Progress on emerging ferroelectric materials for energy harvesting, storage and conversion

XK Wei, N Domingo, Y Sun, N Balke… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of Rochelle salt a century ago, ferroelectric materials have been
investigated extensively due to their robust responses to electric, mechanical, thermal …

Photoinduced charge transfer in transition metal dichalcogenide heterojunctions–towards next generation energy technologies

DB Sulas-Kern, EM Miller, JL Blackburn - Energy & Environmental …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Increasing interest in using two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (2D TMDCs)
in optical energy conversion technologies creates a demand for improving the yields and …

Wafer-scale production of patterned transition metal ditelluride layers for two-dimensional metal–semiconductor contacts at the Schottky–Mott limit

S Song, Y Sim, SY Kim, JH Kim, I Oh, W Na, DH Lee… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
A key challenge in the development of two-dimensional (2D) devices is the fabrication of
metal–semiconductor junctions with minimal contact resistance and depinned energy levels …

Coexistence of large conventional and planar spin Hall effect with long spin diffusion length in a low-symmetry semimetal at room temperature

P Song, CH Hsu, G Vignale, M Zhao, J Liu, Y Deng… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
The spin Hall effect (SHE) is usually observed as a bulk effect in high-symmetry crystals with
substantial spin–orbit coupling (SOC), where the symmetric spin–orbit field imposes a …

Observation of charge to spin conversion in Weyl semimetal at room temperature

B Zhao, D Khokhriakov, Y Zhang, H Fu, B Karpiak… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
The discovery of topological Weyl semimetals has revealed opportunities to realize several
extraordinary physical phenomena in condensed matter physics. Specifically, Weyl …

Emergence of spin–orbit torques in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: A status update

S Husain, R Gupta, A Kumar, P Kumar… - Applied Physics …, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Spin–orbit coupling (SOC) in two-dimensional (2D) materials has emerged as a powerful
tool for designing spintronic devices. On the one hand, the interest in this respect for …

Two‐Dimensional Van Der Waals Topological Materials: Preparation, Properties, and Device Applications

G Zhang, H Wu, L Zhang, L Yang, Y **
Z Xu, B Luo, M Chen, W **e, Y Hu, X **ao - Applied Surface Science, 2021 - Elsevier
The photogalvanic effect (PGE) enables the generation of photocurrent at zero bias and
without the need of the pn junction, and also offer a high polarization sensitivity in a …

Observation of the Out‐of‐Plane Polarized Spin Current from CVD Grown WTe2

S Shi, J Li, CH Hsu, K Lee, Y Wang… - Advanced Quantum …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Weyl semimetal Td‐phase WTe2 possesses the spin‐resolved band structure with
strong spin–orbit coupling, holding promises as a useful spin source material. The …

Two‐Dimensional Metal Telluride Atomic Crystals: Preparation, Physical Properties, and Applications

H Li, C Li, B Tao, S Gu, Y **e, H Wu… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Atom‐thick 2D metal telluride atomic crystals (2D MTACs) display many fascinating physical
properties for potential applications in multiple fields. In this review, recent advances in the …