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Atomically thin vanadium diselenide (VSe2 ) is a two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide exhibiting attractive properties due to its metallic 1T-phase. With the recent development of methods to manufacture high-quality monolayer VSe…
Atomically thin van der Waals (vdW) films provide a novel material platform for epitaxial growth of quantum heterostructures. However, unlike the remote epitaxial growth of three-dimensional bulk crystals, the growth of two-dimensional (2D)…
The combination of the exciting properties of graphene with those of monolayer tungsten disulfide (WS2) makes this heterostack of great interest for electronic, optoelectronic and spintronic applications. The scalable synthesis of…
A van der Waals heterostructure containing an atomically thin monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide as a single-photon emitting layer is emerging as an intriguing solid-state quantum-photonic platform. Here, we report the utilization of…
The layer dependent structural, electronic and vibrational properties of SnS2 and SnSe2 are investigated using first-principles density functional theory (DFT). The in-plane lattice constants, interlayer distances and binding energies are…
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) crystals have gained tremendous attentions owing to their potential impacts to the future electronics technologies, as well as the exotic phenomena emerging in these materials. Monolayer of {\alpha}…
Sc is the lightest transition metal that could help to achieve the goal of high theoretical capacity. Hence, we here explored the performance of ScS_{2} monolayer as a cathode material for alkali-ion batteries (Li, Na, K) and other…
In this paper, a superlattice VO2/SiO2 metamaterial on a lossy substrate is designed to create a near perfect absorber with tunability across the infrared spectrum. We selected VO2 as it presents a dielectric to metal-like phase change…
A plethora of different morphologies are fabricated by the self assembly of molybdenum disulphide (MoS2) exfoliated flakes with the help of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) technique at the liquid/air interface. The MoS2 flakes are chemically…
Understanding carrier creation and evolution in materials initiated by pulsed optical excitation is central to developing ultrafast optoelectronics. We demonstrate herein that the dynamic response of a system can be drastically modified…
We present a solid-on-solid model of a binary AB compound, where atoms of type A in the topmost layer interact via anisotropic interactions different from those inside the bulk. Depending on temperature and particle flux, this model…
Compositionally tunable vanadium oxyhydrides Sr2VO4-xHx (x = 0 - 1) without considerable anion vacancy were synthesized by high-pressure solid state reaction. The crystal structures and their properties were characterized by powder neutron…
Vibrational sum frequency scattering (SFS) has been used to study sub-micron, catanionic vesicles in solution. The vesicles were synthesized from a binary mixture of dodecyltrimethylammonium bromide (DTAB) and sodium dodecylsulfate (SDS)…
Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a highly attractive 2D material due to its interesting electronic properties. Recent experimental advances confirm the possibility of further tuning the electronic properties of MoS2 through the fabrication of…
We report on the high-pressure synthesis of a CrS$_2$ phase in the form of single-crystalline nanorods. A structural refinement of Precession Electron Diffraction Tomography data confirms the nominal CrS$_2$ composition and unveils a…
The layered crystal of EuSn$_2$As$_2$ has a Bi$_2$Te$_3$-type structure in rhombohedral ($R\bar{3}m$) symmetry and has been confirmed to be an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator at ambient conditions. Combining {\it ab initio}…
We propose an effective lattice Hamiltonian for monolayer MoS$_2$ in order to describe the low-energy band structure and investigate the effect of perpendicular electric and magnetic fields on its electronic structure. We derive a…
Competing electronic phases in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides constitute a fertile platform for uncovering emergent ground states and elucidating the control parameters that govern the correlated electron phases. Among…
Tin (II) sulfide (SnS) is a layered mineral found in nature. In this paper, we study the two-dimensional form of this material using a combination of \emph{ab initio} calculation and $\mathbf{k}\cdot\mathbf{p}$ theory. In particular, we…
New calculations for vanadium dioxide, one of the most controversely discussed materials for decades, reveal that band theory as based on density functional theory is well capable of correctly describing the electronic and magnetic…