Recent advances in rolling 2D TMDs nanosheets into 1D TMDs nanotubes/nanoscrolls

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, YS Rim - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) van der Waals (vdW) 1D heterostructures are
recently synthesized from 2D nanosheets, which open up new opportunities for potential …

Bulk photovoltaic effect in 2D materials for solar‐power harvesting

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, Z Haider, MW Iqbal… - Advanced Optical …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
It is highly desirable for exploring and discovering new materials and outcome‐based
approaches to exceed the Shockley–Queisser limit for single‐junction photovoltaic cells …

Recent advances in nanomaterials based biosensors

S Aftab, A Abbas, MZ Iqbal, S Hussain, F Kabir… - TrAC Trends in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Low-dimensional materials can be used to create highly sensitive, targeted, label-free, FET
biosensors that can identify a variety of analytes. However, reliable biological FET is not yet …

Robust approach towards wearable power efficient transistors with low subthreshold swing

E Elahi, M Suleman, S Nisar, PR Sharma… - Materials Today …, 2023 - Elsevier
For emerging wearable chip-based electronics, power loss is a critical concern for micro-
nano electronic circuits due to high subthreshold swing (SS) value of 60 mV dec− 1 for the …

Contemporary innovations in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide-based P–N junctions for optoelectronics

E Elahi, M Ahmad, A Dahshan, M Rabeel, S Saleem… - Nanoscale, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D-TMDCs) with various physical
characteristics have attracted significant interest from the scientific and industrial worlds in …

Programmable Photo‐Induced Doping in 2D Materials

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal, MW Iqbal - Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Over the past few decades, certain features of the bulk and surface properties of nanoscale
two‐dimensional (2D) layered materials have been exploited to improve the performance …

Lateral PIN (p-MoTe2/Intrinsic-MoTe2/n-MoTe2) Homojunction Photodiodes

S Aftab, HMS Ajmal, E Elahi… - ACS Applied Nano …, 2022 - ACS Publications
The construction of high-speed electronic devices that can be integrated using a single two-
dimensional (2D) semiconductor with high performance remains challenging due to the …

Recent advances in 2D wearable flexible sensors

S Aftab, AA Al‐Kahtani, MZ Iqbal… - Advanced Materials …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of wearable technology for detecting human safety as well as environmental
conditions have new research directions owing to 2D heterostructured transition metal …

Switching photodiodes based on (2D/3D) PdSe 2/Si heterojunctions with a broadband spectral response

S Aftab, M Samiya, W Liao, MW Iqbal… - Journal of Materials …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Noble metal dichalcogenides (NMDs) are two-dimensional (2D) layered materials that
exhibit outstanding thickness-dependent tunable-bandgaps that can be suitable for various …

Emerging trends in 2D TMDs with a broken gap interface

S Aftab, MZ Iqbal - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Several review articles have previously addressed the investigation of p–n junction designs.
The mechanism of broken gap p–n junction-based negative differential resistance (NDR) …