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Van der Waals heterostructures

Stacked 2D materials shed light

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A powerful strategy to leverage and combine the optoelectronic characteristics of different 2D materials is to stack them into vertical van der Waals heterostructures. This approach is now used to realize efficient light-emitting devices.

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Figure 1: Van der Waals light-emitting diodes.

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  1. Xiaomu Wang and Fengnian Xia are in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Yale University, 15 Prospect Street, New Haven, Connecticut 06511, USA,

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Wang, X., Xia, F. Stacked 2D materials shed light. Nature Mater 14, 264–265 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4218

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