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Despite much anticipation of valleytronics as a candidate to replace the ageing CMOS-based information processing, its progress is severely hindered by the lack of practical ways to manipulate valley polarization all-electrically in an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-12-15 Yee Sin Ang , Shengyuan A. Yang , C. Zhang , Zhongshui Ma , L. K. Ang

Valleytronics has been widely investigated for providing new degrees of freedom to future information coding and processing. Here, it is proposed that valley polarization can be achieved by electric field induced magnetic anisotropy (MA)…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-08-05 San-Dong Guo , Xiao-Shu Guo , Guang-Zhao Wang , Kai Cheng , Yee-Sin Ang

Electrons hopping in two-dimensional honeycomb lattices possess a valley degree of freedom in addition to charge and spin. In the absence of inversion symmetry, these systems were predicted to exhibit opposite Hall effects for electrons…

The newly discovered valley degree of freedom in atomically thin two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) offers a promising platform to explore rich nonlinear physics, such as spinor Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) and novel…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-24 Pasquale Cilibrizzi , Xiaoze Liu , Peiyao Zhang , Chenzhe Wang , Quanwei Li , Sui Yang , Xiang Zhang

It is shown that potential barriers in bilayer graphene (BLG) and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) can split a valley unpolarized incident current into reflected and transmitted currents with opposite valley polarization.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-10-04 P. A. Maksym , H. Aoki

Spins confined to atomically-thin semiconductors are being actively explored as quantum information carriers. In transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), the hexagonal crystal lattice gives rise to an additional valley degree of freedom…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-06-29 Radha Krishnan , Sangram Biswas , Yu-Ling Hsueh , Hongyang Ma , Rajib Rahman , Bent Weber

In this letter we study the valley degeneracy splitting of the transition-metal dichalcogenides monolayer by first-principles calculations. The local magnetic moments are introduced into the system when the transition-metal atoms are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-09-06 Xiaofang Chen , Liangshuai Zhong , Xiao Li , Jingshan Qi

Modern electronic devices heavily rely on the accurate control of charge and spin of electrons. The emergence of controllable valley degree of freedom brings new possibilities and presents a promising prospect towards valleytronics.…

Recent experiments have observed correlated insulating and possible superconducting phases in twisted homobilayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Besides the spin-valley locked moire bands due to the intrinsic Ising spin-orbit…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-12-01 Yi-Ting Hsu , Fengcheng Wu , S. Das Sarma

The coupling of spin and valley physics is nowadays regarded as a promising route toward next-generation spintronic and valleytronic devices. In the aim of engineering functional properties for valleytronic applications, we focus on the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2015-07-22 Kunihiko Yamauchi , Paolo Barone , Tatsuya Shishidou , Tamio Oguchi , Silvia Picozzi

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are promising materials for spintronics due to their robust spin-valley locked valence states, enabling efficient charge-to-spin conversion via valley Hall effect with non-equilibrium spins…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-11-23 D. J. P. de Sousa , M. J. Sammon , Raseong Kim , Hai Li , Ian A. Young , Tony Low

Valley degree of freedom besides spin is a promising candidate as a carrier of information. Spintronics has come a long way and spin modulation can be realized by quantum interference and spin-orbit coupling effect. However, the control of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-08 Hui-Ying Mu , Nie-Wei Wang , Ying-Na Du , Xing-Tao An , Jian-Jun Liu

In addition to spin, electrons in many materials possess an additional pseudo-spin degree of freedom known as 'valley'. In materials where the spin and valley degrees of freedom are weakly coupled, they can be both excited and controlled…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-06-12 Xian-Peng Zhang , Chunli Huang , Miguel A. Cazalilla

The modulation of the valley structure in two-dimensional valley materials is vital in the field of valleytronics. The multiferroicity provides possibility for multiple modulations of the valley, including the magnetic and electric means.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-07-10 Huiqian Wang , Li Liang , Xiaohui Wang , Xiaoyu Wang , Xiao Li

Conventional electronics are based invariably on the intrinsic degrees of freedom of an electron, namely, its charge and spin. The exploration of novel electronic degrees of freedom has important implications in both basic quantum physics…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-03-12 Xiao Li , Ting Cao , Qian Niu , Junren Shi , Ji Feng

The valley degree of freedom in layered transition-metal dichalcogenides (MX2) provides the opportunity to extend functionalities of novel spintronics and valleytronics devices. Due to spin splitting induced by spin-orbital coupling (SOC),…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-16 Hongtao Yuan , Xinqiang Wang , Biao Lian , Haijun Zhang , Xianfa Fang , Bo Shen , Gang Xu , Yong Xu , Shou-Cheng Zhang , Harold Y. Hwang , Yi Cui

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer a novel two-dimensional platform for semiconductor devices. One such application, whereby the added low dimensional crystal physics (i.e. optical spin selection rules) may prove TMDs a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-02-05 Matthew Brooks , Guido Burkard

Charge carriers in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as WSe$_2$, have their spin and valley-pseudospin locked into an optically-addressable index that is proposed as a basis for future information processing. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-03-17 Weijie Li , Xin Lu , Jiatian Wu , Ajit Srivastava

We study perfect valley polarization in a molybdenum disulfide MoS2 nanoribbon monolayer using two bands Hamiltonian model and non-equilibrium Green's function method. The device consists of a one-dimensional quantum wire of MoS2 monolayer…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-11-21 A. Heshmati , H. Simchi , M. Esmaeilzadeh

Moir\'e superlattices created by stacking atomic layers of transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have emerged as a class of fascinating artificial photonic and electronic materials. An appealing attribute of these structures is the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-11 Yueh-Chun Wu , Matthew DeCapua , ZhongChen Xu , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , YouGuo Shi , Jun Yan