Spintronics is a promising technology to develop high-speed, high-density, low-power, and
nonvolatile memory and logic devices, and thus has attracted tremendous attention …

A magnetic Janus monolayer, a special type of material which has asymmetric
arrangements of its surface at the nanoscale, has been shown to present rather exotic …

In this paper, we systematically investigate the structural, mechanical, optical and electronic
properties of novel two-dimensional XY (X= Al, Ga, In; Y= N, P, As) monolayers in the double …

Two-dimensional ferrovalley materials should simultaneously possess three characteristics,
that is, a Curie temperature beyond atmospheric temperature, perpendicular magnetic …

Manipulating the valley degree of freedom besides the charge and spin has attracted
increasing interest in fundamental sciences and emerging applications. In this study, the …

Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) niobium oxydihalide NbOI 2 has been recently demonstrated
as an excellent in-plane piezoelectric and nonlinear optical material. Here we show that …

Janus monolayers materials exhibit extraordinary physical and chemical properties because
of crystal field changes caused by their asymmetric structures. Here, we investigate the …

Two-dimensional materials possessing intrinsic multiferroic properties have long been
sought to harness the magnetoelectric coupling in nanoelectronic devices. Here, we report …

Two-dimensional Janus III–VI monolayers and corresponding van der Waals (vdW)
heterostructures present immense application potential in the solar energy conversion …

Two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic semiconductors hold great interest due to their
potential applications for nanoscale electronic devices. In this paper, the Janus 2 H-Gd XY …