Abstract Two-dimensional materials (2DMs) have been used widely in constructing
photodetectors (PDs) because of their advantages in flexible integration and ultrabroad …

The unique electronic and catalytic properties emerging from low symmetry anisotropic (1D
and 2D) metal chalcogenides (MCs) have generated tremendous interest for use in next …

The scaling of silicon metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors has followed
Moore's law for decades, but the physical thinning of silicon at sub-ten-nanometre …

In-sensor processing, which can reduce the energy and hardware burden for many machine
vision applications, is currently lacking in state-of-the-art active pixel sensor (APS) …

Metasurfaces, with extremely exotic capabilities to manipulate electromagnetic (EM) waves,
have derived a plethora of advanced metadevices with intriguing functionalities …

In recent years, enhanced light–matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type
polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In …

High-mobility semiconducting ultrathin films form the basis of modern electronics, and may
lead to the scalable fabrication of highly performing devices. Because the ultrathin limit …

Strain engineering is an important method for tuning the properties of semiconductors and
has been used to improve the mobility of silicon transistors for several decades. Recently …

Large-area and high-quality two-dimensional crystals are the basis for the development of
the next-generation electronic and optical devices. The synthesis of two-dimensional …

Defects usually play an important role in tailoring various properties of two-dimensional
materials. Defects in two-dimensional monolayer molybdenum disulphide may be …