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Aug. 2021: Prof. Zhao delivered an invited virtual talk to the 2021 Wutong Forum held by The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen.
Jul. 2021: Prof. Zhao received the BGU-NJIT Inter-University Seed Grant Awards, with our collaborator Prof. Arnusch at BGU.
May 2021: Prof. Zhao received the NJIT Faculty Seed Grant Award.
May 2021: Our work on Rapid Growth of Monolayer MoSe2 Films has been published on Advanced Electronic Materials.
Rapid Growth of Monolayer MoSe2 Films for Large‐Area Electronics
The large-scale growth of semiconducting thin films on insulating substrates enables batch fabrication of atomically thin electronic and optoelectronic devices and circuits without film transfer. Here an efficient method to achieve rapid growth of large-area monolayer MoSe2 films based on spin coating of Mo precursor and assisted by NaCl is reported... [Read more]
Apr. 2021: Prof. Zhao delivered an invited virtual talk to the Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering at UMass Amherst.
Dec. 2020: Our work on p-Si/MoS2 heterojunction p-n diode has been published on AIP Advances.
Ionic liquid gel gate tunable p-Si/MoS2 heterojunction p-n diode
Monolayer MoS2 crystals investigated in this work were grown via chemical vapor deposition on Si/SiO2 substrates. Using a wet KOH etch, these crystals were transferred onto the edge of a freshly cleaved p-Si/SiO2 wafer where they formed mechanically robust heterojunctions at the p-Si/MoS2 interface... [Read more]
Oct. 2020: Our work on Nanoscale Friction Behavior of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides has been published on ACS Nano.
Nanoscale Friction Behavior of Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides: Role of the Chalcogenide
Despite extensive research on the tribological properties of MoS2, the frictional characteristics of other members of the transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) family have remained relatively unexplored. To understand the effect of the chalcogen on the tribological behavior of these materials and gain broader general insights into the factors controlling friction at the nanoscale,... [Read More]
Sept. 2020: Our review article on bilayer graphene and TMDs has just been published on Journal of Physics: Materials.
In the past few years, considerable progress has been made on the controlled synthesis of bilayer van der Waals (vdW) materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), which are of interest due to their attractive optical and electronic properties... [Read More]