Atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are 2D semiconductors with tightly
bound excitons and correspondingly strong light–matter interactions. Owing to the weak van …

Abstract 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides comprise an emerging class of
materials with distinct properties, including large exciton binding energies that reach …

Textile materials have been enriched in function at the composite level with continuous
developments in the textile industry. Zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles (ZnO‐NPs) are strongly …

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

The observation of ferromagnetic order in a monolayer of CrI 3 has been recently reported,
with a Curie temperature of 45 K and off-plane easy axis. Here we study the origin of …

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 …

The isolation of graphene has triggered an avalanche of studies into the spin-dependent
physical properties of this material and of graphene-based spintronic devices. Here, we …

The Zeeman effect, which is usually detrimental to superconductivity, can be strongly
protective when an effective Zeeman field from intrinsic spin-orbit coupling locks the spins of …

Transition metal dichalcogenides in the class MX 2 (M= Mo, W; X= S, Se) have been
identified as direct-gap semiconductors in the monolayer limit. Here, we examine light …

We presentk p· Hamiltonians parametrized byab initiodensity functional theory calculations
to describe the dispersion of the valence and conduction bands at their extrema (theK, Q, Γ …