The discovery of an ever-increasing family of atomic layered magnetic materials, together
with the already established vast catalogue of strong spin–orbit coupling and topological …

The successful fabrication of Janus transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayer has
sparked extensive research interests in various fields, such as nanoelectronics …

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) monolayers have been considered as important
two-dimensional semiconductor materials for the study of fundamental physics in the field of …

Transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers MXY (M= Mo, W; X≠ Y= S, Se, Te) are
two-dimensional polar semiconductors. Setting the WSeTe monolayer as an example and …

Interlayer coupling plays essential roles in the quantum transport, polaritonic, and
electrochemical properties of stacked van der Waals (vdW) materials. In this work, we report …

Using first-principles calculations, we report the electronic properties with a special focus on
the band splitting in the WSi2N4 class of materials. Due to the broken inversion symmetry …

Plasmonic metasurfaces can significantly enhance the interaction between light and 2D
materials. Hybrid structures of plasmonic lattices and 2D materials show great promise for …

The variety of emergent phenomena occurring at oxide interfaces has made these systems
the focus of intense study in recent years. We argue that spin–orbit effects in oxide interfaces …

Up to now, two-dimensional (2D) materials with both valley polarization and the Rashba
effect are still rare. In this work, a new kind of Janus monolayers TiXY (X≠ Y, X/Y= Cl, Br, I) …

Two-dimensional topological materials have attracted intense research efforts owing to their
promise in applications for low-energy, high-efficiency quantum computations. Group-VA …