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We study electron transport in monolayer molybdenum disulfide MoS$_2$ subjected to a magnetic barrier. Our analysis employs a full-band continuum model to capture the relevant physical phenomena. We focus on how electron energy, magnetic…

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Due to its high carrier mobility, broadband absorption, and fast response time, graphene is attractive for optoelectronics and photodetection applications. However, the extraction of photoelectrons in conventional metal-graphene junction…

The optics of dangling-bond-free van der Waals heterostructures containing transition metal dichalcogenides are dominated by excitons. A crucial property of a confined exciton is the quantum confined Stark effect (QCSE). Here, such a…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent a large family of high-quality 2D materials with attractive electronic, thermal, chemical, and mechanical properties. Chemical vapour deposition (CVD) technique is currently the most…

Understanding the electronic coupling and energy flow across layered two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs) is crucial to the exploitation of carrier and phonon transports as well as thermal management in next-generation optoelectronic…

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The thermoelectric transport coefficients of electrons in two recently emerged transition metal dichalcogenides(TMD), MoS2 and WSe2, are calculated by solving Boltzmann Transport equation and coupled electrical and thermal current equations…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-10-28 Krishnendu Ghosh , Uttam Singisetti

The possibility of spatially resolving the optical properties of atomically thin materials is especially appealing as they can be modulated at the micro- and nanoscale by reducing their thickness, changing the doping level or applying a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Andres Castellanos-Gomez , Jorge Quereda , Herko P. van der Meulen , Nicolás Agraït , Gabino Rubio-Bollinger

Van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructures assembled by stacking 2D crystal layers have proven to be a new material platform for high-performance optoelectronic applications such as thin film transistors, photodetectors, and emitters. Here, we…

Uni-traveling-carrier photodiodes (UTC-PDs), which utilize only electrons as the active carriers, have become indispensable in high-speed optoelectronics due to their unique capabilities, such as high saturation power and broad bandwidth.…

Black phosphorus (BP), a two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered material composed of phosphorus atoms, has been one of the most actively studied 2D materials in recent years due to its tunable energy band gap (tunable even to a negative…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-08 Sanghyun Park , Seungchan Woo , Hongki Min

We investigate electronic transport through gate-defined quantum dots in molybdenum disulfide MoS$_2$ using an integrated charge detector. We observe a crossover from two weakly coupled single dots to a strongly coupled double quantum dot.…

Two-dimensional (2D) insulators are a key element in the design and fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures. They are vital as transparent dielectric spacers whose thickness can influence both the photonic, electronic, and…

Monolayer and multilayer MoS$_2$ are extremely fascinating materials for the use in lasers, compact optical parametric amplifiers, and high-power detectors which demands high excitation light-matter interaction. Consequently, it is…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-07-09 Durga Prasad Khatua , Asha Singh , Sabina Gurung , J. Jayabalan

Vertical and lateral heterostructures of van der Waals materials provide tremendous flexibility for band structure engineering. Since electronic bands are sensitively affected by defects, strain, and interlayer coupling, the edge and…

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…

The wave nature of light sets a fundamental diffraction limit that challenges confinement and control of light in nanoscale structures with dimensions significantly smaller than the wavelength. Here, we demonstrate van der Waals MoS_2…

High electronic transport and reasonable chemical stability of molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) make it very suitable for electrochemical applications. However, its energy storage capacity is still low compared with other nanostructures. In…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-08-19 Marzieh Rashidi , Foad Ghasemi

We investigate electrical gating of photoluminescence and optical absorption in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) configured in field effect transistor geometry. We observe an hundredfold increase in photoluminescence intensity and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2012-11-19 A. K. M. Newaz , D. Prasai , J. I. Ziegler , D. Caudel , S. Robinson , R. F. Haglund , K. I. Bolotin

The recent advancement in two-dimensional (2D) materials-based quantum confinement has provided an opportunity to investigate and manipulate electron transport for quantum applications. However, the issues of metal/semiconductor interface…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-09 Riku Tataka , Alka Sharma , Tomoya Johmen , Takeshi Kumasaka , Motoya Shinozaki , Yong P. Chen , Tomohiro Otsuka

Structural defects in the molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer are widely known for strongly altering its properties. Therefore, a deep understanding of these structural defects and how they affect MoS2 electronic properties is of…