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Naturally occurring van der Waals heterostructure lengenbachite with strong in-plane structural and optical anisotropy
- Source :
- npj 2D Materials and Applications, Vol 5, Iss 1, Pp 1-13 (2021)
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Nature Portfolio, 2021.
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Abstract
- Abstract Lengenbachite is a naturally occurring layered mineral formed with alternating stacks of two constituent PbS-like and M2S3-like two-dimensional (2D) material layers due to the phase segregation process during the formation. Here, we demonstrate to achieve van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures of lengenbachite down to a few layer-pair thickness by mechanical exfoliation of bulk lengenbachite mineral. The incommensurability between the constituent isotropic 2D material layers makes the formed vdW heterostructure exhibit strong in-plane structural anisotropy, which leads to highly anisotropic optical responses in lengenbachite thin flakes, including anisotropic Raman scattering, linear dichroism, and anisotropic third-harmonic generation. Moreover, we exploit the nonlinear optical anisotropy for polarization-dependent intensity modulation of the converted third-harmonic optical vortices. Our study establishes lengenbachite as a new natural vdW heterostructure-based 2D material with unique optical properties for realizing anisotropic optical devices for photonic integrated circuits and optical information processing.
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 23977132
- Volume :
- 5
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Directory of Open Access Journals
- Journal :
- npj 2D Materials and Applications
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- edsdoj.94261bd91f00458b9e3cd5bcc926814d
- Document Type :
- article
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-021-00271-8