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We present a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic structure of 51 semiconducting monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and -oxides in the 2H and 1T hexagonal phases. The quasiparticle (QP) band structures with…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-10 Filip Anselm Rasmussen , Kristian Sommer Thygesen

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a novel class of quantum materials with significant potential in spintronics, optoelectronics, valleytronics, and opto-valleytronics. TMDs exhibit strong spin-orbit coupling, enabling efficient…

The advent of twisted moir\'e heterostructures as a playground for strongly correlated electron physics has led to a plethora of experimental and theoretical efforts seeking to unravel the nature of the emergent superconducting and…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2022-05-06 Dominik Kiese , Yuchi He , Ciarán Hickey , Angel Rubio , Dante M. Kennes

The electronic structure of Sr0.35CoO2, structurally analogous to the layered NaxCoO2, has been evaluated using the local spin density approximation (LSDA). We find that evident c-dispersions appear in both the e'g and a1g Co-derived bands,…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2007-05-23 R. J. Xiao , H. X. Yang , L. F. Xu , H. R. Zhang , Y. G. Shi , J. Q. Li

In a first-principles study based on density-functional theory and many-body perturbation theory we investigate the electronic properties and the optical excitations of ZrS$_2$ and HfS$_2$ monolayers and their van der Waals heterostructure.…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-07-10 Ka Wai Lau , Caterina Cocchi , Claudia Draxl

We perform a comprehensive first-principles study of the electronic properties of van der Waals (vdW) trilayers via intercalating a two-dimensional (2D) monolayer (ML = BN, MoSe2, WS2, or WSe2) between MoS2 bilayer to form various…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-14 N. Lu , H. Y. Guo , L. Wang , X. J. Wu , X. C. Zeng

To have a fully ab initio description of the Moir\'e pattern in a transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayer, we have carried out density functional theory calculations, taking accounts of both atomic registry in and the lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-02-03 W. T. Geng , V. Wang , Y. C. Liu , T. Ohno , J. Nara

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) hold great promise in electrical, optical, and mechanical devices and display novel physical phenomena such as coupled spin-valley physics and the…

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

We analyze the electronic structure and level alignment of transition-metal phthalocyanine (MPc) molecules adsorbed on two-dimensional MoS$_2$ employing density functional theory (DFT) calculations. We develop a procedure for…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-12 Qunfei Zhou , Zhen-Fei Liu , Tobin J. Marks , Pierre Darancet

Single- and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as a new family of layered crystals with great interest, not only from the fundamental point of view, but also because of their potential application in ultrathin…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-10-14 R. Roldán , J. A. Silva-Guillén , M. P. López-Sancho , F. Guinea , E. Cappelluti , P. Ordejón

The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials has expanded to multilayered systems where electronic, optical, and mechanical properties change-often dramatically-with stacking order, thickness, twist, and interlayer spacing [1-5]. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Suk Hyun Sung , Noah Schnitzer , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , Robert Hovden

The anisotropy of the electronic transition is a well-known characteristic of low-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides, but their layer-thickness dependence has not been properly in- vestigated experimentally until now. Yet, it not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-03-23 Jinhua Hong , Kun Li , Chuanhong Jin , Xixiang Zhang , Ze Zhang , Jun Yuan

Transition metal dichalcogenide, especially MoS2 has attracted lot of attention recently owing to its tunable visible range band gap and anisotropic electronic and transport properties. Here, we report a comprehensive inelastic light…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-08-26 Deepu Kumar , Birender Singh , Rahul Kumar , Mahesh Kumar , Pradeep Kumar

We present the discovery of a charge density wave (CDW) ground state in heavily electron-doped molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$). This is the first observation of a CDW in any $d^2$ (column 6) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). The band…

One of the main characteristics of the new family of two-dimensional crystals of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) is the strong spin-orbit interaction, which makes them very promising for future applications in…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-11-11 R. Roldán , M. P. López-Sancho , E. Cappelluti , J. A. Silva-Guillén , P. Ordejón , F. Guinea

A survey is presented of current investigations of the impact of band structure effects on various aspects of the interaction of charged particles with real solids. The role that interband transitions play in the decay mechanism of bulk…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-10-31 J. M. Pitarke , I. Campillo

Combining monolayers of different two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors into heterostructures opens up a wealth of possibilities for novel electronic and optical functionalities. Exploiting them hinges on accurate measurements of the band…

We report a first-principle theoretical study of a monolayer-thick lateral heterostructure (LH) joining two different transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC): NbS2 and WSe2. The NbS2//WSe2 LH can be considered a prototypical example of a…

Layered molecular materials and especially MoS2 are already accepted as promising candidates for nanoelectronics. In contrast to the bulk material, the observed electron mobility in single-layer MoS2 is unexpectedly low. Here we reveal the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Andrey N. Enyashin , Maya Bar-Sadan , Lothar Houben , Gotthard Seifert