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Valleytronics targets the exploitation of the additional degrees of freedom in materials where the energy of the carriers may assume several equal minimum values (valleys) at non-equivalent points of the reciprocal space. In single layers…
Two dimensional magnetic materials are at the forefront of the next generation of spintronic devices. The possibility to interface them with other van der Waals materials such as transition metal dichalcogenides has opened new possibilities…
In monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, valley coherence degrades rapidly due to a combination of fast scattering and inter-valley exchange interaction. This leads to a sub-picosecond valley coherence time, making…
Controlling exciton recombination in atomically thin semiconductors is central to their optoelectronic functionality, as the competition between radiative and non-radiative decay channels governs emission efficiency. Existing approaches,…
Van der Waals (vdW) heterobilayers formed by two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) created a promising platform for various electronic and optical properties. ab initio band results indicate that the band offset of…
Valleytronics aims to control electrons in a valley-specific manner for quantum information manipulation. Due to their strong in-plane anisotropy, which enables polarization-controlled optical transitions to distinct nondegenerate valleys,…
In this work, we propose valley-coupled spin-hall memories (VSH-MRAMs) based on monolayer WSe2. The key features of the proposed memories are (a) the ability to switch magnets with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) via VSH effect and…
van der Waals stacking of two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a powerful platform for engineering material interfaces with tailored electronic and optical properties. While most van der Waals multilayers have featured inorganic…
Ferroelecticity, one of the keys to realize nonvolatile memories owing to the remanent electric polarization, has been an emerging phenomenon in the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Yet the demonstrations of van der Waals (vdW) memories using 2D…
Interlayer excitons in semiconducting bilayers separated by insulating hBN layers constitute a promising platform for investigation of strongly correlated bosonic phases. Here, we report an optical method for the generation and…
In crystals, energy band extrema in momentum space can be identified by their valley index. The internal quantum degree of freedom associated with valley pseudospin indices can act as a useful information carrier analogous to electronic…
Lateral heterostructures of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide offer a powerful platform to investigate photonic and electronic phenomena at atomically sharp interfaces. However, their controlled engineering, including tuning lateral domain…
Single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) provide a promising material system to explore the electron's valley degree of freedom as a quantum information carrier. The valley degree of freedom in single-layer TMDs can be directly…
Heterostructures comprising van der Waals (vdW) stacked transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers are a fascinating class of two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique properties. The presence of interlayer excitons, where the…
Van der Waals heterobilayers based on 2D transition metal dichalcogenides have been recently shown to support robust and long-lived valley polarization for potential valleytronic applications. However, the role of the band structure and…
Interlayer valley excitons in bilayer MoS2 feature concurrently large oscillator strength and long lifetime, and hence represent an advantageous scenario for valleytronic applications. However, control of valley pseudospin of interlayer…
Semiconductor research has shifted towards exploring two-dimensional (2D) materials as candidates for next-generation electronic devices due to the limitations of existing silicon technology. Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs) stand…
We studied photoluminescence of spatially indirect excitons (IXs) in a MoSe$_2$/WSe$_2$ van der Waals heterostructure. We observed a quasi-periodic triangular pattern of IXs with the characteristic wavelength of the pattern $\sim$ 2.6…
Monolayer 2D semiconductors provide an attractive option for valleytronics due to the valley-addressability by helicity-specific light beam. But the short valley lifetime for excitons have hindered potential valleytronic applications. In…
Despite the weak, van-der-Waals interlayer coupling, photoinduced charge transfer vertically across atomically thin interfaces can occur within surprisingly fast, sub-50fs timescales. Early theoretical understanding of the charge transfer…