Semiconductors are the basis of many vital technologies such as electronics, computing,
communications, optoelectronics, and sensing. Modern semiconductor technology can trace …

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
generally possess a type-II band alignment that facilitates the formation of interlayer excitons …

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Van der Waals heterostructures are synthetic quantum materials composed of stacks of
atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) layers. Because the electrons in the atomically thin 2D …

Semiconductor technology is currently based on the manipulation of electronic charge;
however, electrons have additional degrees of freedom, such as spin and valley, that can be …

The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

Heterostructures comprising different monolayer semiconductors provide an attractive
setting for fundamental science and device technologies, such as in the emerging field of …

A lack of inversion symmetry coupled with the presence of time‐reversal symmetry endows
2D transition metal dichalcogenides with individually addressable valleys in momentum …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …

Monolayer transition metal dichalcogenide crystals, as direct-gap materials with strong light–
matter interactions, have attracted much recent attention. Because of their spin-polarized …