Project-Graphene-TMD heterostructure with spin-orbit coupling

Abstract

The development of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials is driven by fundamental interest and their potential applications. Atomically thin 2D materials provide a wide range of basic building blocks with unique electrical, optical, and thermal properties which do not exist in their bulk counterparts. The van der Waals interlayer interaction enables the possibility to exfoliate and reassemble different 2D materials into arbitrarily and vertically stacked heterostructures. The recent advances in 2D heterostructures indicate a broad range of applications such as field effect/tunneling transistors, biosensors, light emitting diodes, light detectors, photovoltaic and energy storage devices. The main theme of these heterostructures is that we can tune them in order to have the desired properties. In this dissertation electronic properties of some systems have been calculated.