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      <title>Scalable, Simple, and Versatile Encapsulation of 2D Materials and Devices</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2026 15:01:47 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Nano Letters: Air-sensitive 2D materials present fundamental challenges for device integration. Encapsulation is required to preserve intrinsic properties, yet conventional strategies require complicated fabrication workflows and fail with thicker flakes. We demonstrate that electron-beam (e-beam) evaporated aluminum oxide (AlOx)…</description>
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      <category>LaTe₃, GdTe₃, ErTe₃</category>
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      <title>Sliding Disassembly of van der Waals Heterostructures</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2026 19:02:02 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>Nano Letters: Many recent advances in our understanding of two-dimensional electron systems stem from van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. The assembly process relies on the weak bonding across interfaces between layered vdW compounds, making it possible to construct exceptionally clean heterostructures from chemically and…</description>
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      <category>Graphene</category>
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      <title>Carrier-mediated spin helices in low-dimensional systems: Josephson-interference features and correlation renormalization</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2026 12:43:50 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: Carrier-induced helical magnetism can arise in interacting one-dimensional systems coupled to localized moments. Here, we investigate the coupled-wire sliding-Luttinger-liquid counterparts with and without valley degrees of freedom, using isolated Tomonaga-Luttinger liquids as reference limits. The carrier spin…</description>
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      <title>Intercalation of Alkali Metal into WTe2, the Crystal Structure of A0.5WTe2 and Observation of a Metal-to-Semiconductor Transition</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2026 19:36:59 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: We explore the cationic intercalation of tungsten ditelluride (WTe2) with potassium (K), rubidium (Rb), and cesium (Cs), yielding intercalation compounds of the form A0.5WTe2 (A = K, Rb, Cs). Structural characterization was performed using powder X-ray diffraction (PXRD), while diffuse reflectance infrared Fourier…</description>
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      <title>Proximity-Induced Spin Reorientation in Monolayer CrI₃ on Hexagonal WTe₂</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2026 08:36:25 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: Magnetic anisotropy controls the orientation and thermal stability of two-dimensional magnetic order. Predicting proximity-induced changes in anisotropy requires linking the electronic structure to microscopic magnetic interactions and finite-temperature behavior. Here we study monolayer CrI₃ on hexagonal WTe₂ using a…</description>
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      <category>CrI₃, VI₃, TiCl₃</category>
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      <title>Sliding ferroelectricity tunable conventional and anomalous spin Hall effects in bilayer 1T'-WTe2</title>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2026 12:40:05 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: The spin Hall effect, recognized for its high-speed, low-power, and highly controllable characteristics, is a key enabler for next-generation memory and logic devices. However, a primary challenge lies in achieving 180° magnetization switching without an external magnetic field in spin-orbit torque devices. Here, we…</description>
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      <title>Probing sliding ferroelectricity in bilayer Td-WTe₂ with high-harmonic generation</title>
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      <pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:41:08 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: High-harmonic generation is a sensitive all-optical probe of symmetry and electron dynamics in solids. Here, we use first-principles time-dependent density functional theory (TDDFT) to study high-harmonic generation in Td-WTe₂, a two-dimensional semimetal with switchable out-of-plane ferroelectric polarization driven…</description>
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      <title>Evolution of topological phases in atomically thin WTe2 films</title>
      <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.16860v1</link>
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      <pubDate>Sat, 18 Apr 2026 06:22:45 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: Topological materials ranging from topological insulators to semimetals host many novel quantum phenomena including quantum spin Hall effect and topological Fermi arcs. Transitions between these topological phases have attracted much research interest. We performed angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) on…</description>
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      <title>Cold source field-effect transistor with type-III band-aligned HfS₂/WTe₂ heterostructure</title>
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      <pubDate>Thu, 12 Mar 2026 11:27:28 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: The cold source field-effect transistor (CSFET) is promising for reducing power dissipation in integrated circuits by engineering the density of states at the injecting source. Existing CSFET designs utilizing Dirac-source metals or p-Metal-n stacks are challenged by Schottky barriers at the metal-semiconductor…</description>
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      <category>TiSe₂, ZrSe₂, HfSe₂</category>
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      <title>Parabolic-Cylinder Approach to Valley-Polarized Conductance in Tilted Anisotropic Dirac-Weyl Systems</title>
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      <pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2026 07:33:12 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: We develop a parabolic-cylinder approach to valley-polarized conductance in tilted anisotropic Dirac-Weyl systems, showing that the smooth-interface scattering problem can be reduced analytically to the Weber equation, which belongs to the same differential-equation class as the quantum harmonic oscillator. This…</description>
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      <title>Defect-induced multiferroicity in bulk solid solutions of WSe₂ and WTe₂</title>
      <link>https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.08515v2</link>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 09 Mar 2026 15:45:19 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: Transition metal dichalcogenides provide a versatile platform for tunable ferroic phenomena at the atomic scale owing to their reduced dimensionality. Here we investigate the structural, magnetic, and ferroelectric properties of bulk solid solution W(Se1-xTex)2(1-delta) single crystals synthesized by chemical vapor…</description>
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      <title>Electro-optic Kerr Effect Induced by Nonlinear Transport in monolayer WTe2</title>
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      <pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2025 14:12:09 GMT</pubDate>
      <description>arXiv: The nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) can induce optical anisotropy by modifying a material's dielectric tensor, presenting opportunities for novel characterization and device applications. While the magneto-optical Kerr effect (MOKE) probes the linear Hall effect (LHE) in magnetic materials, an analogous optical probe for…</description>
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