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The strong light-matter interaction in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is promising for nanoscale optoelectronics with their direct band gap nature and the ultra-fast radiative decay of the strongly bound excitons these…
Most contemporary architectures of photodetectors based on two-dimensional materials include global gates for carrier density control and local p-n junctions in the channel. We study the dependence of photocurrent in such detectors on the…
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Monolayer WSe2 is a two dimensional (2D) semiconductor with a direct bandgap, and it has been recently explored as a promising material for electronics and optoelectronics. Low field effect mobility is the main constraint preventing WSe2…
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Due to their atomic layer thickness, direct bandgap, mechanical robustness and other superior properties, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) monolayers are considered as an attractive alternative to graphene for diverse optoelectronic…
Certain surfactant monolayers at the water-air interface have been found to undergo, at a critical surface pressure, a dynamic instability involving multiple long folds of micron width. We exploit the sharp monolayer translations…
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