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Twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides - specifically twisted bilayer MoTe$_2$ and twisted bilayer WSe$_2$ - have recently emerged as a versatile platform for strongly correlated and topological phases of matter. These…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2026-03-10 Bohao Li , Wen-Xuan Qiu , Fengcheng Wu , A. H. MacDonald

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered semiconductors with indirect band gaps comparable to Si. These compounds can be grown in large area, while their gap(s) can be tuned by changing their chemical composition or by applying a…

Two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have very interesting properties for optoelectronic devices. In this work we theoretically investigate and predict that superlattices comprised of MoS$_{2}$ and WSe$_{2}$ multilayers…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-10-29 Yong-Hong Zhao , Feng Yang , Jian Wang , Hong Guo , Wei Ji

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (STMDC) are two-dimensional (2D) crystals characterized by electron volt size band gaps, spin-orbit coupling (SOC), and d-orbital character of its valence and conduction bands. We show that…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-08-28 A. S. Rodin , A. H. Castro Neto

Atomically thin transitional metal ditellurides like WTe2 and MoTe2 have triggered tremendous research interests because of their intrinsic nontrivial band structure. They are also predicted to be 2D topological insulators and type-II Weyl…

Two dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due to their extraordinary physical properties. The unique properties make them…

The details of the superconducting to quantum metal transition (SQMT) at T=0 are an open problem that invokes much interest in the nature of this exotic and unexpected ground state1-3. However, the SQMT was not yet investigated in a…

Electronic and topological properties of materials are derived from the interplay between crystalline symmetry and dimensionality. Simultaneously introducing 'forbidden' symmetries via quasiperiodic ordering with low-dimensionality into a…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-06-01 Jeffrey D. Cain , Amin Azizi , Matthias Conrad , Sinéad M. Griffin , Alex Zettl

Semiconductor quantum dots have emerged as promising candidates for implementation of quantum information processing since they allow for a quantum interface between stationary spin qubits and propagating single photons. In the meanwhile,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-11-04 Ajit Srivastava , Meinrad Sidler , Adrien V. Allain , Dominik S. Lembke , Andras Kis , Atac Imamoglu

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) are a rich family of two-dimensional materials displaying a multitude of different quantum ground states. In particular, d$^3$ TMDCs are paradigmatic materials hosting a variety of symmetry broken…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Somesh Chandra Ganguli , Viliam Vaňo , Shawulienu Kezilebieke , Jose L. Lado , Peter Liljeroth

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are good candidates for high-performance flexible electronics. However, most demonstrations of such flexible field-effect transistors (FETs) to date have been on…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently become attractive semiconductor materials for several optoelectronic applications, such as photodetection, light harvesting, phototransistors, light-emitting diodes, and…

Optics · Physics 2018-07-04 Alex Krasnok , Sergey Lepeshov , Andrea Alú

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been the subject of sustained research interest due to their extraordinary electronic and optical properties. They also exhibit a wide range of structural phases because of…

We experimentally study the transport properties of silicon quantum dots (QDs) fabricated from a highly doped n-type silicon-on-insulator wafer. Low noise electrical measurements using a low temperature complementary…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 T. Kodera , T. Ferrus , T. Nakaoka , G. Podd , M. Tanner , D. Williams , Y. Arakawa

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials have versatile electronic and optical properties. TMD nanoribbons show interesting properties due to reduced dimensionality, quantum confinement, and edge states. Tang et…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-06-16 Santosh Neupane , Hong Tang , Adrienn Ruzsinszky

Moir\'e transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) systems provide a tunable platform for studying electron-correlation driven quantum phases. Such phases have so far been found at rational fillings of the moir\'e superlattice, and it is…

Starting from graphene, 2D layered materials family has been recently set up more than 100 different materials with variety of different class of materials such as semiconductors, metals, semimetals, superconductors. Among these materials,…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-16 Merve Acar , Emre Gur

Quantum dots (QDs) are nanoscale materials that exhibit unique electronic and optical properties due to quantum confinement effects, making them highly relevant for applications in catalysis, optoelectronics, and energy conversion. While…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-04-08 Jair Dominguez , Raul Santoy , Jose Paez , Rodrigo Perez , Luis Pellegrin , Do Minh Hoat , Jonathan Guerrero

Confinement in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides is an attractive platform for trapping single charge and spins for quantum information processing. Here, we present low temperature electron transport through etched 50-70nm…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-04-16 Dharmraj Kotekar-Patil , Jie Deng , Swee Liang Wong , Kuan Eng Johnson Goh

MoTe$_2$ is an exfoliable transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) which crystallizes in three symmetries, the semiconducting trigonal-prismatic $2H-$phase, the semimetallic $1T^{\prime}$ monoclinic phase, and the semimetallic orthorhombic…