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Coherent electronic transport through a molecular device is studied using non-equilibrium Green's function (NEGF) formalism. Such device is made of a carbon nanowire which is connected to ferromagnetic electrodes. The molecule itself is…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Kamil Walczak , Gloria Platero

We simulate the electronic and transport properties of metal/two-dimensional material/metal vertical heterostructures, with a focus on graphene, hexagonal boron nitride and two phases of molybdenum diselenide. Using density functional…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-02-06 Gaëlle Bigeard , Zineb Kerrami , François Triozon , Alessandro Cresti

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a branch of two-dimensional materials which in addition to having an easy-to-exfoliate layered structure, also host semiconducting, metallic, superconducting, and topological properties in various…

Superconductivity · Physics 2023-01-25 Suvodeep Paul , Saswata Talukdar , Ravi Shankar Singh , Surajit Saha

Two-dimensional electron systems (2DESs) confined to the surface of narrowband semiconductors have attracted great interest since they can easily integrate with superconductivity (or ferromagnetism) enabling new possibilities in hybrid…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-01-10 Kaushini Wickramasinghe , William Mayer , Joseph Yuan , Tri Nguyen , Lucy Jiao , Vladimir Manucharyan , Javad Shabani

We perform a combined experimental and theoretical study of tetramethyltetraselenafulvalene (TMTSF) single-crystal field-effect transistors, whose electrical characteristics exhibit clear signatures of the intrinsic transport properties of…

Materials Science · Physics 2009-07-14 H. Xie , H. Alves , A. F. Morpurgo

With the help of a tight-binding (TB) electronic-structure toy model we investigate the matching of parameters across hetero-interfaces . We demonstrate that the virtual crystal approximation, commonly employed for this purpose, may not…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2013-06-28 B. A. Stickler , W. Pötz

This paper presents an analysis of GaN high-electron-mobility transistors (HEMTs) using both TCAD simulation and experimental characterization. The energy band structure was studied using Nextnano simulation software to observe…

Systems and Control · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2025-07-17 Tanjim Rahman

Ultrafast charge transfer processes provide a facile way to create interlayer excitons in directly contacted transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) layers. More sophisticated heterostructures composed of TMD/hBN/TMD enable new ways to…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-01-12 Yoseob Yoon , Zuocheng Zhang , Ruishi Qi , Andrew Y. Joe , Renee Sailus , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Sefaattin Tongay , Feng Wang

Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) have been intensively investigated because of their exclusive physical properties for advanced electronics and optoelectronics. In the present…

We present a density functional theory parametrized hybrid k$\cdot$p tight binding model for electronic properties of atomically thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides, 2H-$MX_2$ ($M$=Mo, W; $X$=S, Se). We use this model to analyze…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-08-07 David A. Ruiz-Tijerina , Mark Danovich , Celal Yelgel , Viktor Zólyomi , Vladimir I. Fal'ko

The triple heterojunction TFET has been originally proposed to resolve TFET's low ON-current challenge. The carrier transport in such devices is complicated due to the presence of quantum wells and strong scattering. Hence, the full band…

InAs/GaSb and similar materials systems have generated great interest as a heterojunction for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) due to favorable band alignment. However, little is currently understood about how such TFETs are affected…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-02 Ryan M. Iutzi , Eugene A. Fitzgerald

The discovery of graphene has put the spotlight on other layered materials including transition metal dichalcogenites (TMD) as building blocks for novel heterostructures assembled from stacked atomic layers. Molybdenum disulfide, MoS2, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-09-19 Chih-Pin Lu , Guohong Li , Jinhai Mao , Li-Min Wang , Eva Y. Andrei

Transport properties of Weyl semimetals are intimately connected to the underlying band structure. The signature of Weyl semimetals are linear dispersing bands that touch, forming Weyl points that result in high charge carrier mobilities.…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-19 Sara L. Zachritz , Joohyung Park , Ayan Batyrkhanov , Leah Kelly , Dennis Nordlund , Oliver Monti

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

In this paper, a two-dimensional analytical model of a laterally graded-channel triple-metal double-gate Junctionless Field Effect Transistor with hetero dielectric gate oxide stack consisting of SiO$_2$ and HfO$_2$ is derived. The model…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-09-24 Shib Sankar Das , Barun Majumder , Ankush Ghosh

Td-WTe2 is a topological Weyl semimetal. WTe2 in the orthorhombic structure is stable at room temperature. Elastic, electronic, bonding, and optoelectronic properties of WTe2 have been investigated in detail in this work using the density…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-12-01 B. Rahman Rano , Ishtiaque M. Syed , S. H. Naqib

Layered molecular materials and especially MoS2 are already accepted as promising candidates for nanoelectronics. In contrast to the bulk material, the observed electron mobility in single-layer MoS2 is unexpectedly low. Here we reveal the…

Materials Science · Physics 2013-05-30 Andrey N. Enyashin , Maya Bar-Sadan , Lothar Houben , Gotthard Seifert

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…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-05-28 Sudipta Majumder , Vaibhav Walve , Rahul Chand , Gokul M. A. , Sooyeon Hwang , G. V. Pavan Kumar , Aparna Deshpande , Atikur Rahman

The production of new sensors, transducers and electronic components can benefit from the possibility to alter the electronic transport of metal-semicondutor-metal (MSM) devices. 2D materials are extremely appealing for those new…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Igor Neri , Miquel López-Suárez