Changxi Zheng , Michael S. Fuhrer , Jeffrey A. Davis

Photodetectors based on two dimensional materials have attracted growing interest. However, the sensitivity is still unsatisfactory even under high gate voltage. Here we demonstrate a MoS2 photodetector with a poly(vinylidene…

Future generation technologies demand high efficiency photodetectors to enable sensing and switching devices for ultrafast communication and machine vision. This require direct-band gap materials with high photosensitivity, high detectivity…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-03-28 Rakesh K. Prasad , Koushik Ghosh , P. K. Giri , Dai-Sik Kim , Dilip K. Singh

Geometrical confinement effect in exfoliated sheets of layered materials leads to significant evolution of energy dispersion with decreasing layer thickness. Molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) was recently found to exhibit indirect to direct gap…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-03-13 Weijie Zhao , Zohreh Ghorannevis , Leiqiang Chua , Minglin Toh , Christian Kloc , Ping-Heng Tan , Goki Eda

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), exemplified by molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), have shown exceptional potential for data-centred, energy-efficient electronic applications due to their unique electrical,…

We propose a robust photonic platform for encapsulation and addressing of optically active 2D- and nano-materials. Our implementation utilises a monolayer of MoS$_2$ transition metal dichalcogenide embedded in an elastomeric waveguide chip.…

The layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted considerable interest due to their unique electronic and optical properties. Here we report electric field induced strong electroluminescence in multi-layer MoS2 and WSe2.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Dehui Li , Rui Cheng , Hailong Zhou , Chen Wang , Anxiang Yin , Yu Chen , Nathan O. Weiss , Yu Huang , Xiangfeng Duan

We fabricated the 1D nanoscrolled monolayer MoS2 (1L-MoS2) with superior characteristics from 1L-MoS2 film in a facile route, using a suitable organic solvent with optimum surface tension, evaporation rate and dielectric constant, which…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-02-22 C. Abinash Bhuyan , Kishore K. Madapu , K. Prabakar , K. Ganesan , A. Pandian , Sandip Dhara

We report the observation of electric-field-induced superconductivity on the surface of bulk polycrystalline MoS2 using electric double-layer doping. A gate voltage applied in an ionic liquid environment systematically increased carrier…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-09-04 Yoshihiro Shimazu , Tomonori Miyatake , Kento Ueno , Masatomo Uehara

The development of noble-metal free electrocatalysts is of high importance for clean energy conversion applications. MoS$_2$ has been considered as a promising low cost catalyst for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), however its…

Preparation of high-quality two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is the precondition for realizing their applications. However, the synthesized 2D TMDCs (e.g., MoS$_2$) crystals suffer from low quality due to the…

Due to its sizable direct bandgap and strong light-matter interactions, the preparation of monolayer $\mathrm{MoS}_{2}$ has attracted significant attention and intensive research efforts. However, multilayer $\mathrm{MoS}_{2}$ is largely…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Qi Fu , Yichi Zhang , Jichuang Shen , Siyuan Hong , Jie Wang , Chen Wang , Jingyi Shen , Wei Kong , Guolin Zheng , Jun Yan , Jie Wu , Changxi Zheng

Monolayer WS2 offers great promise for use in optical devices due to its direct bandgap and high photoluminescence intensity. While fundamental investigations can be performed on exfoliated material, large-area and high quality materials…

The strong light emission and absorption exhibited by single atomic layer transitional metal dichalcogenides in the visible to near-infrared wavelength range makes them attractive for optoelectronic applications. In this work, using…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-09 Haining Wang , Changjian Zhang , Weimin Chan , Sandip Tiwari , Farhan Rana

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has drawn great interest for tunable photonics and optoelectronics advancement. Its solution processing, though scalable, results in randomly networked ensembles of discrete nanosheets with compromised properties…

Recent discoveries of the photoresponse of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have shown the considerable potential of these two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides for optoelectronic applications. Among the various types of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-21 Yueh-Chun Wu , Cheng-Hua Liu , Shao-Yu Chen , Fu-Yu Shih , Po-Hsun Ho , Chun-Wei Chen , Chi-Te Liang , Wei-Hua Wang

Metal sulfides are emerging as an important class of materials for photocatalytic applications, because of their high photo responsive nature in the wide visible light range. CdS in this class of materials, have a direct band gap of 2.4 eV,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-19 Sulakshana Shenoy , Kartick Tarafder

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been extensively investigated due to their tunable properties. In this work, density functional theory (DFT) is employed to investigate the adsorption behavior and sensing…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-22 Neeraj Thakur , Anjna Bhardwaj , Arun Kumar , Amarjeet Singh