Surfaces are at the frontier of every known solid. They provide versatile supports for
functional nanostructures and mediate essential physicochemical processes. Intimately …

The fabrication of atomically precise structures with designer electronic properties is one of
the emerging topics in condensed matter physics. The required level of structural control can …

In hexagonal two-dimensional (2D) materials such as graphene, hexagonal boron nitride, or
transition metal dichalcogenides, electrons possess intrinsic degrees of freedom (DOFs) …

Certain lattices with specific geometries have one or more spectral bands that are strictly flat,
ie, the electron energy is independent of the momentum. This can occur robustly irrespective …

Magnon eigenmodes of an artificial structure consisting of cylindrical nanometric particles
arranged in a honeycomb array are theoretically investigated, in zero applied field. The …

Graphene nano-flakes (GNFs) are predicted to host spin-polarized metallic edge states,
which are envisioned for exploration of spintronics at the nanometer scale. To date …

Advanced fabrication of specific graphene analogs on surfaces will facilitate the exploitation
of unexplored physical properties that may enrich their potential applications in the future …

Artificial molecular machines have played an indispensable role in many chemical and
biological processes in recent decades. Among all kinds of molecular machines, molecular …

Understanding the dynamics of the micro-sized surface bubbles produced by plasmonic
heating can benefit a wide range of applications like microfluidics, catalysis, micro …

We have developed a method to investigate electron wavefunction using scanning tunneling
microscope (STM). By imaging the defects in a condensed matter system, one can measure …