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2D materials, with distinct characteristics compared to their conventional bulk counterparts, have been a popular topic in various optoelectronic research fields. Herein, indium selenide (InSe), a monochalcogenide van der Waals layered semiconductor, which has been studied due to its thickness dependent optical characteristics is explored. For InSe to be used as a versatile light source, enhancing the emission of InSe is required. Here, enhanced photoluminescence (PL) from multi‐layer InSe is demonstrated using a gap plasmon induced between Ag nanocube dimer and an Au substrate. Such plasmonic structures support multiple resonances, one of those overlapping with InSe's band edge PL emission. The calculated Purcell factor shows a 200‐fold increase on the short edge of nanocube dimers. Experimentally, PL enhancement of 6‐fold is demonstrated at room temperature. In addition, a method for determining the thickness of 2D materials via dark‐field spectroscopy using white light illumination is shown. This study paves the way for the incorporation of 2D InSe into nanophotonic structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Our recent continuum theory for stress-gradient-induced migration of polymers in confined solutions, including the depletion from the solid boundaries [Hajizadeh, E., and R. G. Larson, Soft Matter, 13, 5942–5949 (2017)], is applied to a two-dimensional rotational shearing flow in the gap between eccentric cylinders. Analytical results for the steady-state distribution of polymer dumbbells in the limit of dilute polymer solution c / c ∗ ≪ 1 (c∗ is the chain overlap concentration) and in the absence of hydrodynamic interactions are obtained. The effects of eccentricity e and of three perturbation variables, namely, Weissenberg number W i , gradient number G d (which defines the level of polymer chain confinement), and Péclet number P e on the polymer concentration pattern, are investigated. The stress-gradient-induced migration results in polymer migration toward the inner cylinder, while wall-depletion-induced migration results in near-zero polymer concentration close to flow boundaries, which couples to a stress-gradient-induced migration effect. In the presence of wall-depletion, we obtain first order concentration variation proportional to W i. However, in the absence of wall-depletion, there is no first order contribution and, therefore, the lowest-order concentration variation is proportional to W i 2. An upper limit of W i = 1.6 exists, beyond which the numerical solution demands an excessive under-relaxation to converge. In addition, for a high degree of polymer chain confinement, i.e., for G d greater than 0.5, the continuum theory fails to be accurate and mesoscopic simulations that track individual polymer molecules are needed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]