Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

Abstract 2D materials are promising for strain engineering due to their atomic thickness and
exceptional mechanical properties. In particular, non‐uniform and localized strain can be …

Transport of charge carriers is at the heart of current nanoelectronics. In conventional
materials, electronic transport can be controlled by applying electric fields. Atomically thin …

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 …

Quantum confinement effects and structures with broken inversion symmetry distinguish
transition metal halide (TMD) monolayers from their bulk equivalents in several ways, for …

Efficient nanophotonic devices are essential for applications in quantum networking, optical
information processing, sensing, and nonlinear optics. Extensive research efforts have …

Dark excitons in transition-metal dichalcogenides, with their long lifetimes and strong
binding energies, provide potential platforms from photonic and optoelectronic applications …

In atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), the environmental sensitivity of
the strong Coulomb interaction offers promising approaches to create spatially varying …

The growing field of quantum information technology requires propagation of information
over long distances with efficient readout mechanisms. Excitonic quantum fluids have …

The peculiar defect‐related photon emission processes in 2D hexagonal boron nitride (hBN)
have become a topic of intense research due to their potential applications in quantum …