Light–valley interactions in 2D semiconductors

KF Mak, D Xiao, J Shan - Nature Photonics, 2018 - nature.com
The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

Valley manipulation in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides and their hybrid systems: status and challenges

S Zhao, X Li, B Dong, H Wang, H Wang… - Reports on Progress …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently, the emerging conceptual valley-related devices have attracted much attention due
to the progress on generating, controlling, and detecting the valley degree of freedom in the …

Valley-polarized exciton currents in a van der Waals heterostructure

D Unuchek, A Ciarrocchi, A Avsar, Z Sun… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Valleytronics is an appealing alternative to conventional charge-based electronics that aims
at encoding data in the valley degree of freedom, that is, the information as to which extreme …

Valleytronics in transition metal dichalcogenides materials

Y Liu, Y Gao, S Zhang, J He, J Yu, Z Liu - Nano Research, 2019 - Springer
Valley degree of freedom in the first Brillouin zone of Bloch electrons offers an innovative
approach to information storage and quantum computation. Broken inversion symmetry …

Separation of valley excitons in a MoS2 monolayer using a subwavelength asymmetric groove array

L Sun, CY Wang, A Krasnok, J Choi, J Shi… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Excitons in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides are formed at K and K′ points at
the boundary of the Brillouin zone. They acquire a valley degree of freedom, which has been …

Valleytronics: opportunities, challenges, and paths forward

SA Vitale, D Nezich, JO Varghese, P Kim, N Gedik… - Small, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A lack of inversion symmetry coupled with the presence of time‐reversal symmetry endows
2D transition metal dichalcogenides with individually addressable valleys in momentum …

Optoelectronic devices based on atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides

A Pospischil, T Mueller - Applied Sciences, 2016 - mdpi.com
We review the application of atomically thin transition metal dichalcogenides in
optoelectronic devices. First, a brief overview of the optical properties of two-dimensional …

Enhanced light–matter interaction in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides

L Huang, A Krasnok, A Alú, Y Yu… - Reports on Progress …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) materials, such as
MoS 2, WS 2, MoSe 2, and WSe 2, have received extensive attention in the past decade due …

Polarization switching and electrical control of interlayer excitons in two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures

A Ciarrocchi, D Unuchek, A Avsar, K Watanabe… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The long-lived interlayer excitons in van der Waals heterostructures based on transition-
metal dichalcogenides, together with unique spin–valley physics, make them promising for …

Robust room temperature valley Hall effect of interlayer excitons

Z Huang, Y Liu, K Dini, Q Tan, Z Liu, H Fang, J Liu… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The Berry curvature in the band structure of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)
introduces a valley-dependent effective magnetic field, which induces the valley Hall effect …