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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are regarded as a possible materials platform for quantum information science and related device applications. In TMD monolayers, the dephasing time and inhomogeneity are crucial parameters for any…

Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct-gap semiconductors with strong light-matter and Coulomb interaction. The latter accounts for tightly bound excitons, which dominate the optical properties of these…

Heterojunctions between three-dimensional (3D) semiconductors with different bandgaps are the basis of modern light-emitting diodes, diode lasers, and high-speed transistors. Creating analogous heterojunctions between different…

One-dimensional (1D) quantum systems are a cornerstone of many-body physics. However, their realization in solids has traditionally relied on top-down methods, which are limited by structural disorder and coarse confinement. Here, we…

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…

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Several monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are direct band gap semiconductors and potentially efficient emitters in light emitting devices. Photons are emitted when strongly bound excitons decay radiatively, and accurate…

We calculate from first principles the electronic structure and optical properties of a number of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) bilayer heterostructures consisting of MoS2 layers sandwiched with WS2, MoSe2, MoTe2, BN, or graphene…

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Because of the reduced dielectric screening and enhanced Coulomb interactions, two-dimensional (2D) materials like phosphorene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) exhibit strong excitonic effects, resulting in fascinating…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-11-04 Xiaoyang Zheng , Xian Zhang

Two-dimensional semiconductors, known as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDCs), are of great interest among many materials due to their unique 2D characteristics, including exceptional electronic and optical properties. These compounds…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-10-23 Khawla Jaffel

The ability to extract materials just a few atoms thick has led to discovery of graphene, monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), and other important two-dimensional materials. The next step in promoting understanding and utility…

Applied Physics · Physics 2020-10-28 Battulga Munkhbat , Andrew B. Yankovich , Ruggero Verre , Eva Olsson , Timur O. Shegai

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) are currently among the most interesting two-dimensional (2D) materials due to their outstanding properties. MoTe2 involves attractive polymorphic TMD crystals which can exist in three different 2D…

Computational Physics · Physics 2018-02-05 Bohayra Mortazavi , Golibjon R Berdiyorov , Meysam Makaremi , Timon Rabczuk

Van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides provide a unique platform to engineer optoelectronic devices tuning their optical properties via stacking, twisting, or straining. Using ab initio Many-Body…

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Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayer has recently emerged as an important two-dimensional semiconductor with promising potentials for electronic and optoelectronic devices. Unlike semi-metallic graphene, layered TMDC has a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-10-16 Ziliang Ye , Ting Cao , Kevin O'Brien , Hanyu Zhu , Xiaobo Yin , Yuan Wang , Steven G. Louie , Xiang Zhang

Two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are promising for optoelectronic applications due to their strongly bound excitons. While bright excitons have been thoroughly scrutinized, dark excitons are much less…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) feature exceptional optical properties that are dominated by excitons, tightly bound electron-hole pairs. Forming van der Waals heterostructures by deterministically stacking individual…

Atomically thin semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers exhibit a very strong Coulomb interaction, giving rise to a rich exciton landscape. This makes these materials highly attractive for efficient and…

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Van der Waals materials enable the construction of atomically sharp interfaces between compounds with distinct crystal and electronic properties. This is dramatically exploited in moir\'e systems, where a lattice mismatch or twist between…

We study in-plane lateral heterostructures of commensurate transition-metal dichalcogenides, such as MoS$_{2}$-WS$_{2}$ and MoSe$_{2}$-WSe$_{2}$, and find interfacial and edge states that are highly localized to these regions of the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-04 Oscar Ávalos-Ovando , Diego Mastrogiuseppe , Sergio E. Ulloa

Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures (HS) formed by transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers offer a unique platform for the study of intralayer and interlayer excitons as well as moir\'e-pattern-induced features. Particularly,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-11-15 Mohammed Adel Aly , Manan Shah , Lorenz Maximilian Schneider , Kyungnam Kang , Martin Koch , Eui-Hyeok Yang , Arash Rahimi-Iman

Fabricating van der Waals (vdW) bilayer heterostructures (BL-HS) by stacking the same or different two-dimensional (2D) layers, offers a unique physical system with rich electronic and optical properties. Twist-angle between component…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-17 Kha Tran , Junho Choi , Akshay Singh