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Efficient light-confinement in heterostructured transition metal dichalcogenide-based nanoscrolls for high-performance photonic devices

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The light-matter interaction in the 2D materials can greatly be enhanced by spirally rolling them into nanoscroll (NS) structures. Hybridization of such 2D material NSs with high yield quantum dots produces type-II band alignment at the heterostructure interface. The combination of enhanced photoabsorption and occurrence of internal reflections at NS wall stimulates coherent lasing action with an unprecedently low lasing threshold and enhances the photoresponsivity by almost 3000 fold compared to its planar counterpart. Furthermore, the NS morphology imparts photosensors with an inherent ability to detect polarization. Finally, the charge transfer efficiency in NSs is enhanced by the formation of heterojunctions after intercalation of graphene. Our approach enables novel ways to develop high-performance flexible devices toward future applications.

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The data that support the findings of this study are available from the corresponding authors M. Hofmann, Y. P. Hsieh and/or Y. F. Chen upon reasonable request.

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Acknowledgments

We thank Souvik Sasmal (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Mumbai, India) for comments on the manuscript. This work was financially supported by the “Advanced Research Centre for Green Materials Science and Technology” from The Featured Area Research Centre Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (110L9006) and the Ministry of Science and Technology in Taiwan (MOST 110-2524-F-002-043 and MOST 109-2112-M-002-027).

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  1. Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan

    Rapti Ghosh & Ya-Ping Hsieh

  2. Department of Physics, National Central University, Chung-Li, 320, Taiwan

    Rapti Ghosh

  3. Molecular Science and Technology Program, Taiwan International Graduate Program, Institute of Atomic and Molecular Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, 115, Taiwan

    Rapti Ghosh & Ya-Ping Hsieh

  4. Department of Physics, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Rapti Ghosh, Hung-I. Lin, Mario Hofmann & Yang-Fang Chen

  5. Institute of Opto-Mechatronics, National Chung Cheng University, Chia-Yi, Taiwan

    Yu-Siang Chen

  6. Advanced Research Center for Green Materials Science and Technology, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 106, Taiwan

    Yang-Fang Chen

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RG and YFC conceived the idea of hybrid WS2 NS based device fabrication. YSC synthesized the WS2 film via CVD and RG synthesized the scrolls. RG performed structural and optical characterizations of the materials. HIL simulated |E|2 field distribution in the scroll-based device using FDTD software. RG performed electrical and optical measurements of the device. RG, MH, YPH, and YFC discussed the mechanism of WS2 scroll-based device. YFC supervised the project. RG, MH, YPH, and YFC contributed to writing the manuscript through the input of all the authors. All the authors were involved in analyzing the data.

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Supplementary file1 Structural characterization (AFM, HRTEM, SAED) of WS2 film and HRTEM of CdSe-ZnS core-shell QD. Emission spectra of WS2 film and WS2 NS. Comparative lasing action study of the WS2 scroll structure at different emissive energy. TRPL spectra of the hybridized scroll structure. Angular independence of the random lasing device. OM images of the electrode grown on both WS2 film and the scroll-based devices. Detail calculation of photoresponsivity, gain, and detectivity. Photocurrent comparison of all the devices. FDTD simulation study of scroll. SEM image of the hetero-film. Table of comparison of different scroll-based devices. (PDF 975 kb)

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Ghosh, R., Lin, HI., Chen, YS. et al. Efficient light-confinement in heterostructured transition metal dichalcogenide-based nanoscrolls for high-performance photonic devices. Journal of Materials Research 37, 660–669 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1557/s43578-021-00460-7

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