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Layered 2D van der Waals materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides, are promising for nanoscale spintronic and optoelectronic applications. Harnessing their full potential requires understanding both intrinsic transport and the…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted a great deal of interest in recent years. This family of materials allows for the realization of versatile electronic devices and holds promise for next-generation (opto)electronics. Their…

Hybrid van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures constructed by the integration of organic molecules and two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials have useful tunable properties for flexible electronic devices. Due to…

Two-dimensional (2D) layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently attracted tremendous interest as potential valleytronic and nano-electronic materials, in addition to being well-known as excellent lubricants in the bulk.…

Vertically-stacked monolayers of graphene and other atomically-thin 2D materials have attracted considerable research interest because of their potential in fabricating materials with specifically-designed properties. Chemical vapor…

Computational Physics · Physics 2019-11-27 Zhenlin Guo , Christopher Price , Vivek B. Shenoy , John Lowengrub

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and heterostructures have emerged as a compelling class of materials with transformative new science that may be harnessed for novel device technologies. These materials are commonly…

We have combined the benefits of two catalytic growth phenomena to form nanostructures of transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTs), materials that are challenging to grow in a nanostructured form by conventional techniques, as required to…

Van der Waals (vdW) crystals are prone to twisting, sliding, and buckling due to inherently weak interlayer interactions. While thickness-controlled vdW structures have attracted considerable attention as ultrathin semiconducting channels,…

Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMD) are layered materials obtained by stacking two-dimensional sheets weakly bonded by van der Waals interactions. In bulk TMD, band dispersions are observed in the direction normal to the sheet plane…

The integration of different two-dimensional materials within a multilayer van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure offers a promising technology for realizing high performance opto-electronic devices such as photodetectors and light sources1-3.…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-06-28 Faguang Yan , Lixia Zhao , Amalia Patanè , PingAn Hu , Xia Wei , Wengang Luo , Dong Zhang , Quanshan Lv , Qi Feng , Chao Shen , Kai Chang , Laurence Eaves , Kaiyou Wang

Vertically stacking two dimensional (2D) materials can enable the design of novel electronic and optoelectronic devices and realize complex functionality. However, the fabrication of such artificial heterostructures in wafer scale with an…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-01-12 Xiang Yuan , Lei Tang , Shanshan Liu , Peng Wang , Zhigang Chen , Cheng Zhang , Yanwen Liu , Weiyi Wang , Yichao Zou , Cong Liu , Nan Guo , Jin Zou , Peng Zhou , Weida Hu , Faxian Xiu

Two-dimensional materials (2D) arranged in hybrid van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures provide a route toward the assembly of 2D and conventional III-V semiconductors. Here, we report the structural and electronic properties of single layer…

The growth of wafer-scale van der Waals (vdW) thin films and heterostructures by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is important for future applications in quantum technologies, next generation optoelectronic devices, and fundamental physics…

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Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) allow the assembly of high-crystalline two-dimensional (2D) materials in order to explore dimensionality effects in strongly correlated systems and the emergence of potential new physical scenarios. In…

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The weak van der Waals interlayer interactions in the transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) materials have created a rich platform to study their exotic electronic properties through chemical doping or physical gating techniques. We…

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For the past few years, 2D ferroelectric materials have attracted strong interest for their potential in future nanoelectronics devices. The recent discovery of 2D ferroelectricity in twisted layers of insulating hexagonal boron nitride,…

Immediately after the demonstration of the high-quality electronic properties in various two dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) crystals fabricated with mechanical exfoliation, many methods have been reported to explore and control large…

Monolayer Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a two-dimensional crystal with a direct bandgap, is a promising candidate for 2D nanoelectronic devices complementing graphene. There have been recent attempts to produce MoS2 layers via chemical and…

Materials Science · Physics 2011-11-23 Yongjie Zhan , Zheng Liu , Sina Najmaei , Pulickel M. Ajayan , Jun Lou

Van der Waals (vdW) materials have greatly expanded our design space of heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium configurations, for example via control of the twist angle. Such heterostructures not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-02-04 Xirui Wang , Kenji Yasuda , Yang Zhang , Song Liu , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , James Hone , Liang Fu , Pablo Jarillo-Herrero

CONSPECTUS: Two-dimensional (2D) compound materials are promising materials for use in electronics, optoelectronics, flexible devices, etc. because they are ultrathin and cover a wide range of properties. Among all methods to prepare 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-11 Lei Tang , Junyang Tan , Huiyu Nong , Bilu Liu , Hui-Ming Cheng