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Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), belonging to the class of van der Waals materials, are promising materials for optoelectronics and photonics. In particular, their giant optical anisotropy may enable important optical effects when…
Magneto-transport experiments on high mobility two-dimensional electron gases in GaAs/AlGaAs heterostructures have revealed striking anomalies near half-filling of several spin-resolved, yet highly excited, Landau levels. These anomalies…
We investigated multilayer plates made by exfoliation from a high-quality MoS$_2$ crystal and reveal that they represent a new object - van der Waals homostructure consisting of a bulk core and a few detached monolayers on its surface. This…
We report anisotropic magnetodielectric (MD) coupling in layered van der Waals (vdW) antiferromagnetic (AFM) FePS$_3$ (N\'eel temperature $T_{\mathrm{N}}$ $\sim$ 120K) with perpendicular anisotropy. Above $T_N$, while dielectric response…
Besides the chemical constituents, it is the lattice geometry that controls the most important material properties. In many interesting compounds, the arrangement of elements leads to pronounced anisotropies, which reflect into a varying…
Van der Waals heterostructures, vertical stacks of layered materials, offer newopportunities for novel quantum phenomena which are absent in their constituent components. Here we report the emergence of polaron quasiparticles at the…
Light-matter coupling in van der Waal's materials holds significant promise in realizing Bosonic condensation and superfluidity. The underlying semiconductor's crystal asymmetry, if any, can be utilized to form anisotropic half-light…
Phosphorene, an emerging elemental two-dimensional (2D) direct band gap semiconductor with fascinating structural and electronic properties distinctively different from other 2D materials such as graphene and MoS2, is promising for novel…
The van der Waals heterostructures of allotropes of phosphorene (${\alpha}$- and $\beta-P$) with MoSe2 (H-, T-, ZT- and SO-MoSe2) are investigated in the framework of state-of-the-art density functional theory. The semiconducting…
2D materials exhibiting in-plane anisotropy enable novel functionality in electronic, optoelectronic, and photonic devices, yet their availability is generally limited to naturally-occurring low-symmetry van der Waals compounds. Here, we…
Moir\'e superlattices of van der Waals heterostructures provide a powerful new way to engineer the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Many novel quantum phenomena have emerged in different moir\'e heterostructures,…
Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) has a crucial feature for developing highly sensitive sensors and innovative memory devices. While extensively studied in bulk materials, AMR effects in these materials are typically weak. Recent…
Few-layer black phosphorus was recently rediscovered as a narrow-bandgap atomically thin semiconductor and has already attracted unprecedented attention due to its interesting properties. One feature of this material that sets it apart from…
Natural hyperbolic materials have attracted significant interest in the field of photonics due to their unique optical properties. Based on the initial successful explorations on layered crystalline materials, hyperbolic dispersion was…
In strongly correlated electronic systems, Coulomb interactions frequently manifest through emergent electronic orders that spontaneously break rotational symmetry. Understanding how such symmetry breaking intertwines with other collective…
Optical anisotropy in crystalline solids enables direction-dependent light-matter interactions and underpins a variety of advanced photonic functionalities. In this context, Vanadium dioxide (VO2) represents a prototypical material that…
Correlated materials may exhibit unusually high resistivity increasing linearly in temperature, breaking through the Mott-Ioffe-Regel bound, above which coherent quasiparticles are destroyed. The fate of collective charge excitations, or…
On-chip optoelectronics is fundamental to modern telecommunication, yet the diffraction limit of light remains a major obstacle to the extreme miniaturization of photonic integrated circuits (PICs). Hyperbolic polaritons (HPs) $-$ hybrid…
The anisotropy of the electronic transition is a well-known characteristic of low-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides, but their layer-thickness dependence has not been properly in- vestigated experimentally until now. Yet, it not…
Black Phosphorus (BP) is unique among layered materials owing to its homonuclear lattice and strong structural anisotropy. While recent investigations on few layers BP have extensively explored the in-plane (a,c) anisotropy, much less…