Research progress on the preparations, characterizations and applications of large scale 2D transition metal dichalcogenides films

L Xiong, K Wang, D Li, X Luo, J Weng, Z Liu, H Zhang - FlatChem, 2020 - Elsevier
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs) materials remained a hot
research topic due to their unique structures and properties. A lot of transistors based on …

Spontaneous gyrotropic electronic order in a transition-metal dichalcogenide

SY Xu, Q Ma, Y Gao, A Kogar, A Zong… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Chirality is ubiquitous in nature, and populations of opposite chiralities are surprisingly
asymmetric at fundamental levels 1, 2. Examples range from parity violation in the subatomic …

[HTML][HTML] Robust edge photocurrent response on layered type II Weyl semimetal WTe2

Q Wang, J Zheng, Y He, J Cao, X Liu, M Wang… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Photosensing and energy harvesting based on exotic properties of quantum materials and
new operation principles have great potential to break the fundamental performance limit of …

[HTML][HTML] Anisotropic magnetoresistance and planar Hall effect in correlated and topological materials

T Li, L Zhang, X Hong - Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
This article reviews the recent progress in understanding the anisotropic magnetoresistance
(AMR) and the planar Hall effect (PHE) in two classes of quantum materials, the strongly …

Enhanced photogalvanic effects in the two-dimensional WTe2 monolayer by vacancy-and substitution-doping

Z Xu, B Luo, M Chen, W Xie, Y Hu, X Xiao - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The photogalvanic effect (PGE) enables the generation of photocurrent at zero bias and
without the need of the pn junction, and also offer a high polarization sensitivity in a …

[HTML][HTML] Defect-induced helicity dependent terahertz emission in Dirac semimetal PtTe2 thin films

Z Chen, H Qiu, X Cheng, J Cui, Z Jin, D Tian… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Nonlinear transport enabled by symmetry breaking in quantum materials has aroused
considerable interest in condensed matter physics and interdisciplinary electronics …

[HTML][HTML] Linear and nonlinear optical responses in the chiral multifold semimetal RhSi

Z Ni, B Xu, MÁ Sánchez-Martínez, Y Zhang… - npj Quantum …, 2020 - nature.com
Chiral topological semimetals are materials that break both inversion and mirror symmetries.
They host interesting phenomena such as the quantized circular photogalvanic effect …

Anisotropic Picosecond Spin-Photocurrent from Weyl Semimetal WTe2

M Chen, K Lee, J Li, L Cheng, Q Wang, K Cai… - ACS …, 2020 - ACS Publications
The generation and detection of ultrafast spin current, preferably reaching a frequency up to
terahertz, is the core of spintronics. Studies have shown that the Weyl semimetal WTe2 is of …

[HTML][HTML] Circular photocurrents in centrosymmetric semiconductors with hidden spin polarization

K Wang, B Zhang, C Yan, L Du, S Wang - Nature Communications, 2024 - nature.com
Centrosymmetric materials with site inversion asymmetries possess hidden spin
polarization, which remains challenging to be converted into spin currents because the …

Engineering Weyl Phases and Nonlinear Hall Effects in -

S Singh, J Kim, KM Rabe, D Vanderbilt - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
MoTe 2 has recently attracted much attention due to the observation of pressure-induced
superconductivity, exotic topological phase transitions, and nonlinear quantum effects …