Colloquium: Excitons in atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

G Wang, A Chernikov, MM Glazov, TF Heinz… - Reviews of Modern …, 2018 - APS
Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Valleytronics in 2D materials

JR Schaibley, H Yu, G Clark, P Rivera, JS Ross… - Nature Reviews …, 2016 - nature.com
Semiconductor technology is currently based on the manipulation of electronic charge;
however, electrons have additional degrees of freedom, such as spin and valley, that can be …

Strong coupling and pressure engineering in WSe2–MoSe2 heterobilayers

J **a, J Yan, Z Wang, Y He, Y Gong, W Chen, TC Sum… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Two-dimensional materials offer an exciting platform that enables the creation of van der
Waals heterostructures with rich functions and intriguing physical properties that stem from …

Van der Waals engineering of ferromagnetic semiconductor heterostructures for spin and valleytronics

D Zhong, KL Seyler, X Linpeng, R Cheng… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
The integration of magnetic material with semiconductors has been fertile ground for
fundamental science as well as of great practical interest toward the seamless integration of …

First-principles prediction of a room-temperature ferromagnetic Janus VSSe monolayer with piezoelectricity, ferroelasticity, and large valley polarization

C Zhang, Y Nie, S Sanvito, A Du - Nano letters, 2019 - ACS Publications
Inspired by recent experiments on the successful fabrication of monolayer Janus transition-
metal dichalcogenides [Lu, A.-Y.; Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017, 12,(8), 744 and ferromagnetic …

Many‐body complexes in 2D semiconductors

J Pei, J Yang, T Yildirim, H Zhang, Y Lu - Advanced Materials, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract 2D semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and black
phosphorus (BP) are currently attracting great attention due to their intrinsic bandgaps and …

Ferromagnetism emerged from non-ferromagnetic atomic crystals

C Gong, P Zhang, T Norden, Q Li, Z Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The recently emerged ferromagnetic two-dimensional (2D) materials provide unique
platforms for compact spintronic devices down to the atomic-thin regime; however, the …

Revealing the biexciton and trion-exciton complexes in BN encapsulated WSe2

Z Li, T Wang, Z Lu, C **, Y Chen, Y Meng… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Strong Coulomb interactions in single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) result
in the emergence of strongly bound excitons, trions, and biexcitons. These excitonic …

Exciton diamagnetic shifts and valley Zeeman effects in monolayer WS2 and MoS2 to 65 Tesla

AV Stier, KM McCreary, BT Jonker, J Kono… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
In bulk and quantum-confined semiconductors, magneto-optical studies have historically
played an essential role in determining the fundamental parameters of excitons (size …

Lightwave-driven quasiparticle collisions on a subcycle timescale

F Langer, M Hohenleutner, CP Schmid, C Pöllmann… - Nature, 2016 - nature.com
Abstract Ever since Ernest Rutherford scattered α-particles from gold foils, collision
experiments have revealed insights into atoms, nuclei and elementary particles. In solids …