found: Work cat.: Zhong, D. Optical study of 2D magnets and their heterostructures for valleytronics, 2019:p. iii (valleytronics research)
found: 2D materials for photonic and optoelectronic applications, 2020:p. 281 (The field of valleytronics seeks to use the electron's valley degree of freedom to encode and process information, analogous to charge in electronics or spin in spintronics)
found: Nature reviews materials, v. 1, article no. 16055 (Nov. 2016):p. 1 (Valleytronics in 2D materials; latest advances in valleytronics, which have largely been enabled by the isolation of 2D materials (such as graphene and semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides) that host an easily accessible electronic valley degree of freedom, allowing for dynamic control; The possibility of using the valley degree of freedom to store and carry information (similar to spin in spintronics) leads to conceptual electronic applications known as valleytronics)
found: Pittalwala, I. New research finding gives valleytronics a boost, Oct. 28, 2019, via Phys.org website, viewed July 14, 2020(Valleytronics, a portmanteau of "valley" and "electronics," uses local energy minima--or valleys--in the electronic band structure of semiconductors. Current semiconductor technology uses electronic charge or spin to store and process information. In some semiconductors, however, valleys of the electrons are used to encode, process, and store information. Valleytronic systems have the potential to offer information processing schemes that are superior to charge- and spin-based semiconductor technologies)
found: Wikipedia, July 14, 2020(Valleytronics (from valley and electronics) is an experimental area in semiconductors that exploits local minima ("valleys") in the electronic band structure. Certain semiconductors have multiple "valleys" in the electronic band structure of the first Brillouin zone, and are known as multivalley semiconductors. Valleytronics is the technology of control over the valley degree of freedom, a local maximum/minimum on the valence/conduction band, of such multivalley semiconductors. The term was coined in analogy to spintronics. While in spintronics the internal degree of freedom of spin is harnessed to store, manipulate and read out bits of information, the proposal for valleytronics is to perform similar tasks using the multiple extrema of the band structure, so that the information of 0s and 1s would be stored as different discrete values of the crystal momentum)
notfound: 2020 IEEE thesaurus, 2020, via WWW, July 14, 2020
