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most citedVan der Waals Materials for Atomically-Thin Photovoltaics: Promise and Outlook

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Compositional gradient engineering for enhanced ferroelectricity in ultrathin AlScN

Zekun Hu, Haiwen Zhang, Rajeev Kumar Rai +12

Ferroelectric AlScN is promising for CMOS-compatible non-volatile memory, but thickness scaling is limited by leakage, premature breakdown, and defect-mediated failure. Here we sho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Hydrazine-Free Precursor for Solution-Processed All-Inorganic Se and Se1-xTex Photovoltaics

Adam D. Alfieri, Swarnendu Das, Kim Kisslinger +5

Selenium (Se) has reemerged as a promising absorber material for indoor and tandem photovoltaics (PVs), and its alloys with Te (Se1-xTex) offer a widely tunable bandgap. Solution p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Coercive Field Reduction in Ultra-thin Al1-XScXN via Interfacial Engineering with a Scandium Electrode

Yinuo Zhang, Rajeev Kumar Rai, Giovanni Esteves +4

Aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN) ferroelectrics are promising for next-generation non-volatile memory applications due to high remnant polarization compared with Pb(ZrxTi1-x)O3 an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Leakage Suppression Across Temperature in Al1-xScxN Thin Film Ferroelectric Capacitors through Boron Incorporation

Pedram Yousefian, Xiaolei Tong, Jonathan Tan +3

This paper presents high-temperature ferroelectric characterization of 40~nm AlBScN (AlBScN) thin film capacitors grown by co-sputtering AlB and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Write Cycling Endurance Exceeding 1010 in Sub-50 nm Ferroelectric AlScN

Hyunmin Cho, Yubo Wang, Chloe Leblanc +5

Wurtzite ferroelectrics, particularly aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN), have emerged as a promising materials platform for nonvolatile memories, offering high polarization values…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Can a ferroelectric diode be a selector-less, universal, non-volatile memory?

Soumya Sarkar, Xiwen Liu, Deep Jariwala

Recent advances in silicon foundry-process compatible ferroelectric (FE) thin films have reinvigorated interest in FE-based non-volatile memory (NVM) devices. Ferroelectric diodes…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Observation of giant remnant polarization in ultrathin AlScN at cryogenic temperatures

Seunguk Song, Dhiren K. Pradhan, Zekun Hu +7

The discovery of wurtzite ferroelectrics opens new frontiers in polar materials, yet their behavior at cryogenic temperatures remains unexplored. Here, we reveal unprecedented ferr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 12 cited

Indium selenides for next-generation low-power computing devices

Seunguk Song, Michael Altvater, Wonchan Lee +3

As silicon-based computing approaches fundamental physical limits in energy efficiency, speed, and density, the search for complementary materials to extend or replace CMOS technol…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Reconfigurable SWCNT ferroelectric field-effect transistor arrays

Dongjoon Rhee, Kwan-Ho Kim, Jeffrey Zheng +5

Reconfigurable devices have garnered significant attention for alleviating the scaling requirements of conventional CMOS technology, as they require fewer components to construct c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 22 cited

Al0.68Sc0.32N/SiC based metal-ferroelectric-semiconductor capacitors operating up to 1000 °C

Yunfei He, David C. Moore, Yubo Wang +9

Ferroelectric (Fe) materials-based devices show great promise for non-volatile memory applications, yet few demonstrate reliable operation at elevated temperatures. In this work, w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Imprinting spin patterns by local strain control in a van der Waals antiferromagnet

Zhuoliang Ni, Huiqin Zhang, Qi Tian +6

Van der Waals magnets provide opportunities for exploring low-dimensional magnetism and spintronic phenomena. The Mermin-Wagner theorem states that long-range correlations in reduc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Quantum Confined Luminescence in Two dimensions

Saiphaneendra Bachu, Fatimah Habis, Benjamin Huet +13

Achieving localized light emission from monolayer two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) embedded in the matrix of another TMD has been theoretically proposed…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Materials for High Temperature Digital Electronics

Dhiren K. Pradhan, David C. Moore, A. Matt Francis +5

Silicon microelectronics, consisting of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology, have changed nearly all aspects of human life from communication to transportatio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Multi-State, Ultra-thin, BEOL-Compatible AlScN Ferroelectric Diodes

Kwan-Ho Kim, Zirun Han, Yinuo Zhang +6

The growth in data generation necessitates efficient data processing technologies to address the von Neumann bottleneck in conventional computer architecture. Memory-driven computi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

MoS/AlScN negative capacitance field-effect transistors

Seunguk Song, Kwan-Ho Kim, Srikrishna Chakravarthi +6

AlScN (AlScN) has gained attention for its outstanding ferroelectric properties, including a high coercive field and high remnant polarization. Although AlScN-bas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Ultra-fast Vacancy Migration: A Novel Approach for Synthesizing Sub-10 nm Crystalline Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Nanocrystals

Pawan Kumar, Jiazheng Chen, Andrew C. Meng +9

Two-dimensional materials, such as transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), have the potential to revolutionize the field of electronics and photonics due to their unique physical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Wafer-scale growth of two-dimensional, phase-pure InSe

Seunguk Song, Sungho Jeon, Mahfujur Rahaman +12

Two-dimensional (2D) indium monoselenide (InSe) has attracted significant attention as a III-VI two-dimensional semiconductor (2D) with a combination of favorable attributes from I…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 28 cited

Above-room-temperature ferromagnetism in ultrathin van der Waals magnet

Hang Chen, Shahidul Asif, Kapildeb Dolui +16

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic van der Waals materials provide a powerful platform for studying fundamental physics of low-dimensional magnetism, engineering novel magnetic phases,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Cavity-Enhanced Raman Scattering from 2D Hybrid Perovskites

Aditya Singh, Jason Lynch, Surendra B. Anantharaman +6

Two-dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) are promising candidates for optoelectronic applications due to their efficient light emission properties, and str…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 21 cited

Sub-ps thermionic electron injection effects on exciton-formation dynamics at a van der Waals semiconductor/metal interface

Kilian R. Keller, Ricardo Rojas-Aedo, Huiqin Zhang +5

Inorganic van der Waals bonded semiconductors like transition metal dichalcogenides are subject of intense research due to their electronic and optical properties which are promisi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Scalable synthesis of 2D van der Waals superlattices

Michael J. Motala, Xiang Zhang, Pawan Kumar +23

Heterostructure materials form the basis of much of modern electronics, from transistors to lasers and light-emitting diodes. Recent years have seen a renewed focus on creating het…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 54 cited

Direct imaging of antiferromagnetic domains and anomalous layer-dependent mirror symmetry breaking in atomically thin MnPS

Zhuoliang Ni, Huiqin Zhang, David Hopper +8

We have developed a sensitive cryogenic second-harmonic generation microscopy to study a van der Waals antiferromagnet MnPS. We find that long-range Néel antiferromagnetic orde…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 111 cited

Light-Matter Coupling in Scalable Van der Waals Superlattices

Pawan Kumar, Jason Lynch, Baokun Song +19

Two-dimensional (2D) crystals have renewed opportunities in design and assembly of artificial lattices without the constraints of epitaxy. However, the lack of thickness control in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 107 cited

Exciton-Photonics: From Fundamental Science to Applications

Surendra B. Anantharaman, Kiyoung Jo, Deep Jariwala

Semiconductors in all dimensionalities ranging from 0D quantum dots and molecules to 3D bulk crystals support bound electron-hole pair quasiparticles termed as excitons. Over the p…