Current interest in two-dimensional (2D) materials is driven in part by the ability to dramatically alter their optoelectronic properties through strain and phase engineering. A combination of these approaches can be applied in quasi-2D transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers to induce displacive structural transformations between semiconducting (H) and metallic/semimetallic (T') phase...

One dimensional (1D) nanostructures of semiconducting oxides and elemental chalcogens culminate over the last decade in nanotechnology owing to their unique properties exploitable in several applications sectors. Whereas several synthetic strategies have been established for rational design of 1D materials using solution chemistry and high temperature evaporation methods, much less attention ha...

The emergence of semiconducting materials with inert or dangling bond-free surfaces has created opportunities to form van der Waals heterostructures without the constraints of traditional epitaxial growth. For example, layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have been incorporated into heterostructure devices with gate-tunable electronic and optical functionalities. However, 2D materials pr...

Materials of the general form MX2 (transition metal dichalcogenides) have generated a lot of interest recently. They can form nanoribbons like graphene and such nanoribbons have versatile electronic structures and can be metallic or semiconducting by changing the edges of the ribbon. The electronic properties of such materials are not fully understood till now. In this paper we investigate one ...

The reflectivity spectra of semiconducting Bi4Sr3Ca3Cu2O10 glasses were measured over the frequency range between 100 and 4000 cm−1, and were analysed using Kramer-Kronig routines. It is observed that the static and high frequency dielectric constant varies as the bismuth is partially replaced by silver and nickel. The X-ray diffraction and the dc resisitivity measurements shows a semiconductin...

The advent of flexible optoelectronic devices has accelerated the development of semiconducting polymeric materials. We seek to replace conventional expensive semiconducting photodetector materials with our cost-effective composite system. We demonstrate in this work the successful fabrication of a photoconductive composite film of poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) (P3HT) mixed with NaYF4:Yb,Er n...

This paper aims to review the recent advances achieved in the field of organic solid-state lasers with respect to the usage of semiconducting organic molecules and oligomers in the form of thin films as active laser media. We mainly focus on the work performed in the last few years by our research group. The amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) properties, by optical pump, of various types of m...

Zhang, R.; Futagoishi, T.; Murata, M.; Wakamiya, A.; Murata, Y., Synthesis and Structure of an Open-Cage Thiafullerene C69S: Reactivity Differences of an Open-Cage C70 Tetraketone Relative to Its C60 Analogue, J. Am. Chem. Soc., 136, 8193-8196 (2014). Hashikawa, Y.; Murata, M.; Wakamiya, A.; Murata, Y., Synthesis of Open-Cage Ketolactam Derivatives of Fullerene C60 Encapsulating a Hydrogen Mole...

Lipase from Pseudomonas cepacia was covalently immobilized on crystalline silicon, porous silicon and silicon nitride surfaces. The various stages of immobilization were characterized using FTIR (Fourier transform infrared) spectroscopy. The surface topography of the enzyme immobilized surfaces was investigated using scanning electron microscopy (SEM). The quantity of the immobilized active enz...

Ti₁-x-yFexCoyO₂ nanosheets are synthesized in which the (Fe/Co) content is systematically controlled in the range of 0 ≤ x ≤ 0.4 and 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.2. A key feature of this new preparation is the use of (Li/Fe)-, (Fe/Co)- and (Li/Co)-co-substituted layered titanates as starting materials. In exfoliated nanosheets, the composition can be intentionally modified by controlled Fe/Co substitution into Ti...