A label-free fluorescent probe for Hg2+ based on boron- and nitrogen-doped photoluminescent WS2

RSC Advances ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (55) ◽  
pp. 49668-49674 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bo Feng ◽  
Xiaojia Liu ◽  
Yizhi Zheng ◽  
Qian Xiao ◽  
Na Wu ◽  
...  

The air-stable doping of transition-metal dichalcogenides is important in enabling a wide range of optoelectronic and electronic devices while exploring basic material properties.

Nanophotonics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (10) ◽  
pp. 1589-1600 ◽  
Author(s):  
M.A. Khan ◽  
Michael N. Leuenberger

AbstractThe discovery of two-dimensional (2D) materials has opened up new frontiers and challenges for exploring fundamental research. Recently, single-layer (SL) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as candidate materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications. In contrast to graphene, SL TMDCs have sizable band gaps that change from indirect to direct in SLs, which is useful in making thinner and more efficient electronic devices, such as transistors, photodetectors, and electroluminescent devices. In addition, SL TMDCs show strong spin-orbit coupling effects at the valence band edges, giving rise to the observation of valley-selective optical excitations. Here, we review the basic electronic and optical properties of pure and defected group-VIB SL TMDCs, with emphasis on the strong excitonic effects and their prospect for future optoelectronic devices.


2020 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 184798042095509
Author(s):  
Ankit Kumar Verma ◽  
Federico Raffone ◽  
Giancarlo Cicero

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides have gained great attention because of their peculiar physical properties that make them interesting for a wide range of applications. Lately, alloying between different transition metal dichalcogenides has been proposed as an approach to control two-dimensional phase stability and to obtain compounds with tailored characteristics. In this theoretical study, we predict the phase diagram and the electronic properties of Mo xTi1− xS2 at varying stoichiometry and show how the material is metallic, when titanium is the predominant species, while it behaves as a p-doped semiconductor, when approaching pure MoS2 composition. Correspondingly, the thermodynamically most stable phase switches from the tetragonal to the hexagonal one. Further, we present an example which shows how the proposed alloys can be used to obtain new vertical two-dimensional heterostructures achieving effective electron/hole separation.


Nanoscale ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (35) ◽  
pp. 16365-16397 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vipul Agarwal ◽  
Kaushik Chatterjee

Nanosheets of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDs), the graphene-like two-dimensional (2D) materials, exhibit a unique combination of properties and have attracted enormous research interest for a wide range of applications including catalysis, functional electronics, solid lubrication, photovoltaics, energy materials and most recently in biomedical applications.


Author(s):  
Manoj K. Jana ◽  
C. N. R. Rao

The discovery of graphene marks a major event in the physics and chemistry of materials. The amazing properties of this two-dimensional (2D) material have prompted research on other 2D layered materials, of which layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are important members. Single-layer and few-layer TMDCs have been synthesized and characterized. They possess a wide range of properties many of which have not been known hitherto. A typical example of such materials is MoS 2 . In this article, we briefly present various aspects of layered analogues of graphene as exemplified by TMDCs. The discussion includes not only synthesis and characterization, but also various properties and phenomena exhibited by the TMDCs. This article is part of the themed issue ‘Fullerenes: past, present and future, celebrating the 30th anniversary of Buckminster Fullerene’.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mubashir A. Kharadi ◽  
Gul Faroz A. Malik ◽  
Farooq A. Khanday

2D materials like transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorous, silicene, graphene are at the forefront of being the most potent 2D materials for optoelectronic applications because of their exceptional properties. Several application-specific photodetectors based on 2D materials have been designed and manufactured due to a wide range and layer-dependent bandgaps. Different 2D materials stacked together give rise to many surprising electronic and optoelectronic phenomena of the junctions based on 2D materials. This has resulted in a lot of popularity of 2D heterostructures as compared to the original 2D materials. This chapter presents the progress of optoelectronic devices (photodetectors) based on 2D materials and their heterostructures.


