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Associating the presence of atomic vacancies to excited-state transport phenomena in two dimensional semiconductors is of emerging interest, and demands detailed understanding of the involved exciton transitions. Here we study the effect of…
Hybrid materials of MXenes (2D carbides and nitrides) and transition-metal oxides (TMOs) have shown great promise in electrical energy storage and 2D heterostructures have been proposed as the next-generation electrode materials to expand…
Twistronic assembly of 2D materials employs the twist angle between adjacent layers as a tuning parameter for designing the electronic and optical properties of van der Waals heterostructures. Here, we study how interlayer hybridization,…
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. Forming van der Waals heterostructures by deterministically stacking individual…
Nonlinear mechanics of solids is an exciting field that encompasses both beautiful mathematics, such as the emergence of instabilities and the formation of complex patterns, as well as multiple applications. Two-dimensional crystals and van…
Three-dimensional epitaxial heterostructures are based on covalently-bonded interfaces, whereas those from 2-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit van der Waals interactions. Under the right conditions, however, material structures with mixed…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable thermal anisotropy due to their strong intralayer covalent bonding and weak interlayer van der Waals (vdW) interactions. However, accurately modeling their thermal…
Quantum spin Hall edge transport in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides depends on whether their one-dimensional edge channels are preserved under realistic substrates and device boundaries. Here we implement spin-orbit…
Atomically-thin layers of two-dimensional materials can be assembled in vertical stacks held together by relatively weak van der Waals forces, allowing for coupling between monolayer crystals with incommensurate lattices and arbitrary…