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Keywords
2D Materials, molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), optoelectronic semiconductors
Presentation Type
Poster
Research Abstract
To improve optoelectronic semiconductor materials, one of the most efficient research areas is the two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalocogenides (TMDCs). It has been shown that organic nonoxidizing superacid bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonamide (TFSI) treatment of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer could uniformly enhance its photoluminescence by more than two orders of magnitude and also extend the lifetime of excitons. This could greatly improve the efficiency of the solar energy usage, but the mechanism behind it has not been fully understood. Extreme low temperatures (approximately 7K), which slow the surface exciton mobility, were applied to investigate the changes of treated MoS2 monolayer surfaces. This approach also requires cover slip caps to protect samples from degrading in the vacuum and low temperature environment. Our results show that the defect stages of the MoS2 surface still occur at low temperatures which differs from the previous mechanism proposed. To determine the true mechanism of superacid treatment of MoS2 monolayer we will need further experiments.
Session Track
Nanotechnology
Recommended Citation
Mingwei Zhou, Long Yuan, Jordan Snaider, and Libai Huang,
"Temperature-dependent Exciton Dynamics of Superacid Treatment in Monolayers of the Metal Dichalcogenide MoS2"
(August 3, 2017).
The Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) Symposium.
Paper 99.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/surf/2017/presentations/99
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Temperature-dependent Exciton Dynamics of Superacid Treatment in Monolayers of the Metal Dichalcogenide MoS2
To improve optoelectronic semiconductor materials, one of the most efficient research areas is the two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalocogenides (TMDCs). It has been shown that organic nonoxidizing superacid bis(trifluoromethane)sulfonamide (TFSI) treatment of molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolayer could uniformly enhance its photoluminescence by more than two orders of magnitude and also extend the lifetime of excitons. This could greatly improve the efficiency of the solar energy usage, but the mechanism behind it has not been fully understood. Extreme low temperatures (approximately 7K), which slow the surface exciton mobility, were applied to investigate the changes of treated MoS2 monolayer surfaces. This approach also requires cover slip caps to protect samples from degrading in the vacuum and low temperature environment. Our results show that the defect stages of the MoS2 surface still occur at low temperatures which differs from the previous mechanism proposed. To determine the true mechanism of superacid treatment of MoS2 monolayer we will need further experiments.
https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/surf/2017/presentations/99