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Strain engineering in semiconductor nanostructures offers a promising route to optimize electronic and optical properties for advanced quantum technologies. This study explores the relationship between core and shell thicknesses and strain…
An empirical $s_cp^3_a$ tight-binding (TB) model is applied to the investigation of electronic states in semiconductor quantum dots. A basis set of three $p$-orbitals at the anions and one $s$-orbital at the cations is chosen. Matrix…
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Strain engineering is a powerful tool for tuning the electronic, magnetic, and topological properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials and thin films - particularly at high values of strain (>3%) where many electronic, magnetic, and…
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The HgTe quantum well (QW) is a well-characterized two-dimensional topological insulator (2D-TI). Its band gap is relatively small (typically on the order of 10 meV), which restricts the observation of purely topological conductance to low…
Recent pump-probe experiments reported an enhancement of superconducting transport along the $c$-axis of underdoped YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_{6+\delta}$ (YBCO), induced by a mid-infrared optical pump pulse tuned to a specific lattice vibration. To…
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There is a wide range of science and applications accessible via the strain engineering of quantum transport in 2D materials. We propose a realistic experimental platform for uniaxial strain engineering of ballistic charge transport in…
Strain engineering allows the physical properties of materials and devices to be widely tailored, as paradigmatically demonstrated by strained transistors and semiconductor lasers employed in consumer electronics. For this reason, its…
We present a comprehensive theoretical study of strain-engineered quantum transport in monolayer tungsten diselenide (WSe$_2$) in the presence of an electrostatic scalar potential. By incorporating strain effects within a low-energy Dirac…