Two-dimensional (2D) materials including graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, black
phosphorus, MXenes, and semimetals have attracted extensive and widespread interest …

Together with the development of two-dimensional (2D) materials, transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) have become one of the most popular series of model materials for …

The photoexcitation life cycle from incident photon (and creation of photoexcited electron–
hole pair) to ultimate extraction of electrical current is a complex multiphysics process …

Semimetals are being explored for their unique advantages in low-energy high-speed
photodetection, although they suffer from serious drawbacks such as an intrinsically high …

As with all stylish 2D functional materials, tellurene and tellurides possessing excellent
physical and chemical properties such as high environmental stability, tunable narrow …

The zero‐magnetic‐field nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) refers to the second‐order transverse
current induced by an applied alternating electric field; it indicates the topological properties …

As a quantum material, Weyl semimetal has a series of electronic-band-structure features,
including Weyl points with left and right chirality and corresponding Berry curvature, which …

Bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE), a second-order nonlinear optical effect governed by the
quantum geometric properties of materials, offers a promising approach to overcome the …

Device applications of ferroelectrics have not only utilized the switchable polarization but
also adopted myriads of emerging physical properties. In particular, ferroelectrics in ultra …

Research on two-dimensional (2D) materials has been explosively increasing in last
seventeen years in varying subjects including condensed matter physics, electronic …