Heterostructures coupling ultrathin metal carbides and chalcogenides

AJ Sredenschek, DE Sanchez, J Wang, Y Lei… - Nature Materials, 2024 - nature.com
Non-layered transition metal carbides (TMCs) and layered transition metal dichalcogenides
(TMDs) are two well-studied material families that have individually received considerable …

Superconductivity in the High‐Entropy Ceramics Ti0.2Zr0.2Nb0.2Mo0.2Ta0.2Cx with Possible Nontrivial Band Topology

L Zeng, X Hu, Y Zhou, M Boubeche, R Guo… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Topological superconductors have drawn significant interest from the scientific community
due to the accompanying Majorana fermions. Here, the discovery of electronic structure and …

Exploring topological phases in superconducting transition metal (Sc, Ti, V)-carbides

A Elbahri, M Ragragui, LB Drissi, EH Saidi - Materials Science in …, 2025 - Elsevier
The combination of non trivial band topology and superconductivity, resulting in topological
superconductivity, igniting a fervent pursuit in the realm of quantum materials. Through …

Superconductivity and topological aspects of the rocksalt carbides NbC and TaC

T Shang, JZ Zhao, DJ Gawryluk, M Shi, M Medarde… - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
Superconducting materials with a nontrivial band structure are potential candidates for
topological superconductivity. Here, by combining muon-spin rotation and relaxation (μ SR) …

Nodeless superconductivity and topological nodal states in molybdenum carbide

T Shang, Y Wang, B Yu, K **a, DJ Gawryluk, Y Xu… - Physical Review B, 2024 - APS
The orthorhombic molybdenum carbide superconductor with T c= 3.2 K was investigated by
muon-spin rotation and relaxation (μ SR) measurements and by first-principles calculations …

Microstructural, Electrical, and Tribomechanical Properties of Mo-WC Nanocomposite Films

K Smyrnova, VI Ivashchenko, M Sahul, Ľ Čaplovič… - Nanomaterials, 2024 - mdpi.com
This study investigates the phase composition, microstructure, and their influence on the
properties of Mo-WC nanocomposite films deposited by dual-source magnetron sputtering …

Superconductivity enhancement in phase-engineered molybdenum carbide/disulfide vertical heterostructures

F Zhang, W Zheng, Y Lu, L Pabbi, K Fujisawa… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Stacking layers of atomically thin transition-metal carbides and two-dimensional (2D)
semiconducting transition-metal dichalcogenides, could lead to nontrivial superconductivity …

Tunable Work Function and Surface Energy in Titanium Nitride (TiN) Thin Films through Quantum Well States

A Huang, YH Teh, CH Chen, SH Hung, JF Wang… - ACS Materials …, 2025 - ACS Publications
High work function metals are crucial in various semiconductor applications. Titanium nitride
(TiN) is particularly noteworthy as a high work function material in metal gate structures …

Topologically nontrivial phases in superconducting transition metal carbides

R Zhan, X Luo - Journal of Applied Physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Topological superconductors have shown great potential in the search for unique
quasiparticles such as Majorana fermions. Combining nontrivial band topology and …

Thermodynamic stability and superconductivity of tantalum carbides from first-principles cluster expansion and isotropic Eliashberg theory

P Tsuppayakorn-aek, A Ektarawong, W Sukmas… - Computational Materials …, 2022 - Elsevier
The phase stability of tantalum carbides, particularly cubic rocksalt TaC x and hexagonal Ta
2 C x, where 0⩽ x⩽ 1 due to the presence of vacancies on the C sites, is explored using a …