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Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) are promising candidates for ultra-thin active nanophotonic elements due to the strong tunable excitonic resonances that dominate their optical response. Here we demonstrate…

Optics · Physics 2023-04-26 Melissa Li , Claudio U. Hail , Souvik Biswas , Harry A. Atwater

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…

Nonlinear optical property of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanosheet dispersions, including MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2, was performed by using Z-scan technique with ns pulsed laser at 1064 nm and 532 nm. The results demonstrate…

Monolayer two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS2, WS2 and WSe2, are direct band gap semiconductors with large exciton binding energy. They attract growing attentions for opto-electronic applications including solar…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-05 Shoujun Zheng , Jinkyu So , Fucai Liu , Zheng Liu , Nikolay Zheludev , Hong Jin Fan

Layered van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), generally composed of three atomic X-M-X planes in each layer (M = transition metal, X = chalcogen), provide versatile platforms for exploring diverse quantum phenomena. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Yi Han , Ya-Ning Ren , Ruo-Han Zhang , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yu Zhang , Lin He

The layered dichalcogenide MoS2 has many unique physical properties in low dimensions. Recent experimental Raman spectroscopies report an anomalous blue shift of the in-plane E2g1 mode with decreasing thickness, a trend that is not…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-08-30 Xin Luo , Yanyuan Zhao , Jun Zhang , Qihua Xiong , Su Ying Quek

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are attractive materials for next generation nanoscale optoelectronic applications. Understanding nanoscale optical behavior of the edges and grain boundaries of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-07 A. E. Yore , K. K. H. Smithe , W. Crumrine , A. Miller , J. A. Tuck , B. Redd , E. Pop , Bin Wang , A. K. M. Newaz

Van der Waals materials such as thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) manifest strongly bound exciton states in the visible spectrum at ambient conditions that provide an ideal platform for exciton-photon couplings.…

Optics · Physics 2025-07-15 Fatemeh Davoodi , Nahid Talebi

Monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have long attracted interest for their intriguing optical and electronic properties. Recently TMDs in their quasi-bulk form have started to show considerable promise for…

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

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 have investigated nanoscale wear on multilayered MoS2, the flagship transition metal dichalcogenide, by elastically driving sharp diamond tips under normal loads sufficient to induce in-plane fracture. The accompanying friction and the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-05 Pawel Koczanowski , Paolo Nicolini , Hesam Khaksar , Enrico Gnecco

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…

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

Two-dimensional semiconductors, known as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs), are of great interest among many materials due to their unique 2D characteristics, including exceptional electronic and optical properties. These compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-23 Khawla Jaffel

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer many attractive features for next-generation low-dimensional device geometries. Due to the practical and fabrication challenges related to in situ methods, the atomistic dynamics that…

Low-dimensional electron systems, as realized naturally in graphene or created artificially at the interfaces of heterostructures, exhibit a variety of fascinating quantum phenomena with great prospects for future applications. Once…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2016-08-03 T. Ritschel , J. Trinckauf , K. Koepernik , B. Büchner , M. v. Zimmermann , H. Berger , Y. I. Joe , P. Abbamonte , J. Geck

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new type of materials under intense study because of their interesting physical properties and wide range of potential applications from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. Monolayers of…

Quasi-two-dimensional (Quasi-2D) van der Waals (vdW) materials can be mechanically or chemically exfoliated down to monolayer because of their strong intralayer bonding and the weak interlayer vdW interaction. Thanks to this unique…

Transition metal dichalcogenides like MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$ have attracted enormous interest during recent years. They are van-der-Waals crystals with highly anisotropic properties, which allows exfoliation of individual…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-01 Hans Tornatzky , Roland Gillen , Hiroshi Uchiyama , Janina Maultzsch