Light-induced emergent phenomena in 2D materials and topological materials

C Bao, P Tang, D Sun, S Zhou - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Light–matter interaction in 2D and topological materials provides a fascinating control knob
for inducing emergent, non-equilibrium properties and achieving new functionalities in the …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

An ultrafast symmetry switch in a Weyl semimetal

EJ Sie, CM Nyby, CD Pemmaraju, SJ Park, X Shen… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
Topological quantum materials exhibit fascinating properties,–, with important applications
for dissipationless electronics and fault-tolerant quantum computers,. Manipulating the …

Recent progress of Janus 2D transition metal chalcogenides: from theory to experiments

R Li, Y Cheng, W Huang - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of graphene, 2D materials with various properties have gained
increasing attention in fields such as novel electronic, optic, spintronic, and valleytronic …

Electrically switchable Berry curvature dipole in the monolayer topological insulator WTe2

SY Xu, Q Ma, H Shen, V Fatemi, S Wu, TR Chang… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Recent experimental evidence for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state in monolayer WTe2
has linked the fields of two-dimensional materials and topological physics,,,,,–. This two …

Emergent layer stacking arrangements in c-axis confined MoTe2

JL Hart, L Bhatt, Y Zhu, MG Han, E Bianco, S Li… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The layer stacking order in 2D materials strongly affects functional properties and holds
promise for next-generation electronic devices. In bulk, octahedral MoTe2 possesses two …

Synthesis of Large-Scale Monolayer 1T′-MoTe2 and Its Stabilization via Scalable hBN Encapsulation

S Pace, L Martini, D Convertino, DH Keum, S Forti… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Out of the different structural phases of molybdenum ditelluride (MoTe2), the distorted
octahedral 1T′ possesses great interest for fundamental physics and is a promising …

Anisotropic Broadband Photoresponse of Layered Type‐II Weyl Semimetal MoTe2

J Lai, X Liu, J Ma, Q Wang, K Zhang, X Ren… - Advanced …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Photodetectors based on Weyl semimetal promise extreme performance in terms of highly
sensitive, broadband and self‐powered operation owing to its extraordinary material …

MoTe2: Semiconductor or Semimetal?

Y Deng, X Zhao, C Zhu, P Li, R Duan, G Liu, Z Liu - ACS nano, 2021 - ACS Publications
Transition metal tellurides (TMTs) have attracted intense interest due to their intriguing
physical properties arising from their diverse phase topologies. To date, a wide range of …

Spatially dispersive circular photogalvanic effect in a Weyl semimetal

Z Ji, G Liu, Z Addison, W Liu, P Yu, H Gao, Z Liu… - Nature materials, 2019 - nature.com
Weyl semimetals (WSMs) are gapless topological states of matter with broken inversion
and/or time reversal symmetry. WSMs can support a circulating photocurrent when …