Carrier multiplication in van der Waals layered transition metal dichalcogenides

oleh: Ji-Hee Kim, Matthew R. Bergren, Jin Cheol Park, Subash Adhikari, Michael Lorke, Thomas Frauenheim, Duk-Hyun Choe, Beom Kim, Hyunyong Choi, Tom Gregorkiewicz, Young Hee Lee

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-12-01

Deskripsi

During carrier multiplication, high-energy free carriers in a given material relax by generation of additional electron-hole pairs. Here, the authors report evidence of carrier multiplication in multilayer MoTe2 and WSe2 films with up to 99% conversation efficiency.