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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,440 Views
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Twist Angle-Dependent Interlayer Exciton in MoS2 Bilayers Revealed by Room-Temperature Reflectance

  • Lei Xiong,
  • Tianhong Tang,
  • Xiaoyue Fan,
  • Haiyang Liu,
  • Peng Zhu,
  • Xiaolan Zhang,
  • Wei Qiao,
  • Qinsheng Wang,
  • Zhiwei Wang and
  • Gang Wang
  • + 1 author

25 May 2022

In 2H stacking bilayer MoS2, the exciton with an interlayer nature has been evidenced due to the hybridization of hole states among both layers. The transition energy of this interlayer exciton is located between the A and B excitons. In this work, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,927 Views
11 Pages

Interlayer Bound Wannier Excitons in Germanium Sulfide

  • Sara Postorino,
  • Jianbo Sun,
  • Saskia Fiedler,
  • Laurent O. Lee Cheong Lem,
  • Maurizia Palummo and
  • Luca Camilli

12 August 2020

We report a cathodoluminescence (CL) study of layered germanium sulfide (GeS) where we observe a sharp emission peak from flakes covered with a thin hexagonal boron nitride film. GeS is a material that has recently attracted considerable interest due...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,529 Views
12 Pages

Interlayer and Intralayer Excitons in AlN/WS2 Heterostructure

  • Claudio Attaccalite,
  • Maria Stella Prete,
  • Maurizia Palummo and
  • Olivia Pulci

23 November 2022

The study of intra and interlayer excitons in 2D semiconducting vdW heterostructures is a very hot topic not only from a fundamental but also an applicative point of view. Due to their strong light–matter interaction, Transition Metal Dichalcog...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
8 Pages

8 June 2023

Optimal design of a silicon nitride waveguide structure composed of resonant nanoantennas for efficient light coupling with interlayer exciton emitters in a MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructure is proposed. Numerical simulations demonstrate up to eight t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,320 Views
14 Pages

16 October 2023

Semiconductor heterostructures have been the backbone of developments in electronic and optoelectronic devices. One class of structures of interest is the so-called type II band alignment, in which optically excited electrons and holes relax into dif...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,950 Views
11 Pages

Density Collective Modes of Exciton Superfluidity in Bilayer Systems

  • Filippo Pascucci,
  • Sara Conti,
  • David Neilson,
  • Andrea Perali and
  • Jacques Tempere

We propose a new way to establish the existence of a superfluid phase in an exciton bilayer system by exploiting the properties of its collective modes. We focus on the density collective modes and treat them within Random Phase Approximation. By com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,725 Views
7 Pages

Interlayer Coupling and Pressure Engineering in Bilayer MoS2

  • Wei Qiao,
  • Hao Sun,
  • Xiaoyue Fan,
  • Meiling Jin,
  • Haiyang Liu,
  • Tianhong Tang,
  • Lei Xiong,
  • Binghui Niu,
  • Xiang Li and
  • Gang Wang

12 May 2022

Controlling the interlayer coupling by tuning lattice parameters through pressure engineering is an important route for tailoring the optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional materials. In this work, we report a pressure-dependent study on the ex...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,259 Views
26 Pages

27 March 2023

Multilayered van der Waals heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides are suitable platforms on which to study interlayer (dipolar) excitons, in which electrons and holes are localized in different layers. Interestingly, these exciton...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,250 Views
13 Pages

Excitonic Evolution in WS2/MoS2 van der Waals Heterostructures Turned by Out-of-Plane Localized Pressure

  • Weihu Kong,
  • Zeqian Ren,
  • Peng Chen,
  • Jinxiang Cui,
  • Yili Chen,
  • Jizhou Wu,
  • Yuqing Li,
  • Wenliang Liu,
  • Peng Li and
  • Jie Ma
  • + 1 author

5 March 2024

In this study, we explore the exciton dynamics in a WS2/MoS2 van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure under varying pressures by integrating a laser-confocal photoluminescence (PL) spectroscope and an atomic force microscope (AFM). For the WS2/MoS2 hetero...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,407 Views
18 Pages

