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Decorated electronic kagome lattice in twisted bilayer germanene
Dennis J. Klaassen, Rian A. M. Ligthart, Andrés R. Botello Mendez +10
Artificial kagome lattices provide a route to electronic flat bands, geometric frustration, and correlation driven phases, but their realization in atomically controlled two-dimens…
Topology of honeycomb nanoribbons revisited
Zebedeus F. Osseweijer, Lumen Eek, Harold J. W. Zandvliet +2
We present an in-depth study of end states in honeycomb nanoribbons, focusing on the interplay between nanoribbon termination, chiral symmetry, and complex next-nearest-neighbor ho…
Electric field-induced spin-valley locking in twisted bilayer buckled honeycomb materials
Harold J. W. Zandvliet, Pantelis Bampoulis, Cristiane Morais Smith +1
A twisted honeycomb bilayer exhibits a moiré superstructure that is composed of a hexagonal arrangement of AB and BA stacked domains separated by domain boundaries. In the case of…
Electric-field control of zero-dimensional topological states in ultranarrow germanene nanoribbons
Lumen Eek, Esra D. van 't Westende, Dennis J. Klaassen +3
Reversible, all-electric control of symmetry-protected zero-dimensional modes has been a long-standing goal. In buckled honeycomb lattices, a perpendicular field couples to the sta…
Realization of a one-dimensional topological insulator in ultrathin germanene nanoribbons
Dennis J. Klaassen, Lumen A. G. Eek, Alexander N. Rudenko +9
Realizing a one-dimensional (1D) topological insulator and identifying the lower dimensional limit of two-dimensional (2D) behavior are crucial steps toward developing high-density…
2024 roadmap on 2D topological insulators
Bent Weber, Michael S Fuhrer, Xian-Lei Sheng +22
2D topological insulators promise novel approaches towards electronic, spintronic, and quantum device applications. This is owing to unique features of their electronic band struct…
Moiré-modulated band gap and van Hove singularities in twisted bilayer germanene
Pantelis Bampoulis, Carolien Castenmiller, Dennis J. Klaassen +4
Twisting bilayers of two-dimensional topological insulators has the potential to create unique quantum states of matter. Here, we successfully synthesized a twisted bilayer of germ…
High-strain-induced local modification of the electronic properties of VO thin films
Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Kai Sotthewes, Nicolas Gauquelin +8
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a popular candidate for electronic and optical switching applications due to its well-known semiconductor-metal transition. Its study is notoriously chall…
Free energy of domain walls and order-disorder transition in a triangular lattice with anisotropic nearest-neighbor interactions
Martina Tsvetanova, Kai Sotthewes, Harold J. W. Zandvliet
We have derived exact expressions for the domain wall free energy along the three high-symmetry directions of a triangular lattice with anisotropic nearest-neighbor interactions. T…
On the mystery of the absence of a spin-orbit gap in scanning tunneling microscopy spectra of germanene
Carolien Castenmiller, Harold J. W. Zandvliet
Germanene, the germanium analogue of graphene, shares many properties with its carbon counterpart. Both materials are two-dimensional materials that host Dirac fermions. There are,…
Droplet dissolution driven by emerging thermal gradients and Marangoni flow
Binglin Zeng, Yuliang Wang, Christian Diddens +2
The lifetime of an isothermal and purely diffusively dissolving droplet in a host liquid scales as with its initial radius [Langmuir, Phys. Rev. 12, 368 (19…
Spectroscopic signature of surface states and bunching of bulk subbands in topological insulator (BiSb)Te thin films
L. Mulder, C. Castenmiller, F. J. Witmans +5
High quality thin films of the topological insulator (BiSb)Te have been deposited on SrTiO (111) by molecular beam epitaxy. Their electronic structure w…
Droplet plume emission during plasmonic bubble growth in ternary liquids
Xiaolai Li, Yibo Chen, Yuliang Wang +4
Plasmonic bubbles are of great relevance in numerous applications, including catalytic reactions, micro/nanomanipulation of molecules or particles dispersed in liquids, and cancer…
Valley protected one-dimensional states in small-angle twisted bilayer graphene
J. D. Verbakel, Q. Yao, K. Sotthewes +1
Theory predicts that the application of an electric field breaks the inversion symmetry of AB and BA stacked domains in twisted bilayer graphene, resulting in the formation of a tr…
Topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states in group IV two-dimensional Dirac materials
H. J. W. Zandvliet, J. D. Verbakel, Q. Yao +2
In this report we give a brief introduction on the occurrence of topologically protected one-dimensional electronic states in group IV two-dimensional graphene-like materials. We d…
Periodic bouncing of a plasmonic bubble in a binary liquid by competing solutal and thermal Marangoni forces
Binglin Zeng, Kai Leong Chong, Yuliang Wang +5
The physicochemical hydrodynamics of bubbles and droplets out of equilibrium, in particular with phase transitions, displays surprisingly rich and often counterintuitive phenomena.…
Plasmonic Microbubble Dynamics in Binary Liquids
Xiaolai Li, Yuliang Wang, Binglin Zeng +4
The growth of surface plasmonic microbubbles in binary water/ethanol solutions is experimentally studied. The microbubbles are generated by illuminating a gold nanoparticle array w…
Giant plasmonic bubbles nucleation under different ambient pressures
Binglin Zeng, Yuliang Wang, Mikhail E. Zaytsev +3
Water-immersed gold nanoparticles irradiated by a laser can trigger the nucleation of plasmonic bubbles after a delay time of a few microseconds [Wang et al., Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci…
Gas-Vapor Interplay in Plasmonic Bubble Shrinkage
Mikhail E. Zaytsev, Yuliang Wang, Yuhang Zhang +5
The understanding of the shrinkage dynamics of plasmonic bubbles formed around metallic nanoparticles immersed in liquid and irradiated by a resonant light source is crucial for th…
Entrapment and Dissolution of Microbubbles Inside Microwells
Xiaolai Li, Yuliang Wang, Binglin Zeng +5
The formation and evolution of immersed surface micro- and nanobubbles are essential in various practical applications, such as the usage of superhydrophobic rematerials, drug deli…
Plasmonic Bubble Nucleation and Growth in Water: Effect of Dissolved Air
Xiaolai Li, Yuliang Wang, Mikhail E. Zaytsev +7
Under continuous laser irradiation, noble metal nanoparticles immersed in water can quickly heat up, leading to the nucleation of so-called plasmonic bubbles. In this work, we want…
Evaporation of dilute sodium dodecyl sulfate droplets on a hydrophobic substrate
Wojciech Kwieciński, Tim Segers, Sjoerd van der Werf +4
Evaporation of surfactant laden sessile droplets is omnipresent in nature and industrial applications such as inkjet printing. Soluble surfactants start to form micelles in an aque…
Giant and explosive plasmonic bubbles by delayed nucleation
Yuliang Wang, Mikhail E. Zaytsev, Guillaume Lajoinie +8
When illuminated by a laser, nano particles immersed in water can very quickly and strongly heat up, leading to the nucleation of so called vapor bubbles, which have huge applicati…
Plasmonic Bubbles in n-Alkanes
Mikhail E. Zaytsev, Guillaume Lajoinie, Yuliang Wang +3
In this paper we study the formation of microbubbles upon the irradiation of an array of plasmonic Au nanoparticles with a laser in n-alkanes (, with n = 5-10). Two…