{"id":33545,"date":"2017-01-17T22:05:56","date_gmt":"2017-01-18T06:05:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/nanotechnology-lighting-up-ultrathin-films"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:03","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:03","slug":"nanotechnology-lighting-up-ultrathin-films","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/nanotechnology-lighting-up-ultrathin-films","title":{"rendered":"Nanotechnology: Lighting up ultrathin films"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/nanotechnology-lighting-up-ultrathin-films.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Based on a study of the optical properties of novel ultrathin semiconductors, researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen (LMU) in Munich have developed a method for rapid and efficient characterization of these materials.<\/p>\n<p>Chemical compounds based on elements that belong to the so-called transition metals can be processed to yield atomically thin two-dimensional crystals consisting of a monolayer of the composite in question. The resulting materials are semiconductors with surprising optical properties. In cooperation with American colleagues, a team of LMU physicists led by Alexander H\u00f6gele has now explored the properties of thin-film semiconductors made up of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs).<\/p>\n<p>The researchers report their findings in the journal Nature Nanotechnology (\u201cOpto-valleytronic imaging of atomically thin semiconductors\u201d).<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45614.php\">http:\/\/www.nanowerk.com\/nanotechnology-news\/newsid=45614.php<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Based on a study of the optical properties of novel ultrathin semiconductors, researchers of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universit\u00e4t M\u00fcnchen (LMU) in Munich have developed a method for rapid and efficient characterization of these materials. Chemical compounds based on elements that belong to the so-called transition metals can be processed to yield atomically thin two-dimensional crystals consisting of a [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nanotechnology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33545"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65352,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33545\/revisions\/65352"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}