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Heterostructures involving two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides and other materials such as graphene have a strong potential to be the fundamental building block of many electronic and opto-electronic applications. The…

The end of conventional Dennard scaling and the widening gap between memory bandwidth and arithmetic throughput have made the von Neumann partition a structural bottleneck rather than a transient one. Two-dimensional (2D) materials, with…

Hardware Architecture · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Yaser Banad

The emergence of a long-range magnetic order in the atomically thin, two-dimensional (2D) limit has long remained a fundamental question in condensed matter physics. The advent of exfoliable van der Waals (vdW) materials, particularly…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-03 Rahul Kumar , Je-Geun Park

Two dimensional (2D) materials continue to hold great promise for future electronics, due to their atomic-scale thicknesses and wide range of tunable properties. However, commercial efforts in this field are relatively recent, and much…

Magnetism has played a central role in the long and rich history of modern condensed matter physics, with many foundational insights originating from theoretical studies of two-dimensional (2D) spin systems. The discovery of 2D van der…

The ability to selectively redirect specific wavelengths of light has attracted a lot attention for photonic crystal materials. Presently, there is a wealth of research relating to the fabrication and application of photonic crystal…

Optics · Physics 2022-08-23 Alex Lonergan , Colm O'Dwyer

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tantalizing layer-dependent electronic and optical properties have emerged as a new paradigm for integrated flat opto-electronic devices. However, daunting challenges remain…

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the first truly two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor, providing an excellent platform to investigate light-matter interaction in the 2D limit. Apart from fundamental scientific…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer opportunities to explore both fundamental science and applications in the limit of atomic thickness. Beyond the prototypical case of graphene, other 2D materials have recently come to the fore. Of…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-01-11 Adam. J. Watson , Wenbo Lu , Marcos H. D. Guimarães , Meike Stöhr

Exfoliation and cleavage create two-dimensional (2D) materials and surfaces with physical and chemical properties distinct from their bulk parents. The rising class of non-van der Waals (non-vdW) 2D materials derived from non-layered…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-12-19 Tom Barnowsky , Carsten Timm , Rico Friedrich

Over the last decade, layered crystals, dubbed van der Waals (vdW) materials, have attracted tremendous interest due to their unique properties in their single and few layer regimes. Their bulk counterparts, however, have only been recently…

Optoelectronic devices based on graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are the focus of wide research interest. The characterization these emerging atomically thin materials and…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2017-05-09 Adolfo De Sanctis , Gareth F. Jones , Nicola J. Townsend , Monica F. Craciun , Saverio Russo

The discovery of two-dimensional (2D) magnetism within atomically thin structures derived from layered crystals has opened up a new realm for exploring magnetic heterostructures. This emerging field provides a foundational platform for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-11-08 Bingyu Zhang , Pengcheng Lu , Roozbeh Tabrizian , Philip X. -L. Feng , Yingying Wu

Topological photonics is a rapidly emerging field of research in which geometrical and topological ideas are exploited to design and control the behavior of light. Drawing inspiration from the discovery of the quantum Hall effects and…

Two dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for optical modulation, detection, and light emission since their material properties can be tuned on-demand via electrostatic doping. The…

We study, theoretically and experimentally, optical properties of different types of honeycomb photonic structures, known also as `photonic graphene'. First, we employ the two-photon polymerization method to fabricate the honeycomb…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-08-01 Artem D. Sinelnik , Mikhail V. Rybin , Stanislav Y. Lukashenko , Mikhail F. Limonov , Kirill B. Samusev

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are categorized into van der Waals (vdW) and non-vdW types. However, no relevant descriptors have been proposed for identifying the latter. Here, we identify the non-vdW 2D materials by calculating the…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-08-05 Shota Ono

This perspective overviews the family of two-dimensional (2D) materials, which have attracted significant attention due to their properties and potential applications, and discusses how novel 2D materials including van der Waals (vdW) and…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-03-12 Shota Ono

The family of 2D materials grows day by day, drastically expanding the scope of possible phenomena to be explored in two dimensions, as well as the possible van der Waals heterostructures that one can create. Such 2D materials currently…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-10-09 M. Gibertini , M. Koperski , A. F. Morpurgo , K. S. Novoselov

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and hBN, exhibit intriguing properties that are sensitive to their atomic-scale structures and can be further enriched through van der Waals (vdW)…