3 August 2021

Fundamental researches and explorations based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) mainly focus on their monolayer counterparts, where optical densities are limited owing to the atomic monolayer thickness. Photoluminescence (PL) yield in bilay...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,937 Views
17 Pages

21 April 2023

We consider the effect of the external magnetic field on the in-plane conductivity in the AA-stacked bilayer graphene system in the strong excitonic condensate regime. We include the effects of the applied inter-layer electric field and the Coulomb i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,174 Views
12 Pages

Quadriexciton Binding Energy in Electron–Hole Bilayers

  • Cesare Malosso,
  • Gaetano Senatore and
  • Stefania De Palo

Excitonic condensation and superfluidity have recently received a renewed attention, due to the fabrication of bilayer systems in which electrons and holes are spatially separated and form stable pairs known as indirect excitons. Dichalcogenides- and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
8,217 Views
9 Pages

19 April 2022

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), particularly WS2/MoS2 heterostructures with type-II band alignments, are considered as ideal candidates for future functional optoelectronic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,879 Views
12 Pages

Investigations of Electron-Electron and Interlayer Electron-Phonon Coupling in van der Waals hBN/WSe2/hBN Heterostructures by Photoluminescence Excitation Experiments

  • Joanna Jadczak,
  • Joanna Kutrowska-Girzycka,
  • Janina J. Schindler,
  • Joerg Debus,
  • Kenji Watanabe,
  • Takashi Taniguchi,
  • Ching-Hwa Ho and
  • Leszek Bryja

15 January 2021

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with their unique physical properties are very promising for future applications in novel electronic devices. In TMDs monolayers, strong and opposite spin splittings of the energy gaps at the K po...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,359 Views
8 Pages

8 January 2019

We demonstrate high-efficiency white phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes with low efficiency roll-off. The feature of the device concept is employing two phosphorescent emission layers (EMLs) separated by a mixed interlayer. Both the EMLs ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,104 Views
19 Pages

Enhancing Efficiency in Inverted Quantum Dot Light-Emitting Diodes through Arginine-Modified ZnO Nanoparticle Electron Injection Layer

  • Young-Bin Chae,
  • Su-Young Kim,
  • Hyuk-Doo Choi,
  • Dae-Gyu Moon,
  • Kyoung-Ho Lee and
  • Chang-Kyo Kim

26 January 2024

Many quantum dot light-emitting diodes (QLEDs) utilize ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) as an electron injection layer (EIL). However, the use of the ZnO NP EIL material often results in a charge imbalance within the quantum dot (QD) emitting layer (EML) and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,080 Views
10 Pages

Interlayer Difference of Bilayer-Stacked MoS2 Structure: Probing by Photoluminescence and Raman Spectroscopy

  • Xiangzhe Zhang,
  • Renyan Zhang,
  • Xiaoming Zheng,
  • Yi Zhang,
  • Xueao Zhang,
  • Chuyun Deng,
  • Shiqiao Qin and
  • Hang Yang

This work reports the interlayer difference of exciton and phonon performance between the top and bottom layer of a bilayer-stacked two-dimensional materials structure (BSS). Through photoluminescence (PL) and Raman spectroscopy, we find that, compar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,662 Views
17 Pages

Surface Versus Bulk State Transitions in Inkjet-Printed All-Inorganic Perovskite Quantum Dot Films

  • Thilini K. Ekanayaka,
  • Dylan Richmond,
  • Mason McCormick,
  • Shashank R. Nandyala,
  • Halle C. Helfrich,
  • Alexander Sinitskii,
  • Jon M. Pikal,
  • Carolina C. Ilie,
  • Peter A. Dowben and
  • Andrew J. Yost

10 November 2022

The anion exchange of the halides, Br and I, is demonstrated through the direct mixing of two pure perovskite quantum dot solutions, CsPbBr3 and CsPbI3, and is shown to be both facile and result in a completely alloyed single phase mixed halide perov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,970 Views
10 Pages

Indirect Band Gap in Scrolled MoS2 Monolayers

  • Jeonghyeon Na,
  • Changyeon Park,
  • Chang Hoi Lee,
  • Won Ryeol Choi,
  • Sooho Choi,
  • Jae-Ung Lee,
  • Woochul Yang,
  • Hyeonsik Cheong,
  • Eleanor E. B. Campbell and
  • Sung Ho Jhang

