Professor Robert Taylor

Abstract:

Photoluminescence measurements in mono- and bilayer-MoS2 on SiO2 were undertaken to determine the thermal effect of the MoS2/SiO2 interface on the optical bandgap. The energy and intensity of the photoluminescence from monolayer MoS2 were lower and weaker than those from bilayer MoS2 at low temperatures, whilst the opposite was true at high temperatures above 200 K. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the observed optical bandgap crossover is caused by a weaker substrate coupling to the bilayer than to the monolayer.

Abstract:

Fullerene dyads bridged with perfluorinated linking groups have been synthesized through a modified arc-discharge procedure. The addition of Teflon inside an arc-discharge reactor leads to the formation of dyads, consisting of two C60 fullerenes bridged by -CF2- groups. The bridging groups consisting of electronegative atoms, lead to different energy levels and to new features in the photoluminescence spectrum. A suppression of the singlet oxygen photosensitization, indicated that the radiative decay from singlet to singlet state is favoured against the intersystem crossing singlet to triplet transition.