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Magnetic proximity effects are crucial ingredients for engineering spintronic, superconducting, and topological phenomena in heterostructures. Such effects are highly sensitive to the interfacial electronic properties, such as electron wave…

High-temperature cuprate superconductors-based van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures hold high technological promise. One of the obstacles hindering progress is the detrimental effect of disorder on the properties of Josephson junctions (JJ)…

The collective excitations of electrons in the bulk or at the surface, namely plasmons, play an important role in the properties of materials, and have generated the field of plasmonics. We report the observation of a highly unusual plasmon…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-10-23 Partha Goswami , U. P. Tyagi

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures consisting of two dimensional materials offer a platform to obtain material by design and are very attractive owing to novel electronic states. Research on 2D van der Waals heterostructures (vdWH) has so…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-05-11 Kyle Ray , Alexander E. Yore , Tong Mou , Sauraj Jha , K. K. H. Smithe , Bin Wang , Eric Pop , A. K. M. Newaz

The interlayer hybridization (IH) of van der Waals (vdW) materials is thought to be mostly associated with the unignorable interlayer overlaps of wavefunctions ($t$) in real space. Here, we develop a more fundamental understanding of IH by…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-08-09 Bin Shao , Xiao Jiang , Jan Berges , Sheng Meng , Bing Huang

Applications like high density information storage, neuromorphic computing, nanophotonics, etc. require ultra-thin electronic devices which can be controlled with applied electric field. Of late, atomically thin two-dimensional (2D)…

Twisted van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures have recently emerged as an attractive platform to study tunable correlated electron systems. However, the quantum mechanical nature of vdW heterostructures makes their theoretical and…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-04-28 S. Minhal Gardezi , Harris Pirie , William Dorrell , Jennifer E. Hoffman

The application of new materials in nanotechnology opens new perspectives and enables ground-breaking innovations. Two-dimensional van der Waals materials and more specific, 2D chalcogenides are a promising class of new materials awaiting…

Materials Science · Physics 2020-10-12 Wouter Mortelmans , Stefan De Gendt , Marc Heyns , Clement Merckling

Van der Waals (vdW) materials, with their unique combination of electronic, optical, and magnetic properties, are emerging as promising platforms for exploring excitonic phenomena. Thus far, the choice of materials with exceptional…

Lateral heterostructures of 2D transition metal dichalcogenide offer a powerful platform to investigate photonic and electronic phenomena at atomically sharp interfaces. However, their controlled engineering, including tuning lateral domain…

Recent studies have revealed that the interlayer interaction in two-dimensional (2D) layered materials is not simply of van der Waals character but could coexist with quasi-bonding character. Here we classify the interlayer quasi-bonding…

Materials Science · Physics 2021-12-14 Yuan-Tao Chen , Peng-Lai Gong , Yin-Ti Ren , Liang Hu , Hu Zhang , Jiang-Long Wang , Li Huang , Xing-Qiang Shi

Different atomistic registry between the layers forming the inner and outer nanotubes can form one-dimensional (1D) van der Waals (vdW) moir\'e superlattices. Unlike the two-dimensional (2D) vdW moir\'e superlattices, effects of 1D vdW…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-07-30 Sihan Zhao , Ryo Kitaura , Pilkyung Moon , Mikito Koshino , Feng Wang

In van der Waals heterostructures, electronic bands of two-dimensional (2D) materials, their nontrivial topology, and electron-electron interactions can be dramatically changed by a moire pattern induced by twist angles between different…

Van der Waals (vdW) magnet heterostructures have emerged as new platforms to explore exotic magnetic orders and quantum phenomena. Here, we study heterostructures of layered antiferromagnets, CrI3 and CrCl3, with perpendicular and in-plane…

Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are receiving great attentions due to their intriguing properties and potentials in many research fields. The flow of charge carriers in vdW heterostructures can be efficiently rectified by the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-04-06 Yang Tan , Xiaobiao Liu , Zhiliang He , Yanran Liu , Mingwen Zhao , Han Zhang , Feng Chen

Chirality is probably the most mysterious among all symmetry transformations. Very readily broken in biological systems, it is practically absent in naturally occurring inorganic materials and is very challenging to create artificially.…

The chemical exfoliation of non-van der Waals (vdW) materials to ultrathin nanosheets remains a formidable challenge. This difficulty arises from the strong preference of these materials to engage in three-dimensional chemical bonding,…

Materials Science · Physics 2025-02-25 Akram Ibrahim , Daniel Wines , Can Ataca

Integration of electrical contacts into van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is critical for realizing electronic and optoelectronic functionalities. However, to date no scalable methodology for gaining electrical access to buried monolayer…

The diversity of 2D materials and their van der Waals (vdW) stacking presents a fertile ground for engineering novel multifunctional materials and quantum states of matter. This permits unique opportunities to tailor the electronic…

Control over the position, orientation, and stacking order of two-dimensional (2D) materials within van der Waals heterostructures is crucial for applications in electronics, spintronics, optics, and sensing. The most popular strategy for…