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We use scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and Auger electron spectroscopy to study the behavior of adsorbed phosphine (PH$_{3}$) on Si(001), as a function of annealing temperature, paying particular attention to the formation of the Si-P…
Although monolayer black phosphorus (BP) or phosphorene has been successfully exfoliated and its optical properties have been explored, most of electrical performance of the devices is demonstrated on few-layer phosphorene and ultra-thin BP…
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Searching the novel 2D semiconductor is crucial to develop the next-generation low-dimensional electronic device. Using first-principles calculations, we propose a class of unexplored binary V-V compound semiconductor (PN, AsN, SbN, AsP,…
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The presence of finite bandgap and high mobility in semiconductor few-layer black phosphorus offers an attractive prospect for using this material in future two-dimensional electronic devices. Here we demonstrate for the first time fully…
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Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEG) have been an important source of experimental discovery and conceptual development in condensed matter physics for decades. When combined with the unique electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D)…
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We report on a combined photoluminescence imaging and atomic force microscopy study of single, isolated self-assembled InAs quantum dots (density <0.01 um^(-2) capped by a 95 nm GaAs layer, and emitting around 950 nm. By combining optical…
Chalcogen vacancies in monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as WS$_{2}$, play a crucial role in various applications ranging from optoelectronics and catalysis to quantum information science (QIS), making their…
Black phosphorus (bP) is the second known elemental allotrope with a layered crystal structure that can be mechanically exfoliated down to atomic layer thickness. We have fabricated bP naked quantum wells in a back-gated field effect…
Four-dimensional scanning transmission electron microscopy (4D-STEM) has recently gained widespread attention for its ability to image atomic electric fields with sub-{\AA}ngstrom spatial resolution. These electric field maps represent the…
We examine harmonic oscillator defects coupled to a photon field in the environs of an optical fiber. Using techniques borrowed or extended from the theory of two dimensional quantum fields with boundaries and defects, we are able to…
Small numbers of nitrogen dopants dramatically modify the electronic properties of GaAs, generating very large shifts in the conduction-band energies with nonlinear concentration dependence, and impurity-associated spatially-localized…
Black Phosphorus (BP) has gained renewed attention due to its singular anisotropic electronic and optical properties that might be exploited for a wide range of technological applications. In this respect, the thermal properties are…
As a new two-dimensional layered material, black phosphorus (BP) is a promising material for nanoelectronics and nano-optoelectronics. We use Raman spectroscopy and first-principles theory to report our findings related to low-frequency…