van
der Waals heterostructures composed of two different monolayer
crystals have recently attracted attention as a powerful and versatile
platform for studying fundamental physics, as well as having great
potential in future functional devices because of the diversity in
the band alignments and the unique interlayer coupling that occurs
at the heterojunction interface. However, despite these attractive
features, a fundamental understanding of the underlying physics accounting
for the effect of interlayer coupling on the interactions between
electrons, photons, and phonons in the stacked heterobilayer is still
lacking. Here, we demonstrate a detailed analysis of the strain-dependent
excitonic behavior of an epitaxially grown MoS2/WS2 vertical heterostructure under uniaxial tensile and compressive
strain that enables the interlayer interactions to be modulated along
with the electronic band structure. We find that the strain-modulated
interlayer coupling directly affects the characteristic combined vibrational
and excitonic properties of each monolayer in the heterobilayer. It
is further revealed that the relative photoluminescence intensity
ratio of WS2 to MoS2 in our heterobilayer increases
monotonically with tensile strain and decreases with compressive strain.
We attribute the strain-dependent emission behavior of the heterobilayer
to the modulation of the band structure for each monolayer, which
is dictated by the alterations in the band gap transitions. These
findings present an important pathway toward designing heterostructures
and flexible devices.
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are considered to be promising candidates for flexible and transparent optoelectronics applications due to their direct bandgap and strong light-matter interactions. Although several monolayer-based photodetectors have been demonstrated, single-layered optical memory devices suitable for high-quality image sensing have received little attention. Here we report a concept for monolayer MoS2 optoelectronic memory devices using artificially-structured charge trap layers through the functionalization of the monolayer/dielectric interfaces, leading to localized electronic states that serve as a basis for electrically-induced charge trapping and optically-mediated charge release. Our devices exhibit excellent photo-responsive memory characteristics with a large linear dynamic range of ∼4,700 (73.4 dB) coupled with a low OFF-state current (<4 pA), and a long storage lifetime of over 104 s. In addition, the multi-level detection of up to 8 optical states is successfully demonstrated. These results represent a significant step toward the development of future monolayer optoelectronic memory devices.
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are considered to be potential materials for atomically thin electronics due to their unique electronic and optical properties. However, large-area and uniform growth of TMDC monolayers with large grain sizes is still a considerable challenge. This report presents a simple but effective approach for large-scale and highly crystalline molybdenum disulfide monolayers using a solution-processed precursor deposition. The low supersaturation level, triggered by the evaporation of an extremely thin precursor layer, reduces the nucleation density dramatically under a thermodynamically stable environment, yielding uniform and clean monolayer films and large crystal sizes up to 500 µm. As a result, the photoluminescence exhibits only a small full-width-half-maximum of 48 meV, comparable to that of exfoliated and suspended monolayer crystals. It is confirmed that this growth procedure can be extended to the synthesis of other TMDC monolayers, and robust MoS /WS heterojunction devices are easily prepared using this synthetic procedure due to the large-sized crystals. The heterojunction device shows a fast response time (≈45 ms) and a significantly high photoresponsivity (≈40 AW ) because of the built-in potential and the majority-carrier transport at the n-n junction. These findings indicate an efficient pathway for the fabrication of high-performance 2D optoelectronic devices.
We estimated the submarine discharge of groundwater (SGD) 226 Ra, and Si mass balances) were much higher than those reported from typical continental margins. The nutrient fluxes from SGD were about 90%, 20%, and 80% of the total input (except from open ocean waters) for dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), dissolved inorganic phosphorus (DIP), and dissolved inorganic silicate (DSi), respectively. These excess nutrient inputs from SGD are the major sources of ''new nutrients'' in this bay. On the basis of photosynthetic pigments and benthic algal distributions, we suggest that the large fluxes of excess nutrients from SGD can cause benthic eutrophication in a semienclosed bay on this highly permeable volcanic island.
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