2D Materials ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 032004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjuan Zhu ◽  
Tony Low ◽  
Han Wang ◽  
Peide Ye ◽  
Xiangfeng Duan

Nanomaterials ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (2) ◽  
pp. 257 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jiakun Li ◽  
Zeqiang Chen ◽  
Hua Yang ◽  
Zao Yi ◽  
Xifang Chen ◽  
...  

In order to significantly enhance the absorption capability of solar energy absorbers in the visible wavelength region, a novel monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2)-based nanostructure was proposed. Local surface plasmon resonances (LSPRs) supported by Au nanocubes (NCs) can improve the absorption of monolayer MoS2. A theoretical simulation by a finite-difference time-domain method (FDTD) shows that the absorptions of proposed MoS2-based absorbers are above 94.0% and 99.7% at the resonant wavelengths of 422 and 545 nm, respectively. In addition, the optical properties of the proposed nanostructure can be tuned by the geometric parameters of the periodic Au nanocubes array, distributed Bragg mirror (DBR) and polarization angle of the incident light, which are of great pragmatic significance for improving the absorption efficiency and selectivity of monolayer MoS2. The absorber is also able to withstand a wide range of incident angles, showing polarization-independence. Similar design ideas can also be implemented to other transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) to strengthen the interaction between light and MoS2. This nanostructure is relatively simple to implement and has a potentially important application value in the development of high-efficiency solar energy absorbers and other optoelectronic devices.


2015 ◽  
Vol 44 (9) ◽  
pp. 2629-2642 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hualing Zeng ◽  
Xiaodong Cui

The ultimate goal of making atomically thin electronic devices stimulates intensive research on layered materials, in particular the group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).


Nanomaterials ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (7) ◽  
pp. 1706
Author(s):  
Nicola Taurisano ◽  
Gianluca Bravetti ◽  
Sonia Carallo ◽  
Meiying Liang ◽  
Oskar Ronan ◽  
...  

Organic–inorganic hybrid perovskite materials have raised great interest in recent years due to their excellent optoelectronic properties, which promise stunning improvements in photovoltaic technologies. Moreover, two-dimensional layered materials such as graphene, its derivatives, and transition metal dichalcogenides have been extensively investigated for a wide range of electronic and optoelectronic applications and have recently shown a synergistic effect in combination with hybrid perovskite materials. Here, we report on the inclusion of liquid-phase exfoliated molybdenum disulfide nanosheets into different perovskite precursor solutions, exploring their influence on final device performance. We compared the effect of such additives upon the growth of diverse perovskites, namely CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) and triple-cation with mixed halides Csx (MA0.17FA0.83)(1−x)Pb (I0.83Br0.17)3 perovskite. We show how for the referential MAPbI3 materials the addition of the MoS2 additive leads to the formation of larger, highly crystalline grains, which result in a remarkable 15% relative improvement in power conversion efficiency. On the other hand, for the mixed cation–halide perovskite no improvements were observed, confirming that the nucleation process for the two materials is differently influenced by the presence of MoS2.


2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yameng Cao ◽  
Sebastian Wood ◽  
Filipe Richheimer ◽  
J. Blakesley ◽  
Robert J. Young ◽  
...  

AbstractControlling the radiative properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides is key to the development of atomically thin optoelectronic devices applicable to a wide range of industries. A common problem for exfoliated materials is the inherent disorder causing spatially varying nonradiative losses and therefore inhomogeneity. Here we demonstrate a five-fold reduction in the spatial inhomogeneity in monolayer WS2, resulting in enhanced overall photoluminescence emission and quality of WS2 flakes, by using an ambient-compatible laser illumination process. We propose a method to quantify spatial uniformity using statistics of spectral photoluminescence mapping. Analysis of the dynamic spectral changes shows that the enhancement is due to a spatially sensitive reduction of the charged exciton spectral weighting. The methods presented here are based on widely adopted instrumentation. They can be easily automated, making them ideal candidates for quality assessment of transition metal dichalcogenide materials, both in the laboratory and industrial environments.


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