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We analyze the resonance energy transfer (RET) rate between quantum emitters (QEs) near a phosphorene/SiC interface under the effects of uniaxial strain. Using a low-energy tight-binding model, we describe the electronic structure of…
We investigate the carrier mobility in mono- and bi-layer graphene with a top HfO2 dielectric, as a function of the HfO2 film thickness and temperature. The results show that the carrier mobility decreases during the deposition of the first…
Similar effects of metal and boron vacancies on phonon scattering and lattice thermal conductivity ($\kappa_l$) of ZrB$_2$ and HfB$_2$ are reported. These defects challenge the conventional understanding that associates larger impacts to…
Two dimensional (2D) layered materials have recently gained renewed interest due to their exotic electronic properties along with high specific surface area. The prospects of exploiting these properties in sensing, catalysis, energy…
We study the anisotropic electronic properties of 2D SnS, an analogue of phosphorene, grown by physical vapor transport. With transmission electron microscope and polarized Raman spectroscopy, we identify the zigzag and armchair directions…
Magnetoresistance (MR) of ion irradiated monolayer graphene samples with variable-range hopping (VRH) mechanism of conductivity was measured at temperatures down to $T = 1.8$ K in magnetic fields up to $B = 8$ T. It was observed that in…
Recent discoveries of intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetism in insulating/semiconducting van der Waals (vdW) crystals open up new possibilities for studying fundamental 2D magnetism and devices employing localized spins. However, a…
Nonmonotonic bending-induced changes of fundamental band gaps and quasiparticle energies are observed for realistic nanoscale phosphorene nanosheets. Calculations using stochastic many-body perturbation theory (sGW) show that even slight…
Phosphorene, the single layer counterpart of black phosphorus, is a novel two-dimensional semiconductor with high carrier mobility and a large fundamental direct band gap, which has attracted tremendous interest recently. Its potential…
The investigation of thermal transport properties of novel two dimensional materials is crucially important in order to assess their potential to be used in future technological applications, such as thermoelectric power generation. In this…
We performed density functional theory calculations with self-consistent van der Waals corrected exchange-correlation (XC) functionals to capture the structure of black phosphorus and twelve monochalcogenide monolayers and find the…
Using first-principles calculations, we have investigated the evolution of band-edges in few-layer phosphorene as a function of the number of P layers. Our results predict that monolayer phosphorene is an indirect band gap semiconductor and…
We report fast atom diffraction through single-layer graphene using hydrogen atoms at kinetic energies from 150 to 1200 eV. High-resolution images reveal overlapping hexagonal patterns from coexisting monocrystalline domains. Time-of-flight…
Experimental studies on two-dimensional (2D) materials are still in the early stages, and most of the theoretical studies performed to screen these materials are limited to the room-temperature carrier-mobility in the free standing 2D…
Classical thermal transport theories that preserve rotational symmetry, predict strong anharmonic scattering of out-of-plane lattice vibrational modes called flexural phonons in flat suspended graphene sheets. Such strong scattering…
Atomic vacancies, such as chalcogen vacancies in 2D TMDs, are important in changing the host material's electronic structure and transport properties. We present a straightforward one-step method for growing monolayer MoS2 utilizing…
The single-layer black phosphorus is characteristic for its puckered structure, which has leaded to highly anisotropy in its optical, electronic, and mechanical properties. We report, using the non-equilibrium Green's function approach and…
Graphene has become in last decades a paradigmatic example of two-dimensional and so-called van-der-Waals layered materials, showing large anisotropy in their physical properties. Here we study the elastic properties and mechanical…
Using first-principles calculations and non-equilibrium Green's function method, we investigate the ballistic thermal transport in single-layer phosphorene. A significant crystallographic orientation dependence of thermal conductance is…
Monolayer phosphorene provides a unique two-dimensional (2D) platform to investigate the fundamental many-body interactions. However, owing to its high instability, unambiguous identification of monolayer phosphorene has been elusive.…