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Publications (37)

quant-ph2025

Properties of quantum emitters in different hBN sample types particularly suited for nanophotonic integration

Ambika Shorny, Hardy Schauffert, James C. Stewart +11

Single photon emitters in two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) are promising solid-state quantum emitters for photonic applications and quantum networks. Despite thei…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Ultrafast dynamics of bright and dark excitons in monolayer WSe and heterobilayer WSe/MoS

Jan Philipp Bange, Paul Werner, David Schmitt +15

The energy landscape of optical excitations in mono- and few-layer transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) is dominated by optically bright and dark excitons. These excitons can be…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017

Imaging of optically active defects with nanometer resolution

Jiandong Feng, Hendrik Deschout, Sabina Caneva +4

Point defects significantly influence the optical and electrical properties of solid-state materials due to their interactions with charge carriers, which reduce the band-to-band o…

physics.optics2021

Active terahertz modulator and slow light metamaterial devices with hybrid graphene-superconductor photonic integrated circuits

Samane Kalhor, Stephan J. Kindness, Robert Wallis +9

Metamaterial photonic integrated circuits with arrays of hybrid graphene-superconductor coupled split-ring resonators (SRR) capable of modulating and slowing down terahertz (THz) l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Selective synthesis of large-area monolayer tin sulfide from simple substances

Kazuki Koyama, Jun Ishihara, Takeshi Odagawa +11

Both tin monosulfide (SnS) and tin disulfide (SnS2) are thermodynamically stable layered materials with potential for spin-valleytronic devices and photodetectors. Notably, monolay…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

The bright side of defects in MoS and WS and a generalizable chemical treatment protocol for defect passivation

Hope M. Bretscher, Zhaojun Li, James Xiao +12

Structural defects are widely regarded as detrimental to the optoelectronic properties of monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides, leading to concerted efforts to eliminate defe…

physics.optics2019

Wide-field spectral super-resolution mapping of optically active defects in hBN

Jean Comtet, Evgenii Glushkov, Vytautas Navikas +6

Point defects can have significant impacts on the mechanical, electronic and optical properties of materials. The development of robust, multidimensional, high-throughput and large…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Raman Spectral Indicators of Catalyst Decoupling for Transfer of CVD Grown 2D Materials

Patrick R. Whelan, Bjarke S. Jessena, Ruizhi Wang +10

Through a combination of monitoring the Raman spectral characteristics of 2D materials grown on copper catalyst layers, and wafer scale automated detection of the fraction of trans…

physics.bio-ph2023

Electrochemically-gated Graphene Broadband Microwave Waveguides for Ultrasensitive Biosensing

Patrik Gubeljak, Tianhui Xu, Lorenzo Pedrazzetti +5

Identification of non-amplified DNA sequences and single-base mutations is essential for molecular biology and genetic diagnostics. This paper reports a novel sensor consisting of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

Multi-dimensional microwave sensing using graphene waveguides

Patrik Gubeljak, Lorenzo Pedrazzetti, Oliver J. Burton +4

This paper presents an electrolytically gated broadband microwave sensor where atomically-thin graphene layers are integrated into coplanar waveguides and coupled with microfluidic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

The role of non-equilibrium populations in dark exciton formation

Paul Werner, Wiebke Bennecke, Jan Philipp Bange +15

In two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide structures, the optical excitation of a bright exciton may be followed by the formation of a plethora of lower energy dark states…

physics.optics2016

Measuring the Nonlinear Refractive Index of Graphene using the Optical Kerr Effect Method

Evdokia Dremetsika, Bruno Dlubak, Simon-Pierre Gorza +8

By means of the ultrafast optical Kerr effect method coupled to optical heterodyne detection (OHD-OKE), we characterize the third order nonlinear response of graphene at telecom wa…

physics.optics2023

Achieving 100% amplitude modulation depth in a graphene-based tuneable capacitance metamaterial

Ruqiao Xia, Nikita W. Almond, Stephen J. Kindness +12

Effective control of terahertz radiation requires the development of efficient and fast modulators with a large modulation depth. This challenge is often tackled by using metamater…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Substrate-assisted nucleation of ultra-thin dielectric layers on graphene by atomic layer deposition

Bruno Dlubak, Piran R. Kidambi, Robert S. Weatherup +2

We report on a large improvement in the wetting of Al2O3 thin films grown by un-seeded atomic layer deposition on monolayer graphene, without creating point defects. This enhanced…

physics.chem-ph2025

A foundation model for atomistic materials chemistry

Ilyes Batatia, Philipp Benner, Yuan Chiang +85

Atomistic simulations of matter, especially those that leverage first-principles (ab initio) electronic structure theory, provide a microscopic view of the world, underpinning much…

physics.optics2019

Spectrally-Resolved Photodynamics of Individual Emitters in Large-Area Monolayers of Hexagonal-Boron Nitride

Hannah L. Stern, Ruizhi Wang, Ye Fan +9

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a 2D, wide band-gap semiconductor that has recently been shown to display bright room-temperature emission in the visible region, sparking immense…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Tunable Klein-like tunneling of high-temperature superconducting pairs into graphene

David Perconte, Fabian A. Cuellar, Constance Moreau-Luchaire +9

Superconductivity can be induced in a normal material via the leakage of superconducting pairs of charge carriers from an adjacent superconductor. This so-called proximity effect i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Formation of moiré interlayer excitons in space and time

David Schmitt, Jan Philipp Bange, Wiebke Bennecke +11

Moiré superlattices in atomically thin van-der-Waals heterostructures hold great promise for an extended control of electronic and valleytronic lifetimes, the confinement of excit…

physics.app-ph2024

Forming and Compliance-free Operation of Low-energy, Fast-switching HfOS/HfS Memristors

