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We realized ambipolar Field-Effect Transistors by coupling exfoliated thin flakes of tungsten disulphide (WS2) with an ionic liquid-dielectric. The devices show ideal electrical characteristics, including very steep sub-threshold slopes for…
Chromium sulfur bromide (CrSBr) is a magnetic van der Waals semiconductor with a direct bandgap and pronounced anisotropy in its electronic, optical, spin and lattice degrees of freedom. Here, we employ spectroscopic imaging ellipsometry…
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Bi2Se3 is a prototypical topological insulator which has a small band gap (~0.3 eV) and topologically protected conducting surface states. This material exhibits quite strong thermoelectric effects. Here we show in a mechanically exfoliated…
We study the anisotropic in-plane optical conductivity of detwinned Ba(Fe1-xCox)2As2 single crystals for x=0, 2.5% and 4.5% in a broad energy range (3 meV-5 eV) across their structural and magnetic transitions. For temperatures below the…
The anisotropic optical properties of multiferroic BiFeO$_3$ thin films have been determined with Mueller matrix ellipsometry at room-temperature. The full dielectric tensors of tetragonal-like and rhombohedral-like BiFeO$_3$ phases…
We study the azimuthal angle and transverse momentum dependence of dilepton production from hot and magnetized hadronic matter using $\rho^0$-meson dominance. The thermomagnetic spectral function of the $\rho^0$ is evaluated using the real…
Spatially referenced data often have autocovariance functions with elliptical isolevel contours, a property known as geometric anisotropy. The anisotropy parameters include the tilt of the ellipse (orientation angle) with respect to a…
Main-group layered binary semiconductors, in particular, the III-VI alloys in the binary Ga-Te system are attracting increasing interest for a range of practical applications. The III-VI semiconductor, monoclinic gallium monotelluride…
Ulta-wide bandgap semiconductors based on $\beta$-Ga$_2$O$_3$ offer the potential to achieve higher power switching performance, efficiency, and lower manufacturing cost than today's wide bandgap power semiconductors. However, the most…
Density function theory is the workhorse of modern electronic structure theory. However, its accuracy in practical calculations is limited by the choice of the exchange-correlation potential. In this respect, two-dimensional materials pose…
We have investigated the electronic structure of Ba3InIr2O9 within the density-functional theory (DFT) using the generalized gradient approximation while considering strong Coulomb correlations (GGA+$U$) in the framework of the fully…
Sb thin films have attracted wide interests due to their tunable band structure, topological phases, and remarkable electronic properties. We successfully grow epitaxial Sb thin films on a closely lattice-matched GaSb(001) surface by…
We use first-principles calculations based on many-body perturbation theory to investigate the near-edge electronic and optical properties of \b{eta}-Ga2O3. The fundamental band gap is indirect, but the minimum direct gap is only 29 meV…
In the present study we have investigated the structural properties, electronic band dispersion, elastic constants, acoustic behavior, phonon spectrum, optical properties, and a number of thermophysical parameters of binary topological…
Spectroscopic ellipsometry is used to determine the dielectric function of the superconducting LaFeAsO$_{0.9}$F$_{0.1}$ ($T_c$ = 27 K) and undoped LaFeAsO polycrystalline samples in the wide range 0.01-6.5 eV at temperatures 10 $\leq T…
Black phosphorus (BP), a two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals layered material composed of phosphorus atoms, has been one of the most actively studied 2D materials in recent years due to its tunable energy band gap (tunable even to a negative…
Transition metal dichalcogenide, especially MoS2 has attracted lot of attention recently owing to its tunable visible range band gap and anisotropic electronic and transport properties. Here, we report a comprehensive inelastic light…
Low-dimensional media have exhibited optical anisotropy that is unachievable in traditional 3D media due to the asymmetry of their strong, in-plane covalent bonds and weak out-of-plane van der Waals interactions. As a result, 2D media are…