EurekAlert  May 14, 2020 To understand how plasmons operate in quasi 2D crystals an international team of researchers (USA – UC Berkeley, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, research organization, Germany) characterized the properties of both nonconductive and conductive electrons in a monolayer of the TMD tantalum disulfide. Using the new algorithms they developed to compute the material’s electronic properties, they found the plasmons in quasi 2D TMDs are much more stable – for as long as approximately 2 picoseconds than previously thought. Their findings also suggest that plasmons generated by quasi 2D TMDs could enhance the intensity of light by more […]