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A new two-dimensional material, the C$_2$N holey 2D (C$_2$N-$h$2D) crystal, has recently been synthesized. Here we investigate the strain effects on the properties of this new material by first-principles calculations. We show that the…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-12-10 Shan Guan , Yingchun Cheng , Chang Liu , Junfeng Han , Yunhao Lu , Shengyuan A. Yang , Yugui Yao

Electrical and thermal properties of atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials are affected by their environment, e.g. through remote phonon scattering or dielectric screening. However, while it is known that mobility and thermal…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-07-14 Alexander J. Gabourie , Saurabh V. Suryavanshi , Amir Barati Farimani , Eric Pop

The inherent flexibility of two dimensional materials allows for efficient manipulation of their physical properties through strain application, which is essential for the development of advanced nanoscale devices. This study aimed to…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-01-28 Aytac Celik

Motivated by the excellent electronic and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) tin oxides, we systematically investigated the thermal conductivity of monolayer SnO and SnO2by the first-principles calculations. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-05-03 Wenhui Wan , Yanfeng Ge , Yong Liu

The analytical models that predict thermal and mechanical responses of microactuator have been developed. These models are based on electro thermal and thermo mechanical analysis of the microbeam. Also, Finite Element Analysis (FEA) is used…

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With the advances in low dimensional transition metal dichalcolgenides (TMDCs) based metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET), the interface between semiconductors and dielectrics has received considerable attention due to…

Computational Physics · Physics 2017-01-02 Sheng Yu , Shunjie Ran , Hao Zhu , Kwesi Eshun , Chen Shi , Kai Jiang , Qiliang Li

The ability to actively regulate heat flow at the nanoscale could be a game changer for applications in thermal management and energy harvesting. Such a breakthrough could also enable the control of heat flow using thermal circuits, in a…

Solid-state quantum emitters are pivotal for modern photonic quantum technology, yet their inherent spectral inhomogeneity imposes a critical challenge in pursuing scalable quantum network. Here, we develop a cryogenic-compatible…

Electrical triggering of a metal-insulator transition (MIT) often results in the formation of characteristic spatial patterns such as a metallic filament percolating through an insulating matrix or an insulating barrier splitting a…

Graphene has emerged as a paradigmatic material in condensed matter physics due to its exceptional electronic, mechanical, and thermal properties. A deep understanding of its thermoelectric transport behavior is crucial for the development…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2026-05-20 Juan A. Cañas , Daniel A. Bonilla , A. Martín-Ruiz

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor of MoS2 has great potential for advanced electronics technologies beyond silicon1-9. So far, high-quality monolayer MoS2 wafers10-12 are already available and various demonstrations from individual…

We report a technique for transferring large areas of the CVD-grown, few-layer MoS2 from the original substrate to another arbitrary substrate and onto holey substrates, in order to obtain free-standing structures. The method consists of a…

Strain engineering is a vital way to manipulate the electronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials. As a typical representative of transition metal mono-chalcogenides (TMMs), a honeycomb CuSe monolayer features with one-dimensional…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-11-08 Gefei Niu , Jianchen Lu , Jianqun Geng , Shicheng Li , Hui Zhang , Wei Xiong , Zilin Ruan , Yong Zhang , Boyu Fu , Lei Gao , Jinming Cai

Ultrathin layers of semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) offer significant prospects in future electronic and optoelectronic applications. Although an increasing number of experiments bring light into the electronic transport…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-07-10 Jing Wu , Hennrik Schmidt , Amara Kiran Kumar , Xiangfan Xu , Goki Eda , Barbaros Özyilmaz

Engineering thermal transport in two dimensional materials, alloys and heterostructures is critical for the design of next-generation flexible optoelectronic and energy harvesting devices. Direct experimental characterization of lattice…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-02-22 Aravind Krishnamoorthy , Nitish Baradwaj , Aiichiro Nakano , Rajiv K. Kalia , Priya Vashishta

Heat dissipation is a very critical problem for designing nano-functional devices, including MoS2/Graphene heterojunctions. In this paper we investigate thermal transport in MoS2/Graphene hybrid nanosheets under various heating conditions,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-10-20 Zhongwei Zhang , Yuee Xie , Qing Peng , Yuanping Chen

Interlayer sliding ferroelectricity has been discovered in a variety of 2D materials with superb features such as atomic thickness, fast response, and fatigue resistance. So far, research on this phenomenon has been limited to fundamental…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-01-10 Hechen Ren , Jiaojiao Wang , Wenxue He

Structural defects in 2D-transition metal dichalcogenides are critical in modulating their optical and electrical behavior. Nevertheless, precise defect control within the monolayer regime poses a significant challenge. Herein, a…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-09-30 Anagha Gopinath , Faiha Mujeeb , Subhabrata Dhar , Jyoti Mohanty

Miniaturized optical imaging systems typically utilize 2-dimensional (2D) actuators to acquire images over a 2D field of view (FOV). Piezoelectric tubes are most compact, but usually produce sub-millimeter FOVs and are difficult to…

Instrumentation and Detectors · Physics 2023-12-27 Rachel Yixuan Tan , Rachel Chi Kei Chan , Whitney Jia Ying Loh , Kaicheng Liang

We characterize heat dissipation of supported molybdenum disulfide (MoS$_2$) monolayers grown by chemical vapor deposition by means of ambient-condition scanning thermal microscopy (SThM). We find that the thermal boundary conductance of…