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Due to their great potential in electronics, optoelectronics and piezoelectronics, Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers have attracted increasing research interest, the MoSSe of which with sandwiched S-Mo-Se structure has…
Tuning physical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers by strain engineering have most widely studied, and recently Janus TMD monolayer MoSSe has been synthesized. In this work, we systematically study biaxial strain…
Janus MoSSe monolayers were recently synthesised by replacing S by Se on one side of MoS$_2$ (or vice versa for MoSe$_2$). Due to the different electronegativity of S and Se these structures carry a finite out-of-plane dipole moment. As we…
Controlling magnetism and electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials by purely electrical means is crucial and highly sought for high-efficiency spintronics devices since electric field can be easily applied locally compared…
Over the past few years, there has been a growing interest in layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2). Most studies so far have focused on the electronic and optoelectronic properties of…
The sensitive dependence of electronic and thermoelectric properties of MoS$_2$ on the applied strain opens up a variety of applications in the emerging area of straintronics. Using first principles based density functional theory…
The interlayer coupling in van der Waals heterostructures governs a variety of optical and electronic properties. The intrinsic dipole moment of Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offers a simple and versatile approach to tune…
Janus transition metal dichalcogenides (JTMDs) have attracted much attention because of their outstanding electronic and optical properties. The additional out-of-plane dipole in JTMDs can form n- and p-like Ohmic contacts, and this may be…
Electron doping is an excellent tuning knob to explore different phases of matter in two-dimensional (2D) materials. For example, tuning the Fermi level at a van Hove singularity in twisted bilayer graphene can enhance electron-electron…
The production of new sensors, transducers and electronic components can benefit from the possibility to alter the electronic transport of metal-semicondutor-metal (MSM) devices. 2D materials are extremely appealing for those new…
Sliding ferroelectricity is emerging as a distinct and promising mechanism for realizing ferroelectricity in low-dimensional systems, offering new design principles beyond the conventional ferroelectric mechanism. Further, the coexistence…
The appearance of intrinsic ferromagnetism in 2D materials opens the possibility of investigating the interplay between magnetism and topology. The magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) describing the easy axis for magnetization in a particular…
Using Density functional theory and non-equilibrium Green's function formalism, spin dependent electron transport in Fe/Mo$_x$Cr$_{1-x}$S$_2$/Fe magnetic tunnel junction is studied. Spin transport for different thicknesses (1, 3, 5, and 7…
Janus two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted much attention due to possessing unique properties caused by their out-of-plane asymmetry, which have been achieved in many 2D families. In this work, the Janus monolayers are predicted in…
Strain is an effective method to tune the electronic properties of two-dimension (2D) materials, and can induce novel phase transition. Recently, 2D $\mathrm{MA_2Z_4}$ family materials are of interest because of their emerging topological,…
Very recently, a new type of two-dimensional layered material MoSi2N4 has been fabricated, which is semiconducting with weak interlayer interaction, high strength, and excellent stability. We systematically investigate theoretically the…
Despite ample evidence of their influences on the transport properties of two-dimensional solids, the interrelations of reduced symmetry, electronic and thermal transport, have rarely being discussed in the context of thermoelectric…
Janus transition metal dichalcogenides are an emerging class of atomically thin materials with engineered broken mirror symmetry that gives rise to long-lived dipolar excitons, Rashba splitting, and topologically protected solitons. They…
We present a first-principles study of the nonlinear optical properties of sliding ferroelectric bilayers based on MoSe$_2$ and Janus MoSSe. Two Janus configurations are considered: i) one bilayer where the two intralayer polarizations…
The influence of an external electric field on single-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides TX2 with T = Mo, W and X = S, Se (MoWSeS) have been investigated by means of density-functional theory within two-dimensional periodic boundary…