Engineering van der Waals materials for advanced metaphotonics

H Lin, Z Zhang, H Zhang, KT Lin, X Wen… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The outstanding chemical and physical properties of 2D materials, together with their
atomically thin nature, make them ideal candidates for metaphotonic device integration and …

Hot carrier photovoltaics in van der Waals heterostructures

KK Paul, JH Kim, YH Lee - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Successfully designing an ideal solar cell requires an understanding of the fundamental
physics of photoexcited hot carriers (HCs) and the underlying mechanism of unique …

Multiple exciton generation in tin–lead halide perovskite nanocrystals for photocurrent quantum efficiency enhancement

Y Chen, J Yin, Q Wei, C Wang, X Wang, H Ren… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Multiple exciton generation (MEG), the generation of multiple electron–hole pairs from a
single high-energy photon, can enhance the photoconversion efficiency in several …

Highly Efficient Full van der Waals 1D p‐Te/2D n‐Bi2O2Se Heterodiodes with Nanoscale Ultra‐Photosensitive Channels

W Wang, Y Meng, W Wang, Z Zhang… - Advanced Functional …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Continuous miniaturization of semiconductor devices is the key to boosting modern
electronics development. However, this downscaling strategy has been rarely utilized in …

Transforming energy using quantum dots

H Lu, Z Huang, MS Martinez, JC Johnson… - Energy & …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal quantum dots (QDs) have emerged as versatile and efficient scaffolds to absorb
light and then manipulate, direct, and convert that energy into other useful forms of energy …

Photoconductivity Multiplication in Semiconducting Few-Layer MoTe2

W Zheng, M Bonn, HI Wang - Nano letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
We report efficient photoconductivity multiplication in few-layer 2H-MoTe2 as a direct
consequence of an efficient steplike carrier multiplication with near unity quantum yield and …

Hot Carrier Cooling and Trapping in Atomically Thin WS2 Probed by Three-Pulse Femtosecond Spectroscopy

T Wang, TR Hopper, N Mondal, S Liu, C Yao… - ACS …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have shown outstanding semiconducting
properties which make them promising materials for next-generation optoelectronic and …

Room-temperature low-threshold avalanche effect in stepwise van-der-Waals homojunction photodiodes

H Wang, H Xia, Y Liu, Y Chen, R Xie, Z Wang… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Avalanche or carrier-multiplication effect, based on impact ionization processes in
semiconductors, has a great potential for enhancing the performance of photodetector and …

Photo-dynamics in 2D materials: Processes, tunability and device applications

F Zhang, J Pei, A Baev, M Samoc, Y Ge, PN Prasad… - Physics Reports, 2022 - Elsevier
The past decade has witnessed the rise of low-dimensional materials, such as graphene,
transition metal dichalcogenides, black phosphorus, organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites …

Dye-sensitized multiple exciton generation in lead sulfide quantum dots

Z Huang, MC Beard - Journal of the American Chemical Society, 2022 - ACS Publications
Multiple exciton generation (MEG), the generation of multiple excitons from the absorption of
a single high-energy photon, is a strategy to go beyond the limiting efficiencies that define …