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Transition metal dichalcogenides have emerged as promising materials for nano-photonic resonators due to their large refractive index, low absorption within a large portion of the visible spectrum and compatibility with a wide range of…

Nanolayered post-transition metal monochalcogenides (PTMMCs) stand out as promising advanced two-dimensional (2D) materials. Beyond inheriting the general advantages associated with traditional 2D materials, they exhibit unique properties,…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-06 Mingyu Yu , Maria Hilse , Qihua Zhang , Yongchen Liu , Zhengtianye Wang , Stephanie Law

The end of conventional Dennard scaling and the widening gap between memory bandwidth and arithmetic throughput have made the von Neumann partition a structural bottleneck rather than a transient one. Two-dimensional (2D) materials, with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yaser Banad

The physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures based on such crystals has been developing extremely fast. With new 2D materials, truly 2D physics has started to appear (e.g. absence of long-range order, 2D excitons,…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-08-11 K. S. Novoselov , A. Mishchenko , A. Carvalho , A. H. Castro Neto

We performed high-throughput density functional theory calculations of optical matrix elements between band edges across a diverse set of non-magnetic two-dimensional monolayers with direct band gaps. Materials were ranked as potential…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-15 A. F. Gómez-Bastidas , Karthik Sriram , A. C. Garcia-Castro , Oleg Rubel

Thin-film lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) is a promising platform for optical communications, microwave photonics, and quantum technologies. While many high-performance devices like electro-optic modulators and frequency comb sources…

Two-dimensional materials were first isolated no longer than ten years ago, and a comprehensive understanding of their properties under non-planar shapes is still being developed. Strictly speaking, the theoretical study of the properties…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-30 Salvador Barraza-Lopez

Starting from a single layer of NbS$_2$ grown on graphene by molecular beam epitaxy, the single unit cell thick 2D materials Nb$_{5/3}$S$_3$-2D and Nb$_2$S$_3$-2D are created using two different pathways. Either annealing under…

The field of plasmonics seeks to find materials with an intensive plasmon (large plasmon pole weight) with low Landau, phonon and other losses (small decay width). In this paper we propose a new class of materials that show exceptionally…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-10-02 Ivor Lončarić , Zoran Rukelj , Vyacheslav M. Silkin , Vito Despoja

Two-dimensional materials (2DM) and their derived heterostructures have electrical and optical properties that are widely tunable via several approaches, most notably electrostatic gating and interfacial engineering such as twisting. While…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-06-18 Haoning Tang , Yiting Wang , Xueqi Ni , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero , Shanhui Fan , Eric Mazur , Amir Yacoby , Yuan Cao

Novel technologies and new materials are in high demand for future energy-efficient electronic devices to overcome the fundamental limitations of miniaturization of current silicon-based devices. Two-dimensional (2D) materials show…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-12-20 Lei Shen , Jun Zhou , Tong Yang , Ming Yang , Yuan Ping Feng

Two-dimensional molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) featuring atomically thin thickness and unique electronic structure with favorable bandgap has been widely recognized as an attractive new material for the development of the next generation of…

Nonlinear optical (NLO) phenomena such as harmonic generation, Kerr, and Pockels effects are of great technological importance for lasers, frequency converters, modulators, switches, etc. Recently, two-dimensional (2D) materials have drawn…

Optoelectronic devices based on graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the focus of wide research interest. The characterization these emerging atomically thin materials and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-09 Adolfo De Sanctis , Gareth F. Jones , Nicola J. Townsend , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors provide a unique opportunity for optoelectronics due to their layered atomic structure, electronic and optical properties. To date, a majority of the application-oriented research in this field has been…

Optics · Physics 2017-10-26 Deep Jariwala , Artur R. Davoyan , Joeson Wong , Harry A. Atwater

The vertical integration of multiple two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructures, held together by van der Waals forces, has opened unprecedented possibilities for modifying the (opto-)electronic properties of nanodevices. Graphene,…

In the past few years, we have witnessed an increased interest in the use of 2D materials for the realization of hybrid photonic nonlinear waveguides. Although graphene has attracted most of the attention, other families of 2D materials…

Recent progress in the synthesis and assembly of two-dimensional (2D) materials has laid the foundation for various applications of atomically thin layer films. These 2D materials possess rich and diverse properties such as layer-dependent…

Applied Physics · Physics 2022-04-12 Ying Liu , Yanjun Fang , Deren Yang , Xiaodong Pi , Peijian Wang

The family of emerging low-symmetry and structural in-plane anisotropic 2D materials have been expanding rapidly in recent years. As an important emerging anisotropic 2D material, the black phosphorene (BP) analog group IVA-VI metal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-03 Abdus Salam Sarkar , Emmanuel Stratakis

The growing library of two-dimensional layered materials is providing researchers with a wealth of opportunity to explore and tune physical phenomena at the nanoscale. Here, we review the experimental and theoretical state-of-art concerning…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-11-23 Bálint Náfrádi , Mohammad Choucair , László Forró