Tungsten is the heaviest transition metal in the family of common transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs). Despite the essential similarities of TMDCs, the considerable …

Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) offer fascinating opportunities for
fundamental nanoscale science and various technological applications. They are a …

Raman spectroscopy is one of the most useful tools for the analysis of two-dimensional (2D)
materials. While MXenes are a very large family of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides …

Van der Waals (vdW) metallic contacts have been demonstrated as a promising approach to
reduce the contact resistance and minimize the Fermi level pinning at the interface of two …

We determine the effect of defects induced by ion bombardment on the Raman spectrum of
single-layer molybdenum disulfide. The evolution of both the linewidths and frequency shifts …

Semiconductor p–n junctions are the elementary building blocks of most electronic and
optoelectronic devices. The need for their miniaturization has fuelled the rapid growth of …

The first step to wider adoption of two-dimensional (2D) materials is understanding their
fundamental properties by employing characterization methods, among which Raman …

Tungsten diselenide (WSe2) is a two-dimensional material that is of interest for next-
generation electronic and optoelectronic devices due to its direct bandgap of 1.65 eV in the …

Abstract Although two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted considerable research
interest for use in the development of innovative wearable optoelectronic systems, the …

A multistep diffusion-mediated process was developed to control the nucleation density,
size, and lateral growth rate of WSe2 domains on c-plane sapphire for the epitaxial growth of …