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Quantum-enhanced Landauer erasure and storage
Rocco Gaudenzi, Enrique Burzurí, Satoru Maegawa +2
The erasure of a bit of information encoded in a physical system is an irreversible operation bound to dissipate an amount of energy . As a result, work $W \…
High current density electrical breakdown of TiS3 nanoribbon-based field-effect transistors
Aday J. Molina-Mendoza, Joshua O. Island, Wendel S. Paz +11
The high field transport characteristics of nanostructured transistors based on layered materials are not only important from a device physics perspective but also for possible app…
Two-dimensional superconductivity at the (111)LaAlO/SrTiO interface
A. M. R. V. L. Monteiro, D. J. Groenendijk, I. Groen +4
We report on the discovery and transport study of the superconducting ground state present at the (111)LaAlO/SrTiO interface. The superconducting transition is consistent w…
Electronics and optoelectronics of quasi-one dimensional layered transition metal trichalcogenides
Joshua O. Island, Aday J. Molina-Mendoza, Mariam Barawi +9
The isolation of graphene and transition metal dichalcongenides has opened a veritable world to a great number of layered materials which can be exfoliated, manipulated, and stacke…
Transport mirages in single-molecule devices
Rocco Gaudenzi, Maciej Misiorny, Enrique Burzurí +2
Molecular systems can exhibit a complex, chemically tailorable inner structure which allows for targeting of specific mechanical, electronic and optical properties. At the single-m…
Spin excitations in an all-organic double quantum dot molecule
Max Koole, Jan C. Hummelen, Herre S. J. van der Zant
We realize a strongly coupled double quantum dot in a single all-organic molecule by introducing a non-conjugated bridge in between two identical conjugated moieties. Spin-1/2 Kond…
Phase-transitions in spin-crossover thin films probed by graphene transport measurements
J. Dugay, M. Aarts, M. Giménez-Marqués +4
Future multi-functional hybrid devices might combine switchable molecules and 2D material-based devices. Spin-crossover compounds are of particular interest in this context since t…
Charge Transport through Conjugated Azomethine-based Single Molecules for Optoelectronic Applications
Max Koole, Riccardo Frisenda, Michiel L. Petrus +3
The single-molecule conductance of a 3-ring, conjugated azomethine was studied using the mechanically controlled breakjunction technique. Charge transport properties are found to b…
Gate-tunable diode and photovoltaic effect in an organic-2D layered material p-n junction
Saül Vélez, David Ciudad, Joshua Island +8
The semiconducting p-n junction is a simple device structure with great relevance for electronic and optoelectronic applications. The successful integration of low-dimensional mate…
Gate controlled photocurrent generation mechanisms in high-gain In2Se3 phototransistors
Joshua O. Island, Sofya I. Blanter, Michele Buscema +2
Photocurrent in photodetectors incorporating van der Waals materials is typically produced by a combination of photocurrent generation mechanisms that occur simultaneously during o…
Centimeter-scale synthesis of ultrathin layered MoO3 by van der Waals epitaxy
Aday J. Molina-Mendoza, Jose Luis Lado, Joshua Island +12
We report on the large-scale synthesis of highly oriented ultrathin MoO3 layers using a simple and low-cost atmospheric pressure by van der Waals epitaxy growth on muscovite mica s…
Image effects in transport at metal-molecule interfaces
C. J. O. Verzijl, J. A. Celis Gil, M. L. Perrin +3
We present a method for incorporating image-charge effects into the description of charge transport through molecular devices. A simple model allows us to calculate the adjustment…
Temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy of titanium trisulfide (TiS3) nanoribbons and nanosheets
Amit S. Pawbake, Joshua O. Island, Eduardo Flores +7
Titanium trisulfide (TiS3) has recently attracted the interest of the 2D community as it presents a direct bandgap of ~1.0 eV, shows remarkable photoresponse, and has a predicted c…
Titanium trisulfide (TiS3): a 2D semiconductor with quasi-1D optical and electronic properties
Joshua O. Island, Robert Biele, Mariam Barawi +7
We present characterizations of few-layer titanium trisulfide (TiS3) flakes which, due to their reduced in-plane structural symmetry, display strong anisotropy in their electrical…
Control of biaxial strain in single-layer Molybdenite using local thermal expansion of the substrate
G. Plechinger, A. Castellanos-Gomez, M. Buscema +6
Single-layer MoS2 is a direct-gap semiconductor whose electronic band structure strongly depends on the strain applied to its crystal lattice. While uniaxial strain can be easily a…
Superconducting molybdenum-rhenium electrodes for single-molecule transport studies
R. Gaudenzi, J. O. Island, J. de Bruijckere +3
We demonstrate that electronic transport through single molecules or molecular ensembles, commonly based on gold (Au) electrodes, can be extended to superconducting electrodes by c…
Fabrication of hybrid molecular devices using multi-layer graphene break junctions
Joshua O. Island, Anastasia Holovchenko, Max Koole +5
We report on the fabrication of hybrid molecular devices employing multilayer graphene (MLG) flakes which are patterned with a constriction using a helium ion microscope (HIM) or a…
Electron-vibron coupling effects on electron transport via a single-molecule magnet
Alexander McCaskey, Yoh Yamamoto, Michael Warnock +3
We investigate how the electron-vibron coupling influences electron transport via an anisotropic magnetic molecule, such as a single-molecule magnet (SMM) Fe, by using a model…
Environmental instability of few-layer black phosphorus
Joshua O. Island, Gary A. Steele, Herre S. J. van der Zant +1
We study the environmental instability of mechanically exfoliated few-layer black phosphorus (BP). From continuous measurements of flake topography over several days, we observe an…
Photovoltaic and photothermoelectric effect in a double-gated WSe2 device
Dirk J. Groenendijk, Michele Buscema, Gary A. Steele +4
Tungsten diselenide (WSe2), a semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC), shows great potential as active material in optoelectronic devices due to its ambipolarity and…
Mechanics of freely-suspended ultrathin layered materials
Andres Castellanos-Gomez, Vibhor Singh, Herre S. J. van der Zant +1
The study of atomically thin two-dimensional materials is a young and rapidly growing field. In the past years, a great advance in the study of the remarkable electrical and optica…
Probing Transverse Magnetic Anisotropy by Electronic Transport through a Single-Molecule Magnet
M. Misiorny, E. Burzurí, R. Gaudenzi +6
By means of electronic transport, we study the transverse magnetic anisotropy of an individual Fe single-molecule magnet (SMM) embedded in a three-terminal junction. In particu…
Photovoltaic effect in few-layer black phosphorus PN junctions defined by local electrostatic gating
Michele Buscema, Dirk J. Groenendijk, Gary A. Steele +2
The photovoltaic effect is one of the fundamental light-matter interactions in light energy harvesting. In conventional photovoltaic solar cells, the photogenerated charge carriers…
Ultrahigh photoresponse of few-layer TiS3 nanoribbon transistors
Joshua O. Island, Michele Buscema, Mariam Barawi +7
Here, we isolate thin TiS3 ribbons, a layered direct band gap semiconductor (1.1 eV, well suited for detection all across the visible spectrum), thus far almost unexplored. We fabr…