Intrinsic valley Hall transport in atomically thin MoS2

oleh: Zefei Wu, Benjamin T. Zhou, Xiangbin Cai, Patrick Cheung, Gui-Bin Liu, Meizhen Huang, Jiangxiazi Lin, Tianyi Han, Liheng An, Yuanwei Wang, Shuigang Xu, Gen Long, Chun Cheng, Kam Tuen Law, Fan Zhang, Ning Wang

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Nature Portfolio 2019-02-01

Deskripsi

Electrons hopping in two-dimensional honeycomb lattices possess a valley degree of freedom. Here, the authors observe room-temperature valley Hall transport without any extrinsic symmetry breaking in the non-centrosymmetric monolayer and trilayer MoS2 by purely electronic means, whereas no valley signal is detected for centrosymmetric bilayer MoS2.