2D Materials & Van der Waals Heterostructures
Graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenides, 2D magnets, moire excitons and van der Waals device engineering.
Most influential
- Van der Waals heterostructures
Research on graphene and other two-dimensional atomic crystals is intense and likely to remain one of the hottest topics in condensed matter physics and materials science for many years. Looking beyond this field, isolated atomic planes can also be reassembled into designer heterostructures made layer by layer in a precisely chosen sequence. The first - alre…
Article10,926 citationsarXiv:1307.6718doi:10.1038/nature12385 - 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
The physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures based on such crystals has been developing extremely fast. With new 2D materials, truly 2D physics has started to appear (e.g. absence of long-range order, 2D excitons, commensurate-incommensurate transition, etc). Novel heterostructure devices are also starting to appear - tunneling transist…
Review7,465 citationsarXiv:1608.03059doi:10.1126/science.aac9439 - Correlated insulator behaviour at half-filling in magic-angle graphene superlattices
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an emergent class of metamaterials comprised of vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) building blocks, which provide us with a vast tool set to engineer their properties on top of the already rich tunability of 2D materials. One of the knobs, the twist angle between different layers, plays a crucial role in the ulti…
Article4,884 citationsarXiv:1802.00553doi:10.1038/nature26154 - Van der Waals heterostructures and devicesReview2,813 citationsdoi:10.1038/natrevmats.2016.42
- Catalysis with two-dimensional materials and their heterostructuresReview2,312 citationsdoi:10.1038/nnano.2015.340
- Ultrafast charge transfer in atomically thin MoS2/WS2 heterostructures
Van der Waals heterostructures have recently emerged as a new class of materials, where quantum coupling between stacked atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) layers, including graphene, hexagonal-boron nitride, and transition metal dichalcogenides (MX2), give rise to fascinating new phenomena. MX2 heterostructures are particularly exciting for novel optoelec…
Article2,309 citationsarXiv:1407.6395doi:10.1038/nnano.2014.167 - Magnetic 2D materials and heterostructures
The family of 2D materials grows day by day, drastically expanding the scope of possible phenomena to be explored in two dimensions, as well as the possible van der Waals heterostructures that one can create. Such 2D materials currently cover a vast range of properties. Until recently, this family has been missing one crucial member - 2D magnets. The situati…
Review1,786 citationsarXiv:1910.03425doi:10.1038/s41565-019-0438-6 - Quantum spin Hall effect in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides
We report a new class of large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides, namely, MX$_2$ with M=(Mo, W) and X=(S, Se, and Te), whose topological electronic properties are highly tunable by external electric field. We propose a novel topological field effect transistor made of these atomic layer materials and their v…
Article2,056 citationsarXiv:1406.2749doi:10.1126/science.1256815 - Two-dimensional magnetic crystals and emergent heterostructure devicesReview1,684 citationsdoi:10.1126/science.aav4450
- Vertical field-effect transistor based on graphene–WS2 heterostructures for flexible and transparent electronics
The celebrated electronic properties of graphene have opened way for materials just one-atom-thick to be used in the post-silicon electronic era. An important milestone was the creation of heterostructures based on graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) crystals, which can be assembled in 3D stacks with atomic layer precision. These layered structures have …
Article1,752 citationsarXiv:1211.5090doi:10.1038/nnano.2012.224 - Observation of long-lived interlayer excitons in monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 heterostructures
Two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene1, boron nitride2, and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs)3-5, have sparked wide interest in both device physics and technological applications at the atomic monolayer limit. These 2D monolayers can be stacked together with precise control to form novel van der Waals heterostructures for new functionalities…
Article1,693 citationsarXiv:1403.4985doi:10.1038/ncomms7242 - Van der Waals integration before and beyond two-dimensional materialsReview1,552 citationsdoi:10.1038/s41586-019-1013-x
- Mixed-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures
The isolation of a growing number of two-dimensional (2D) materials has inspired worldwide efforts to integrate distinct 2D materials into van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. Given that any passivated, dangling bond-free surface will interact with another via vdW forces, the vdW heterostructure concept can be extended to include the integration of 2D mater…
Review1,609 citationsarXiv:1608.00515doi:10.1038/nmat4703 - Prediction of intrinsic two-dimensional ferroelectrics in In2Se3 and other III2-VI3 van der Waals materials
Abstract Interest in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals materials has grown rapidly across multiple scientific and engineering disciplines in recent years. However, ferroelectricity, the presence of a spontaneous electric polarization, which is important in many practical applications, has rarely been reported in such materials so far. Here we employ first-p…
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Article1,458 citationsdoi:10.1038/ncomms14956 - Evidence for moiré excitons in van der Waals heterostructures
In van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures formed by stacking two monolayer semiconductors, lattice mismatch or rotational misalignment introduces an in-plane moiré superlattice. While it is widely recognized that a moiré superlattice can modulate the electronic band structure and lead to novel transport properties including unconventional superconductivity and…
Article1,378 citationsarXiv:1807.03771doi:10.1038/s41586-019-0975-z
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- Beyond Geometry: Hole-Edge Atomic Configuration as a Design Variable in Graphyne KirigamiPreprintarXiv:2610.36468
- First-principles-based search for emergent topological spin textures in transition-metal dichalcogenide monolayersPreprintarXiv:2610.36542doi:10.1038/s41524-026-02162-2
- First-Principles Investigation of Irida-Graphane: A Wide-Band-Gap Semiconductor Derived from Irida-GraphenePreprintarXiv:2610.37095
- Electric Field-Induced Hole- and Electron-Type Flat Bands in Twisted Double Bilayer GraphenePreprintarXiv:2610.37402doi:10.1002/aelm.202500882
- Nanoscale mapping of native defects in Td-MoTe2 and their impact on graphene-based van der Waals heterostructuresPreprintarXiv:2610.34924
- High-efficiency solid-state electrochemical thermal switching through phonon engineering of 2D materialsPreprintarXiv:2610.35547
- Information-theoretic entropy imaging of quantum matterPreprintarXiv:2610.35790
- Confinement, registry and spin in chromium migration between graphene layersPreprintarXiv:2610.36197
- Spin Relaxation and Electrical Control of Spin Transport in Few-Layer $T_{\rm d}$-MoTe$_2$PreprintarXiv:2610.36399
- Momentum-selective graphene spectroscopy of moiré excitonsPreprintarXiv:2610.33989