The light emitted from 2D materials can be modulated by embedding a second 2D material inside them, a new study suggests.

Defects in two-dimensional materials (such as an atom-thick sheet of graphene) can dramatically alter the way that the ...

Newly achieved precise control over light emitted from incredibly tiny sources, a few nanometers in size, embedded in ...

Additionally, nanostructuring—altering the material's structure at the nanoscale—has emerged as a powerful method to engineer band gaps. Despite its potential, Band Gap Engineering faces challenges, ...

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Study First Author, The Pennsylvania State University The band gap of a semiconductor material, which ...

A team led by Yi Xie is exploring the potential of 2D materials to change how we harness ... affected its exciton binding energy gap, widening its light absorption spectrum, improving efficient ...

2D van der Waals magnetic/non-magnetic ... the team found that the strength of this coupling weakened as the band gap of the underlayer material increased, providing a way to tune the nonlinear ...

BEIJING -- Chinese scientists have recently succeeded in creating single-atom-layer metals with a thickness of just one ...

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique electronic and optical ... (a) The table shows common TMDs and their band gap. (b) A schematic ...

Materials with lower dimensions, like a single layer of 2D tungsten diselenide, can have a direct band gap, which is more efficient at emitting light compared to its thicker, indirect bandgap ...