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Combining both vertical and in-plane two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures opens up the possibility to create an unprecedented architecture using 2D atomic layer building blocks. The thermal transport properties of such mixed…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-16 Ting Liang , Ping Zhang , Man Zhou , Peng Yuan , Daoguo Yang

Lattice reconstruction and corresponding strain accumulation play a key role in defining the electronic structure of two-dimensional moir\'e superlattices, including those of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Imaging of TMD moir\'es…

Twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers exhibit periodic moir\'e potentials, which can trap excitons at certain high-symmetry sites. At small twist angles, TMD lattices undergo an atomic reconstruction, altering the moir\'e…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-11-26 Joakim Hagel , Samuel Brem , Ermin Malic

We propose a scheme to achieve breathing kagome moir\'e superlattices using three twisted layers of transition metal dichalcogenides. In this scheme, the top and bottom layers are twisted relative to the middle layer by small angles…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-18 Adrian Fedorko , Chao-Xing Liu , Zhen Bi

Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) alloys have attracted great interests in recent years due to their tunable electronic properties, especially the semiconductor-metal phase transition, along with their potential applications in…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-06-13 Xin Qian , Puqing Jiang , Peng Yu , Xiaokun Gu , Zheng Liu , Ronggui Yang

An advanced modeling approach is presented to shed light on the thermal transport properties of van der Waals materials (vdWMs) composed of single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) stacked on top of each other with a total or…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-08 Sara Fiore , Mathieu Luisier

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

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) constitute an intriguing platform for studying charge-ordered states including conventional and generalized Wigner crystals as well as Mott insulating states. In this work, we combine a phonon mode…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-10-18 Daniel Erkensten , Samuel Brem , Raul Perea-Causin , Ermin Malic

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are important class of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials for electronic and optoelectronic applications, due to their ultimate body thickness, sizable and tunable bandgap, and decent theoretical…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-01-10 Zhihao Yu , Zhun-Yong Ong , Songlin Li , Jian-Bin Xu , Gang Zhang , Yong-Wei Zhang , Yi Shi , Xinran Wang

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) are finding promising electronic and optical applications due to their unique properties. In this letter, we systematically study the phonon transport and thermal conductivity of…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-09-30 Xiaokun Gu , Ronggui Yang

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as materials that can be used to realize two-dimensional (2D) crystals possessing rather unique transport and optical properties. Most research has so far focused on sulfur…

We develop a twist-angle transferable continuum model for twisted transition metal dichalcogenide (tTMD) homobilayers, using tMoTe2 and tWSe2 as examples. All model parameters are extracted from density functional theory (DFT) calculations…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-26 Xiao-Wei Zhang , Kaijie Yang , Chong Wang , Xiaoyu Liu , Ting Cao , Di Xiao

Moire superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayers have been shown to host correlated electronic states, which arises from the interplay of emergent moire potential and long-range Coulomb interactions. Here we…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2021-04-28 Yang Zhang , Tongtong Liu , Liang Fu

Moir\'e superlattices of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) heterostructures give rise to rich excitonic phenomena associated with the interlayer twist angle and induced changes in the involved quantum states. Theoretical calculations of…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-09-13 Sudipta Kundu , Tomer Amit , H. R. Krishnamurthy , Manish Jain , Sivan Refaely-Abramson

Intercalation and stacking order modulation are two active ways in manipulating the interlayer interaction of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), which lead to a variety of emergent phases and allow for engineering material…

In bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, the twist angle between layers can be used to introduce a highly regular periodic potential modulation on a length scale that is large compared to the unit cell. In such…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-27 N. Götting , F. Lohof , C. Gies

Artificially twisted heterostructures of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer unprecedented control over their electronic and optical properties via the spatial modulation of interlayer interactions and structural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-01-25 Nikhil Tilak , Guohong Li , Takashi Taniguchi , Kenji Watanabe , Eva Y. Andrei

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) can withstand a large deformation without fracture or inelastic relaxation, making them attractive for application in novel strain-engineered and flexible…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-01-18 Junwen Li , Nikhil V. Medhekar , Vivek B. Shenoy

We reveal by first-principles calculations that the interlayer binding in a twisted MoS2/MoTe2 heterobilayer decreases with increasing twist angle, due to the increase of the interlayer overlapping degree, a geometric quantity describing…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-07 W. T. Geng , V. Wang , J. B. Lin , T. Ohno , J. Nara

Van der Waals layered materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), are an exciting class of materials with weak interlayer bonding which enables one to create van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH). Recent work has shown that…