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Memristive Switches in Rigid Conjugated Single-Molecule Junctions
Riccardo Conte, Lucienne van der Geest, Minu Sheeja +3
Voltage-driven memristive switching has been reported in molecular junctions, yet its microscopic origin often remains elusive. Here, we study three rigid OPE-like derivatives that…
Interplay of energy and charge transfer in WSe2/CrSBr heterostructures
José Roberto de Toledo, Caique Serati de Brito, Barbara L. T. Rosa +12
Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) composed of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) and layered magnetic semiconductors offer great opportunities to manipulate exciton and v…
A Single-Molecule Quantum Heat Engine
Serhii Volosheniuk, Riccardo Conte, Eugenia Pyurbeeva +6
Particle-exchange heat engines operate without moving parts or time-dependent driving, relying solely on static energy-selective transport. Here, we realize a particle-exchange qua…
Thermoelastic Damping Across the Phase Transition in van der Waals Magnets
Alvaro Bermejillo-Seco, Xiang Zhang, Maurits J. A. Houmes +4
A quantitative understanding of the microscopic mechanisms responsible for damping in van der Waals nanomechanical resonators remains elusive. In this work, we investigate van der…
Probing Short-Range Correlations in the van der Waals Magnet CrSBr by Small-Angle Neutron Scattering
Andrey Rybakov, Carla Boix-Constant, Diego Alba Venero +3
The layered metamagnet CrSBr offers a rich interplay between magnetic, optical and electrical properties that can be extended down to the two-dimensional (2D) limit. Despite the ex…
Impact of spin-entropy on the thermoelectric properties of a 2D magnet
Alessandra Canetta, Serhii Volosheniuk, Sayooj Satheesh +11
Heat-to-charge conversion efficiency of thermoelectric materials is closely linked to the entropy per charge carrier. Thus, magnetic materials are promising building blocks for hig…
Tuning the Spin Interaction in Non-planar Organic Diradicals Through Mechanical Manipulation
Alessio Vegliante, Saleta Fernandez, Ricardo Ortiz +12
Open-shell polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) represent promising building blocks for carbon-based functional magnetic materials. Their magnetic properties stem from the prese…
Optomechanical methodology for characterizing the thermal properties of 2D materials
Hanqing Liu, Hatem Brahmi, Carla Boix-Constant +3
Heat transport in two-dimensions is fundamentally different from that in three dimensions. As a consequence, the thermal properties of 2D materials are of great interest, both from…
Quantum Spin Hall Effect in Magnetic Graphene
Talieh S. Ghiasi, Davit Petrosyan, Josep Ingla-Aynés +9
A promising approach to attain long-distance coherent spin propagation is accessing topological spin-polarized edge states in graphene. Achieving this without external magnetic fie…
Evidence of an Off-resonant Electronic Transport Mechanism in Helicenes
T. de Ara, C. Hsu, A. Martinez-Garcia +9
Helical molecules have been identified as potential candidates for investigating electronic transport, spin filtering, or even piezoelectricity. However, the description of the tra…
A ballistic electron source with magnetically-controlled valley polarization in bilayer graphene
Josep Ingla-Aynés, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Talieh S. Ghiasi +3
The achievement of valley-polarized electron currents is a cornerstone for the realization of valleytronic devices. Here, we report on ballistic coherent transport experiments wher…
Nonlinear dynamics and magneto-elasticity of nanodrums near the phase transition
Makars Šiškins, Ata Keşkekler, Maurits J. A. Houmes +6
Nanomechanical resonances of two-dimensional (2D) materials are sensitive probes for condensed-matter physics, offering new insights into magnetic and electronic phase transitions.…
Charge transfer and asymmetric coupling of MoSe valleys to the magnetic order of CrSBr
C. Serati de Brito, P. E. Faria Junior, T. S. Ghiasi +13
Van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures composed of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMD) and vdW magnetic materials offer an intriguing platform to functionaliz…
Quantum-assisted electron transport in microbial protein wires across macroscopic distances
Jasper R. van der Veen, Silvia Hidalgo Martinez, Albert Wieland +5
Multicellular cable bacteria display an exceptional form of biological conduction, channeling electrical currents across centimeter distances through a regular network of protein f…
Nitrogen-vacancy magnetometry of CrSBr by diamond membrane transfer
Talieh S. Ghiasi, Michael Borst, Samer Kurdi +6
Magnetic imaging using nitrogen-vacancy (NV) spins in diamonds is a powerful technique for acquiring quantitative information about sub-micron scale magnetic order. A major challen…
MoRe Electrodes with 10-nm Nanogaps for Electrical Contact to Atomically Precise Graphene Nanoribbons
Damian Bouwmeester, Talieh S. Ghiasi, Gabriela Borin Barin +4
Atomically precise graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are predicted to exhibit exceptional edge-related properties, such as localized edge states, spin polarization, and half-metallicity.…
Enhanced sensitivity and tunability of thermomechanical resonance near the buckling bifurcation
Hanqing Liu, Gabriele Baglioni, Carla B. Constant +3
The high susceptibility of ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) material resonators to force and temperature makes them ideal systems for sensing applications and exploring thermomechani…
Magnetic order in 2D antiferromagnets revealed by spontaneous anisotropic magnetostriction
Maurits J. A. Houmes, Gabriele Baglioni, Makars Šiškins +10
The temperature dependent order parameter provides important information on the nature of magnetism. Using traditional methods to study this parameter in two-dimensional (2D) magne…
Implementation of SNS thermometers into molecular devices for cryogenic thermoelectric experiments
Serhii Volosheniuk, Damian Bouwmeester, Chunwei Hsu +2
Thermocurrent flowing through a single-molecule device contains valuable information about the quantum properties of the molecular structure and, in particular, on its electronic a…
Specular electron focusing between gate-defined quantum point contacts in bilayer graphene
Josep Ingla-Aynés, Antonio L. R. Manesco, Talieh S. Ghiasi +4
We report on multiterminal measurements in a ballistic bilayer graphene (BLG) channel where multiple spin and valley-degenerate quantum point contacts (QPCs) are defined by electro…
Platinum contacts for 9-atom-wide armchair graphene nanoribbons
Chunwei Hsu, Michael Rohde, Gabriela Borin Barin +7
Creating a good contact between electrodes and graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) has been a longstanding challenge in searching for the next GNR-based nanoelectronics. This quest require…
Nanomechanical absorption spectroscopy of 2D materials with femtowatt sensitivity
Jan N. Kirchhof, Yuefeng Yu, Denis Yagodkin +9
Nanomechanical spectroscopy (NMS) is a recently developed approach to determine optical absorption spectra of nanoscale materials via mechanical measurements. It is based on measur…
Nanomechanical resonators fabricated by atomic layer deposition on suspended 2D materials
Hanqing Liu, Saravana B. Basuvalingam, Saurabh Lodha +4
Atomic layer deposition (ALD), a layer-by-layer controlled method to synthesize ultrathin materials, provides various merits over other techniques such as precise thickness control…
Ultra-sensitive graphene membranes for microphone applications
Gabriele Baglioni, Roberto Pezone, Sten Vollebregt +8
Microphones exploit the motion of suspended membranes to detect sound waves. Since the microphone performance can be improved by reducing the thickness and mass of its sensing memb…