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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 1.5k cited

Semiconducting Black Phosphorus: Synthesis, Transport Properties and Electronic Applications

Han Liu, Yuchen Du, Yexin Deng +1

Phosphorus is one of the most abundant elements preserved in earth, constructing with a fraction of ~0.1% of the earth crust. In general, phosphorus has several allotropes. The two…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 57 cited

Contact Research Strategy for Emerging Molybdenum Disulfide and Other Two-Dimensional Field-effect Transistors

Yuchen Du, Lingming Yang, Han Liu +1

Layered two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) have been widely isolated, synthesized, and characterized recently. Numerous 2D materials are ide…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 12 cited

Laser Induced Magnetization Reversal for Detection in Optical Interconnects

Zubair Al Azim, Xuanyao Fong, Thomas Ostler +2

Optical interconnect has emerged as the front-runner to replace electrical interconnect especially for off-chip communication. However, a major drawback with optical interconnects…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 739 cited

Chloride Molecular Doping Technique on 2D Materials: WS2 and MoS2

Lingming Yang, Kausik Majumdar, Han Liu +8

Low-resistivity metal-semiconductor (M-S) contact is one of the urgent challenges in the research of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). Here, we report a chloride molecula…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 82 cited

Temporal and Thermal Stability of Al2O3-passivated Phosphorene MOSFETs

Xi Luo, Yaghoob Rahbarihagh, James C. M. Hwang +3

This letter evaluates temporal and thermal stability of a state-of-the-art few-layer phosphorene MOSFET with Al2O3 surface passivation and Ti/Au top gate. As fabricated, the phosph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 663 cited

Revealing the role of organic cations in hybrid halide perovskites CH3NH3PbI3

Carlo Motta, Fedwa El Mellouhi, Sabre Kais +3

The hybrid halide perovskite CHNHPbI has enabled solar cells to reach an efficiency of about 18\%, demonstrating a pace for improvements with no precedents in the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 29 cited

Raman spectra and electron-phonon coupling in disordered graphene with gate-tunable doping

Isaac Childres, Luis A. Jauregui, Yong P. Chen

We report a Raman spectroscopy study of graphene field-effect transistors (GFET) with a controlled amount of defects introduced in graphene by exposure to electron-beam irradiation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 168 cited

First-Principles Simulation of Electron Mean-Free-Path Spectra and Thermoelectric Properties in Silicon

Bo Qiu, Zhiting Tian, Ajit Vallabhaneni +5

The mean-free-paths (MFPs) of energy carriers are of critical importance to the nano-engineering of better thermoelectric materials. Despite significant progress in the first-princ…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 21 cited

General and mechanistic optimal relationships for tensile strength of doubly convex tablets under diametrical compression

Sonia M. Razavi, Marcial Gonzalez, Alberto M. Cuitino

We propose a general framework for determining optimal relationships for tensile strength of doubly convex tablets under diametrical compression. This approach is based on the obse…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 418 cited

Device Perspective for Black Phosphorus Field-Effect Transistors: Contact Resistance, Ambipolar and Scaling

Yuchen Du, Han Liu, Yexin Deng +1

Although monolayer black phosphorus (BP) or phosphorene has been successfully exfoliated and its optical properties have been explored, most of electrical performance of the device…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 75 cited

Superdiffusive heat conduction in semiconductor alloys -- II. Truncated Lévy formalism for experimental analysis

Bjorn Vermeersch, Amr M. S. Mohammed, Gilles Pernot +2

Nearly all experimental observations of quasi-ballistic heat flow are interpreted using Fourier theory with modified thermal conductivity. Detailed Boltzmann transport equation (BT…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 94 cited

Superdiffusive heat conduction in semiconductor alloys -- I. Theoretical foundations

Bjorn Vermeersch, Jesus Carrete, Natalio Mingo +1

Semiconductor alloys exhibit a strong dependence of effective thermal conductivity on measurement frequency. So far this quasi-ballistic behaviour has only been interpreted phenome…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 25 cited

The nucleation and propagation of solitary Schallamach waves

Koushik Viswanathan, Anirban Mahato, Srinivasan Chandrasekar

We isolate single Schallamach waves --- detachment fronts that mediate inhomogeneous sliding between an elastomer and a hard surface --- to study their creation and dynamics. Based…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 164 cited

MoS2 Field-effect Transistors with Graphene/Metal Heterocontacts

Yuchen Du, Lingming Yang, Jingyun Zhang +4

For the first time, n-type few-layer MoS2 field-effect transistors with graphene/Ti as the hetero-contacts have been fabricated, showing more than 160 mA/mm drain current at 1 μm g…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 120 cited

Electrical and thermal conductivities of reduced graphene oxide/polystyrene composites

Wonjun Park, Jiuning Hu, Luis A. Jauregui +2

The author reports an experimental study of electrical and thermal transport in reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/polystyrene (PS) composites. The electrical conductivity () of RGO/P…