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Understanding carrier creation and evolution in materials initiated by pulsed optical excitation is central to developing ultrafast optoelectronics. We demonstrate herein that the dynamic response of a system can be drastically modified…

The advent of twisted moir\'e heterostructures as a playground for strongly correlated electron physics has led to a plethora of experimental and theoretical efforts seeking to unravel the nature of the emergent superconducting and…

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We present a comprehensive theoretical study of strain-engineered quantum transport in monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$) in the presence of an electrostatic scalar potential. By incorporating strain effects within a low-energy Dirac…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-26 Rachid El Aitouni , Hasna Chnafa , Clarence Cortes , David Laroze , Ahmed Jellal

Manipulation of spin and valley degrees of freedom is a key step towards realizing novel quantum technologies, for which atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have been established as promising candidates. In monolayer…

Using time-resolved Kerr rotation, we measure the spin/valley dynamics of resident electrons and holes in single charge-tunable monolayers of the archetypal transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductor WSe2. In the n-type regime, we…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-10-04 P. Dey , Luyi Yang , C. Robert , G. Wang , B. Urbaszek , X. Marie , S. A. Crooker

We report a configuration strategy for improving the thermoelectric (TE) performance of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) WS2 based on the experimentally prepared WS2/WSe2 lateral superlattice (LS) crystal. On the…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-07-27 Yonglan Hu , Tie Yang , Dengfeng Li , Guangqian Ding , Chaochao Dun , Dandan Wu , Xiaotian Wang

We present here results of atomistic theory of electrons confined by metallic gates in a single layer of transition metal dichalcogenides. The electronic states are described by the tight-binding model and computed using a computational box…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-01-22 Maciej Bieniek , Ludmila Szulakowska , Pawel Hawrylak

We report a new class of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, MX$_2$ with M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se, and Te), whose topological electronic properties are highly tunable by external…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-12-16 Xiaofeng Qian , Junwei Liu , Liang Fu , Ju Li

In moir\'e heterostructures, gate-tunable insulating phases driven by electronic correlations have been recently discovered. Here, we use transport measurements to characterize the gate-driven metal-insulator transitions and the metallic…

Emergence of topological states in strongly correlated systems, particularly two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenides, offers a platform for manipulating electronic properties in quantum materials. However, a comprehensive…

Metals are commonly used as electrostatic gates in devices due to their abundant charge carrier densities that are necessary for efficient charging and discharging. A semiconducting gate can be beneficial for certain fabrication processes,…

Ionic liquid gated field-effect transistors (FETs) based on semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are used to study a rich variety of extremely interesting physical phenomena, but important aspects of how charge carriers…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-12-17 Haijing Zhang , Christophe Berthod , Helmuth Berger , Thierry Giamarchi , Alberto F. Morpurgo

Ambipolar dual-gate transistors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, carbon nanotubes, black phosphorus, and certain transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), enable reconfigurable logic circuits with suppressed…

Emergent quantum phases driven by electronic interactions can manifest in materials with narrowly dispersing, i.e. "flat", energy bands. Recently, flat bands have been realized in a variety of graphene-based heterostructures using the…

Moir\'e superlattices in twistronic heterostructures are a powerful tool for materials engineering. In marginally twisted (small misalignment angle, $\theta$) bilayers of nearly lattice-matched two-dimensional (2D) crystals moir\'e patterns…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-10-25 V. V. Enaldiev , F. Ferreira , J. G. McHugh , V. I. Fal'ko

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are optically active layered materials providing potential for fast optoelectronics and on-chip photonics. We demonstrate electrically driven single-photon emission from localised sites in tungsten…

Ideal monolayers of common semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) such as MoS$_2$, WS$_2$, MoSe$_2$, and WSe$_2$ possess many similar electronic properties. As it is the case for all semiconductors, however, the physical…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are highly promising for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) with low subthreshold swing and high drive current because the shorter tunnel distance and strong gate controllability can be expected from the…

Quantum correlation and hot-carrier transport represent two fundamentally distinct regimes of electronic conduction, rarely accessible within the same device. Here, we report a state-of-the-art monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-11-11 Debottam Daw , Houcine Bouzid , Sung-Gyu Lee , Wujoon Cha , Ki Kang Kim , Min-kyu Joo , Yan Wang , Manish Chhowalla , Young Hee Lee

Monolayer films of transition metal dichalcogenides (in particular, MoS2, MoSe2, WS2, and WSe2) can be considered as ideal systems for the studies of high-temperature electron-hole liquids. The quasi-two-dimensional nature of electrons and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-05-12 P. L. Pekh , P. V. Ratnikov , A. P. Silin