An international research team led by Professor My Ali El Khakani of the Institut national de la recherche scientifique (INRS) has made a surprising discovery about the properties of molybdenum disulphide, also known as MoS₂. The material is highly sought after in optoelectronics, a field at the crossings of optics and electronics.
The results of this study, carried out in collaboration with Professor Mustapha Jouiad’s team at the Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV), have just been published in the prestigious journal Advanced Optical Materials, and are featured on the inside cover of May issue.
This work has been accomplished within the framework of Driss Mouloua’s thesis research, carried out under the joint supervision of Professors El Khakani and Jouiad at INRS’s Énergie Matériaux Télécommunications Research Centre and UPJV. Dr. Mouloua is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Commissariat à l’énergie atomique in France.
“By proposing a new way of growing MoS₂ films with a vertically layered structure, we are paving the way for the synthesis of MoS₂ that is labelled as ‘3D’, but has exceptional ‘2D’ behavior. The results of this thesis work could lead to innovative developments in the fields of optoelectronics and renewable energies.”
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