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We report on a modified transfer technique for atomically thin materials integrated onto microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) for studying strain physics and creating strain-based devices. Our method tolerates the non-planar structures and…

Twisted bilayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) form moir\'e superlattices resulting in moir\'e minibands in momentum space and hosting localized excitons in real space. While moir\'e superlattices provide access to Mott-Hubbard…

We present photoluminescence (PL) spectroscopy measurements of single-layer MoSe2 as a function of uniform uniaxial strain. A simple clamping and bending method is described that allows for application of uniaxial strain to layered, 2D…

Motivated by the triumph and limitation of graphene for electronic applications, atomically thin layers of group VI transition metal dichalcogenides are attracting extensive interest as a class of graphene-like semiconductors with a desired…

Few-layer GaSe is one of the latest additions to the family of 2D semiconducting crystals whose properties under strain are still relatively unexplored. Here, we study rippled nanosheets that exhibit a periodic compressive and tensile…

Next-generation, atomically thin devices require in-plane, one-dimensional heterojunctions to electrically connect different two-dimensional (2D) materials. However, the lattice mismatch between most 2D materials leads to unavoidable…

Many printed electronic applications require strain-independent electrical properties to ensure deformation-independent performance. Thus, developing printed, flexible devices using 2D and other nanomaterials will require an understanding…

Realizing flexible strain sensor with high sensitivity and tunable gauge factor is a challenge. To meet this challenge, we report an ionic liquid gated three-dimensional graphene field effect strain sensor. The charge carrier concentration…

Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMdC) are promising candidates for realization of a new generation of optoelectronic devices. The optical properties of these two-dimensional materials, however, vary from flake to flake, or…

Intense, single-cycle terahertz (THz) pulses offer a promising approach for understanding and controlling the properties of a material on an ultrafast time scale. In particular, resonantly exciting phonons leads to a better understanding of…

Second-harmonic generation (SHG) is a second-order nonlinear optical process that is not allowed in media with inversion sym-metry. However, due to the broken symmetry at the surface, surface SHG still occurs, but is generally small. We…

The stacking configuration of two-dimensional materials critically governs their optical and electronic responses. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) lack inversion symmetry and exhibit exciton-enhanced second-harmonic…

Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical strength, one enticing tuning knob is strain. However, the weak…

Strain engineering is an effective tool for tailoring the properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially for tuning quantum phenomena. Among the limited methods available for strain engineering under cryogenic conditions, thermal…

Strain engineering is a powerful and widely used strategy for boosting the performance of electronic and optoelectronic devices. Here, we demonstrate an approach to tune the photoelectric properties of Platinum sulfide (PtS$_2$) by using a…

Strain engineering in single-layer semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides aims to tune their bandgap energy and to modify their optoelectronic properties by the application of external strain. In this paper we study transition…

The family of monolayer two-dimensional (2D) materials hosts a wide range of interesting phenomena, including superconductivity, charge density waves, topological states and ferromagnetism, but direct evidence for antiferromagnetism in the…

Scanning precession electron diffraction (SPED) is a powerful technique for investigating strain. While extensive literature exists analysing strain under high convergence angle conditions there are few systematic studies describing work…

Optical second harmonic generation (SHG) has been measured for the first time in reflection from the nanometer-thick films (6 to 40 nm) of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 using 1.51 eV (820 nm) Ti:Sapphire laser photons and revealed a…

The tunability of the bandgap, absorption and emission energies, photoluminescence (PL) quantum yield, exciton transport, and energy transfer in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers provides a new class of functions for a wide…