Nature Communications (Aug 2021)

Giant anisotropic photonics in the 1D van der Waals semiconductor fibrous red phosphorus

  • Luojun Du,
  • Yanchong Zhao,
  • Linlu Wu,
  • Xuerong Hu,
  • Lide Yao,
  • Yadong Wang,
  • Xueyin Bai,
  • Yunyun Dai,
  • Jingsi Qiao,
  • Md Gius Uddin,
  • Xiaomei Li,
  • Jouko Lahtinen,
  • Xuedong Bai,
  • Guangyu Zhang,
  • Wei Ji,
  • Zhipei Sun

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25104-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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One-dimensional van der Waals (1D vdW) materials derive interesting behaviour from dimensional confinement. Here the authors study a 1D vdW semiconductor, fibrous red phosphorous, and observe exceptional optical properties of large optical anisotropy and high photoluminescence.