Why all the fuss about 2D semiconductors?

Two-dimensional silicon: the advent of silicene

(2016) Carlo Grazianetti et al.   2D Materials

Observation of Excitonic Rydberg States in Monolayer MoS2 and WS2 by Photoluminescence Excitation Spectroscopy

(2015) Heather M. Hill et al.   NANO LETTERS

In-Plane Anisotropy in Mono- and Few-Layer ReS2 Probed by Raman Spectroscopy and Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy

(2015) Daniel A. Chenet et al.   NANO LETTERS

Epitaxial growth of two-dimensional stanene

(2015) Feng-feng Zhu et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Single photon emitters in exfoliated WSe2 structures

(2015) M. Koperski et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Single quantum emitters in monolayer semiconductors

(2015) Yu-Ming He et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Optically active quantum dots in monolayer WSe2

(2015) Ajit Srivastava et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Polarization-sensitive broadband photodetector using a black phosphorus vertical p–n junction

(2015) Hongtao Yuan et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Highly anisotropic and robust excitons in monolayer black phosphorus

(2015) Xiaomu Wang et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Silicene field-effect transistors operating at room temperature

(2015) Li Tao et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Direct observation of ultraslow hyperbolic polariton propagation with negative phase velocity

(2015) Edward Yoxall et al.   Nature Photonics

Hyperbolic phonon-polaritons in boron nitride for near-field optical imaging and focusing

(2015) Peining Li et al.   Nature Communications

Single-photon emission from localized excitons in an atomically thin semiconductor

(2015) Philipp Tonndorf et al.   Optica

Phosphorene: An Unexplored 2D Semiconductor with a High Hole Mobility

(2014) Han Liu et al.   ACS Nano

Direct Imaging of Band Profile in Single Layer MoS2 on Graphite: Quasiparticle Energy Gap, Metallic Edge States, and Edge Band Bending

(2014) Chendong Zhang et al.   NANO LETTERS

Electrical detection of charge-current-induced spin polarization due to spin-momentum locking in Bi2Se3

(2014) C. H. Li et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Germanene: a novel two-dimensional germanium allotrope akin to graphene and silicene

(2014) M E Dávila et al.   NEW JOURNAL OF PHYSICS

Tunable Phonon Polaritons in Atomically Thin van der Waals Crystals of Boron Nitride

(2014) S. Dai et al.   SCIENCE

Sub-diffractional volume-confined polaritons in the natural hyperbolic material hexagonal boron nitride

(2014) Joshua D. Caldwell et al.   Nature Communications

Isolation and characterization of few-layer black phosphorus

(2014) Andres Castellanos-Gomez et al.   2D Materials

Charge Dynamics and Electronic Structures of Monolayer MoS2Films Grown by Chemical Vapor Deposition

(2013) Chih-Chiang Shen et al.   Applied Physics Express

Massive Dirac quasiparticles in the optical absorbance of graphene, silicene, germanene, and tinene

(2013) Lars Matthes et al.   JOURNAL OF PHYSICS-CONDENSED MATTER

Tightly bound trions in monolayer MoS2

(2012) Kin Fai Mak et al.   NATURE MATERIALS

Not just a pretty flower

(2012) Jie Zeng et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Control of valley polarization in monolayer MoS2 by optical helicity

(2012) Kin Fai Mak et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Silicene: Compelling Experimental Evidence for Graphenelike Two-Dimensional Silicon

(2012) Patrick Vogt et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Valley-selective circular dichroism of monolayer molybdenum disulphide

(2012) Ting Cao et al.   Nature Communications

Use of stable isotope labeling by amino acids in cell culture as a spike-in standard in quantitative proteomics

(2011) Tamar Geiger et al.   Nature Protocols

Emerging Photoluminescence in Monolayer MoS2

(2010) Andrea Splendiani et al.   NANO LETTERS

Boron nitride substrates for high-quality graphene electronics

(2010) C. R. Dean et al.   Nature Nanotechnology

Atomically ThinMoS2: A New Direct-Gap Semiconductor

(2010) Kin Fai Mak et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Control of Graphene's Properties by Reversible Hydrogenation: Evidence for Graphane

(2009) D. C. Elias et al.   SCIENCE

Chemically Derived, Ultrasmooth Graphene Nanoribbon Semiconductors

(2008) X. Li et al.   SCIENCE