Cross-Plane Carrier Transport in Van der Waals Layered Materials.

The mechanisms of carrier transport in the cross-plane crystal orientation of transition metal dichalcogenides are examined. The study of in-plane electronic properties of these van der Waals compounds has been the main research focus in recent years. However, the distinctive physical anisotropies, short-channel physics, and tunability of cross layer interactions can make the study of their electronic properties along the out-of-plane crystal orientation valuable.