Abstract Metal–organic chemical vapour deposition (MOCVD) has become one of the most promising techniques for large-scale fabrication 2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials. Despite efforts devoted to development MOCVD TMDC monolayers, whole picture growth process not been fully unveiled yet. In this work, we employ a commercial AIXTRON CCS tool MoS 2 on sapphire using standard pre...

Semiconductor heterojunction interfaces have been an important topic, both in modern solid state physics and in electronics and optoelectronics applications. Recently, the heterojunctions of atomically-thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are expected to realize one-dimensional (1D) electronic systems at their heterointerfaces due to their tunable electronic properties. Herein, we repo...

Atomically thin 2D layered semiconductor materials such as Transition Metal Di-Chalcogenides (TMDCs) have great potential for use as flexible, ultra-thin photovoltaic materials in solar cells due to their favorable photon absorption and electronic transport properties. The electronic properties, such as band structure and bandgap, and optical absorption properties of Tungsten Disulfide (WS2) we...

The isolation of various two-dimensional (2D) materials, and the possibility to combine them in vertical stacks, has created a new paradigm in materials science: heterostructures based on 2D crystals. Such a concept has already proven fruitful for a number of electronic applications in the area of ultrathin and flexible devices. Here, we expand the range of such structures to photoactive ones b...

Two-dimensional van der Waals materials have opened a new paradigm for fundamental physics exploration and device applications because of their emerging physical properties. Unlike gapless graphene, monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are two-dimensional semiconductors that undergo an indirect-to-direct bandgap transition1–5, creating new optical functionalities for next-generati...

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are 2D materials, combining good charge carrier mobility, ultimate dimension down-scalability, and low-temperature integration. These properties make TMDCs interesting for flexible electronics, where the thermal fabrication budget is strongly substrate limited. In this perspective, an overview of state TMDC research provided by evaluating t...

The broad tunability of the proximity exchange effect between transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and chromium iodide (CrI$_3$) heterostructures offers intriguing possibilities for use TMDCs in two-dimensional magnetoelectrics. In this work, influence twist angle gate electric field on thermal transport a TMDC/CrI$_3$ junction is investigated using Dirac -Bogoliubov-de Gennes equation. We ...

Abstract The emergence of various exciton-related effects in transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) and their heterostructures has inspired a significant number studies brought forth several possible applications. Often, standard photoluminescence (PL) with microscale lateral resolution is utilized to identify characterize these excitonic phenomena, including interlayer excitons (IEXs). We stu...