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

The design and control of material interfaces is a foundational approach to realize
technologically useful effects and engineer material properties. This is especially true for two …

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 …

The formation of moiré patterns in crystalline solids can be used to manipulate their
electronic properties, which are fundamentally influenced by periodic potential landscapes …

Recent advances in the isolation and stacking of monolayers of van der Waals materials
have provided approaches for the preparation of quantum materials in the ultimate two …

Two-dimensional group-VI transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, such as MoS2,
WSe2, and others, exhibit strong light-matter coupling and possess direct band gaps in the …

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 …

Stacking different two-dimensional crystals into van der Waals heterostructures provides an
exciting approach to designing quantum materials that can harness and extend the already …

Devices that rely on the manipulation of excitons—bound pairs of electrons and holes—hold
great promise for realizing efficient interconnects between optical data transmission and …