The prevalent global energy crisis calls for searching viable pathways for generating green
hydrogen as an alternative energy resource. Dye‐sensitized photocatalytic water splitting is …

Strain is ubiquitous in solid-state materials, but despite its fundamental importance and
technological relevance, leveraging externally applied strain to gain control over material …

Superconductivity in the vicinity of a competing electronic order often manifests itself with a
superconducting dome, centered at a presumed quantum critical point in the phase diagram …

Transition metal di-tellurides (TMDTs) are a fascinating class of 2D materials with numerous
polytypes and properties that have recently emerged as a focal point in the electronics …

The formations of charge and lattice orders are generally coupled in charge density wave
(CDW) materials and share identical order wave vectors. Although this situation is usually …

The phase transitions in IrTe2 have been extensively studied but the symmetry at each
phase is yet to be settled. Employing second harmonic generation (SHG) measurements …

Phase separation in the nanometer-to micrometer-scale is characteristic for correlated
materials, for example, high temperature superconductors, colossal magnetoresistance …

Competing interactions in low-dimensional materials can produce nearly degenerate
electronic and structural phases. We investigate structural phase transitions in layered IrTe 2 …

Transition metal dichalcogenide IrTe 2 undergoes structural transitions together with charge
ordering due to formation of Ir dimers. Various low temperature phases of IrTe 2 have been …

1 T-IrTe2 exhibits an intriguing series of charge-ordered states in both bulk and atomically
thin layers. The charge orders in IrTe2 emerge with consecutive first-order structural …