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Super-resolved Optical Mapping of Reactive Sulfur-Vacancies in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Magalí Alejandra Lingenfelder, Jean Camille Benjamin Comtet, Martina Lihter, Yanfei Zhao, Michal Daniel Macha, Karla Banjac, Jing Zhang, Zhenyu Wang, Miao Zhang, Tzu-Heng Chen

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent a class of semiconducting two-dimensional (2D) materials with exciting properties. In particular, defects in 2D-TMDs and their molecular interactions with the environment can crucially affect their physical ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Wafer-scale MOCVD growth of monolayer MoS2 on sapphire and SiO2

Andras Kis, Thomas La Grange, Aleksandra Radenovic, Ke Liu, Yanfei Zhao, Hokwon Kim, Huanyao Cun, Michal Daniel Macha

High-quality and large-scale growth of monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has caught intensive attention because of its potential in many applications due to unique electronic properties. Here, we report the wafer-scale growth of high-quality monolayer ...

2019

Suppressing Nucleation in Metal–Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition of MoS2

Andras Kis, Davide Deiana, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Dmitrii Unuchek, Hokwon Kim

Toward the large-area deposition of MoS2 layers, we employ metal–organic precursors of Mo and S for a facile and reproducible van der Waals epitaxy on c-plane sapphire. Exposing c-sapphire substrates to alkali metal halide salts such as KI or NaCl together ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2017

High-Throughput Nanopore Fabrication and Classification Using Xe-Ion Irradiation and Automated Pore-Edge Analysis

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Martina Lihter, Michal Daniel Macha, Sanjin Marion, Mukeshchand Thakur, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Large-area nanopore drilling is a major bottleneck in state-of-the-art nanoporous 2D membrane fabrication protocols. In addition, high-quality structural and statistical descriptions of as-fabricated porous membranes are key to predicting the corresponding ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Large-Area Epitaxial Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Philippe Gillet, Nicola Marzari, Simone Bertolazzi, Oriol López Sánchez, Daria Krasnozhon, Ming-Wei Chen, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Marco Gibertini, Dumitru Dumcenco, Yen-Cheng Kung, Kolyo Marinov

Two-dimensional semiconductors such as MoS2 are an emerging material family with wide-ranging potential applications in electronics, optoelectronics, and energy harvesting. Large-area growth methods are needed to open the way to applications. Control over ...

Amer Chemical Soc2015

Mobility engineering and a metal–insulator transition in monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Branimir Radisavljevic

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new class of materials with interesting physical properties and applications ranging from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. In addition to graphene, the most studied 2D material, monolayers of other layered mate ...

Nature Publishing Group2013

Disorder engineering and conductivity dome in ReS2 with electrolyte gating

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Diego José Pasquier, Fernando Gargiulo, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Dumitru Dumcenco

Atomically thin rhenium disulphide (ReS2) is a member of the transition metal dichalcogenide family of materials. This two-dimensional semiconductor is characterized by weak interlayer coupling and a distorted 1T structure, which leads to anisotropy in ele ...

Nature Publishing Group2016

Mechanical and electronic properties of vanadium oxide nanotubes

László Forró, Andras Kis, Neven Barisic, Jin Won Seo, Arnaud Magrez, Balazs Sipos

Vanadium oxide nanotubes with a diameter of 20-100 nm and an aspect ratio of 50-100 were synthesized by hydrothermal method. Young's modulus of 20-80 GPa was obtained by bending measurements of individual nanotubes using an atomic force microscope. Electri ...

American Institute of Physics2009

Free-standing electronic character of monolayer

Olivier Renault, Andras Kis, Ming-Wei Chen, Dumitru Dumcenco, Yen-Cheng Kung, Hokwon Kim

We have evaluated as-grown MoS2 crystals, epitaxially grown on a monocrystalline sapphire by chemical vapor deposition (CVD), with direct electronic band-structure measurements by energy-filtered k-space photoelectron emission microscopy performed with a c ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Piezoresistivity and Strain-induced Band Gap Tuning in Atomically Thin MoS2

Andras Kis, Sajedeh Manzeli

Continuous tuning of material properties is highly desirable for a wide range of applications, with strain engineering being an interesting way of achieving it. The tuning range, however, is limited in conventional bulk materials that can suffer from plast ...

