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The carrier mobility of anisotropic two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors under longitudinal acoustic (LA) phonon scattering was theoretically studied with the deformation potential theory. Based on Boltzmann equation with relaxation time…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have demonstrated great potential for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics. However, the current 2D semiconductors suffer from intrinsically low carrier mobility at room temperature, which…
Mobility is a key parameter for SnO2, which is extensively studied as a practical transparent oxide n-type semiconductor. In experiments, the mobility of electrons in bulk SnO2 single crystals varies from 70 to 260 cm2V-1s-1 at room…
The experimental studies about monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides in the recent year reveal this kind of compounds have many metastable phases with unique physical properties, not just 1H phases. Here, we focus on the 1T'' phase and…
Exciton transport in 2D semiconductors holds promise for room-temperature, ultra-compact optoelectronic devices, but it is limited by short propagation distances. Hybridization of excitons with cavity photons to form exciton-polaritons can…
Group-VI transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), MoS$_2$ and MoSe$_2$, have emerged as prototypical low-dimensional systems with distinctive phononic and electronic properties, making them attractive for applications in nanoelectronics,…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have demonstrated great potential for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics. An important property for these applications is the phonon-limited charge carrier mobility. The common approach to…
High-performance thermoelectric (TE) materials are crucial for efficient waste-heat recovery and solid-state cooling technologies. A persistent challenge in TE materials design arises from the strong interdependence among the electrical…
We present numerical simulations of the acoustic-phonon-limited mobility, $\mu_{ac}$, and phonon-drag thermopower, $S^{g}$, in two-dimensional electron gases confined in MgZnO/ZnO heterostructures. The calculations are based on the…
We report the transport properties of mechanically exfoliated few-layer SnSe$_{2}$ flakes, whose mobility is found with four probe measurements to be ~ 85 cm$^{2}$V$^{-1}$s$^{-1}$ at 300 K, higher than those of the majority of few-layer…
Semiconducting MoTe2 is one of the few two-dimensional (2D) materials with a moderate band gap, similar to silicon. However, this material remains under-explored for 2D electronics due to ambient instability and predominantly p-type Fermi…
The Hall scattering factor is formulated using Rode's iterative approach to solving the Boltzmann transport equation in such a way that it may be easily computed within the scope of ab-inito calculations. Using this method in conjunction…
In this letter, we theoretically study the electron mobility in few-layer MoxW1-xS2 as limited by various scattering mechanisms. The room temperature energy-dependent scattering times corresponding to polar longitudinal optical (LO) phonon,…
Two-dimensional superconductors attract great interest both for their fundamental physics and for their potential applications, especially in the rapidly growing field of quantum computing. Despite intense theoretical and experimental…
Through first-principles calculations, the phonon-limited transport properties of cubic boron-V compounds (BP, BAs and BSb) are studied. We find that the high optical phonon frequency in these compounds leads to the substantial suppression…
In the present work, the three stable MXenes M n+1 C n O 2 (M=Nb,Ta) are explored based onfirst-principles calculations. These materials are important derivatives of 2D materials and exhib-it distinctive properties, holding vast potential…
When complex mechanisms are involved, pinpointing high-performance materials within large databases is a major challenge in materials discovery. We focus here on phonon-limited conductivities, and study 2D semiconductors doped by field…
We carry out a systematic study of the thermal conductivity of four single-layer transition metal dichalcogenides, MX$_2$ (M = Mo, W; X = S, Se) from first-principles by solving the Boltzmann Transport Equation (BTE). We compare three…
This paper presents an ab initio methodology to account for electron-phonon interactions in 2D materials, focusing on transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs). It combines density functional theory and maximally localized Wannier functions…
We present electronic structure calculations, electrical resistivity data and the first specific heat measurements in the normal and superconducting states of quasi-one-dimensional M2Mo6Se6 (M = Tl, In, Rb). Rb2Mo6Se6 undergoes a…