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Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as MoSe$_2$ and WSe$_2$, exhibit unique optical and electronic properties. Vertical stacking of layers of one or more TMDs, to create heterostructures, has expanded the fields of…

Assembling transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) at the two-dimensional (2D) limit is a promising approach for tailoring emerging states of matter such as superconductivity or charge density waves (CDWs). Single-layer (SL) VSe$_2$ stands…

Low-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) exhibit great photocatalytic performance and tunability. In this work, using first-principles simulations based on density functional theory (DFT), we demonstrate that external…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-10-06 Zhao Liu , Biao Wang , Claudio Cazorla

The control of material properties at the atomic scale remains a central challenge in materials science. Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer remarkable electronic and optical properties, but their functionality is largely…

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 recent discovery of semiconducting two-dimensional materials has led to the prediction of a revolution in the field of optoelectronics, driven by the introduction of a series of new components that are just a few atoms thick. Key…

The two dimensional layered transition metal dichalcogenides provide new opportunities in future valley based information processing and also provide ideal platform to study excitonic effects. At the center of various device physics toward…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-04-05 Dong Sun , Jiawei Lai , Junchao Ma , Qinsheng Wang , Jing Liu

Two-dimensional layered materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), are promising materials for future electronics owing to their unique electronic properties. With the presence of a band gap, atomically thin gate defined…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-28 Xiang-Xiang Song , Di Liu , Vahid Mosallanejad , Jie You , Tian-Yi Han , Dian-Teng Chen , Hai-Ou Li , Gang Cao , Ming Xiao , Guang-Can Guo , Guo-Ping Guo

We propose a material platform comprised of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) heterostructures to realize the two-dimensional (2D) helical superconductivity with an intrinsic gap. By van der Waals stacking a 2D superconductor…

Superconductivity · Physics 2025-12-12 Xuance Jiang , Jennifer Cano , Yuan Ping , Yafis Barlas , Deyu Lu

Atomically thin group-VIB transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have recently emerged as a new class of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with extraordinary properties including the direct band gap in the visible frequency range, the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-12-08 Gui-Bin Liu , Di Xiao , Yugui Yao , Xiaodong Xu , Wang Yao

Recent progress in two-dimensional superconductors with atomic-scale thicknesses is reviewed mainly from the experimental point of view. The superconducting systems treated here involve a variety of materials and forms: elemental-metal…

Superconductivity · Physics 2016-11-17 Takashi Uchihashi

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and black phosphorus (BP) have beneficial electronic, optical, and physical properties at the few-layer limit. As atomically thin materials, 2D TMDCs and BP are…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-03-30 Christopher R. Ryder , Joshua D. Wood , Spencer A. Wells , Mark C. Hersam

Monolayer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are promising candidates for quantum technologies, such as quantum dots, because they are truly two-dimensional semiconductors with a direct band gap. In this work, we analyse theoretically…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-02-28 Alessandro David , Guido Burkard , Andor Kormányos

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new type of materials under intense study because of their interesting physical properties and wide range of potential applications from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. Monolayers of…

The optical response of traditional semiconductors depends on the laser excitation power used in experiments. For two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, laser excitation effects are anticipated to be vastly different due to complexity added…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have emerged as new optoelectronic materials in the two dimensional (2D) limit, exhibiting rich spin-valley interplays, tunable excitonic effects, and strong light-matter interactions.…

Layered van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), generally composed of three atomic X-M-X planes in each layer (M = transition metal, X = chalcogen), provide versatile platforms for exploring diverse quantum phenomena. In…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Ya-Xin Zhao , Zi-Yi Han , Ya-Ning Ren , Ruo-Han Zhang , Xiao-Feng Zhou , Yu Zhang , Lin He

We study the effect of laser driving on a minimal model for a hexagonal two-dimensional material with broken inversion symmetry. Through the application of circularly polarised light and coupling to a thermal free electron bath, the system…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-09-04 Oliver Hart , Garry Goldstein , Claudio Chamon , Claudio Castelnovo

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are layered two-dimensional semiconductors explored for various optoelectronic applications, ranging from light-emitting diodes to single-photon emitters. To interact strongly with light, such devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-07-15 Juri G. Crimmann , Moritz N. Junker , Yannik M. Glauser , Nolan Lassaline , Gabriel Nagamine , David J. Norris

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct gap semiconductors emerging promising applications in diverse optoelectronic devices. To improve performance, recent investigations have been systematically focused on the tuning…