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As silicon transistors scale toward future technology nodes, three-dimensional architectures -- including gate-all-around (GAA) nanoribbon and complementary field-effect transistors (CFETs) -- require channel widths in the tens of…
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Two-dimensional (2D) Transition Metal Dichalcogenide semiconductor (TMDs) nanocircuits are deterministically engineered over large-scale substrates. The original approach combines large-area physical growth of 2D TMDs layer with high…
Fabrication of atomic scale of metallic wire remains challenging. In present work, a nanoribbon with two parallel symmetric metallic and magnetic edges was designed from semiconductive monolayer PtS2 by employing first-principles…
Extreme light confinement down to the atomic scale has been theoretically predicted for ultrathin, Ta-based transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). In this work, we experimentally demonstrate in 2H-TaS$_2$ monolayers and bilayers a lateral…
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