Aferdita Xhameni, AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Xuyun Guo +5

We demonstrate low energy, forming and compliance-free operation of a resistive memory obtained by the partial oxidation of a two-dimensional layered van-der-Waals semiconductor: h…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Ultrafast nano-imaging of dark excitons

David Schmitt, Jan Philipp Bange, Wiebke Bennecke +15

The role and impact of spatial heterogeneity in two-dimensional quantum materials represents one of the major research quests regarding the future application of these materials in…

cs.ET2021

Bridging the Band Gap: What Device Physicists Need to Know About Machine Learning

Nathaniel Tye, Stephan Hofmann, Phillip Stanley-Marbell

This article surveys the landscape of semiconductor materials and devices research for the acceleration of machine learning (ML) algorithms. We observe a disconnect between the sem…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of AlO on graphene using monolayer hBN as interfacial layer

Barbara Canto, Martin Otto, Michael J. Powell +7

The deposition of dielectric materials on graphene is one of the bottlenecks for unlocking the potential of graphene in electronic applications. In this paper we demonstrate the pl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Resolving the Nucleation Stage in Atomic Layer Deposition of Hafnium Oxide on Graphene

Bernhard C. Bayer, Adrianus I. Aria, Dominik Eder +2

The integration of two-dimensional (2D) materials with functional non-2D materials such as metal oxides is of key importance for many applications, but underlying mechanisms for su…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

The 2D Materials Roadmap

Wencai Ren, Peter Bøggild, Joan Redwing +70

Over the past two decades, 2D materials have rapidly evolved into a diverse and expanding family of material platforms. Many members of this materials class have demonstrated their…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Imaging Light-Induced Migration of Dislocations in Halide Perovskites with 3D Nanoscale Strain Mapping

Kieran W. P. Orr, Jiecheng Diao, Muhammad Naufal Lintangpradipto +14

In recent years, halide perovskite materials have been used to make high performance solar cell and light-emitting devices. However, material defects still limit device performance…

physics.app-ph2024

Controlled Fabrication of Native Ultra-Thin Amorphous Gallium Oxide from 2D Gallium Sulfide for Emerging Electronic Applications

AbdulAziz AlMutairi, Aferdita Xhameni, Xuyun Guo +4

Oxidation of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials has proven advantageous in creating oxide/2D material heterostructures, opening the door for a new paradigm of low-power electro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Probing correlations in the exciton landscape of a moiré heterostructure

Jan Philipp Bange, David Schmitt, Wiebke Bennecke +13

Excitons are two-particle correlated bound states that are formed due to Coulomb interaction between single-particle holes and electrons. In the solid-state, cooperative interactio…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022

GFET Lab: A Graphene Field-Effect Transistor TCAD Tool

Nathaniel J. Tye, Abdul Wadood Tadbier, Stephan Hofmann +1

Graphene field-effect transistors (GFETs) are experimental devices which are increasingly seeing commercial and research applications. Simulation and modelling forms an important s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Oxidising and carburising catalyst conditioning for the controlled growth and transfer of large crystal monolayer hexagonal boron nitride

Vitaliy Babenko, Ye Fan, Vlad-Petru Veigang-Radulescu +9

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is well-established as a requisite support, encapsulant and barrier for 2D material technologies, but also recently as an active material for applica…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Giant Photoluminescence Enhancement in MoSe monolayers treated with Oleic Acid Ligands

Arelo O. A Tanoh, Jack Alexander-Webber, Ye Fan +6

The inherently low photoluminescence (PL) yields in as prepared transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) monolayers are broadly accepted to be the result of atomic vacancies (i.e. def…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015

Measuring the Proton Selectivity of Graphene Membranes

Michael I. Walker, Philipp Braeuninger-Weimar, Robert S. Weatherup +2

By systematically studying the proton selectivity of free-standing graphene membranes in aqueous solutions we demonstrate that protons are transported by passing through defects. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Compressive Behavior and Failure Mechanisms of Freestanding and Composite 3D Graphitic Foams

Kenichi Nakanishi, Adrianus I. Aria, Matthew Berwind +4

Open-cell graphitic foams were fabricated by chemical vapor deposition using nickel templates and their compressive responses were measured over a range of relative densities. The…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Graphene-Passivated Nickel as an Oxidation-Resistant Electrode for Spintronics

Bruno Dlubak, Marie-Blandine Martin, Robert S. Weatherup +9

We report on graphene-passivated ferromagnetic electrodes (GPFE) for spin devices. GPFE are shown to act as spin-polarized oxidation-resistant electrodes. The direct coating of nic…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019

Non-equilibrium properties of graphene probed by superconducting tunnel spectroscopy

Simon Zihlmann, Péter Makk, Sebastián Castilla +6

We report on non-equilibrium properties of graphene probed by superconducting tunnel spectroscopy. A hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) tunnel barrier in combination with a superconduct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

A peeling approach for integrated manufacturing of large mono-layer h-BN crystals

Ruizhi Wang, David G. Purdie, Ye Fang +8

Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is the only known material aside from graphite with a structure composed of simple, stable, non-corrugated atomically thin layers. While historically…

physics.soc-ph2025

Recommendations and tools to enable reproducibility in 2D materials research

Peter Bøggild, Timothy John Booth, Bjarke Sørensen Jessen +9

Research on 2D materials has achieved significant milestones and fuelled a rapidly growing industrial sector. This progress, however, is accompanied by challenges in reproducibilit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Putting high-index Cu on the map for high-yield, dry-transferred CVD graphene

Oliver J. Burton, Zachary C. M. Winter, Kenji Watanabe +4

Reliable, clean transfer and interfacing of 2D material layers is technologically as important as their growth. Bringing both together remains a challenge due to the vast, intercon…