Insulators for 2D nanoelectronics: the gap to bridge

YY Illarionov, T Knobloch, M Jech, M Lanza… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Nanoelectronic devices based on 2D materials are far from delivering their full theoretical
performance potential due to the lack of scalable insulators. Amorphous oxides that work …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Layer Hall effect in a 2D topological axion antiferromagnet

A Gao, YF Liu, C Hu, JX Qiu, C Tzschaschel, B Ghosh… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Whereas ferromagnets have been known and used for millennia, antiferromagnets were
only discovered in the 1930s. At large scale, because of the absence of global …

Observation of the nonlinear Hall effect under time-reversal-symmetric conditions

Q Ma, SY Xu, H Shen, D MacNeill, V Fatemi, TR Chang… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The electrical Hall effect is the production, upon the application of an electric field, of a
transverse voltage under an out-of-plane magnetic field. Studies of the Hall effect have led to …

van der Waals heterostructures with high accuracy rotational alignment

K Kim, M Yankowitz, B Fallahazad, S Kang… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
We describe the realization of van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures with accurate rotational
alignment of individual layer crystal axes. We illustrate the approach by demonstrating a …

Electrically switchable Berry curvature dipole in the monolayer topological insulator WTe2

SY Xu, Q Ma, H Shen, V Fatemi, S Wu, TR Chang… - Nature Physics, 2018 - nature.com
Recent experimental evidence for the quantum spin Hall (QSH) state in monolayer WTe2
has linked the fields of two-dimensional materials and topological physics,,,,,–. This two …

Electronic properties of graphene-based bilayer systems

AV Rozhkov, AO Sboychakov, AL Rakhmanov, F Nori - Physics Reports, 2016 - Elsevier
This article reviews the theoretical and experimental work related to the electronic properties
of bilayer graphene systems. Three types of bilayer stackings are discussed: the AA, AB, and …

Massive Dirac fermions and Hofstadter butterfly in a van der Waals heterostructure

B Hunt, JD Sanchez-Yamagishi, AF Young… - Science, 2013 - science.org
van der Waals heterostructures constitute a new class of artificial materials formed by
stacking atomically thin planar crystals. We demonstrated band structure engineering in a …

The electronic properties of bilayer graphene

E McCann, M Koshino - Reports on Progress in physics, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We review the electronic properties of bilayer graphene, beginning with a description of the
tight-binding model of bilayer graphene and the derivation of the effective Hamiltonian …

Graphene-related nanomaterials: tuning properties by functionalization

Q Tang, Z Zhou, Z Chen - Nanoscale, 2013 - pubs.rsc.org
In this review, we discuss the most recent progress on graphene-related nanomaterials,
including doped graphene and derived graphene nanoribbons, graphene oxide, graphane …