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Doping in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers provides a powerful method to precisely tailor their electronic, optical, and catalytic properties for advanced technological applications, including optoelectronics, catalysis, and…
Density functional theory calculations are used to show that it is possible to dope semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$ with electrons and/or holes either by chemical substitution or by…
Monolayers of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) are the most studied two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), due to its exceptional optical, electronic, and opto-electronic properties. Recent studies have shown the…
The influence of atomic vacancy defects at different concentrations on electronic properties of MoS$_2$ and WS$_2$ monolayers is studied by means of Slater-Koster tight-binding model with non-orthogonal $sp^3d^5$ orbitals and including the…
Doping is an effective way to modify the electronic property of two-dimensional (2D) materials and endow them with new functionalities. However, wide-range control of the substitutional doping concentration with large scale uniformity…
Two-dimensional dilute magnetic semiconductors has been recently reported in semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides by the introduction of spin-polarized transition metal atoms as dopants. This is the case of vanadium-doped WS$_2$…
Modulating electronic structure of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) is important for many applications and doping is an effective way towards this goal, yet is challenging to control. Here we report the in-situ…
Substitutional doping effectively modulates carrier polarity of semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) like MoS2. Although Fe doping typically induces n-type conductivity in monolayer MoS2, anomalous…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been extensively investigated due to their tunable properties. In this work, density functional theory (DFT) is employed to investigate the adsorption behavior and sensing…
Investigation of a TMD-metal interface is essential for the effective functioning of monolayer TMD based field effect transistors (FETs). In this work, we employ Density Functional Theory (DFT) calculations to analyze the modulation of the…
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…
Atomic vacancies, such as chalcogen vacancies in 2D TMDs, are important in changing the host material's electronic structure and transport properties. We present a straightforward one-step method for growing monolayer MoS2 utilizing…
Engineering the electronic bandgap is of utmost importance in diverse domains ranging from information processing and communication technology to sensing and renewable energy applications. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) provide an…
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Superconducting layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stand out among other superconductors due to the tunable nature of the superconducting transition, coexistence with other collective electronic excitations (charge density…
We investigate the superconducting properties of molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) monolayer across a broad doping range, successfully recreating the so far unresolved superconducting dome. Our first-principles findings reveal several…
Density functional theory is used to systematically study the electronic and magnetic properties of doped MoS$_2$ monolayers, where the dopants are incorporated both via S/Mo substitution or as adsorbates. Among the possible substitutional…
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…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are novel, gapped two-dimensional materials. Toward device applications, we consider MoS$_2$ layers on dielectrics, in particular in this work, the effect of vacancies on the electronic structure.…
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