2016
DOI: 10.1103/physrevb.94.195403
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Mg(OH)2WS2 van der Waals heterobilayer: Electric field tunable band-gap crossover

Abstract: Magnesium hydroxide [Mg(OH) 2 ] has a layered brucitelike structure in its bulk form and was recently isolated as a new member of two-dimensional monolayer materials. We investigated the electronic and optical properties of monolayer crystals of Mg(OH) 2 and WS 2 and their possible heterobilayer structure by means of first-principles calculations. It was found that both monolayers of Mg(OH) 2 and WS 2 are direct-gap semiconductors and these two monolayers form a typical van der Waals heterostructure with a wea… Show more

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“…Multilayer systems offer the possibility for the formation of interlayer excitons besides the intralayer ones [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This makes TMD-based heterobilayers (HBLs) potential candidates for ultrafast charge transfer [24], ultrafast formation of hot interlayer excitons [25], interlayer energy transfer [26], valleytronics [27,28], charge transfer [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], and long-lived interlayer excitons [37].…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Multilayer systems offer the possibility for the formation of interlayer excitons besides the intralayer ones [14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23]. This makes TMD-based heterobilayers (HBLs) potential candidates for ultrafast charge transfer [24], ultrafast formation of hot interlayer excitons [25], interlayer energy transfer [26], valleytronics [27,28], charge transfer [29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36], and long-lived interlayer excitons [37].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…On the theoretical side, efforts have focused on the electronic structure, predicting the type-II alignment for several stacking combinations of TMDs using density-functional theory (DFT) calculations [14][15][16][17][18][19][20]39]. For the compounds with type-II band alignment, on the independent particle level, the interlayer transition is the lowest energy transition due to the band offset of the constituent single layers.…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Magnesium hydroxide (Mg(OH) 2 ), as a typical two-dimensional material with a type-II band structure, has been widely applied in photovoltaic devices and solid-state electronics owing to its rapid electron transport, low exciton recombination rate and efficient photon-harvesting capacity [35,36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44]. In contrast with the unstable or metastable two-dimensional materials such as black phosphorus, GaTe and MoTe 2 , the passivated surfaces created by O–H bonds composing of oxygen and hydrogen atoms are beneficial for the prolonged environmental stability of Mg(OH) 2 [36].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…In contrast with the unstable or metastable two-dimensional materials such as black phosphorus, GaTe and MoTe 2 , the passivated surfaces created by O–H bonds composing of oxygen and hydrogen atoms are beneficial for the prolonged environmental stability of Mg(OH) 2 [36]. To further extend the application of Mg(OH) 2 in photocatalytic filed, Mg(OH) 2 -based heterojunctions such as Mg(OH) 2 /WS 2 [40, 41], Mg(OH) 2 /MoS 2 [42], and Mg(OH) 2 /AlN [43] have been designed for the extraordinary optical and electronic properties. Mg(OH) 2 based heterostructure can constantly separate the photoexcited electron-hole pairs and owns the decent band edge positions for photocatalytic redox reaction in the built-in electric filed [45,46,47].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also different combinations of lateral heterostructures TMDs such as MoS 2 /WS 2 [32], MoSe 2 /WSe 2 [38] have been extensively studied. In addition to experimental studies, theoretical studies have predicted possible heterostructures of new synthesized single 2D materials, such as Mg(OH) 2 -WS 2 and h-AlN/Mg(OH) 2 [39,40].…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%