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A multiscale simulation approach is developed to simulate the contact transport properties between semimetal to a monolayer two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) semiconductor. The results elucidate the mechanisms for…
In transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), charge carriers have spin, pseudospin, and valley degrees of freedom associated with magnetic moments. The monolayers and bilayers of the TMDCs, in particular, MoS$_2$, lead strong couplings…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are an exciting platform for new excitonic physics and next-generation electronics, creating a strong demand to understand their growth, doping, and…
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoS$_2$, are promising candidates for nanoscale photonics because of strong-light matter interactions. However, Fermi level pinning due to metal-induced…
Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting devices and novel phenomena. For 2D applications, their work function, ionization energy, and electron affinity are required as a function of…
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Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted great attention due to their physical and chemical properties that make them promising in electronics and optoelectronics. Because of the difficulties in…
Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), like MoS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, WS$_2$, and WSe$_2$, feature direct bandgaps, strong spin-orbit coupling, and exciton-polariton interactions at the atomic scale, which could be harnessed for…
We present a theoretical study of the optical response of a nonlinear oscillator formed by coupling a metal nanoparticle local surface plasmon resonance to excitonic degrees of freedom in a monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide. We show…
We performed high-throughput density functional theory calculations of optical matrix elements between band edges across a diverse set of non-magnetic two-dimensional monolayers with direct band gaps. Materials were ranked as potential…
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) attract significant attention due to their exceptional optical, excitonic, mechanical, and electronic properties. Nanostructured multilayer TMDs were recently shown to be highly promising for…
Alloying is a successful strategy for tuning the phases and properties of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). To accelerate the synthesis of new TMDC alloys, we present a method for generating…
Nonlinear optical (NLO) effect plays a crucial role to engineer optical angular frequency and symmetry of electronic system. Metallic transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) is one of two-dimensional (2D) materials, which has no inversion…
Nonlinear processes can offer pathways to next-generation sensors and frequency mixing devices to overcome modern imaging, detection, and communication challenges. In this article, we report on strong second and third-order nonlinear…
We present a unified description of the excitonic properties of four monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDC's) using an equation of motion method for deriving the Bethe-Salpeter equation in momentum space. Our method is able to…
The discovery of graphene has ignited intensive investigation on two dimensional (2D) materials. Among them, transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), a typical representative, attracts much attention due to the excellent performance in field…
Recent developments in the area of resonant dielectric nanostructures has created attractive opportunities for the concentrating and manipulating light at the nanoscale and the establishment of new exciting field of all-dielectric…
Low-dimensional (LD) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the form of nanoflakes, which consist of one or several layers, are the subject of intensive fundamental and applied research. Due to the size-induced transition from a bulk to…
Nanoscale tailoring of the optoelectronic response of 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides semiconductor layers (TMDs) has been achieved thanks to a novel strain engineering approach based on the grayscale thermal-Scanning Probe Lithography…