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Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is an excellent channel material for ultra-thin field effect transistors. However, high contact resistance across the metal-MoS2 interface continues to limit its widespread realization. Here,…

The research field of two dimensional (2D) materials strongly relies on optical microscopy characterization tools to identify atomically thin materials and to determine their number of layers. Moreover, optical microscopy-based techniques…

We study molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structures generated by folding single- and bilayer MoS2 flakes. We find that this modified layer stacking leads to a decrease in the interlayer coupling and an enhancement of the photoluminescence…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-02-05 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Herre S. J. van der Zant , Gary A. Steele

We have examined the electrical behavior of Josephson junctions formed by a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) with a Nb sample and a Nb tip, with normal-state resistances Rn varying between 1 kOhm and 10 MOhm. Current-voltage…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-16 Wan-Ting Liao , S. K. Dutta , R. E. Butera , C. J. Lobb , F. C. Wellstood , M. Dreyer

Monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has a honeycomb crystal structure. We consider the triangular sublattice of molybdenum atoms and introduce a simple tight-binding Hamiltonian for studying the phase transition and topological…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-12-30 Hamidreza Simchi

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered semiconducting van der Waal crystals and promising materials for a wide range of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Realizing practical electrical and optoelectronic device…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-08-05 Hao Lee , S. Deshmukh , Jing Wen , V. Z. Costa , J. S. Schuder , M. Sanchez , A. S. Ichimura , Eric Pop , Bin Wang , A. K. M. Newaz

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a highly attractive 2D material due to its interesting electronic properties. Recent experimental advances confirm the possibility of further tuning the electronic properties of MoS2 through the fabrication of…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-17 B Mortazavi , A Ostadhossein , T Rabczuk , ACT van Duin

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) is a high-potential material for nanoelectronic applications, especially when thinned to a few layers. Liquid phase exfoliation enables large-scale fabrication of thin films comprising single- and few-layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-11-19 Alireza Ghasemifard , Agnieszka Kuc , Thomas Heine

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) has attracted much interest in recent years due to its potential applications in a new generation of electronic devices. Recently, it was shown that thin films of MoS$_2$ can become superconducting with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-05 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Kin Fai Mak , K. T. Law

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new class of materials with interesting physical properties and ranging from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. In addition to graphene, the most studied 2D material, monolayers of other layered…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-25 Branimir Radisavljevic , Andras Kis

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has been attracting extraordinary attention for its intriguing optical, electronic and mechanical properties. Here we demonstrate hybrid, organic-inorganic light-emitting nanofibers based on MoS2 nanoparticle…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), have been shown to exhibit excellent electrical and optical properties. The semiconducting nature of MoS2 allows it to overcome the shortcomings of zero-bandgap graphene,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-09-17 Han Wang , Lili Yu , Yi-Hsien Lee , Yumeng Shi , Allen Hsu , Matthew Chin , Lain-Jong Li , Madan Dubey , Jing Kong , Tomas Palacios

The application of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as monolayer MoS2, is limited by the high contact resistance commonly attributed to interfacial barriers at metal contacts. Furthermore, the dependence of electrical conductivity…

The concept of alloy engineering has emerged as a viable technique towards tuning the bandgap as well as engineering the defect levels in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcognides (TMDC). Possibility to synthesize these ultrathin TMDC…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-01 Shubhrasish Mukherjee , Didhiti Bhattacharya , Samit Kumar Ray , Atindra Nath Pal

Epitaxially grown, high quality semiconductor InSb nanowires are emerging material systems for the development of high performance nanoelectronics and quantum information processing and communication devices, and for the studies of new…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-04-19 H. A. Nilsson , P. Samuelsson , P. Caroff , H. Q. Xu

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…

We detect electroluminescence in single layer molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) field-effect transistors built on transparent glass substrates. By comparing absorption, photoluminescence, and electroluminescence of the same MoS2 layer, we find…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-26 R. S. Sundaram , M. Engel , A. Lombardo , R. Krupke , A. C. Ferrari , Ph. Avouris , M. Steiner

Recent theoretical works on two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide, MoS$_2$, with sulfur vacancies predict that the suppression of thermal transport in MoS$_2$ by point defects is more prominent in monolayers and becomes negligible as layer…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-08 Ranjuna M K , Jayakumar Balakrishnan

Using Density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, spin dependent electron transport in Fe/Mo$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$S$_2$/Fe magnetic tunnel junction is studied. Spin transport for different thicknesses (1, 3, 5, and 7…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-01-06 Aloka Ranjan Sahoo , Sharat Chandra

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a layered material of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with a high refractive index in the visible and infrared spectral range. Therefore, by constructing MoS2 into dielectric nanoresonators, one can…