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Transition metal dichalcogenides offer unprecedented versatility to engineer 2D materials with tailored properties to explore novel structural and electronic phase transitions. In this work, we present the atomic-scale evolution of the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-16 Wen Wan , Darshana Wickramaratne , Paul Dreher , Rishav Harsh , I. I. Mazin , Miguel M. Ugeda

There has been a massive growth in the study of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) over the past decade, based upon their interesting and unusual electronic, optical and mechanical properties, such as tuneable and strain-dependent…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-11-02 Fang Wang , Suhao Li , Mark A. Bissett , Ian A. Kinloch , Zheling Li , Robert J. Young

The ability to monitor and control distinct states is at the heart of emerging quantum technologies. The valley pseudospin in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers is a promising degree of freedom for such control, with the…

Depositing monolayer graphene on a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor substrate has been shown to change the dynamics of the electronic states in graphene, inducing spin orbit coupling (SOC) and staggered potential effects.…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-12-05 Abdulrhman M. Alsharari , Mahmoud M. Asmar , Sergio E. Ulloa

Transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers are highly interesting for potential valleytronic applications due to the coupling of spin and valley degrees of freedom and valley-selective excitonic transitions. However, ultrafast recombination…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-05 Markus Schwemmer , Philipp Nagler , Andreas Hanninger , Christian Schüller , Tobias Korn

Topological semimetals in ferromagnetic materials have attracted enormous attention due to the potential applications in spintronics. Using the first-principles density functional theory together with an effective lattice model, here we…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-12 Xiaodong Zhou , Run-Wu Zhang , Zeying Zhang , Da-Shuai Ma , Wanxiang Feng , Yuriy Mokrousov , Yugui Yao

A detailed first-principle study has been performed to evaluate the electronic and optical properties of single-layer (SL) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) (MX${}_2$; M= transition metal such as Mo, W and X= S, Se, Te), in the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-07-05 M. A. Khan , Mikhail Erementchouk , Joshua Hendrickson , Michael N. Leuenberger

Excitons in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have garnered significant attention because of their large binding energies due to weakly screened Coulomb interaction, and direct bandgap at the K/K$^\prime$ point in the…

A direct band gap, remarkable light-matter coupling as well as strong spin-orbit and Coulomb interaction establish two-dimensional (2D) crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) as an emerging material class for fundamental…

Finding stimuli capable of driving an imbalance of spin-polarised electrons within a solid is the central challenge in the development of spintronic devices. However, without the aid of magnetism, routes towards this goal are highly…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-08 Oliver J. Clark , Oliver Dowinton , Mohammad Saeed Bahramy , Jaime Sánchez-Barriga

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted a lot of attention recently, because of their interesting electronic, optical, and mechanical properties. Among large numbers of TMDCs, monolayer of tungsten diselenides…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-19 Bilu Liu , Mohammad Fathi , Liang Chen , Ahmad Abbas , Yuqiang Ma , Chongwu Zhou

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

Strong coupling between light and the fundamental excitations of a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) are of foundational importance both to pure physics and to the understanding and development of future photonic nanotechnologies. Here we…

We investigated metal-insulator transitions for double layer two-dimensional electron hole systems in transition metal dicalcogenides (TMDC) stacked on opposite sides of thin layers of boron nitride (BN). The interparticle interaction is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 S. T. Chui , Ning Wang , B. Tanatar

Combining the synthetic tunability of molecular compounds with the optical selection rules of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) that derive from spin-valley coupling could provide interesting opportunities for the readout of quantum…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-07 Daphné Lubert-Perquel , Byeong Wook Cho , Alan J. Philips , Young Hee Lee , Jeffrey L. Blackburn , Justin C. Johnson

Quantum localization via atomic point defects in semiconductors is of significant fundamental and technological importance. Quantum defects in monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide semiconductors have been proposed as stable and…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-30 Chitraleema Chakraborty , Christopher J. Ciccarino , Prineha Narang

The manipulation of two-dimensional materials via their dielectric environment offers novel opportunities to control electronic as well as optical properties and allows to imprint nanostructures in a non-invasive way. Here we asses the…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2020-10-02 Christina Steinke , Tim O. Wehling , Malte Rösner

Nonlinear optical property of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) nanosheet dispersions, including MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2, was performed by using Z-scan technique with ns pulsed laser at 1064 nm and 532 nm. The results demonstrate…

Potential applications of monolayer of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in optoelectronic and flexible devices are under heavy investigation. Although TMDs monolayers are highly robust to external mechanical fields, their electronic…

Computational Physics · Physics 2021-09-14 Mohammad Bahmani , Michael Lorke , Mahdi Faghihnasiri , Thomas Frauenheim

We consider graphene deposited on monolayers of such transition-metal dichalcogenides like MoSe$_2$, WSe$_2$, MoS$_2$, and WS$_2$. Our key objective is to study the impact of relative twist angle between the monolayers on the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-07-02 I. Wojciechowska , A. Dyrdal