Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their vertically stacked heterostructures have attracted much attention due to their novel optical properties and strong light-matter interactions in the infrared. Here, we present a theoretical study of the near-fi...
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) magnetic materials have emerged as a frontier in condensed matter physics and materials science, offering unprecedented opportunities for next-generation spintronic technologies. This review examines the synth...
Van der Waals heterostructure is formed by two-dimensional materials, which applications have become hot topics and received intensive exploration for fabricating without lattice mismatch. With the sustained decrease in dimensions of field effect tra...
Constructing heterostructures from already synthesized two-dimensional materials is of significant importance. We performed a first-principles study to investigate the electronic properties and interfacial characteristics of Janus MoSH/WSi2N4 van der...
The emergence of unexpected properties in two-dimensional materials, interfaces, and nanostructured materials opens an exciting framework for exploring new devices and applications. Recent advances in materials design and the nano structurization of...
Due to the favorable properties of two-dimensional materials such as SnS2, with an energy gap in the visible light spectrum, and InSe, with high electron mobility, the combination of them can create a novel platform for electronic and optical devices...
Constructing two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is an effective strategy for tuning and improving the characters of 2D-material-based devices. Four trilayer vdW heterostructures, BP/BP/MoS2, BlueP/BlueP/MoS2, BP/graphene/MoS2 a...
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) and black phosphorous have drawn tremendous attention as an emerging optical material due to their unique and remarkable optical properties. In addition, the ability...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals stacked heterostructures (vdWH) are becoming the rising and glowing candidates in the emerging flexible nanoelectronics and optoelectronic industry. Strain engineering proves to be an efficient w...
van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) can exhibit novel physical properties and a wide range of applications compared with monolayer two-dimensional (2D) materials. In this work, we investigate the electronic and optical properties of MoSTe/MoGe2N4...
Two-dimensional (2D) organic−inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) have emerged as promising candidates for next-generation optoelectronic applications. While vertical heterostructures of 2D OIHPs have been explored through mechanical stacking,...
The interaction between terahertz (THz) photons and phonons of materials is crucial for the development of THz photonics. In this work, typical two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) transition metal chalcogenide (TMD) layers and heterostructures a...
Constructing van der Waals (vdW) hetero-structure by stacking different two-dimensional (2D) materials has become an effective method for designing new-type and high-quality electronic and optoelectronic nano-devices. In this work, we designed a 2D A...
The layered van der Waals (vdW) heterostructure, assembled from monolayer graphene, hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) and other atomic crystals in various combinations, is emerging as a new paradigm with which to attain desired electronic and optical pr...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted great attention in the past few years and offer new opportunities for the development of high-performance and multifunctional bipolar junction transistors (BJTs). Here, a van der Waals BJT based on vertic...
In the present work the atomic, electronic and optical properties of two-dimensional graphene, borophene, and boron carbide heterojunction bilayer systems (Graphene–BC3, Graphene–Borophene and Graphene–B4C3) as well as their constit...
Two-dimensional (2D) vertical heterojunctions (HSs), which are usually fabricated by vertically stacking two layers of transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), have been intensively researched during the past years. However, it is still an enormous ch...
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) CN sheets have attracted extensive attention in the field of photocatalysis because of their shorter diffusion path of photogenerated carriers and abundant surface reaction sites than bulk CN. However, 2D CNs stil...
In this paper, the optical and electronic properties of WSSe/BSe heterostructure are investigated by first-principles calculations. The most stable stacking pattern of the WSSe/BSe compounds is formed by van der Waals interaction with a thermal stabi...
Two-dimensional van der Waals materials could be used as electron emitters alone or stacked in a heterostructure. Many significant phenomena of two-dimensional van der Waals field emitters have been observed and predicted since the landmark discovery...
Recent advances in the manipulation and control of layered, two-dimensional materials has given way to the construction of heterostructures with new functionality and unprecedented electronic properties. In this study, we present a simple technique t...
The strain in hybrid van der Waals heterostructures, made of two distinct two-dimensional van der Waals materials, offers an interesting handle on their corresponding electronic band structure. Such strain can be engineered by changing the relative c...
The development of short-wave infrared photodetectors based on various two-dimensional (2D) materials has recently attracted attention because of the ability of these devices to operate at room temperature. Although van der Waals heterostructures of...
Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their van der Waals heterojunctions offer the opportunity to combine layers with different properties as the building blocks to engineer new functional materials for high-performance devices, sensors, and water-spli...
Antimonene is found to be a promising material for two-dimensional optoelectronic equipment due to its broad band gap and high carrier mobility. The van der Waals heterostructure, as a unique structural unit for the study of photoelectric properties,...
Two-dimensional materials are widely used as a new generation of functional materials for photovoltaic, photocatalyst, and nano-power devices. Strain engineering is a popular method to tune the properties of two-dimensional materials so that performa...
Magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) are pivotal for spintronic applications such as magneto resistive memory and sensors. Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures offer a promising platform for miniaturizing MTJs while enabling the twist-angle eng...
Two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered materials have been explored in depth. They can be vertically stacked into a 2D heterostructure and represent a fundamental way to explore new physical properties and fabricate high-performance nanodevices....
Two-dimensional materials and their van der Waals heterostructures have shown great potential in quantum physics, flexible electronics, and optoelectronic devices. However, interfacial bubbles originated from trapped air, solvent residues, adsorbed m...
Ultra-thin two-dimensional materials are attracting widespread interest due to their excellent properties, and they are becoming ideal candidates for a variety of energy and environmental photocatalytic applications. Herein, CdS nanorods are successf...
The two-dimensional layered heterostructure have been demonstrated as an effective method for achieving efficient photocatalytic hydrogen production. In this work, we propose, for the first time, the creation of van der Waals heterostructures from mo...
The advent of two-dimensional (2D) materials and their capacity to form van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures has revolutionized numerous scientific fields, including electronics, optoelectronics, and energy storage. This paper presents a comprehensiv...
Van-der Waals heterostructures assembled from one or few atomic layer thickness crystals are becoming increasingly more popular in condensed matter physics. These structures are assembled using transfer machines, those are based on mask aligners, pro...
Van der Waals heterostructures offer an additional degree of freedom to tailor the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials, especially for the band-gap tuning that leads to various applications such as thermoelectric and optoelectronic conv...
Photodetectors based on two-dimensional (2D) materials have great potential applications in the field of new energy, such as fuel cells, solar cells, and other fields. Van der Waals (vdW) heterojunction photodiodes are expected to be one of the promi...
Due to the attractive optical and electrical properties, van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructures constructed from the different two-dimensional materials have received widespread attention. Here, MoS2/h-BN, MoS2/graphene, WS2/h-BN, and WS2/graphene vdW...
Layered two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides and their heterostructures are of current interest, owing to the diversity of their applications in many areas of materials nanoscience and technologies. With this in mind, we have examined the...
Researchers have found various families of two-dimensional (2D) materials and associated heterostructures through detailed theoretical work and experimental efforts. Such primitive studies provide a framework to investigate novel physical/chemical ch...
Two-dimensional (2D) polarized heterostructures with internal electric fields are potential photocatalysts for high catalytic performance. The Blue P/SiS van der Waals heterostructures were formed from monolayer Blue P and polar monolayer SiS with di...
Due to the weak van der Waals (vdW) interlayer interaction, interfacial geometry of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic vdW materials can be freely assembled, and the stacking order between layers can be readily controlled, such as laterally shifting or ro...
Van der Waals epitaxial GaN thin films on c-sapphire substrates with a sp2-bonded two-dimensional (2D) MoS2 buffer layer, prepared by pulse laser deposition, were investigated. Low temperature plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) was successf...
High-throughput production of highly efficient photocatalysts for hydrogen evolution remains a considerable challenge for materials scientists. Here, we produced extremely uniform high-quality graphene and molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) nanoplatelets th...
In recent years, van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) of two-dimensional (2D) materials have attracted extensive research interest. By stacking various 2D materials together to form vdWHs, it is interesting to see that new and fascinating propertie...
Two-dimensional semiconductors inside optical microcavities have emerged as a versatile platform to explore new hybrid light–matter quantum states. A strong light–matter coupling leads to the formation of exciton-polaritons, which in turn...
Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures have good application prospects in solar energy conversion due to their excellent optoelectronic performance. In this work, the electronic structures of Sc2CF2/Sc2CCl2, Sc2CF2/Sc2CBr2, and Sc2CCl2/Sc2CBr...
The increasing interest in two-dimensional materials with unique crystal structures and novel band characteristics has provided numerous new strategies and paradigms in the field of photodetection. However, as the demand for wide-spectrum detection i...
Recently, the emergent two-dimensional (2D) ferroelectric materials have provided new possibilities for the miniaturization of ferroelectric systems and the integration of novel 2D nano-electronic devices. In addition to the intrinsic ferroelectrics...
After the discovery of graphene, a lot of research has been conducted on two-dimensional (2D) materials. In order to increase the performance of 2D materials and expand their applications, two different layered materials are usually combined by van d...
Functional devices that use vertical van der Waals (vdWs) heterostructure material can effectively combine the properties of single component materials, and the strong interlayer coupling effect can change their electronic and optical properties. Acc...
Recently, a two-dimensional (2D) heterostructure has been widely investigated as a photocatalyst to decompose water using the extraordinary type-II band structure. In this work, the MoTe2/PtS2 van der Waals heterostructure (vdWH) is constructed with...
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