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Semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) are the building blocks for the future opto-electronic devices, and other energy-harvesting applications. Although the energy demand has been increasing, energy sources are diminishing. Hydrogen, green…
Atomically thin materials exhibit electronic and optical properties distinct from their three-dimensional counterparts. For metals, particularly gold, monolayer studies remain largely unexplored due to fabrication and characterisation…
Non-volatile resistive switching is demonstrated in memristors with nanocrystalline molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) as the active material. The vertical heterostructures consist of silicon, vertically aligned MoS$_2$ and chrome / gold metal…
Electronic polarization is evaluated in pentacene crystals and in thin films on a metallic substrate using a self-consistent method for computing charge redistribution in non-overlapping molecules. The optical dielectric constant and its…
Core-shell nanoparticles, particularly those having a gold core, have emerged as a highly promising class of materials due to their unique optical and thermal properties, which underpin a wide range of applications in photothermal therapy,…
We theoretically demonstrate that a dipole layer on the electrode can modulate the transmission properties of nanoscale devices by influencing the contact properties, through first principles simulations on carbon nanotube based field…
Gallium oxide (Ga$_2$O$_3$) is a wide-bandgap semiconductor with exceptional electrical and optical properties, making it a promising material for optoelectronic and sensing applications. In this work, we demonstrate for the first time the…
The ability to partially oxidize methane at low temperatures and pressures would have important environmental and economic applications. Although methane oxidation on gold nanoparticles has been observed experimentally, our density…
Gold nanoparticles have been synthesized inside ethosomes, vesicles composed of phospholipid, ethanol and water, which could be very efficient not only in delivery probes to the skin but also as diagnostic and therapeutic multimodal agents.…
Low-mass, high-Q, silicon nitride nanostrings are at the cutting edge of nanomechanical devices for sensing applications. Here we show that the addition of a chemically functionalizable gold overlayer does not adversely affect the Q of the…
Current memcapacitor implementations typically demand complex fabrication processes or depend on organic materials exhibiting poor environmental stability and reproducibility. Here, we demonstrate memcapacitor structures utilizing a quasi…
We experimentally study the diffraction of a Bose-Einstein condensate from a magnetic lattice, realized by a set of 372 parallel gold conductors which are micro fabricated on a silicon substrate. The conductors generate a periodic potential…
Inspired by recent studies of various two-dimensional (2D) metals such as Au, Fe and Ag, we study the growth of two-dimensional gold patches in graphene pores by density-functional theory. We find that at room temperature gold atoms diffuse…
We present the results of our calculation of the effects of dynamical coupling of a charge-carrier to the electronic polarization and the field-induced lattice displacements at the gate-interface of an organic field-effect transistor…
We develop theoretical arguments that demonstrate the possibility of metallic field-effect transistors (METFET's) in one-dimensional systems and particularly in armchair carbon nanotubes. A very inhomogeneous electric field, such as the…
We present results on electromigrated Au nanojunctions broken near the conductance quantum $77.5 \mu$S. At room temperature we find that wires, initially narrowed by an actively-controlled electromigration technique down to a few…
We fabricated a nanolayered hybrid superconductor-ferromagnet spin-valve structure, the resistive state of which depends on the preceding magnetic field polarity. The effect is based on a strong exchange bias (about -2 kOe) on a diluted…
A number of applications in nanoplasmonics utilize noble metals, gold (Au) and silver (Ag), as the materials of choice. However, these materials suffer from problems of poor thermal and chemical stability accompanied by significant…
We demonstrate a gate dielectric engineering approach leveraging an ultrathin, atomic layer deposited (ALD) silicon oxide interfacial layer (SiL) between the amorphous oxide semiconductor (AOS) channel and the high-k gate dielectric. SiL…