Nature Communications (Mar 2017)

Proposal for dark exciton based chemical sensors

  • Maja Feierabend,
  • Gunnar Berghäuser,
  • Andreas Knorr,
  • Ermin Malic

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms14776
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 6

Abstract

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Two-dimensional materials have shown great promise as efficient chemical sensors. Here, the authors present a sensing mechanism to allow the detection of molecules based on dark excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides.