The technique of plasma processing is beneficial for wafer cleaning and precision etching of
integrated circuits and essential in manufacture of advanced semiconductor devices with …

Exploiting the valley degree of freedom to store and manipulate information provides a novel
paradigm for future electronics. A monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) with a …

Lifting the valley degeneracy of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) would
allow versatile control of the valley degree of freedom. We report a giant valley exciton …

Water splitting is considered as a pollution‐free and efficient solution to produce hydrogen
energy. Low‐cost and efficient electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) …

Layered van der Waals (vdW) materials have attracted significant attention due to their
materials properties that can enhance diverse applications including next-generation …

This work demonstrates a large area process for atomically thin 2D semiconductors to
unlock the technological upscale required for their commercial uptake. The new atomic layer …

Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures are promising for next-generation
optoelectronics, spintronics, valleytronics, and electronics. Despite recent progress in …

Realizing van der Waals (vdW) epitaxy in the 1980s represents a breakthrough that
circumvents the stringent lattice matching and processing compatibility requirements in …

Controlling the flow rate of precursors is essential for the growth of high quality monolayer
single crystals of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) by chemical vapor deposition …

The rich morphology of 2D materials grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD), is a
distinctive feature. However, understanding the complex growth of 2D crystals under …