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Band gap of monolayer and few layers in two dimensional (2D) semiconductors has usually been measured by optical probing such as photoluminescence (PL). However, if their exfoliated thickness is as large as a few nm (multilayer over ~5L),…

We investigate a two-dimensional (2D) heterostructure consisting of few-layer direct bandgap ReS2, a thin h-BN layer and a monolayer graphene for application to various electronic devices. Metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS)-type devices…

Single-layer Graphene (SLG) is a promising material for sensing applications. High performance graphene sensors can be achieved when Interdigitated Electrodes (IDE) are used. In this research work, we fabricated SLG micro-ribbon (GMR)…

Graphene provides a unique platform for hosting high quality 2D electron systems. Encapsulating graphene with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) to shield it from noisy environments offers the potential to achieve ultrahigh performance…

Vertically stacked two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures based on graphene electrodes represent a promising architecture for next-generation electronic devices. However, their first-principles characterizations have been…

The use of a foreign metallic cold source (CS) has recently been proposed as a promising approach toward the steep-slope field-effect-transistor (FET). In addition to the selection of source material with desired density of states-energy…

Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), are expected to be promising for next generation device applications. The existence of sulfur vacancies formed in MoS2, however, will potentially make devices…

Bilayer graphene field-effect transistors (BLG-FETs), unlike conventional semiconductors, are greatly sensitive to potential fluctuations due to the charged impurities in high-k gate stacks since the potential difference between two layers…

Hybrid CMOS detectors (HCDs) have several excellent features as high-performance X-ray detectors, including rapid readout, deep-depletion silicon for high quantum efficiency, radiation hardness, and low power. Random telegraph noise (RTN)…

The electronic structure of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors can be significantly altered by screening effects, either from free charge carriers in the material itself, or by environmental screening from the surrounding medium. The…

The electronic properties of two-dimensional materials such as graphene are extremely sensitive to their environment, especially the underlying substrate. Planar van der Waals bonded substrates such as hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have…

Van der Waals heterostructures are the ideal material platform for tunnel field effect transistors (TFETs) because a band-to-band tunneling (BTBT) dominant current is feasible at room temperature (RT) due to ideal, dangling bond free…

Combining single-layer two-dimensional semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with graphene layer in van der Waals heterostructures offers an intriguing means of controlling the electronic properties through these…

Telegraph noise, which originates from the switching of charge between meta-stable trapping sites, becomes increasingly important as device sizes approach the nano-scale. For charge-based quantum computing, this noise may lead to…

Strong electron-phonon interaction which limits electronic mobility of semiconductors can also have significant effects on phonon frequencies. The latter is the key to the use of Raman spectroscopy for nondestructive characterization of…

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide band gap, van der Waals material that is highly promising for solid-state quantum technologies as a host of optically addressable, paramagnetic spin defects. Intrinsic and extrinsic point defects…

In this work we demonstrate that a free-standing van der Waals heterostructure, usually regarded as a flat object, can exhibit an intrinsic buckled atomic structure resulting from the interaction between two layers with a small lattice…

The 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (e.g., WS2) host strong coupling between various degrees of freedom leading to potential applications in next-generation device applications including optoelectronics. Such applications…

The presence of finite bandgap and high mobility in semiconductor few-layer black phosphorus offers an attractive prospect for using this material in future two-dimensional electronic devices. Here we demonstrate for the first time fully…

Scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) has yielded significant insight on the electronic structure of graphene and other two-dimensional (2D) materials. STS directly measures a fundamental and directly calculable quantity: the single…