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Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are promising channel materials for continued downscaling of complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) logic circuits. However, their full potential continues to be limited by a lack of scalable…
The most widely used method for obtaining high-quality two-dimensional materials is through mechanical exfoliation of bulk crystals. Manual identification of suitable flakes from the resulting random distribution of crystal thicknesses and…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials have drawn immense interest in scientific and technological communities, owing to their extraordinary properties that are profoundly altered from their bulk counterparts and their enriched tunability by…
Understanding the growth mechanisms of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures is of great importance in exploring their functionalities and device applications. A custom-built system integrating physical vapor deposition…
Multilayers based on quantum materials (complex oxides, topological insulators, transition-metal dichalcogenides, etc) have enabled the design of devices that could revolutionize microelectronics and optoelectronics. However,…
The first two-dimensional (2D) polymorphs of antimony dioxide, namely, $\gamma$-Sb$_2$O$_4$ and $\delta$-Sb$_2$O$_4$, are predicted using the evolutionary algorithm combined with first-principles density functional theory (DFT)…
Dielectrics are insulating materials used in many different electronic devices and play an important role in all of them. Current advanced electronic devices use dielectric materials with a high dielectric constant and avoid high leakage…
The development of new high dielectric materials is essential for advancement in modern electronics. Oxides are generally regarded as the most promising class of high dielectric materials for industrial applications as they possess both…
The rational design of two-dimensional piezoelectric materials has recently garnered great interest due to their increasing use in technological applications, including sensor technology, actuating devices, energy harvesting, and medical…
We discuss the effect of the dielectric environment (insulators and metal gates) on electronic transport in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) monolayers. We employ well-known ab initio methods to calculate the…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS$_2$ have attracted extensive research interests for potential applications in optoelectronics, spintronics, photovoltaics, and catalysis. To harness the…
Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide extraordinary opportunities for exploring phenomena arising in atomically thin crystals. Beginning with the first isolation of graphene, mechanical exfoliation has been a key to provide high-quality 2D…
The physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures based on such crystals has been developing extremely fast. With new 2D materials, truly 2D physics has started to appear (e.g. absence of long-range order, 2D excitons,…
Heterostructures involving two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides and other materials such as graphene have a strong potential to be the fundamental building block of many electronic and opto-electronic applications. The…
Low-dimensional (LD) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) in the form of nanoflakes, which consist of one or several layers, are the subject of intensive fundamental and applied research. Due to the size-induced transition from a bulk to…
Two-dimensional (2D) layered materials are promising for replacing Si to overcome the scaling limit of recent ~5 nm-length metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs). However, the insulator/2D channel interface severely…
In recent years, the rising demand for close interaction with electronic devices has led to a surge in the popularity of wearable gadgets. While wearable gadgets have generally been rigid due to their utilisation of silicon-based…
Van der Waals (vdW) materials have greatly expanded our design space of heterostructures by allowing individual layers to be stacked at non-equilibrium configurations, for example via control of the twist angle. Such heterostructures not…
Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors are likely to dominate next-generation electronics due to their advantages in compactness and low power consumption. However, challenges such as high contact resistance and inefficient doping hinder their…
By performing high-throughput first-principles calculations combined with a semiempirical van der Waals dispersion correction, we have screened 74 direct- and 185 indirect-gap two dimensional (2D) nonmagnetic semiconductors from near 1000…