Issue 18, 2022

Tuning nanowire lasers via hybridization with two-dimensional materials

Abstract

Mixed-dimensional hybrid structures have recently gained increasing attention as promising building blocks for novel electronic and optoelectronic devices. In this context, hybridization of semiconductor nanowires with two-dimensional materials could offer new ways to control and modulate lasing at the nanoscale. In this work, we deterministically fabricate hybrid mixed-dimensional heterostructures composed of ZnO nanowires and MoS2 monolayers with micrometer control over their relative position. First, we show that our deterministic fabrication method does not degrade the optical properties of the ZnO nanowires. Second, we demonstrate that the lasing wavelength of ZnO nanowires can be tuned by several nanometers by hybridization with CVD-grown MoS2 monolayers. We assign this spectral shift of the lasing modes to an efficient carrier transfer at the heterointerface and the subsequent increase of the optical band gap in ZnO (Moss–Burstein effect).

Graphical abstract: Tuning nanowire lasers via hybridization with two-dimensional materials

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Article information

Article type
Paper
Submitted
02 des 2021
Accepted
01 mar 2022
First published
21 apr 2022
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2022,14, 6822-6829

Tuning nanowire lasers via hybridization with two-dimensional materials

E. Eobaldt, F. Vitale, M. Zapf, M. Lapteva, T. Hamzayev, Z. Gan, E. Najafidehaghani, C. Neumann, A. George, A. Turchanin, G. Soavi and C. Ronning, Nanoscale, 2022, 14, 6822 DOI: 10.1039/D1NR07931J

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