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Recent discovery of ultrathick $\mathrm{MoSi_2N_4(MoN)_n}$ monolayers open up an exciting platform to engineer 2D material properties via intercalation architecture. Here we computationally investigate a series of ultrathick…
When electron-electron interaction dominates over other electronic energy scales, exotic, collective phenomena often emerge out of seemingly ordinary matter. The strongly correlated phenomena, such as quantum spin liquid and unconventional…
By fabricating and characterizing multi-layered MoS$_2$-based field-effect transistors (FETs) in a four terminal configuration, we demonstrate that the two terminal-configurations tend to underestimate the carrier mobility $\mu$ due to the…
Topological quantum materials, including topological insulators and superconductors, Dirac semimetals and Weyl semimetals, have attracted much attention recently for their unique electronic structure, spin texture and physical properties.…
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) exhibit excellent electronic and optical properties. However, the performance of these two-dimensional (2D) devices are often limited by the large resistance offered by the metal…
2D semiconductors offer a promising pathway to replace silicon in next-generation electronics. Among their many advantages, 2D materials possess atomically-sharp surfaces and enable scaling the channel thickness down to the monolayer limit.…
High-gain photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, in particular those in photoconductive mode, have been extensively investigated in the past decade. However, the classical photoconductive theory was derived on two…
We calculated the electron mobility of 14 two dimensional semiconductors with composition of MX$_2$, where M (= Mo, W, Sn, Hf, Zr and Pt) is the transition metal, and X is S, Se and Te. We treated the scattering matrix by deformation…
The interest in MoS2 for radio-frequency (RF) application has recently increased. However, little is known on the scaling behavior of transistors made from MoS2 for RF applications, which is important for establishing performance limits for…
It is usually supposed that only low-symmetry two-dimensional (2D) materials exhibit anisotropy, here we show that high-symmetry 2D semiconductors can show significant anisotropy in momentum space due to the band structure anisotropy in…
Two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs), a new state of quantum matter, are promising for achieving the low-power-consuming electronic devices owning to the remarkable robustness of their conducting edge states against…
Transfer techniques based on two dimensional (2D) materials and devices offer immense potential towards their industrial integration with the existing silicon based electronics. To achieve high quality devices, there is an urgent…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials like transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) have proved to be serious candidates to replace silicon in several technologies with enhanced performances. In this respect, the two remaining challenges are the…
Two-dimensional conjugated metal-organic frameworks (2D c-MOFs) are emerging as a unique class of 2D electronic materials. However, intrinsically semiconducting 2D c-MOFs with gaps in the Vis-NIR and high charge carrier mobility have been…
Ferromagnetic semiconductors discovered in two-dimensional (2D) materials open an avenue for highly integrated and multifunctional spintronics. The Curie temperature (TC) of existed 2D ferromagnetic semiconductors is extremely low and the…
For electronic and photoelectronic devices based on GeSe, an emergent two dimensional monochalcogenide with many exciting properties predicted, good electrical contacts are of great importance for achieving high device performances and…
The properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials have been extensively studied and applied in various applications. Our interest is to theoretically investigate the thermal transport and thermoelectric properties of the 2D transition metal…
Here we report the properties of field-effect transistors based on few layers of chemical vapor transport grown alpha- MoTe_2 crystals mechanically exfoliated onto SiO_2. We performed field-effect and Hall mobility measurements, as well as…
Metal-semiconductor interface is a bottleneck for efficient transport of charge carriers through Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (TMD) based field-effect transistors (FETs). Injection of charge carriers across such interfaces is mostly…
Thanks to their unique properties single-layer 2-D materials appear as excellent candidates to extend Moore's scaling law beyond the currently manufactured silicon FinFETs. However, the known 2-D semiconducting components, essentially…