Together with the development of two-dimensional (2D) materials, transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs) have become one of the most popular series of model materials for …

Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a diverse group of materials whose
properties vary from semiconducting to metallic with a variety of many body phenomena …

Recent investigations reveal elemental semimetal (Bi and Sb) contacts fabricated with
conventional deposition processes exhibit a remarkable capacity of approaching the …

The rapid discovery of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) quantum materials has
led to heterostructures that integrate diverse quantum functionalities such as topological …

Crystal phase, a critical structural characteristic beyond the morphology, size, dimension,
facet, etc., determines the physicochemical properties of nanomaterials. As a group of …

The excitonic insulator (EI) is a Bose-Einstein condensation (BEC) of excitons bound by
electron-hole interaction in a solid, which could support high-temperature BEC transition …

Topological transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have attracted much attention due to
their potential applications in spintronics and quantum computations. In this work, the …

Probing the effects of thin-film thickness on transition metal dichalcogenides offer novel
insights into their electronic properties and tunability, which leads to a new avenue of …

We present structural, electrical, and thermoelectric potential measurements on high-quality
single crystals of ZrTe1. 8 grown from isothermal chemical vapor transport. These …

A charge density wave (CDW) is a collective quantum phenomenon in metals and features a
wavelike modulation of the conduction electron density. A microscopic understanding and …