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Understanding the phase transition mechanisms in two-dimensional (2D) materials is a key to precisely tailor their properties at the nanoscale. Molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2) exhibits multiple phases at room temperature, making it a…

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are interesting for understanding fundamental physics of two-dimensional materials (2D) as well as for many emerging technologies, including spin electronics. Here, we report the discovery of…

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (MX$_2$) vacancy formation energetics is extensively investigated. Within an ab-initio approach we study the MX$_2$ systems, with M=Mo, W, Ni, Pd and Pt, and X=S, Se, and Te. Here we classify…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-04-17 Rafael L. H. Freire , Felipe Crasto de Lima , Adalberto Fazzio

Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are gaining increasing attention as alternative to graphene for their very high potential in optoelectronics applications. Here we consider two prototypical metallic 2D TMDs, NbSe$_2$…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-18 Pierluigi Cudazzo , Matteo Gatti , Angel Rubio

Alloying/doping in two-dimensional material has been important due to wide range band gap tunability. Increasing the number of components would increase the degree of freedom which can provide more flexibility in tuning the band gap and…

We present a first--principles density functional theory (DFT) study of transition metal (TM = Ti, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni) functionalized two--dimensional polyaramid (2DPA) to explore their structural, electronic, and magnetic properties.…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-11-03 Ravi Trivedi , Chaithanya Purushottam Bhat , Shakti S. Ray , Debashis Bandyopadhyay

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for advanced logic transistor technologies are deposited by various modifications of the chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method using a wide variety of precursors. Being a major…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-03-13 Vladislav Voronenkov , Benjamin Groven , Henry Medina Silva , Pierre Morin , Stefan De Gendt

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and heterostructures have emerged as a compelling class of materials with transformative new science that may be harnessed for novel device technologies. These materials are commonly…

Two-dimensional (2D) Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted much interest due to their exciting quantum properties arising from their unique two-faced structure, broken-mirror symmetry, and consequent colossal…

Layered transition metal hydroxides (LTMHs) with transition metal centers sandwiched between layers of coordinating hydroxide anions have attracted considerable interest for their potential in developing clean energy sources and storage…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-29 Lu Ping , Gillian E. Minarik , Hongze Gao , Jun Cao , Tianshu Li , Hikari Kitadai , Xi Ling

Chalcogen vacancies are considered to be the most abundant point defects in two-dimensional (2D) transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors, and predicted to result in deep in-gap states (IGS). As a result, important features in…

The moir\'e superlattices formed by stacking 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with twisting angle or lattice mismatch have provided a versatile platform with unprecedented tunability for exploring many frontier…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-08-07 Dawei Zhai , Hongyi Yu , Wang Yao

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) nanosheets exhibit remarkable electronic and optical properties. The 2D features, sizable bandgaps, and recent advances in the synthesis, characterization, and device fabrication of…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-02-04 Xin Zhang , Xiao-Fen Qiao , Wei Shi , Jiang-Bin Wu , De-Sheng Jiang , Ping-Heng Tan

Understanding the dynamical evolution of large-scale moir\'e systems is crucial for connecting theoretical predictions with experimental observations. Here we develop a machine-learning-based workflow, integrating DeePMD and DeepH…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-27 Yifan Ke , Chuanjing Zeng , Xinming Qin , Wei-Lin Tu , Wei Hu , Jinglong Yang

The ability in experiments to control the relative twist angle between successive layers in two-dimensional (2D) materials offers a new approach to manipulating their electronic properties; we refer to this approach as "twistronics". A…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-02-22 Stephen Carr , Daniel Massatt , Shiang Fang , Paul Cazeaux , Mitchell Luskin , Efthimios Kaxiras

CONSPECTUS: Two-dimensional (2D) compound materials are promising materials for use in electronics, optoelectronics, flexible devices, etc. because they are ultrathin and cover a wide range of properties. Among all methods to prepare 2D…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-11 Lei Tang , Junyang Tan , Huiyu Nong , Bilu Liu , Hui-Ming Cheng

We present a comprehensive study of the band alignments of two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting materials and highlight the possibilities of forming momentum-matched type I, II and III heterojunctions; an enticing possibility being atomic…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-13 V. Ongun Özçelik , Javad G. Azadani , Ce Yang , Steven J. Koester , Tony Low

We present a detailed calculation of the linear and nonlinear optical response of four types of monolayer Two-Dimensional (2D) Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs), having the formula $\textrm{MX}_2$ with M=Mo,W and X=S,Se. The…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-28 Sina Khorasani

The study of twisted two-dimensional (2D) materials, where twisting layers create moir\'e superlattices, has opened new opportunities for investigating topological phases and strongly correlated physics. While systems such as twisted…

The field of two-dimensional (2D) materials has expanded to multilayered systems where electronic, optical, and mechanical properties change-often dramatically-with stacking order, thickness, twist, and interlayer spacing [1-5]. For…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-06-27 Suk Hyun Sung , Noah Schnitzer , Lola Brown , Jiwoong Park , Robert Hovden