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 …

Recent advances in two-dimensional (2D) materials have led to the renewed interest in
intercalation as a powerful fabrication and processing tool. Intercalation is an effective …

Structural symmetry-breaking plays a crucial role in determining the electronic band
structures of two-dimensional materials. Tremendous efforts have been devoted to breaking …

The crystal configuration of sandwiched S–Mo–Se structure (Janus SMoSe) at the
monolayer limit has been synthesized and carefully characterized in this work. By controlled …

The crystal structure of a material creates a periodic potential that electrons move through
giving rise to its electronic band structure. When two-dimensional materials are stacked, the …

Recent advances in materials fabrication have enabled the manufacturing of ordered 2D
electron systems, such as heterogeneous interfaces, atomic layers grown by molecular …

The ability to detect light over a broad spectral range is central to practical optoelectronic
applications and has been successfully demonstrated with photodetectors of two …

Since the discovery of graphene, 2D materials with various properties have gained
increasing attention in fields such as novel electronic, optic, spintronic, and valleytronic …

The electronic, magnetic, and optical absorption properties of partial metal adsorbed WS 2
systems were calculated by using the first-principles approach. The optimal adsorption sites …

The Zeeman effect, which is usually detrimental to superconductivity, can be strongly
protective when an effective Zeeman field from intrinsic spin-orbit coupling locks the spins of …