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Searching for natural materials exhibiting larger electron-electron interactions constitutes a traditional approach to high temperature superconductivity research. Very recently we pointed out that the newly developed field of…
This study explores the emergence of superconductivity in high-quality ZrTe$_{2-x}$Se$_x$ crystals, grown via the isothermal chemical vapor transport (ICVT) technique. Resistive, structural, and thermal measurements reveal that substituting…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors, such as the transition metal dichalcogenides, have demonstrated tremendous promise for the development of highly tunable quantum devices. Realizing this potential requires low-resistance electrical…
Two-dimensional superconductors attract great interest both for their fundamental physics and for their potential applications, especially in the rapidly growing field of quantum computing. Despite intense theoretical and experimental…
If magnetic semiconductors are ever to find wide application in real spintronic devices, their magnetic and electronic properties will require tailoring in much the same way that band gaps are engineered in conventional semiconductors.…
Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials are of great current interest for their promising applications in spintronics. Here we propose the van der Waals (vdW) material VI3 to be a 2D Ising ferromagnet (FM), using density functional…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide PdTe$_2$ recently attracts much attention due to its phase coexistence of type-II Dirac semimetal and type-I superconductivity. Here we report a 67 % enhancement of superconducting transition…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have demonstrated great potential for next-generation electronics and optoelectronics. However, the current 2D semiconductors suffer from intrinsically low carrier mobility at room temperature, which…
2D ferromagnets offer valuable insights into the fundamentals of magnetism and stimulate the progress of ultracompact spintronics. The demand for seamless integration of the materials with the Si technology, particularly helpful to their…
Controlled chemical transformation of nanostructures is a promising technique to obtain precisely designed novel materials which are difficult to synthesize otherwise. We report high-temperature vapor phase anion exchange reactions to…
Density functional theory is used to explore the possibility of inducing impurity band ferromagnetism in monolayers of semiconducting MoS2 by introducing holes into the narrow Mo 4d band that forms the top of the valence band. A large out…
We report the realization of field-effect transistors (FETs) made with chemically- synthesized layered two dimensional (2D) crystal semiconductor WS2. The 2D Schottky-barrier FETs demonstrate ambipolar behavior and a high (~105x) on/off…
The capacity to manipulate magnetization in two-dimensional dilute magnetic semiconductors (2D-DMSs) using light, specifically in magnetically doped transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers (M-doped TX2, where M = V, Fe, Cr; T = W,…
The electronic structure and magnetic exchange interactions in pure and V-doped Fe16N2 are studied within the framework of density functional theory. The Curie temperatures were obtained with both mean field approximation (MFA) as well as…
Two-dimensional (2D) intrinsic ferromagnetic (FM) semiconductors are crucial to develop low-dimensional spintronic devices. Using density functional theory, we show that single-layer chromium trihalides (SLCTs) (CrX$_3$,X=F, Cl, Br and I)…
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) represent an ideal testbench for the search of materials by design, because their optoelectronic properties can be manipulated through surface engineering and molecular…
(2D) lateral heterostructures (LH) combining Ti$_2$C and Ta$_2$C MXenes were investigated by means of first-principles calculations. Our structural and elastic properties calculations show that the lateral Ti$_2$C/Ta$_2$C heterostructure…
CdGeP2 chalcopyrites doped with Mn have been recently found to exhibit room temperature ferromagnetism. Isovalent substitution of the Cd site is expected, however, to create antiferromagnetism, in analogy with the well-known CdTe:Mn (d^5)…
Twisted heterostructures of two-dimensional crystals offer almost unlimited scope for the design of novel metamaterials. Here we demonstrate a room-temperature ferroelectric semiconductor that is assembled using mono- or few- layer MoS2.…
In recent years, intrinsic two-dimensional (2D) magnetism aroused great interest because of its potential application in spintronic devices. However, low Curie temperature (\emph{T}$_c$) and magnetic anisotropy energy (MAE) limit its…