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most citedAtomically Thin Resonant Tunnel Diodes built from Synthetic van der Waals Heterostructures

462 citations · 977 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Electron-Induced Formation of C on Si(100) from Acetylene and Ethylene

Oliver MacLean, Marc Savoie, Damian G. Allis +12

Hydrogen Desorption Lithography on Si(100) demonstrates the ability of the Scanning Tunneling Microscope (STM) to create functional atomic-scale structures and devices. The dehydro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Towards Atom-by-Atom Fabrication: Mechanosynthetic donation and abstraction

Brandon Blue, Mathieu Morin, Alex Inayeh +55

Enabled by inverted-mode scanning tunneling microscopy (IM-STM) and the use of functionalized molecular tools, we demonstrate positionally-controlled mechanosynthetic addition (don…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomically precise mechanosynthesis of carbon structures on hydrogenated Si(100) by inverted-mode STM

Megan Cowie, Chris Deimert, Ryan Groome +44

The ability to build atomically precise structures on surfaces with complete control over both atomic placement and chemical bonding remains a central challenge in nanoscale fabric…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Inverted-Mode Scanning Tunneling Microscopy for Atomically Precise Fabrication

Eduardo Barrera, Bheeshmon Thanabalasingam, Rafik Addou +57

Scanning Tunneling Microscopy (STM) enables fabrication of atomically precise structures with unique properties and growing technological potential. However, reproducible manipulat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Molecular Tools for Non-Planar Surface Chemistry

Taleana Huff, Brandon Blue, Terry McCallum +30

Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) investigations of on-surface chemistry on passivated silicon have only shown in-plane chemical reactions, and studies on bare silicon are limited in…

physics.app-ph2019★ 106 cited

Atomically Controlled Tunable Doping in High Performance WSe2 Devices

Chin-Sheng Pang, Terry Y. T. Hung, Ava Khosravi +5

Two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcogenide (TMD) field-effect transistors (FETs) are promising candidates for future electronic applications, owing to their excellent transp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Enhancing Interconnect Reliability and Performance by Converting Tantalum to 2D Layered Tantalum Sulfide at Low Temperature

Chun-Li Lo, Massimo Catalano, Ava Khosravi +9

The interconnect half-pitch size will reach ~20 nm in the coming sub-5 nm technology node. Meanwhile, the TaN/Ta (barrier/liner) bilayer stack has to be > 4 nm to ensure acceptable…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 409 cited

Covalent Nitrogen Doping and Compressive Strain in MoS2 by Remote N2 Plasma Exposure

Angelica Azcatl, Xiaoye Qin, Abhijith Prakash +11

Controllable doping of two-dimensional materials is highly desired for ideal device performance in both hetero- and p-n homo-junctions. Herein, we propose an effective strategy for…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 462 cited

Atomically Thin Resonant Tunnel Diodes built from Synthetic van der Waals Heterostructures

Yu-Chuan Lin, Ram Krishna Ghosh, Rafik Addou +10

Vertical integration of two-dimensional van der Waals materials is predicted to lead to novel electronic and optical properties not found in the constituent layers. Here, we presen…