Semiconductors are the basis of many vital technologies such as electronics, computing,
communications, optoelectronics, and sensing. Modern semiconductor technology can trace …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are
a new class of electronic materials offering tremendous opportunities for advanced …

Epitaxial growth, a crystallographically oriented growth induced by the chemical bonding
between crystalline substrate and atomic building blocks, has been a key technique in the …

Conspectus Two-dimensional (2D) heterostructures have created many novel properties
and triggered a variety of promising applications, thus setting off a boom in the modern …

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as two-dimensional (2D) building
blocks to construct nanoscale light sources. To date, a wide array of TMD-based light …

The search for materials with flat electronic bands continues due to their potential to drive
strong correlation and symmetry breaking orders. Electronic moirés formed in van der Waals …

In atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, there is a crossover from
indirect to direct band gap as the thickness drops to one monolayer, which comes with a fast …

Conducting heterostructures have emerged as a promising strategy to enhance physical
properties and unlock the potential application of such materials. Herein, we conduct and …

The growth of bilayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials on conventional 3D
semiconductors results in 2D/3D hybrid heterostructures, which can provide additional …

The tin sulfide (SnxSy) class of materials has attracted tremendous research interest in
recent years owing to their intriguing physicochemical properties. Their inimitable optical …