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20142026
most citedUnraveling intrinsic flexoelectricity in twisted double bilayer graphene

65 citations · 305 across the 28 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Twist as a Mechanical Switch for Reconfigurable Stacking in h-BN

Gautham Vijayan, Zhaoheng Zhang, Kenji Watanabe +5

Twistronics of layered materials has emerged as a highly active field due to its profound implications for quantum electronics and materials engineering. However, the controllable…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Polarization engineered all 2D Graphene/Ferroelectric hybrid for persistence-free photoresponse

Navkiranjot Kaur Gill, Shaili Sett, Saloni Kakkar +3

Graphene-based van der Waals hybrid photodetectors typically work on trap-mediated photogating mechanism, exhibiting high sensitivity, but under-perform in the fast detection of re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Observation of Unconventional Ferroelectricity in Non-Moir'\e Graphene on Hexagonal Boron Nitride Boundaries and Interfaces

Tianyu Zhang, Yueyang Wang, Hongxia Xue +3

Interfacial interactions in two parallel-stacked hexagonal boron-nitride (hBN) layers facilitate sliding ferroelectricity, enabling novel device functionalities. Additionally, when…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Defect Engineered Hexagonal-Boron Nitride Enables Ionic Conduction for Lithium Metal Batteries

Yecun Wu, Yan-Kai Tzeng, Hao Chen +7

The practical implementation of lithium-metal anodes has been hindered by uncontrollable dendrite formation and interfacial instability. This study presents a defect-engineering ap…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Sliding Disassembly of van der Waals Heterostructures

Jordan Pack, Karl V. Falb, Sanat Ghosh +13

Many recent advances in our understanding of two-dimensional (2D) electron systems stem from van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures. The assembly process relies on the weak bonding a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 3 cited

Dynamically tunable hydrodynamic transport in boron nitride-encapsulated graphene

Akash Gugnani, Aniket Majumdar, Kenji Watanabe +2

Over the past decade, graphene has emerged as a promising candidate for exploring the viscous nature of electronic flow facilitated by the availability of extremely high-quality de…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 1 cited

In situ engineering hexagonal boron nitride in van der Waals heterostructures with selective SF6 etching

Hitesh Agarwal, Antoine Reserbat-Plantey, David Barcons Ruiz +10

Van der Waals heterostructures are at the forefront in materials heterostructure engineering, offering the ultimate control in layer selectivity and capability to combine virtually…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Laser patterning of the room temperature van der Waals ferromagnet 1-CrTe

Tristan Riccardi, Suman Sarkar, Anike Purbawati +19

Lamellar crystalline materials, whose layers are bond by van der Waals forces, can be stacked to form ultrathin artificial heterostructures, and in particular vertical magnetic jun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 4 cited

Current-induced brightening of vacancy-related emitters in hexagonal boron nitride

Corinne Steiner, Rebecca Rahmel, Frank Volmer +9

We perform photoluminescence measurements on vacancy-related emitters in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) that are notorious for their low quantum yields. The gating of these emitters…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 3 cited

On the origin of anomalous hysteresis in graphite/boron nitride transistors

Dacen Waters, Derek Waleffe, Ellis Thompson +9

Field-effect devices constructed by stacking flakes of van der Waals (vdW) materials, with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) playing the role of gate dielectric, often exhibit virtuall…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Giant light emission enhancement in strain-engineered InSe/MS (M=Mo,W) van der Waals heterostructures

Elena Blundo, Marzia Cuccu, Federico Tuzi +11

Two-dimensional crystals stack together through weak van der Waals (vdW) forces, offering unlimited possibilities to play with layer number, order and twist angle in vdW heterostru…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 15 cited

Ultra-steep slope cryogenic FETs based on bilayer graphene

E. Icking, D. Emmerich, K. Watanabe +5

Cryogenic field-effect transistors (FETs) offer great potential for a wide range of applications, the most notable example being classical control electronics for quantum informati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Interlayer charge transfer in graphene 2D polyimide heterostructures

Francesca Falorsi, Shuangjie Zhao, Kejun Liu +12

The vertical integration of multiple two-dimensional (2D) materials in heterostructures, held together by van der Waals forces, has opened unprecedented possibilities for modifying…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Tailored topotactic chemistry unlocks heterostructures of magnetic intercalation compounds

Samra Husremović, Oscar Gonzalez, Berit H. Goodge +15

The construction of thin film heterostructures has been a widely successful archetype for fabricating materials with emergent physical properties. This strategy is of particular im…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Ultra-Long Homochiral Graphene Nanoribbons Grown Within h-BN Stacks for High-Performance Electronics

Bosai Lyu, Jiajun Chen, Sen Wang +21

Van der Waals encapsulation of two-dimensional materials within hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) stacks has proven to be a promising way to create ultrahigh-performance electronic de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Thermal relaxation of strain and twist in ferroelectric hexagonal boron nitride moiré interfaces

Marisa Hocking, Christina E. Henzinger, Steven Tran +6

New properties can arise at van der Waals (vdW) interfaces hosting a moiré pattern generated by interlayer twist and strain. However, achieving precise control of interlayer twist/…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

The Defects Genome of 2D Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Mohammed Sayyad, Jan Kopaczek, Carmem M. Gilardoni +9

Two-dimensional (2D) Janus Transition Metal Dichalcogenides (TMDs) have attracted much interest due to their exciting quantum properties arising from their unique two-faced structu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Direct visualization of defect-controlled diffusion in van der Waals gaps

Joachim Dahl Thomsen, Yaxian Wang, Henrik Flyvbjerg +5

Diffusion processes govern fundamental phenomena such as phase transformations, doping, and intercalation in van der Waals (vdW) bonded materials. Here, we quantify the diffusion d…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 30 cited

Elementary excitations of single-photon emitters in hexagonal Boron Nitride

Jonathan Pelliciari, Enrique Mejia, John M. Woods +8

Single-photon emitters serve as building blocks for many emerging concepts in quantum photonics. The recent identification of bright, tunable, and stable emitters in hexagonal boro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Towards a comprehensive understanding of the low energy luminescence peak in 2D materials

Keerthana S Kumar, Ajit Kumar Dash, Hasna Sabreen H +6

An intense low-energy broad luminescence peak (L-peak) is usually observed in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) at low temperatures. L-peak has earlier been attributed to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Full-dry flipping transfer method for van der Waals heterostructure

Dohun Kim, Soyun Kim, Yanni Cho +6

We present a novel flipping transfer method for van der Waals heterostructures, offering a significant advancement over previous techniques by eliminating the need for polymers and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 2 cited

Spin and Valley Polarized Multiple Fermi Surfaces of α-RuCl/Bilayer Graphene Heterostructure

Soyun Kim, Jeonghoon Hong, Kenji Watanabe +4

We report the transport properties of -RuCl/bilayer graphene heterostructures, where carrier doping is induced by a work function difference, resulting in distinct electron…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Resonant band hybridization in alloyed transition metal dichalcogenide heterobilayers

Alessandro Catanzaro, Armando Genco, Charalambos Louca +13

Bandstructure engineering using alloying is widely utilised for achieving optimised performance in modern semiconductor devices. While alloying has been studied in monolayer transi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Intrinsic Electronic Properties of BN Encapsulated, van der Waals Contacted MoSe FETs

Yinjiang Shao, Jian Zhou, Ning Xu +5

Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors have attracted considerable interest for their unique physical properties. Here, we report the intrinsic cryogenic electronic transport properti…