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Atomically thin layers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) exhibit exceptionally strong Coulomb interaction between charge carriers due to the two-dimensional carrier confinement in connection with weak dielectric screening. The van…

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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have garnered significant interest in optoelectronics, owing to their scalability and thickness-dependent electrical and optical properties. In particular, thin films of TMDCs could be used in…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-19 Enesio Marinho , Cesar E. P. Villegas , Pedro Venezuela , Alexandre R. Rocha

Atomic-scale control of light-matter interactions represent the ultimate frontier for many applications in photonics and quantum technology. Two-dimensional semiconductors, including transition metal dichalcogenides, are a promising…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-08-22 John M. Woods , Saroj B. Chand , Enrique Mejia , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Johannes Flick , Gabriele Grosso

The manipulation of edge configurations and structures in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for versatile functionalization has attracted intensive interest in recent years. The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) approach…

Transition metal dichalcogenides exhibit a wide range of semiconducting, metallic, correlated, and topological electronic states that arise from strong coupling between lattice structure, dimensionality, and electronic degrees of freedom.…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-05-19 Anzar Ali , Md Ezaz Hasan Khan , Mahmoud Abdel-Hafiez

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) remain a topic of immense interest. Specifically, given their low operational switching costs, they find many niche applications in new computing architectures with the promise…

Two dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due to their extraordinary physical properties. The unique properties make them…

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality and crystal symmetry. The family of semiconducting…

Topological superconductors (TSCs) are unconventional superconductors with bulk superconducting gap and in-gap Majorana states on the boundary that may be used as topological qubits for quantum computation. Despite their importance in both…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a branch of two-dimensional materials which in addition to having an easy-to-exfoliate layered structure, also host semiconducting, metallic, superconducting, and topological properties in various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Suvodeep Paul , Saswata Talukdar , Ravi Shankar Singh , Surajit Saha

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) have shown promise for various applications in optoelectronics and so-called valleytronics. Their operation and performance strongly depend on the stacking of individual layers. Here,…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-09-28 J. E. Zimmermann , B. Li , J. Hone , U. Höfer , G. Mette

Two-dimensional (2D) Transition Metal Dichalcogenide semiconductor (TMDs) nanocircuits are deterministically engineered over large-scale substrates. The original approach combines large-area physical growth of 2D TMDs layer with high…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-09-23 Maria Caterina Giordano , Giorgio Zambito , Matteo Gardella , Francesco Buatier de Mongeot

We calculate from first principles the electronic structure and optical properties of a number of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer heterostructures consisting of MoS2 layers sandwiched with WS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, BN, or graphene…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-09-12 Hannu-Pekka Komsa , Arkady V. Krasheninnikov

The isolation of graphene and transition metal dichalcongenides has opened a veritable world to a great number of layered materials which can be exfoliated, manipulated, and stacked or combined at will. With continued explorations expanding…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit an extensive variety of novel electronic properties, such as charge density wave quantum spin Hall phenomena, superconductivity, and Dirac and Weyl semi-metallic properties.…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2023-09-15 S. Koley

Manipulating materials properties far from equilibrium recently garnered significant attention, with experimental emphasis on transient melting, enhancement, or induction of electronic order. A more tantalizing aspect of the matter-light…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-10-28 Martin Claassen , Chunjing Jia , Brian Moritz , Thomas P. Devereaux

Laser-assisted chemical modification is demonstrated on ultra-thin transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), locally replacing selenium by sulfur atoms. The photo-conversion process takes place in a controlled reactive gas environment and…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-08-21 Tariq Afaneh , Prasana K. Sahoo , Igor A. P. Nobrega , Yan Xin , Humberto R. Gutierrez

In this work, we report an ab initio investigation based on density functional theory of the structural, energetic and electronic properties of 2D layered chalcogenides compounds based in the combination of the transition-metals (Ti, Zr,…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-04-17 Carlos M. O. Bastos , Rafael Besse , Juarez L. F. Da Silva , Guilherme M. Sipahi

Atomically precise lateral heterojunctions based on transition metal dichalcogenides provide a new platform for exploring exciton Mott transition in one-dimension. To investigate the intrinsically non-equilibrium Mott transition, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-16 Long Yuan , Biyuan Zheng , Qiuchen Zhao , Roman Kempt , Thomas Brumme , Agnieszka Beata Kuc , Chao Ma , Shibin Deng , Anlian Pan , Libai Huang

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) host a plethora of interesting physical phenomena ranging from charge order to superconductivity. By introducing magnetic ions into 2H-NbS$_2$, the material forms a family of magnetic…