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Structural defects in 2D-transition metal dichalcogenides are critical in modulating their optical and electrical behavior. Nevertheless, precise defect control within the monolayer regime poses a significant challenge. Herein, a…

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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) monolayers, holding potential as good sunlight absorbers, are promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic devices. They may enable ultrathin photovoltaic(PV) devices thanks to their…

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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

Two dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for optical modulation, detection, and light emission since their material properties can be tuned on-demand via electrostatic doping. The…

The ability to extract materials just a few atoms thick has led to discovery of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other important two-dimensional materials. The next step in promoting understanding and utility…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Battulga Munkhbat , Andrew B. Yankovich , Ruggero Verre , Eva Olsson , Timur O. Shegai

The unique electrical and optical properties of emerging two-dimensional transition metal dichal-cogenides (TMDs) present compelling advantages over conventional semiconductors, including Si, Ge, and GaAs. Nevertheless, realising the full…

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Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold promising potential for applications in optoelectronics. Due to their direct band gap and the extraordinarily strong Coulomb interaction, TMDs exhibit efficient light-matter…

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Understanding quasiparticle band structures of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is critical for technological advances of these materials for atomic layer electronics and photonics. Although theoretical calculations to date have…

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The manipulation of two-dimensional materials via their dielectric environment offers novel opportunities to control electronic as well as optical properties and allows to imprint nanostructures in a non-invasive way. Here we asses the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 Christina Steinke , Tim O. Wehling , Malte Rösner

The understanding of various types of disorders in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), including dangling bonds at the edges, chalcogen deficiencies in the bulk, and charges in the substrate, is of fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-07-26 Di Wu , Xiao Li , Lan Luan , Xiaoyu Wu , Wei Li , Maruthi N. Yogeesh , Rudresh Ghosh , Zhaodong Chu , Deji Akinwande , Qian Niu , Keji Lai

Intense electromagnetic fields can result in dramatic changes in the electronic properties of solids. These changes are commonly studied using optical probes of the modified electronic structure. Here we use optical-scanning tunneling…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are regarded as a possible materials platform for quantum information science and related device applications. In TMD monolayers, the dephasing time and inhomogeneity are crucial parameters for any…

Engineering atomic-scale defects is crucial for realizing wafer-scale, single-crystalline transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers for electronic devices. However, connecting atomic-scale defects to larger morphologies poses a significant…

Semiconductor heterostructures have played a critical role as the enabler for new science and technology. The emergence of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as atomically thin semiconductors has opened new frontiers in semiconductor…

Potential applications of monolayer of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in optoelectronic and flexible devices are under heavy investigation. Although TMDs monolayers are highly robust to external mechanical fields, their electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Mohammad Bahmani , Michael Lorke , Mahdi Faghihnasiri , Thomas Frauenheim

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

Two-dimensional (2D) Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted much interest due to their exciting quantum properties arising from their unique two-faced structure, broken-mirror symmetry, and consequent colossal…

Semiconductor heterostructures are the fundamental platform for many important device applications such as lasers, light-emitting diodes, solar cells and high-electron-mobility transistors. Analogous to traditional heterostructures, layered…

Doping via electrostatic gating is a powerful and widely used technique to tune the electron densities in layered materials. The microscopic details of how these setups affect the layered material are, however, subtle and call for careful…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-01-15 Peiliang Zhao , Jin Yu , H. Zhong , Malt. Rosner , Mikhail I. Katsnelson , Shengjun Yuan

At the few-atom-thick limit, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a host of attractive electronic optical, and structural properties. The possibility to pattern these properties has a great impact on applied and fundamental…