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Beyond the study of individual materials, their interfaces and arising functionality are crucial enablers of fundamental science and technological applications. Recently, the arena of two-dimensional (2D) materials was extended to so-called…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-03-18 Anastasiia Nihei , Tom Barnowsky , Rico Friedrich

Two-dimensional materials such as graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are ideal candidates to create ultra-thin electronics suitable for flexible substrates. Although optoelectronic devices based on TMDs have demonstrated…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-03-15 Peize Han , Luke St. Marie , Qing X. Wang , Nicholas Quirk , Abdel El Fatimy , Masahiro Ishigami , Paola Barbara

Van der Waals heterostructure based on layered two-dimensional (2D) materials offers unprecedented opportunities to create materials with atomic precision by design. By combining superior properties of each component, such heterostructure…

2D intercorrelated ferroelectrics, exhibiting a coupled in-plane and out-of-plane ferroelectricity, is a fundamental phenomenon in the field of condensed-mater physics. The current research is based on the paradigm of bi-directional…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-11-24 Yan Liang , Shiying Shen , Baibiao Haung , Ying Dai , Yandong Ma

Van de Waals heterostructures (VDWH) is an emerging strategy to engineer the electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) material systems. Motivated by the recent discovery of MoSi$_2$N$_4$ - a synthetic septuple-layered 2D semiconductor…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-03-23 Jin Quan Ng , Qingyun Wu , L. K. Ang , Yee Sin Ang

Two-dimensional (2D) materials present an exciting opportunity for devices and systems beyond the von Neumann computing architecture paradigm due to their diversity of electronic structure, physical properties, and atomically-thin, van der…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-26 Xiwen Liu , Keshava Katti , Deep Jariwala

Ultrathin black phosphorus, or phosphorene, is the second known elementary two-dimensional material that can be exfoliated from a bulk van der Waals crystal. Unlike graphene it is a semiconductor with a sizeable band gap and its excellent…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials and their heterostructures have been intensively studied in recent years due to their potential applications in electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices. Nonetheless, the realization of 2D…

Two-dimensional materials, such as graphene, boron nitride and transition metal dichalcogenides, have attracted increased interest due to their potential applications in electronics and optoelectronics. Thermal transport in two-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-07 Xiaokun Gu , Ronggui Yang

We investigate a two-dimensional (2D) heterostructure consisting of few-layer direct bandgap ReS2, a thin h-BN layer and a monolayer graphene for application to various electronic devices. Metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS)-type devices…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2020-12-08 Bablu Mukherjee , Ryoma Hayakawa , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Shu Nakaharai , Yutaka Wakayama

Van der Waals heterostructures have become a rapidly growing field in condensed matter research, offering a platform to engineer novel quantum systems by stacking different two-dimensional (2D) materials. A diverse range of material…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-10-01 Bharti Matta , Philipp Rosenzweig , Craig Polley , Ulrich Starke , Kathrin Küster

The emergence of graphene and two-dimensional van der Walls materials renewed interest to investigation of the low-frequency noise in the low-dimensional systems. The layered van der Waals materials offers unique opportunities for studying…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2022-06-24 Alexander A. Balandin , Sergey Rumyantsev

Silicene is an intriguing silicon allotrope with a honeycomb lattice structure similar to graphene with slightly buckled geometry. Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), on the other hand, is a significant 2D transition metal dichalcogenide that has…

Materials Science · Physics 2024-06-18 Bishwajit Kar , Plabon Paul , Md Arshadur Rahman , Mohammad Jane Alam Khan

Dielectrics are insulating materials used in many different electronic devices and play an important role in all of them. Current advanced electronic devices use dielectric materials with a high dielectric constant and avoid high leakage…

Applied Physics · Physics 2019-05-17 Fei Hui

Trapped substances between a 2D crystal, such as graphene, and an atomically flat substrate, for example, hexagonal boron nitride, give rise to the formation of bubbles. We show that the size, shape and internal pressure inside these…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2016-10-06 E. Khestanova , F. Guinea , L. Fumagalli , A. K. Geim , I. V. Grigorieva

Magnetic van der Waals materials are an important building block to realize spintronic functionalities in heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) materials. Yet, establishing their magnetic and electronic properties and the…

Electrical and optical characterization of two-dimensional/three-dimensional (2D/3D) p-molybdenum disulfide/n-gallium nitride (p-MoS2/n-GaN) heterojunction diodes are reported. Devices were fabricated on high-quality, large-area p-MoS2…

Heterostructures involving graphene and bismuth, with their ability to absorb light over a very wide energy range, are of interest for engineering next-generation opto-electronics. Critical to the technological application of such…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-05-20 Ivan I. Naumov , Pratibha Dev

Remarkable optical and electrical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, such as graphene and transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers, offer vast technological potential for novel and improved optoelectronic nanodevices,…

Optics · Physics 2016-07-22 Martin Weismann , Nicolae C. Panoiu

The van der Waals heterostructures of two-dimensional (2D) atomic crystals constitute a new paradigm in nanoscience. Hybrid devices of graphene with insulating 2D hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) have emerged as promising nanoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-06-24 M. Venkata Kamalakar , André Dankert , Johan Bergsten , Tommy Ive , Saroj P. Dash