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Lateral heterostructures of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide offer a powerful platform to investigate photonic and electronic phenomena at atomically sharp interfaces. However, their controlled engineering, including tuning lateral domain…
The transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) in the family of $\mathrm{MX}_2$ ($\mathrm{M}=\mathrm{Mo},\mathrm{W}$; $\mathrm{X}=\mathrm{S},\mathrm{Se}$) and the graphene monolayer are atomically thin semiconductors and semimetal,…
Engineering atomic-scale defects is crucial for realizing wafer-scale, single-crystalline transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers for electronic devices. However, connecting atomic-scale defects to larger morphologies poses a significant…
The strong spin$-$orbit coupling (SOC) and numerous crystal phases in few$-$layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) MX$_2$ (M$=$W, Mo, and X$=$Te, Se, S) has led to a variety of novel physics, such as Ising superconductivity and…
The level of electronic correlation has been one of the key questions in understanding the nature of superconductivity. Among the iron-based superconductors, the iron chalcogenide family exhibits the strongest electron correlations. To…
The transition metal chalcogenide Ta$_2$NiSe$_5$ undergoes a second-order phase transition at $T_c=328$ K involving a small lattice distortion. Below $T_c$, a band gap at the center of its Brillouin zone increases up to about 0.35 eV. In…
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