Van der Waals, or layered, materials offer a flexible platform to tune properties via exfoliation down to the single- or few-layer limit; they are at the forefront of cutting-edge materials science and engineering research because of the innumerable ways to tune materials as a function of thickness or composition. Due...
Light provides a high-speed and coherent medium for controlling quantum states. In semiconductors, coherent optical effects have been used extensively to lift spin degeneracy on ultrafast timescales and demonstrate high-fidelity control of quantum spin states. Extending this approach to novel pseudospins in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), in this thesis...
The limits of miniaturization of electronic device components and the steady need for faster computation power have motivated the discovery and cultivation of low-dimensional materials. Among these, two-dimensional (2D) materials have exhibited a wide range of superlative optoelectronic, thermal and mechanical properties. The interest in 2D materials took-off with the...