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Charge transport in amorphous semiconductors is considerably more complicated than process in crystalline materials due to abundant localized states. In addition to device-scale characterization, spatially resolved measurements are…
Recent experiments on imbalanced fermion gases have proved the existence of a sharp interface between a superfluid and a normal phase. We show that, at the lowest experimental temperatures, a temperature difference between N and SF phase…
Three terminal single-electron transistor devices utilizing Al/Al2O3 gate electrodes were developed for the study of electron transport through individual single-molecule magnets. The devices were patterned via multiple layers of optical…
Graphene on $L1_0$-FePd(001), which has been experimentally studied in recent years, is a heterogeneous interface with a significant lattice symmetry mismatch between the honeycomb structure of graphene and tetragonal alloy surface. In this…
The deposition of a thin oxide layer at metal/semiconductor interfaces has been previously reported as a means of reducing contact resistance in 2D electronics. Using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy with in-situ Ti deposition, we fabricate…
Although the electrical transport properties of mesoscopic metallic samples have been investigated extensively over the past two decades, the thermal properties have received far less attention. This may be due in part to the difficulty of…
Semiconductor-superconductor hybrid systems have outstanding potential for emerging high-performance nanoelectronics and quantum devices. However, critical to their successful application is the fabrication of high-quality and reproducible…
We extend to initial ground states with zero spin density m = 0 the expressions provided by the pseudofermion dynamical theory (PDT) for the finite-energy one- and two-electron spectral-weight distributions of a one-dimensional (1D)…
Emergent phenomena take place in symmetry-breaking systems, notably the recently discovered two-dimensional electron gas and its tunable superconductivities near the KTaO3 interfaces. Here, we synthesized perovskite Ca0.5TaO3 films along…
The results are presented of a detailed combined experimental and theoretical investigation of the influence of coadsorbed electron-donating alkali atoms and the prototypical electron acceptor molecule TCNQ…
We report on the fabrication and characterization of single-crystal organic p-type field-effect transistors (OFETs) with the field-effect hole mobility mu \~ 8 cm2/Vs, substantially higher than that observed in thin-film OFETs. The…
The quasi-one-dimensional organic conductors (TMTTF)$_2X$ with non-centrosymmetric anions commonly undergo charge- and anion-order transitions upon cooling. While for compounds with tetrahedral anions ($X$ = BF$_4^-$, ReO$_4^-$, and…
We investigate rubrene single-crystal field-effect transistors, whose stability and reproducibility are sufficient to measure systematically the shift in threshold voltage as a function of channel length and source-drain voltage. The shift…
We have investigated the superconducting ground state of the newly discovered superconductor ThFeAsN with a tetragonal layered crystal structure using resistivity, magnetization, heat capacity and transverse-field (TF) muon-spin rotation…
We present a scaling analysis of electronic and transport properties of metal-semiconducting carbon nanotube interfaces as a function of the nanotube length within the coherent transport regime, which takes fully into account atomic-scale…
My thesis mostly focusses on the systems of porphyrin molecules adsorbed on single-crystalline metallic surfaces. Cyclic tetrapyrrole porphyrins play key roles in many important chemical and biological processes, such as oxygen transport in…
TTFClO4 salts were included in a PMMA matrix via solvent casting technique under vacuum, up to 72 hours of pumping. The synthesis of the salt, present in the literature was enriched with a further purification procedure, wich resulted…
Intensive research is carried out on two-dimensional materials, in particular molybdenum disulfide, towards high-performance transistors for integrated circuits. Fabricating transistors with ohmic contacts is challenging due to the high…
We studied spin transport in four organic semiconductors (OSCs) with different electronic properties, with Fe and Co as the top and bottom ferromagnetic (FM) contacts, respectively. Magnetoresistance (MR) effects were observed up to room…
The low-coverage adsorption of a molecular electron donor, tetrathiafulvalene, on Au(111) is characterized by the spontaneous formation of superlattice of monomers, whose spacing exceeds the equilibrium distance of non-covalent interactions…