Structure and electronic properties of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides : first principles study

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I would like to deeply thank my supervisor Prof. Tay Beng Kang for support and supervision, fruitful discussions and advices, patience, care and inspiration. I appreciate encouragement from Prof. Tay for me to attend conferences and to present my work, and linking me with experiment. I would like to thank my co-supervisor from BSUIR, Prof. Borisenko for your advice, suggestions and support before and during my PhD. I would like to thank Dr. Wang Xingli for our collaboration. I would like to thank Dr. Tan Chong Wei for all his help and for teaching me clean room basics. I would like to thank Mr. Soh Hwee Jin Melvin, Director of High Performance Computing Centre at NTU, for his help with any issues I have faced. Also I would like to thank all my lecturers from Belarusian State University,