Realizing the full potential of any materials system requires understanding and controlling
disorder, which can obscure intrinsic properties and hinder device performance. Here we …

Two-dimensional group-VI transition metal dichalcogenide semiconductors, such as MoS2,
WSe2, and others, exhibit strong light-matter coupling and possess direct band gaps in the …

Two-dimensional materials from layered van der Waals (vdW) crystals hold great promise for
electronic, optoelectronic, and quantum devices, but technological implementation will be …

Atomically thin materials such as graphene and monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) exhibit remarkable physical properties resulting from their reduced dimensionality …

Van der Waals heterostructures are synthetic quantum materials composed of stacks of
atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) layers. Because the electrons in the atomically thin 2D …

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 …

The isolation of the first two-dimensional material, graphene–a monolayer of carbon atoms
arranged in a hexagonal lattice-opened new exciting opportunities in the field of condensed …

Defects in conventional semiconductors substantially lower the photoluminescence (PL)
quantum yield (QY), a key metric of optoelectronic performance that directly dictates the …

The emergence of two-dimensional Dirac materials, particularly transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDs), has reinvigorated interest in valleytronics, which utilizes the …

In recent years, enhanced light–matter interactions through a plethora of dipole-type
polaritonic excitations have been observed in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials. In …