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The advancement of semiconductor materials has played a crucial role in the development of electronic and optical devices. However, scaling down semiconductor devices to the nanoscale has imposed limitations on device properties due to…
Epitaxial growth of single crystalline noble metals on dielectric substrates has received tremendous attention recently due to their technological potentials as low loss plasmonic materials. Currently there are two different growth…
Transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers and heterostructures have emerged as a compelling class of materials with transformative new science that may be harnessed for novel device technologies. These materials are commonly…
Two dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials have attracted much attention in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science, but their synthesis is still a challenge given their limitations on structural stability and…
Complex intermetallic materials known as MAX phases exhibit exceptional properties from both metals and ceramics, largely thanks to their nanolayered structure. With high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy supported by…
Atomically flat, epitaxial, and stoichiometric thin films of the electronically phase separated compound (La$_{0.5}$Pr$_{0.5}$)$_{0.67}$Ca$_{0.33}$MnO$_{3}$ were grown on as-received and treated NdGaO$_{3}$ substrates by fine tuning of…
MAX phases are nanolaminated ternary materials that combine metallic and ceramic properties. Currently, the A-site elements replacement in traditional ones by later transition-metals opens a door to explore new types of MAX phases. In this…
MAX phases are a family of layered, hexagonal-structure ternary carbides or nitrides of a transitional metal and an A-group element. What makes this type of material fascinating and potentially useful is their remarkable combinations of…
Two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) have gained popularity in fields such as energy storage, catalysis, and electromagnetic interference due to their diverse elemental compositions and variable surface…
MXenes are an emerging class of 2D materials of interest in applications ranging from energy storage to electromagnetic shielding. MXenes are synthesized by selective etching of layered bulk MAX phases into sheets of 2D MXenes. Their…
This is a critical review of MAX-phase carbides and nitrides from an electronic-structure and chemical bonding perspective. This large group of nanolaminated materials is of great scientific and technological interest and exhibit a…
The MAX phases are a family of of ternary layered material with both metal and ceramic properties, and it is also precursor ma-terials for synthesis of two-dimensional MXenes. The theory predicted that there are more than 600 stable ternary…
Chemical exfoliation of MAX phases into two-dimensional (2D) MXenes can be considered as a major breakthrough in the synthesis of novel 2D systems. To gain insight into the exfoliation possibility of MAX phases and to identify which MAX…
The chemical bonding within the transition-metal carbide materials MAX phase Ti3AlC2 and MXene Ti3C2Tx is investigated by X-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopies. MAX…
We report the molecular beam epitaxy of Bi_1-xSb_x thin films ($0 \leq x \leq 1$) on (0001) sapphire substrates using a thin (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ buffer layer. Characterization of the films using reflection high energy diffraction, x-ray…
Epitaxial films have the potential to be used as model systems for fundamental investigations on the martensitic transformation in binary NiTi. In this paper, we discuss growth of binary NiTi thin films on single crystalline MgO substrates.…
The potential of a wide range of layered ternary carbide and nitride MAX phases as conductors in interconnect metal lines in advanced CMOS technology nodes has been evaluated using automated first principles simulations based on density…
The family of MAX phases and their derivative MXenes are continuously growing in terms of both crystalline and composition varieties. In the last couple of years, several breakthroughs have been achieved that boosted the synthesis of novel…
The term "MAX phase" refers to a very interesting and important class of layered ternary transition-metal carbides and nitrides with a novel combination of both metal and ceramic-like properties that have made these materials highly…
MAX phase family has been extended by the addition of late transition metals at the A-site with the expectation of diverse functional properties, such as magnetism and catalysis. Here, we present our systematic density functional…