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Artificial semiconductor heterostructures played a pivotal role in modern electronic and photonic technologies, providing a highly effective mean for the manipulation and control of carriers, from the visible to the far-infrared. Despite…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-05-01 Leonardo Viti , Miriam S. Vitiello

Black phosphorus (BP) has recently emerged as a promising narrow band gap layered semiconductor with optoelectronic properties that bridge the gap between semi-metallic graphene and wide band gap transition metal dichalcogenides such as…

Black phosphorous (BP), a two-dimensional (2D) material, has a direct bandgap, which fills up the bandgap lacuna left by graphene topological insulators and transition-metal dichalcogenides because of its dependence on the layers and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-25 Rui Zhang , Yuxia Zhang , Haohai Yu , Huaijin Zhang , Ruinong Yang , Bingchao Yang , Zhongyuan Liu , Jiyang Wang

The energy bandgap is an intrinsic character of semiconductors, which largely determines their properties. The ability to continuously and reversibly tune the bandgap of a single device during real time operation is of great importance not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-26 Shi-Li Yan , Zhi-Jian Xie , Jian-Hao Chen , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe

The single-layer black phosphorus is characteristic for its puckered structure, which has leaded to highly anisotropy in its optical, electronic, and mechanical properties. We report, using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach and…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-13 Jin-Wu Jiang

Low-dimensional systems based on black phosphorus (BP) have recently attracted much interest. Since the crystal structure of BP consists of 2D layers with a strong in-plane anisotropy, its electronic properties at a high magnetic field…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-26 H. Okamura , S. Iguchi , T. Sasaki , Y. Ikemoto , T. Moriwaki , Y. Akahama

Black phosphorene (BP) has emerged as a promising platform for tunable nonlinear photonics due to its layer-dependent bandgap, high carrier mobility, and remarkable in-plane anisotropy. This study investigates the second-harmonic generation…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-14 Yan Meng , Kainan Chang , Yanyan Qian , Luxia Wang , Jin Luo Cheng

Two-dimensional materials with strong bandstructure anisotropy such as black phosphorus BP have been identified as attractive candidates for logic application due to their potential high carrier velocity and large density-of-states.…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-10-28 Cedric Klinkert , Sara Fiore , Jonathan Backmann , Youseung Lee , Mathieu Luisier

Owing to its outstanding electronic properties, black phosphorus (BP) is considered as a promising material for next-generation optoelectronic devices. In this work, devices based on BP/MXene (Zrn+1CnT2, T = O, F, OH, n = 1, 2) van der…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-13 Hao Yuan , Zhenyu Li

Tuning band gaps in two-dimensional (2D) materials is of great interest in the fundamental and practical aspects of contemporary material sciences. Recently, black phosphorus (BP) consisting of stacked layers of phosphorene was…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-09-13 Sun-Woo Kim , Hyun Jung , Hyun-Jung Kim , Jin-Ho Choi , Su-Huai Wei , Jun-Hyung Cho

We present a monolayer black phosphorus (BP)-based metamaterial structure for tunable anisotropic absorption in the mid-infrared. Based on the critical coupling mechanism of guided resonance, the structure realizes the high absorption…

Optical devices capable of suppressing diffraction nature of light are of great technological importance to many nanophotonic applications. One important technique to achieve diffractionless optics is to exploit field canalization effect.…

Optics · Physics 2021-12-16 Po-Han Chang , Charles Lin , Amr S. Helmy

Black phosphorus is an infrared layered material. Its bandgap complements other widely studied two-dimensional materials: zero-gap graphene and visible/near-infrared gap transition metal dichalcogenides. Though highly desirable, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-07 Guowei Zhang , Shenyang Huang , Andrey Chaves , Chaoyu Song , V. Ongun Özçelik , Tony Low , Hugen Yan

The attraction between electrons and holes in semiconductors forms excitons, which largely determine the optical properties of the hosting material, and hence the device performance, especially for low-dimensional systems. Mono- and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-20 Guowei Zhang , Andrey Chaves , Shenyang Huang , Fanjie Wang , Qiaoxia Xing , Tony Low , Hugen Yan

In anisotropic crystals, the direction-dependent effective mass of carriers can have a profound impact on spin transport dynamics. The puckered crystal structure of black phosphorus (BP) leads to direction-dependent charge transport and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-06-26 Luke Cording , Jiawei Liu , Jun You Tan , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ahmet Avsar , Barbaros Özyilmaz

Black phosphorous (BP) is a layered semiconductor with high carrier mobility, anisotropic optical response and wide bandgap tunability. In view of its application in optoelectronic devices, understanding transient photo-induced effects is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-07 H. Hedayat , A. Ceraso , G. Soavi , S. Akhavan , A. Cadore , C. Dallera , G. Cerullo , A. C. Ferrari , E. Carpene

Black phosphorus (BP) has recently emerged as an alternative 2D semiconductor owing to its fascinating electronic properties such as tunable bandgap and high charge carrier mobility. The structural investigation of few-layer BP, such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-01 Yangjin Lee , Jun-Yeong Yoon , Declan Scullion , Jeongsu Jang , Elton J G Santos , Hu Young Jeong , Kwanpyo Kim

With a semiconducting band gap and high charge carrier mobility, two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP), often referred to as phosphorene, holds significant promise for next generation electronics and optoelectronics. However, as a 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-10 Xiaolong Liu , Joshua D. Wood , Kan-Sheng Chen , EunKyung Cho , Mark C. Hersam

We report about the energy and momentum resolved optical response of black phosphorus (BP) in its bulk form. Along the armchair direction of the puckered layers we find a highly dispersive mode that is trongly suppressed in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-03-10 R. Schuster , J. Trinckauf , M. Knupfer , B. Büchner

The intrinsic carrier transport dynamics in phosphorene is theoretically examined. Utilizing a density functional theory treatment, the low-field mobility and the saturation velocity are characterized for both electrons and holes in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-08-24 Zhenghe Jin , Jeffrey T. Mullen , Ki Wook Kim