Greatly enhanced light emission of MoS2 using photonic crystal heterojunction

Sci Rep. 2017 Nov 27;7(1):16391. doi: 10.1038/s41598-017-16502-2.

Abstract

We present theoretical study on developing a one-dimensional (1D) photonic crystal heterojunction (h-PhC) that consists of a monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) structure. By employing the transfer matrix method, we obtained the analytical solution of the light absorption and emission of two-dimensional materials in 1D h-PhC. Simultaneously enhancing the light absorption and emission of the medium in multiple frequency ranges is easy as h-PhC has more modes of photon localization than the common photonic crystal. Our numerical results demonstrate that the proposed 1D h-PhC can simultaneously enhance the light absorption and emission of MoS2 and enhance the photoluminescence spectrum of MoS2 by 2-3 orders of magnitude.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't