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Nat Commun. 2016 Oct 04;7:13044. doi: 10.1038/ncomms13044.

Novel near-infrared emission from crystal defects in MoS.

Nature communications

F Fabbri, E Rotunno, E Cinquanta, D Campi, E Bonnini, D Kaplan, L Lazzarini, M Bernasconi, C Ferrari, M Longo, G Nicotra, A Molle, V Swaminathan, G Salviati

Affiliations

  1. IMEM-CNR Institute, Parco Area delle Scienze 37/A, 43124 Parma, Italy.
  2. KET Lab, c/o Italian Space Agency via del Politecnico, 00133 Roma, Italy.
  3. Laboratorio MDM, IMM-CNR, via C. Olivetti 2, I-20864 Agrate Brianza, Italy.
  4. Dipartimento di Scienza dei Materiali, Università di Milano-Bicocca, Via R. Cozzi 55, 20126 Milano, Italy.
  5. U.S. Army RDECOM-ARDEC, Fuze Precision Armaments and Technology Directorate, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey 07806-5000, USA.
  6. IMM-CNR Institute, Strada VIII, 5, 95121 Catania, Italy.

PMID: 27698425 PMCID: PMC5059461 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms13044

Abstract

The structural defects in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, including point defects, dislocations and grain boundaries, are scarcely considered regarding their potential to manipulate the electrical and optical properties of this class of materials, notwithstanding the significant advances already made. Indeed, impurities and vacancies may influence the exciton population, create disorder-induced localization, as well as modify the electrical behaviour of the material. Here we report on the experimental evidence, confirmed by ab initio calculations, that sulfur vacancies give rise to a novel near-infrared emission peak around 0.75 eV in exfoliated MoS

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