In the decade since the introduction of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures for designer
devices, there has been an abundance of studies on the artificial assembly of vdW …

Twisted van der Waals heterostructures have latterly received prominent attention for their
many remarkable experimental properties and the promise that they hold for realizing …

In conventional ferroelectric materials, polarization is an intrinsic property limited by bulk
crystallographic structure and symmetry. Recently, it has been demonstrated that polar order …

In recent years, two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as
MoS 2, MoTe 2, WS 2, etc., have gained significant interest in sensing applications …

In twisted bilayers of semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides, a combination of
structural rippling and electronic coupling gives rise to periodic moiré potentials that can …

Understanding the atomic-scale mechanisms that govern the structure of interfaces is critical
across materials systems but particularly so for two-dimensional (2D) moiré materials. Here …

The spontaneous reduction of rotational symmetry in a crystalline solid driven by an
electronic mechanism is referred to as electronic nematicity. This phenomenon—initially …

The construction of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures over black
phosphorus (BP) has been attracting significant attention to better utilize its inherent …

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 …

The layer‐by‐layer stacked van der Waals structures (termed vdW hetero/homostructures)
offer a new paradigm for materials design—their physical properties can be tuned by the …