Matthew Bellus


Matt Bellus
  • Spring 2013-Spring 2018
  • Senior Research Engineer, Firefly Photonics LLC

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Selected Publications

Publications as a group member:

First-author publications

1. M. Z. Bellus, Z. Yang, P. Zereshki, J. Hao, S. P. Lau, and H. Zhao, Efficient Hole Transfer from Monolayer WS2 to Ultrathin Amorphous Black Phosphorus, Nanoscale Horizons 4, 236–242 (2019).

2. M. Z. Bellus, M. Mahjouri-Samani, S. D. Lane, A. D. Oyedele, X. Li, A. A. Puretzky, D. Geohegan, K. Xiao, and H. Zhao, Photocarrier Transfer Across Monolayer MoS2-MoSe2 Lateral Heterojunctions, ACS Nano 12, 7068–7092 (2018).

3. M. Z. Bellus, M. Li, J. Dai, L. Ma, X. Li, H. Zhao, and X. C. Zeng, A Type-I van der Waals Heterobilayer of WSe2/MoTe2, Nanotechnology 29, 335203 (2018).

4. M. Z. Bellus, Z. Yang, J. Hao, S. P. Lau, and H. Zhao, Amorphous Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus with Exceptional Photocarrier Transport Properties, 2D Materials 4, 025063 (2017).

5. M. Z. Bellus, M. Li, S. D. Lane, F. Ceballos, Q. Cui, X. C. Zeng, and H. Zhao, Type-I van der Waals heterostructure Formed by MoS2 and ReS2 Monolayers, Nanoscale Horizons 2, 31–36 (2017).

6. M. Z. Bellus, F. Ceballos, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Tightly Bound Trions in Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Heterostructures, ACS Nano 9, 6459 (2015).

Other-author publications

7. S. Hao, M. Z. Bellus, D. He, Y. Wang, and H. Zhao, Controlling Exciton Transport in Monolayer MoSe2 by Dielectric Screening, Nanoscale Horizons 5, 139–143 (2020).

8. P. Zereshki, Y. Wei, F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, S. D. Lane, S. Pan, R. Long, and H. Zhao, Photocarrier Dynamics in Monolayer Phosphorene and Bulk Black Phosphorus, Nanoscale 10, 11307–11313 (2018).

9. S. Pan, F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, P. Zereshki, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast Charge Transfer between MoTe2 and MoS2 Monolayers, 2D Materials 4, 015033 (2016).

10. Q. Cui, A. Lipatov, J. Wilt, M. Z. Bellus, X.-C. Zeng, Judy Wu, Alexander Sinitskii, and H. Zhao, Time-Resolved Measurements of Photocarrier Dynamics in TiS3 Nanoribbons, ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 8, 18334–18338 (2016).

11. F. Ceballos, Q. Cui, M. Z. Bellus, and H. Zhao, Exciton Formation in Monolayer of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides, Nanoscale 8, 11681–11688 (2016).

12. F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Probing Charge Transfer Excitons in a MoSe2-WS2 van der Waals Heterostructure, Nanoscale 7, 17523–17528 (2015).

13. Q. Cui, J. He, M. Z. Bellus, M. Mirzokarimov, T. Hofmann, H.-Y. Chiu, M. Antonik, D. He, Y. Wang, and H. Zhao, Transient Absorption Measurements on Anisotropic Monolayer ReS2, Small 11, 5565 (2015).

14. J. He, D. He, Y. Wang, Q. Cui, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Exceptional and Anisotropic Transport Properties of Photocarriers in Black Phosphorus, ACS Nano 9, 6436 (2015).

15. J. He, N. Kumar, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, D. He, Y. Wang, and H. Zhao, Electron transfer and coupling in graphene-tungsten disulfide van der Waals heterostructures, Nature Communications 5, 5622 (2014).

16. F. Ceballos, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast charge separation and indirect exciton formation in a MoS2-MoSe2 van der Waals heterostructure, ACS Nano 8, 12717 (2014).

17. R. Wang, B. A. Ruzicka, N. Kumar, M. Z. Bellus, H.-Y. Chiu, and H. Zhao, Ultrafast and spatially resolved studies of charge carriers in atomically thin molybdenum disulfide, Physical Review B 86, 045406 (2012).