  In this work, we review the results of several recent works on the
experimental and theoretical studies of monolayer superconducting transition
metal dichalcogenides (TMD) such as superconducting MoS2 and NbSe2. We show how
the strong Ising spin-orbit coupling (SOC), a special type of SOC which pins
electron spins to out-of-plane directions, can affect the superconducting
properties of the materials. Particularly, we discuss how the in-plane upper
critical fields of the materials can be strongly enhanced by Ising SOC and how
TMD materials can be used to engineer topological superconductors and nodal
topological superconductors which support Majorana fermions.
