A powerful strategy to leverage and combine the optoelectronic characteristics of different 2D materials is to stack them into vertical van der Waals heterostructures. This approach is now used to realize efficient light-emitting devices.
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Wang, X., Xia, F. Stacked 2D materials shed light. Nature Mater 14, 264–265 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat4218
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