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Title: Vapor–Liquid–Solid Growth and Optoelectronics of Gallium Sulfide van der Waals Nanowires
Nanowires of layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals are of interest due to structural characteristics and emerging properties that have no equivalent in conventional 3D crystalline nanostructures. Here, vapor-liquid-solid growth, optoelectronics, and photonics of GaS vdW nanowires are studied. Electron microscopy and diffraction demonstrate the formation of high-quality layered nanostructures with different vdW layer orientation. GaS nanowires with vdW stacking perpendicular to the wire axis have ribbon-like morphologies with lengths up to 100 micrometers and uniform width. Wires with axial layer stacking show tapered morphologies and a corrugated surface due to twinning between successive few-layer GaS sheets. Layered GaS nanowires are excellent wide-bandgap optoelectronic materials with Eg = 2.65 eV determined by single-nanowire absorption measurements. Nanometer-scale spectroscopy on individual nanowires shows intense blue band-edge luminescence along with longer wavelength emissions due to transitions between gap states, and photonic properties such as interference of confined waveguide modes propagating within the nanowires. The combined results show promise for applications in electronics, optoelectronics and photonics, as well as photo- or electrocatalysis owing to a high density of reactive edge sites, and intercalation-type energy storage benefitting from facile access to the interlayer vdW gaps.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
1904843
PAR ID:
10155008
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
ACS Nano
ISSN:
1936-0851
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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