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Quantum correlation and hot-carrier transport represent two fundamentally distinct regimes of electronic conduction, rarely accessible within the same device. Here, we report a state-of-the-art monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides…

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The advances in the growth techniques provide numerous scope to explore the possibilities of new 2D materials for potential applications. With the aid of first-principle calculations we show that 2D Na can be a new addition to the family of…

Materials Science · Physics 2019-08-08 Ajit Jena , Wu Li

Room-temperature Fermi-Dirac electron thermal excitation in conventional three-dimensional (3D) or two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors generates hot electrons with a relatively long thermal tail in energy distribution. These hot electrons…

In low-dimensional systems, the combination of reduced dimensionality, strong interactions, and topology has led to a growing number of many-body quantum phenomena. Thermal transport, which is sensitive to all energy-carrying degrees of…

Heterostructures comprising of silicon (Si), molybdenum disulfide (MoS${_2}$) and graphene are investigated with respect to the vertical current conduction mechanism. The measured current-voltage (I-V) characteristics exhibit temperature…

We investigate transport through ionic liquid gated field effect transistors (FETs) based on exfoliated crystals of semiconducting WS$_2$. Upon electron accumulation, at surface densities close to -or just larger than- 10$^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$,…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2015-01-27 Sanghyun Jo , Davide Costanzo , Helmuth Berger , Alberto F. Morpurgo

The single particle tunneling in a vertical stack consisting of monolayers of two-dimensional semiconductors is studied theoretically and its application to a novel Two-dimensional Heterojunction Interlayer Tunneling Field Effect Transistor…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2014-03-05 Mingda Li , David Esseni , Gregory Snider , Debdeep Jena , Huili Grace Xing

The production of new sensors, transducers and electronic components can benefit from the possibility to alter the electronic transport of metal-semicondutor-metal (MSM) devices. 2D materials are extremely appealing for those new…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-07-04 Igor Neri , Miquel López-Suárez

Atomically thin (two-dimensional, 2D) semiconductors have shown great potential as the fundamental building blocks for next-generation electronics. However, all the 2D semiconductors that have been experimentally made so far have…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-26 Long Cheng , Chenmu Zhang , Yuanyue Liu

Because of their strong excitonic photoluminescence (PL) and electroluminescence (EL), together with an excellent electronic tunability, transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) semiconductors are promising candidates for novel optoelectronic…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-03-08 Lukas Dobusch , Simone Schuler , Vasili Perebeinos , Thomas Mueller

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are a new type of materials under intense study because of their interesting physical properties and wide range of potential applications from nanoelectronics to sensing and photonics. Monolayers of…

Confinement of the electron gas along one of the spatial directions opens an avenue for studying fundamentals of quantum transport along the side of numerous practical electronic applications, with high-electron-mobility transistors being a…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-12-12 O. Rubel

The quest for high-efficiency heat-to-electricity conversion has been one of the major driving forces towards renewable energy production for the future. Efficient thermoelectric devices require high voltage generation from a temperature…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-03-08 Kedar Hippalgaonkar , Ying Wang , Yu Ye , Diana Qiu , Hanyu Zhu , Yuan Wang , Joel Moore , Steven Louie , Xiang Zhang

Lateral charge transport of a two-dimensional (2D) electronic system can be much influenced by feeding a current into another closely spaced 2D conductor, known as the Coulomb drag phenomenon -- a powerful probe of electron-electron…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2025-03-04 Yingjia Liu , Kaining Yang , Kenji Watanabe , Takashi Taniguchi , Wencai Ren , Zheng Vitto Han , Siwen Zhao

Semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) have emerged as materials that can be used to realize two-dimensional (2D) crystals possessing rather unique transport and optical properties. Most research has so far focused on sulfur…

Two-dimensional (2D) materials are particularly attractive to build the channel of next-generation field-effect transistors (FETs) with gate lengths below 10-15 nm. Because the 2D technology has not yet reached the same level of maturity as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2023-10-30 Mathieu Luisier , Cedric Klinkert , Sara Fiore , Jonathan Backman , Youseung Lee , Christian Stieger , Áron Szabó

In the last decade atomically thin 2D materials have emerged as a perfect platform for studying and tuning light-matter interaction and electronic properties in nanostructures. The optoelectronic properties in layered materials such as…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2024-10-07 Roberto Rosati , Ioannis Paradisanos , Ermin Malic , Bernhard Urbaszek

We report an observation of metal-insulator transition in a thin film of SnSe$_2$. The room-temperature carrier concentration of SnSe$_2$ film was increased by electrostatic doping to 1.14$\times$ 10$^{13}$ cm$^{-2}$. A crossover from…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-07-22 Aarti Lakhara , Lars Thole , Rolf J. Haug , P. A. Bhobe

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have captured the attention of the scientific community due to the wide range of unique properties at nanometer-scale thicknesses. While significant exploratory research in 2D materials has been achieved, the…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-05-23 Vinod K. Sangwan , Mark C. Hersam

We report on the fabrication of field-effect transistors based on single and bilayers of the semiconductor WS2 and the investigation of their electronic transport properties. We find that the doping level strongly depends on the device…

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