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Monolayers and multilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer an ideal platform to explore valley-selective physics with promising applications in valleytronics and information processing. Here we manipulate…

Lifting the valley degeneracy of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) would allow versatile control of the valley degree of freedom. We report a giant valley exciton splitting of 18 meV/T for monolayer WS2, using the proximity…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-09 Tenzin Norden , Chuan Zhao , Peiyao Zhang , Renat Sabirianov , Athos Petrou , Hao Zeng

The Zeeman effect offers unique opportunities for magnetic manipulation of the spin degree of freedom (DOF). Recently, valley Zeeman splitting, referring to the lifting of valley degeneracy, has been demonstrated in two-dimensional…

Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides possess a pair of degenerate helical valleys in the band structure that exhibit fascinating optical valley polarization. Optical valley polarization, however, is limited by carrier lifetimes of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-09-16 Jingshan Qi , Xiao Li , Qian Niu , Ji Feng

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) hold great promise for future information processing applications utilizing a combination of electron spin and valley pseudospin. This unique spin system has led to observation of the valley…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-05-30 T. P. Lyons , S. Dufferwiel , M. Brooks , F. Withers , T. Taniguchi , K. Watanabe , K. S. Novoselov , G. Burkard , A. I. Tartakovskii

Lifting the valley degeneracy is an efficient way to achieve valley polarization for further valleytronics operations. In this work, we demonstrate that a large valley splitting can be obtained in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-01-17 Lei Xu , Ming Yang , Lei Shen , Jun Zhou , Tao Zhu , Yuan Ping Feng

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess coupling of spin and valley degrees of freedom, making them promising for spin-valleytronics. ln monolayer TMDs, the emission helicity is locked to the valleys as a consequence…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-02-07 Chongyun Jiang , Fucai Liu , Jorge Cuadra , Zumeng Huang , Ke Li , Ajit Srivastava , Zheng Liu , Wei-bo Gao

A monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) such as WSe$_2$ is a two-dimensional (2D) direct band-gap valley-semiconductor having an effective Honeycomb lattice structure with broken inversion symmetry. The inequivalent valleys…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Ajit Srivastava , Meinrad Sidler , Adrien V. Allain , Dominik S. Lembke , Andras Kis , Atac Imamoglu

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers present a singular coupling in their spin and valley degrees of freedom. Moreover, by applying an external magnetic field it is possible to break the energy degeneracy between their K and…

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

Monolayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit intriguing fundamental physics of strongly coupled spin and valley degrees of freedom for charge carriers. While the possibility of exploiting these properties for…

Coulomb interaction between electrons lies at the heart of magnetism in solids. In contrast to conventional two-dimensional (2D) systems, electrons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) possess coupled spin and valley degrees…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-14 Zefang Wang , Kin Fai Mak , Jie Shan

Using polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy, we investigate valley degeneracy breaking by out-of-plane magnetic field in back-gated monolayer MoSe$_2$ devices. We observe a linear splitting of $-0.22…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-02-03 David MacNeill , Colin Heikes , Kin Fai Mak , Zachary Anderson , Andor Kormányos , Viktor Zólyomi , Jiwoong Park , Daniel C. Ralph

Breaking space-time symmetries in two-dimensional crystals (2D) can dramatically influence their macroscopic electronic properties. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are prime examples where the intrinsically broken crystal…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-09-04 Edbert J. Sie , James W. McIver , Yi-Hsien Lee , Liang Fu , Jing Kong , Nuh Gedik

Local energy extrema of the bands in momentum space, or valleys, can endow electrons in solids with pseudo-spin in addition to real spin. In transition metal dichalcogenides this valley pseudo-spin, like real spin, is associated with a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-06-22 Grant Aivazian , Zhirui Gong , Aaron M Jones , Rui-Lin Chu , Jiaqiang Yan , David G Mandrus , Chuanwei Zhang , David Cobden , Wang Yao , Xiaodong Xu

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors provide a unique possibility to access the electronic valley degree of freedom using polarized light, opening the way to valley information transfer between distant…

Transition metal dichalcogenides provide a platform for exploring spin-valley physics, offering a promising approach to electric-field-driven spin control for low-power spintronic and quantum devices. Here, we demonstrate…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Min-Gue Kim , Min-Sik Kim , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Ju-Jin Kim , Myung-Ho Bae

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 investigate the twist-angle and gate dependence of the proximity-induced exchange coupling in the monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$ due to the vdW coupling to the ferromagnetic semiconductor CrI$_3$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-11 Klaus Zollner , Paulo E. Faria Junior , Jaroslav Fabian

Atomically thin crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides are ideally suited to study the interplay of light-matter coupling, polarization and magnetic field effects. In this work, we investiagte the formation of exciton-polaritons in a…

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