Light emission by individual defects in 2D materials

• Grant number: 18/08543-7
• Support type: Scholarships in Brazil - Doctorate
• Effective date (Start): October 01, 2018
• Effective date (End): August 02, 2022
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Physics - Condensed Matter Physics
• Principal researcher: Luiz Fernando Zagonel
• Grantee: Ricardo Javier Peña Román
• Home Institution: Instituto de Física Gleb Wataghin (IFGW). Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP). Campinas , SP, Brazil
• Associated research grant: 14/23399-9 - Heterostructures in semiconducting nanowires: nanometric light emitters studied by scanning tunnelling microscopy, AP.JP
• Associated scholarship(s): 20/12480-0 - Single-photon emission from point defects and substrate-induced hot spots in two-dimensional semiconductors: a scanning tunnelling microscopy-induced luminescence study, BE.EP.DR

Abstract

In this project we aim to study individual defects in bi-dimensional nanostructures and their electronic and optical properties. Indeed, point defects (vacancies, substitutional atoms and associations) have profound effects in the luminescence of hexagonal Boron Nitride (hBN) and on transition-metal chalcogenides (TMDs), like MoS2 e WSe2. In this materials, punctual defects can be used as Single Photon Emitters (SPEs), can increase their quantum efficiency or change their light emission energies. Despite all technological and scientific interest, many open question remains about the role of each particular defect or how to control their density to achieve desired properties. With this aim, we plan to prepare defects in a controlled fashion using low energy ion beams (~150 eV) and to study their morphology, electronic structure and light emission by using high resolution microscopy adapted to optical studies which are Cathodoluminescence in Scanning Transmission Electronic Microscopy and luminescence in Scanning Tunneling microscopy. This methodology will contribute to the advance in the understanding of individual defect in this knowledge frontier. (AU)

Scientific publications

(References retrieved automatically from Web of Science and SciELO through information on FAPESP grants and their corresponding numbers as mentioned in the publications by the authors)

DO AMARAL, GABRIELA MOURA; TONON, ISABELA DA COSTA; PENA ROMAN, RICARDO JAVIER; PLATH, HANNAH DE OLIVEIRA; TANIGUCHI, THEO MASSAO; DE LIMA, LUIS HENRIQUE; ZAGONEL, LUIZ FERNANDO; LANDERS, RICHARD; DE SIERVO, ABNER. Epitaxial growth, electronic hybridization and stability under oxidation of monolayer MoS2 on Ag(111). Applied Surface Science, v. 538, FEB 1 2021. Web of Science Citations: 0.

PENA ROMAN, RICARDO JAVIER; AUAD, YVES; GRASSO, LUCAS; ALVAREZ, FERNANDO; BARCELOS, INGRID DAVID; ZAGONEL, LUIZ FERNANDO. Tunneling-current-induced local excitonic luminescence in p-doped WSe(2)monolayers. NANOSCALE, v. 12, n. 25, p. 13460-13470, JUL 7 2020. Web of Science Citations: 0.