American Chemical Society (ACS)2015

Room-temperature electrical control of polarization and emission angle in a cavity-integrated 2D pulsed LED

Andras Kis, Dmitrii Unuchek, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Fedele Tagarelli, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Zhe Sun

Devices based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors hold promise for the realization of compact and versatile on-chip interconnects between electrical and optical signals. Although light emitting diodes (LEDs) are fundamental building blocks for integrate ...

Nature Research2022

Wafer-Scale Fabrication of Nanopore Devices for Single-Molecule DNA Biosensing using MoS2

Andras Kis, Aleksandra Radenovic, Michael Graf, Martina Lihter, Jochem Deen, Michal Daniel Macha, Mukeshchand Thakur, Andrey Chernev, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Atomically thin (2D) nanoporous membranes are an excellent platform for a broad scope of academic research. Their thickness and intrinsic ion selectivity (demonstrated for example in molybdenum disulfide-MoS2) make them particularly attractive for single-m ...

2020

Spin polarization detection via chirality-induced tunnelling currents in indium selenide

Andras Kis, Eloi Régis L Collette, Gabriele Pasquale, Shun Feng

Chirality, a basic property of symmetry breaking, is crucial for fields such as biology and physics. Recent advances in the study of chiral systems have stimulated interest in the discovery of symmetry-breaking states that enable exotic phenomena such as s ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Disorder-induced bulk photovoltaic effect in a centrosymmetric van der Waals material

Andras Kis, Juan Francisco Gonzalez Marin, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi, Zhe Sun

Sunlight is widely seen as one of the most abundant forms of renewable energy, with photovoltaic cells based on pn junctions being the most commonly used platform attempting to harness it. Unlike in conventional photovoltaic cells, the bulk photovoltaic ef ...

2023

Breakdown of High-Performance Monolayer MoS2

Andras Kis, Dominik Sebastian Lembke

Two-dimensional (2D) materials such as monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) are extremely interesting for integration in nanoelectronic devices where they represent the ultimate limit of miniaturization in the vertical direction. Thanks to the presence of ...

Amer Chemical Soc2012

Enhancing interlayer exciton dynamics by coupling with monolithic cavities via the field-induced Stark effect

Andras Kis, Fedele Tagarelli, Edoardo Lopriore

Optical microcavities provide a powerful and versatile framework for manipulating the dynamics of photonic emission from optically active materials through light recirculation. Spatially indirect interlayer excitons (IXs) exhibit broad tunability of their ...

2025

Nonvolatile Memory Cells Based on MoS2/graphene heterostructures

Andras Kis, Simone Bertolazzi, Daria Krasnozhon

Memory cells are an important building block of digital electronics. We combine here the unique electronic properties of semiconducting monolayer MoS2 with the high conductivity of graphene to build a 2D heterostructure capable of information storage. MoS2 ...

Amer Chemical Soc2013

Self-sensing, tunable monolayer MoS2 nanoelectromechanical resonators

Andras Kis, Sajedeh Manzeli, Dumitru Dumcenco, Guilherme Migliato Marega

Excellent mechanical properties and the presence of piezoresistivity make single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) viable candidates for integration in nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS). We report on the realization of electromechanical ...

Nature Research2019

Electromechanical oscillations in bilayer graphene

Mohamed Malik Benameur, Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Fernando Gargiulo, Gabriel Albert Autes, Sajedeh Manzeli

Nanoelectromechanical systems constitute a class of devices lying at the interface between fundamental research and technological applications. Realizing nanoelectromechanical devices based on novel materials such as graphene allows studying their mechanic ...

Nature Research2015

Excitonic devices with van der Waals heterostructures: valleytronics meets twistronics

Andras Kis, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi, Fedele Tagarelli

2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach hundreds of millielectronvolts and valley-contrasting physics. Thanks to the van der Wa ...

2022