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We present a photoluminescence study of freestanding and Si/SiO2 supported single- and few-layer MoS2. The single-layer exciton peak (A) is only observed in freestanding MoS2. The photoluminescence of supported single-layer MoS2 is instead…
We investigate 1, 2, 3, and 4 monolayers of iron grown on the (001) surface of ZnSe using spin density functional theory, plane-wave expansion, and ultrasoft pseudopotentials. An ideal structure of the interface is plausible due to the very…
Since the successful synthesis of the MoSSe monolayer, which violated the out-of-plane mirror symmetry of TMDs monolayers, considerable and systematic research has been conducted on Janus monolayer materials. By systematically analyzing the…
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