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Investigation of Interface Interactions Between Monolayer MoS2 and Metals: Implications on Strain and Surface Roughness

Achieving a low contact resistance has been an important issue in the design of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductor-metal interfaces. The metal contact resistance is dominated by interfacial interactions. Here, we systematically investigate 2D semiconductor ...

2024

Murunskite - a new class of functional material

Davor Tolj

The subject of the present work is discovery and in-depth characterization of a new class of functional materials. Tuning of the bond polarity and orbital occupation with a goal of establishing balance between localization and delocalization of electrons - ...

EPFL2023

Plasma sputtering of biased electrodes in an oblique magnetic field

Stefano Alberti, Ivo Furno, Alessandro Geraldini

The surface erosion of biased electrodes immersed in a radio frequency (RF) plasma was investigated in oblique magnetic fields ranging from 0.1 T to 3.5 T. The plasma potential and density in the vicinity of the biased electrode have been measured using an ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2023

Strain Gradients and Magnetoresistance in Microstructured 3D Topological Semi-metals

Jonas De Jesus Diaz Gomez

Three-dimensional topological semimetals have emerged as strong candidates to probe new fundamental physical phenomena that could be exploited to develop next generation electronics. However, many aspects of their electronic properties remain unclear. Thi ...

EPFL2023

Effects of surface wettability on (001)-WO3 and (100)-WSe2: A spin-polarized DFT-MD study

Kevin Sivula

An extensive understanding of WO3 and WSe2 bulk crystalline structures and explicit solvent effects on (001)-WO3 and (100)-WSe2 facets are essential for design of efficient (photo) electrocatalysts. The atomistic level understanding of both WO(3 )and WSe2 ...

ELSEVIER2022

Single-Walled Black Phosphorus Nanotube as a NO(2 )Gas Sensor

Xiao Zhou

An ab initio density functional theory study on the candidacy of single-walled black phosphorus nanotubes (BPNTs) towards sensing several common toxic gas molecules (NH3, CO, NO, NO2, and SO2) was conducted. Various adsorption characteristics, including th ...

ELSEVIER2022

The Advantage of Nanowire Configuration in Band Structure Determination (Adv. Funct. Mater. 41/2021)

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, Elias Zsolt Stutz, Mirjana Dimitrievska

Band Structure Determination In article number 2105426, Mirjana Dimitrievska, Anna Fontcuberta i Morral, and co-workers demonstrate how nanowires can be effectively used for direct determination of the band structure by means of valence electron energy-los ...

Wiley2021

Function and Electronic Structure of the SnO2 Buffer Layer between the alpha-Fe2O3 Water Oxidation Photoelectrode and the Transparent Conducting Oxide Current Collector

Michael Graetzel, Matthew Thomas Mayer

The tin oxide buffer layer between the transparent conducting oxide current collector and the hematite photoelectrode causes considerable water oxidation enhancement of that electrode. The water oxidation onset potential is lowered by 180 mV. The lifetime ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Unveiling the role of dielectric trap states on capacitively coupled radio-frequency plasma discharge: dynamic charging behaviors

Arnas Volcokas, Guang-Yu Sun

The influence of charge trap states in the dielectric boundary material on capacitively coupled radio-frequency (RF) plasma discharge is investigated with theory and particle-in-cell/Monte Carlo collision simulation. It is found that the trap states of the ...

2021

Radial Spin Texture of the Weyl Fermions in Chiral Tellurium

Philippe Bugnon, Marco Grioni, Majed Chergui, Oleg Yazyev, Luca Moreschini, Henrik Moodysson Rønnow, Alberto Crepaldi, Simon Karl Moser, Luc Testa, Mauro Fanciulli, Edoardo Martino, Gianmarco Gatti, Daniel Gosalbez Martinez, Silvan Dino Marcos Roth, Serhii Polishchuk, Michele Puppin

Trigonal tellurium, a small-gap semiconductor with pronounced magneto-electric and magneto-optical responses, is among the simplest realizations of a chiral crystal. We have studied by spin- and angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy its unconventional ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Self-consistent DFT

Nicola Marzari, Matteo Cococcioni, Iurii Timrov

Contradictory theoretical results for oxygen vacancies in SrTiO3 (STO) were often related to the peculiar properties of STO, which is a d(0) transition metal oxide with mixed ionic-covalent bonding. Here, we apply, for the first time, density functional th ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Emergence of Nontrivial Low-Energy Dirac Fermions in Antiferromagnetic EuCd2As2

Joël Mesot, Thomas Pierre Richard Zilliox

Parity-time symmetry plays an essential role for the formation of Dirac states in Dirac semimetals. So far, all of the experimentally identified topologically nontrivial Dirac semimetals (DSMs) possess both parity and time reversal symmetry. The realizatio ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2020

Improved thermal stability and fast phase change speed of Y-doped Sb7Se3 thin film for phase change memory applications

Xiao Zhou, Haitao Zhou

By combining experiments and first-principles calculations, Y-doped Sb7Se3 thin films were successfully fabricated and investigated. Our results suggest that Y is one promising dopant for simultaneously enhancing thermal stability, increasing phase change ...

ELSEVIER2020

Spin-valley optoelectronics based on two-dimensional materials

Dmitrii Unuchek

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, in particular graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC), have attracted great scientific interest over the last decade, revealing exceptional mechanical, electrical and optical properties. Owing to their layered n ...

EPFL2019

Adjustable potential probes for band-gap predictions of extended systems through nonempirical hybrid functionals

Alfredo Pasquarello, Igor Reshetnyak, Thomas Bischoff

We describe a nonempirical procedure for achieving accurate band gaps of extended systems through the insertion of suitably defined potential probes. By enforcing Koopmans' condition on the resulting localized electronic states, we determine the optimal fr ...

2019

Effects of InAlN underlayer on deep traps detected in near-UV InGaN/GaN single quantum well light-emitting diodes

Jean-François Carlin, Nicolas Grandjean, Raphaël Butté, Camille Haller

Two types of near-UV light-emitting diodes (LEDs) with an InGaN/GaN single quantum well (QW) differing only in the presence or absence of an underlayer (UL) consisting of an InAlN/GaN superlattice (SL) were examined. The InAlN-based ULs were previously sho ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2019