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Gating monolayer and bilayer graphene with a two-dimensional semiconductor
Randy Sterbentz, Bogyeom Kim, Anayeli Flores-Garibay +5
Metals are commonly used as electrostatic gates in devices due to their abundant charge carrier densities that are necessary for efficient charging and discharging. A semiconductin…
Isolation and characterization of atomically thin mica phyllosilicates
Kristine L. Haley, Noah F. Lee, Vergil M. Schreiber +4
One of the roadblocks to employing two-dimensional (2D) materials in next generation devices is the lack of high quality insulators. Insulating layered materials with inert and ato…
A back-to-back diode model applied to MoS2 van der Waals Schottky diodes
Jeffrey A. Cloninger, Raine Harris, Kristine L. Haley +4
The use of metal van der Waals contacts and the implicit reduction in Fermi-level pinning in contacted semiconductors has led to remarkable device optimizations. For example, using…
An automated system for strain engineering and straintronics of 2D materials
Onur Çakıroğlu, Joshua O. Island, Yong Xie +2
This work presents an automated three-point bending apparatus that can be used to study strain engineering and straintronics in two-dimensional materials. We benchmark the system b…
Quantum logic control and precision measurements of molecular ions in a ring trap -- a new approach for testing fundamental symmetries
Yan Zhou, Joshua O. Island, Matt Grau
We present a new platform facilitating quantum logic control of polar molecular ions in a segmented ring ion trap, paving the way for precision measurements. This approach focuses…
Universal image segmentation for optical identification of 2D materials
Randy M. Sterbentz, Kristine L. Haley, Joshua O. Island
Machine learning methods are changing the way data is analyzed. One of the most powerful and widespread applications of these techniques is in image segmentation wherein disparate…
Raman Fingerprint of Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in TiS3 Nanoribbons: Implications for Thermal Measurements under Extreme Stress Conditions
K. K. Mishra, T. R. Ravindran, Joshua O. Island +9
Two-dimensional layered trichalcogenide materials have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community because of its robust mechanical, thermal properties and applica…
On-chip terahertz modulation and emission with integrated graphene junctions
Joshua O. Island, Peter Kissin, Jacob Schalch +7
The efficient modulation and control of ultrafast signals on-chip is of central importance in terahertz (THz) communications and a promising route toward sub-diffraction limit THz…
Linear magneto-electric phase in ultrathin MnPS probed by optical second harmonic generation
H. Chu, C. J. Roh, J. O. Island +7
The transition metal thiophosphates PS ( = Mn, Fe, Ni) are a class of van der Waals stacked insulating antiferromagnets that can be exfoliated down to the ultrathin limit…
Spin-orbit driven band inversion in bilayer graphene by van der Waals proximity effect
J. O. Island, X. Cui, C. Lewandowski +10
Spin orbit coupling (SOC) is the key to realizing time-reversal invariant topological phases of matter. Famously, SOC was predicted by Kane and Mele to stabilize a quantum spin Hal…
Investigating laser induced phase engineering in MoS2 transistors
Nikos Papadopoulos, Joshua O. Island, Herre S. J. van der Zant +1
Phase engineering of MoS2 transistors has recently been demonstrated and has led to record low contact resistances. The phase patterning of MoS2 flakes with laser radiation has als…
Interaction-driven giant orbital magnetic moments in carbon nanotubes
Joshua O. Island, Marvin Ostermann, Lee Aspitarte +5
Carbon nanotubes continue to be model systems for studies of confinement and interactions. This is particularly true in the case of so-called "ultra-clean" carbon nanotube devices…
Characterization of highly crystalline lead iodide nanosheets prepared by room-temperature solution processing
Riccardo Frisenda, Joshua O. Island, Jose L. Lado +15
Two-dimensional semiconducting materials are particularly appealing for many applications. Although theory predicts a large number of two-dimensional materials, experimentally only…
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…
On the origin of critical temperature enhancement in atomically-thin superconductors
Evgeny Talantsev, Wayne Crump, Joshua Island +4
Recent experiments showed that thinning gallium, iron selenide and 2H tantalum disulfide to single/several monoatomic layer(s) enhances their superconducting critical temperatures.…
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…
Giant modulation of the electronic band gap of carbon nanotubes by dielectric screening
Lee Aspitarte, Daniel R. McCulley, Andrea Bertoni +5
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are a promising material for high-performance electronics beyond silicon. But unlike silicon, the nature of the transport band gap in CNTs is not fully unde…
Proximity-induced Shiba states in a molecular junction
Joshua O. Island, Rocco Gaudenzi, Joeri de Bruijckere +8
Superconductors containing magnetic impurities exhibit intriguing phenomena derived from the competition between Cooper pairing and Kondo screening. At the heart of this competitio…
Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin TaS2
Efrén Navarro-Moratalla, Joshua O. Island, Samuel Mañas-Valero +11
The ability to exfoliate layered materials down to the single layer limit has opened the opportunity to understand how a gradual reduction in dimensionality affects the properties…
Thickness dependent interlayer transport in vertical MoS2 Josephson junctions
Joshua O. Island, Gary A. Steele, Herre S. J. van der Zant +1
We report on observations of thickness dependent Josephson coupling and multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) in vertically stacked molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) - molybdenum rhenium (M…
Spatial conductivity mapping of unprotected and capped black phosphorus using microwave microscopy
Pieter J. de Visser, Rebekah Chua, Joshua O. Island +5
Thin layers of black phosphorus present an ideal combination of a 2D material with a tunable direct bandgap and high carrier mobility. However the material suffers from degradation…
Sequential electron transport and vibrational excitations in an organic molecule coupled to few-kayer graphene electrodes
E. Burzurí, J. O. Island, R. Diaz-Torres +7
Graphene electrodes are promising candidates to improve reproducibility and stability in molecular electronics through new electrode-molecule anchoring strategies. Here we report s…
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…