26 September 2022

MoS2 nanoscrolls that have inner core radii of ∼250 nm are generated from MoS2 monolayers, and the optical and transport band gaps of the nanoscrolls are investigated. Photoluminescence spectroscopy reveals that a MoS2 monolayer, originally a dir...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,815 Views
18 Pages

Two-dimensional (2D) vertical heterojunctions (HSs), which are usually fabricated by vertically stacking two layers of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), have been intensively researched during the past years. However, it is still an enormous ch...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,327 Views
16 Pages

Improved Charge Injection and Transport of Light-Emitting Diodes Based on Two-Dimensional Materials

  • Yuanming Zhou,
  • Sijiong Mei,
  • Dongwei Sun,
  • Neng Liu,
  • Fei Mei,
  • Jinxia Xu and
  • Xianan Cao

3 October 2019

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are considered to be the most promising energy-saving technology for future lighting and display. Two-dimensional (2D) materials, a class of materials comprised of monolayer or few layers of atoms (or unit cells), have at...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,982 Views
10 Pages

Third Harmonic Generation in Thin NbOI2 and TaOI2

  • Tianhong Tang,
  • Deng Hu,
  • Di Lin,
  • Liu Yang,
  • Ziling Shen,
  • Wenchen Yang,
  • Haiyang Liu,
  • Hanting Li,
  • Xiaoyue Fan and
  • Gang Wang
  • + 1 author

23 February 2024

The niobium oxide dihalides have recently been identified as a new class of van der Waals materials exhibiting exceptionally large second-order nonlinear optical responses and robust in-plane ferroelectricity. In contrast to second-order nonlinear pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,455 Views
13 Pages

Scanning Photocurrent Microscopy in Single Crystal Multidimensional Hybrid Lead Bromide Perovskites

  • Elena Segura-Sanchis,
  • Rocío García-Aboal,
  • Roberto Fenollosa,
  • Fernando Ramiro-Manzano and
  • Pedro Atienzar

16 September 2023

We investigated solution-grown single crystals of multidimensional 2D–3D hybrid lead bromide perovskites using spatially resolved photocurrent and photoluminescence. Scanning photocurrent microscopy (SPCM) measurements where the electrodes cons...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,718 Views
19 Pages

Factors Affecting Surface Plasmon Coupling of Quantum Wells in Nitride-Based LEDs: A Review of the Recent Advances

  • Muhammad Farooq Saleem,
  • Yi Peng,
  • Kai Xiao,
  • Huilu Yao,
  • Yukun Wang and
  • Wenhong Sun

27 April 2021

Surface plasmon (SP)-enhanced quantum-well (QW) LEDs have proved their potential in replacing conventional lighting devices for their high-performance capabilities in ultraviolet (UV), blue and green spectral ranges. The SP-enhanced QW-LEDs have appl...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
18,723 Views
30 Pages

Bandgap Science for Organic Solar Cells

  • Masahiro Hiramoto,
  • Masayuki Kubo,
  • Yusuke Shinmura,
  • Norihiro Ishiyama,
  • Toshihiko Kaji,
  • Kazuya Sakai,
  • Toshinobu Ohno and
  • Masanobu Izaki

The concept of bandgap science of organic semiconductor films for use in photovoltaic cells, namely, high-purification, pn-control by doping, and design of the built-in potential based on precisely-evaluated doping parameters, is summarized. The prin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,614 Views
12 Pages

MoS2-PtX2 Vertical Heterostructures

  • Nikolay Minev,
  • Blagovest Napoleonov,
  • Dimitre Dimitrov,
  • Vladimira Videva,
  • Velichka Strijkova,
  • Denitsa Nicheva,
  • Ivalina Avramova,
  • Tamara Petkova and
  • Vera Marinova

15 September 2025

This study reports the successful fabrication and characterization of two-dimensional (2D) vertical heterostructures composed of a semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) layer stacked with semimetallic platinum dichalcogenides (PtSe2 and PtTe2)....