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In the last decade atomically thin 2D materials have emerged as a perfect platform for studying and tuning light-matter interaction and electronic properties in nanostructures. The optoelectronic properties in layered materials such as…
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Strain-engineered transition-metal dichalcogenide nanobubbles are promising platforms for quantum emission, as revealed by recent experimental observations. In this work, we present an \textit{ab initio} investigation of MoS$_2$, WS$_2$,…
Mott transition has been realized in atomically thin monolayer (ML) of two dimensional semiconductors (WS$_2$) via optically excited carriers above a critical carrier density through many body interactions. The above nonlinear optical…
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