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Improving carrier mobilities of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors is highly sought after. Recently, Ng. et al. [1] reported rippled molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) transistors on bulged silicon nitride (SiN$_x$) substrates that exhibit…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-28 Peng Wu

Innovative applications based on two-dimensional solids require cost-effective fabrication processes resulting in large areas of high quality materials. Chemical vapour deposition is among the most promising methods to fulfill these…

Molybdenum disulfide, $MoS_2$, is a next-generation semiconductor and is frequently integrated into emergent optoelectronic technologies based on two-dimensional materials. Here, we present a method that provides direct optical feedback on…

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides display a wide range of attractive physical and chemical properties and are potentially important for various device applications. Here we report the electronic transport and device properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-01-21 Wenjuan Zhu , Tony Low , Yi-Hsien Lee , Han Wang , Damon B. Farmer , Jing Kong , Fengnian Xia , Phaedon Avouris

Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS$_2$) has been recognized as a potential substitution of Platinum (Pt) for electrochemical hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). However, the broad adoption of MoS$_2$ is hindered by its limited number of active sites…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-09-27 Sichen Wei , Yu Fu , Huamin Li , Fei Yao

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) is a prototypical layered transition-metal dichalcogenide whose electrocatalytic performance is governed by a delicate balance between crystallinity, defect density, and electronic conductivity. Here we report…

Structural, interfacial, optical, and transport properties of large-area MoS2 ultra-thin films on BN-buffered silicon substrates fabricated using magnetron sputtering are investigated. A relatively simple growth strategy is demonstrated…

We present a systematic study on the stability and the structural and electronic properties of mixed molybdenum-niobium disulphides. Using density functional theory we investigate bilateral doping with up to 25 % of MoS2 (NbS2) by Nb (Mo)…

This work provides a complete rheological characterization of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) inks in the presence of electric fields. Several concentrations of MoS2 are studied and dispersed in a viscoelastic fluid. The lubrication effects are…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-08-22 Pedro C Rijo , Francisco J. Galindo-Rosales

Several layered transition metal borides can now be realized by a simple and general fabrication method [Fokwa et al.,Adv. Mater. 2018, 30, 1704181],inspiring our interest to transition metal borides monolayer. Here, we predict a new…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-05 Yipeng An , Shijing Gong , Yusheng Hou , Jie Li , Ruqian Wu , Zhaoyong Jiao , Tianxing Wang , Jutao Jiao

Liquid-phase exfoliation of two-dimensional materials is very attractive for large-scale applications. Although used extensively, isolating MoS2 layers (<10) with high efficiency is reported to be extremely difficult. Further, the…

The advantage of MoS2, compared with graphene, is the direct growth on various oxide substrates by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) without utilizing catalytic metal substrates, which facilitates practical applications for electronics. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-31 Sora Kurabayashi , Kosuke Nagashio

Nanomaterials are prone to influence by chemical adsorption because of their large surface to volume ratios. This enables sensitive detection of adsorbed chemical species which, in turn, can tune the property of the host material. Recent…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Liangzhi Kou , Aijun Du , Changfeng Chen , Thomas Frauenheim

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is layered transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), which in its monolayer form, has the direct bandgap of 1.8 eV. We investigated the effect of width and strain on quantum transport for MoS2 armchair nanoribbons.…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-23 F. Tabatabaei , I. Abdolhosseini Sarsari , N. Rezaei , M. Alaei

Efficient water transport through nanostructure membranes is essential for advancing filtration and desalination technologies. In this study, we investigate the flow of water through molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_{2}$) nanopores of varying…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-10-14 João Victor Lemos Vale , Lucas Cesena , Bruno H. S. Mendonça , Elizane E. de Moraes

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

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) of single and few-layer thickness was exfoliated on SiO2/Si substrate and characterized by Raman spectroscopy. The number of S-Mo-S layers of the samples was independently determined by contact-mode atomic-force…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-11-16 Changgu Lee , Hugen Yan , Louis E. Brus , Tony F. Heinz , James Hone , Sunmin Ryu

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

Ultrathin layers of semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) offer significant prospects in future electronic and optoelectronic applications. Although an increasing number of experiments bring light into the electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Jing Wu , Hennrik Schmidt , Amara Kiran Kumar , Xiangfan Xu , Goki Eda , Barbaros Özyilmaz

Two-dimensional (2D) MoS$_2$ has been intensively investigated for its use in the fields of microelectronics, nanoelectronics, and optoelectronics. However, intrinsic 2D MoS$_2$ is usually used as the n-type semiconductor due to the…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-04-13 Baokun Song , Honggang Gu , Mingsheng Fang , Zhengfeng Guo , Yen-Teng Ho , Xiuguo Chen , Hao Jiang , Shiyuan Liu