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Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-03 Morteza Kayyalha , Jesse Maassen , Mark Lundstrom , Li Shi , Yong P. Chen

Two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, have emerged as a new class of materials with remarkable physical properties. In contrast to graphene, monolayer MoS2 is a non-centrosymmetric…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-11 Kin Fai Mak , Keliang He , Changgu Lee , Gwan Hyoung Lee , James Hone , Tony F. Heinz , Jie Shan

MoS$_2$, a member of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), recently emerged as one of the fastest growing two-dimensional materials due to its fascinating mechanical, thermal, electronic and optical properties. Unlike graphene which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-18 Weifeng Li , Meng Guo , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang

Transition metal dichalcogenide MoS2 is a two-dimensional material, attracting much attention for next-generation applications thanks to rich functionalities stemmed from the crystal structure. Many experimental and theoretical works have…

Molybdenum disulphide (MoS$_2$) has attracted much interest in recent years due to its potential applications in a new generation of electronic devices. Recently, it was shown that thin films of MoS$_2$ can become superconducting with a…

Superconductivity · Physics 2014-09-05 Noah F. Q. Yuan , Kin Fai Mak , K. T. Law

The ability to perform efficient electrical spin injection from ferromagnetic metals into two-dimensional semiconductor crystals based on transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is a prerequisite for spintronic and valleytronic devices…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-03-29 Thomas Garandel , Rémi Arras , Xavier Marie , Pierre Renucci , Lionel Calmels

We report magnetization and magetoresistance measurements in hybrid ferromagnetic metal/semiconductor heterostructures comprised of MnAs/(Ga,Mn)As bilayers. Our measurements show that the (metallic) MnAs and (semiconducting) (Ga,Mn)As…

Materials Science · Physics 2010-07-14 M. Zhu , M. J. Wilson , B. L. Sheu , P. Mitra , P. Schiffer , N. Samarth

MoS2 is a layered two-dimensional material with strong spin-orbit coupling and long spin lifetime, which is promising for electronic and spintronic applications. However, because of its large band gap and small electron affinity, a…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-08-18 Weiyi Wang , Yanwen Liu , Lei Tang , Yibo Jin , Tongtong Zhao , Faxian Xiu

Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) hold promise for applications in spintronics based on the fact that the propagation direction of edge electrons of a 2D TI is robustly linked to their spin origination. Here, with the use of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-02 Yandong Ma , Liangzhi Kou , Ying Dai , Thomas Heine

The topological Hall effect (THE) has attracted great attention since it provides an important probe of the interaction between electron and topological spin textures. THE has been considered an experimental signature of the topological…

The spin-polarized transport is investigated in a new type of magnetic tunnel junction which consists of two ferromagnetic electrodes separated by a magnetic barrier and a nonmagnetic metallic spacer. Based on the transfer matrix method and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 Ali A. Shokri , Alireza Saffarzadeh

Spin semimetals are amongst the most recently discovered new class of spintronic materials, which exhibit a band gap in one spin channel and semimetallic feature in the other, thus facilitating tunable spin transport. Here, we report…

We observe spin-valve-like effects in nano-scaled thermally evaporated Co/AlOx/Au tunnel junctions. The tunneling magnetoresistance is anisotropic and depends on the relative orientation of the magnetization direction of the Co electrode…

Popular Physics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. S. Liu , L. Michalak , C. M. Canali , L. Samuelson , H. Pettersson

We calculate from first principles the electronic structure and optical properties of a number of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer heterostructures consisting of MoS2 layers sandwiched with WS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, BN, or graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 Hannu-Pekka Komsa , Arkady V. Krasheninnikov

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit an extensive variety of novel electronic properties, such as charge density wave quantum spin Hall phenomena, superconductivity, and Dirac and Weyl semi-metallic properties.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 S. Koley

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanoscrolls (NS) exhibit significant photoluminescence (PL) signals despite their multilayer structure, which cannot be explained by the strained multilayer description of NS. Here, we investigate the…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold relevance for spin-triplet superconducting phases due to their inherent Ising spin-orbit coupling, but the majority of studies have so far focused on oversimplified models. In this work, we…

Superconductivity · Physics 2026-01-30 Florian Kayatz , Annica M. Black-Schaffer , Jorge Cayao

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) stand out with their high chemical stability and the possibility to incorporate a wide range of magnetic species between the layers. The behavior of conduction electrons in such materials intercalated…

Altermagnet-based heterojunctions have demonstrated magnetoresistive effects in experiments, however, a predictive theoretical model for non-ferromagnetic structures has remained elusive. In this work, we develop a tunneling-based…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-17 Kun Yan , Yizhi Hu , Wei-Hua Xiao , Xiaolong Zou , Xiaobin Chen , Wenhui Duan

We theoretically study a finite size $SF_1NF_2$ spin valve, where a normal metal ($N$) insert separates a thin standard ferromagnet ($F_1$) and a thick half-metallic ferromagnet ($F_2$). For sufficiently thin superconductor ($S$) widths…

Superconductivity · Physics 2018-03-12 Klaus Halterman , Mohammad Alidoust