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Electron-phonon(e-ph) interaction in Ca2N monolayer, the first electrene material with two-dimensional(2D) electron gas floating in free space, is expected to be very weak and such a character can be used to design weak-scattering transport…
The adsorption of carbon-conjugated molecules represents an established route to tune the electronic and optical properties of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers. Here, we demonstrate from first principles that such a…
The van der Waals coefficients and the separation dependent retardation functions of the interactions between the atomically thin films of the multi-layered transition metal molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) dichalcogenides with the alkali…
The electronic properties of ultrathin crystals of molybdenum disulfide consisting of N = 1, 2, ... 6 S-Mo-S monolayers have been investigated by optical spectroscopy. Through characterization by absorption, photoluminescence, and…