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most citedVariation of the fundamental band gap nature in curved two-dimensional WS2

164 citations · 299 across the 16 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

The Hidden Cost of Alloying: Disorder-Driven Transport Collapse in TMDs

Michele Pisarra, Clara Rebanal, Enrique Arévalo Rodríguez +19

Alloying in two dimensional semiconductors is widely used to tune bandgaps, yet its implications for charge and energy transport remain poorly understood. Here, we investigate MoS2…

quant-ph2025

Tunable WS Micro-Dome Open Cavity Single Photon Source

Jens-Christian Drawer, Salvatore Cianci, Vita Solovyeva +13

Versatile, tunable, and potentially scalable single-photon sources are a key asset in emergent photonic quantum technologies. In this work, a single-photon source based on WS m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Bandgap Engineering On Demand in GaAsN Nanowires by Post-Growth HydrogennImplantation

Nadine Denis, Akant Sharma, Elena Blundo +9

Bandgap engineering in semiconductors is required for the development of photonic and optoelectronic devices with optimized absorption and emission energies. This is usually achiev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Ferroelectric Control of Interlayer Excitons in 3R-MoS / MoSe Heterostructures

Johannes Schwandt-Krause, Mohammed El Amine Miloudi, Elena Blundo +9

We investigate the interaction between interlayer excitons and ferroelectric domains in hBN-encapsulated 3R-MoS/MoSe heterostructures, combining photoluminescence experimen…

quant-ph2025

Quantum sensing with spin defects in boron nitride nanotubes

Roberto Rizzato, Andrea Alberdi Hidalgo, Linyan Nie +4

Spin defects in semiconductors are widely investigated for various applications in quantum sensing. Conventional host materials such as diamond and hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Extremely high excitonic -factors in 2D crystals by alloy-induced admixing of band states

Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Tomasz Woźniak, Elena Blundo +24

Monolayers (MLs) of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (\mbox{S-TMDs}) emit light very efficiently and display rich spin-valley physics, with gyromagnetic (-) facto…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Giant light emission enhancement in strain-engineered InSe/MS (M=Mo,W) van der Waals heterostructures

Elena Blundo, Marzia Cuccu, Federico Tuzi +11

Two-dimensional crystals stack together through weak van der Waals (vdW) forces, offering unlimited possibilities to play with layer number, order and twist angle in vdW heterostru…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Polarons shape the interlayer exciton emission of MoSe/WSe heterobilayers

Pedro Soubelet, Alex Delhomme, Andreas V. Stier +1

We present time-resolved and CW optical spectroscopy studies of interlayer excitons (IXs) in 2 and 3stacked MoSe/WSe heterobilayers and obtain evidence for the stro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Fine-Tuning of the Excitonic Response in Monolayer WS2 Domes via Coupled Pressure and Strain Variation

Elena Stellino, Beatrice D'Alò, Elena Blundo +2

We present a spectroscopic investigation into the vibrational and optoelectronic properties of WS2 domes in the 0-0.65 GPa range. The pressure evolution of the system morphology, d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Localisation-to-delocalisation transition of moiré excitons in WSe/MoSe heterostructures

Elena Blundo, Federico Tuzi, Salvatore Cianci +12

Moiré excitons (MXs) are electron-hole pairs localised by the periodic (moiré) potential forming in two-dimensional heterostructures (HSs). MXs can be exploited, , for creati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 13 cited

Variant Plateau Law in Atomically Thin Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Dome Networks

Boqing Liu, Tanju Yildirim, Tieyu Lv +10

Since its fundamental inception from soap bubbles, Plateau law has sparked extensive research in equilibrated states. However, most studies primarily relied on liquids, foams or ce…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Imaging the Quantum Capacitance of Strained MoS2 Monolayers by Electrostatic Force Microscopy

Cinzia Di Giorgio, Elena Blundo, Julien Basset +7

We implemented radio frequency-assisted electrostatic force microscopy (RF-EFM) to investigate the electric field response of biaxially strained molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) monolay…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 13 cited

Excitons and trions in WSSe monolayers

Katarzyna Olkowska-Pucko, Elena Blundo, Natalia Zawadzka +15

The possibility of almost linear tuning of the band gap and of the electrical and optical properties in monolayers (MLs) of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (S-TMD) a…

physics.app-ph2020★ 1 cited

Engineered creation of periodic giant, non-uniform strains in MoS2 monolayers

Elena Blundo, Cinzia Di Giorgio, Giorgio Pettinari +5

The realization of ordered strain fields in two-dimensional crystals is an intriguing perspective in many respects, including the instauration of novel transport regimes and the ac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 164 cited

Variation of the fundamental band gap nature in curved two-dimensional WS2

E. Blundo, M. Felici, T. Yildirim +7

We report a strain-induced direct-to-indirect band gap transition in mechanically deformed WS2 monolayers (MLs). The necessary amount of strain is attained by proton irradiation of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 105 cited

Proton-driven patterning of bulk transition metal dichalcogenides

Davide Tedeschi, Marco Felici, Giorgio Pettinari +6

At the few-atom-thick limit, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit a host of attractive electronic optical, and structural properties. The possibility to pattern these pr…