Recent years have witnessed significant progress in quantum communication and quantum
internet with the emerging quantum photonic chips, whose characteristics of scalability …

Layered materials are taking centre stage in the ever-increasing research effort to develop
material platforms for quantum technologies. We are at the dawn of the era of layered …

In the context of quantum technologies, the generation and manipulation of single photons
has become a key element for applications such as quantum communication and quantum …

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

Graphene and two-dimensional materials (2DM) remain an active field of research in
science and engineering over 15 years after the first reports of 2DM. The vast amount of …

Due to the constraints imposed by physical effects and performance degradation, silicon-
based chip technology is facing certain limitations in sustaining the advancement of Moore's …

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

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 …

Solid-state quantum devices use quantum entanglement for various quantum technologies,
such as quantum computation, encryption, communication and sensing. Solid-state …

Since the isolation of graphene in 2004, two-dimensional (2D) materials research has
rapidly evolved into an entire subdiscipline in the physical sciences with a wide range of …