Nature Communications (Feb 2021)

Giant nonlinear optical activity in two-dimensional palladium diselenide

  • Juan Yu,
  • Xiaofei Kuang,
  • Junzi Li,
  • Jiahong Zhong,
  • Cheng Zeng,
  • Lingkai Cao,
  • Zongwen Liu,
  • Zhouxiaosong Zeng,
  • Ziyu Luo,
  • Tingchao He,
  • Anlian Pan,
  • Yanping Liu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21267-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Strong nonlinearities in 2D materials can lead to interesting applications in optoelectronics. Here the authors investigate the optical nonlinearity of palladium diselenide, determine the layer dependent two photon absorption efficiency and the saturable absorption modulation depth.