Strain engineering of 2D materials: issues and opportunities at the interface

Z Dai, L Liu, Z Zhang - Advanced Materials, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Triggered by the growing needs of develo** semiconductor devices at ever‐decreasing
scales, strain engineering of 2D materials has recently seen a surge of interest. The goal of …

Bridging the gap between reality and ideal in chemical vapor deposition growth of graphene

L Lin, B Deng, J Sun, H Peng, Z Liu - Chemical reviews, 2018‏ - ACS Publications
Graphene, in its ideal form, is a two-dimensional (2D) material consisting of a single layer of
carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice. The richness in morphological, physical …

Wrinkled, rippled and crumpled graphene: an overview of formation mechanism, electronic properties, and applications

S Deng, V Berry - Materials Today, 2016‏ - Elsevier
Distinctive from their 1D and 0D counterparts, 2D nanomaterials (2DNs) exhibit surface
corrugations (wrinkles and ripples) and crumples. Thermal vibrations, edge instabilities …

Recent advances in strain-induced piezoelectric and piezoresistive effect-engineered 2D semiconductors for adaptive electronics and optoelectronics

F Li, T Shen, C Wang, Y Zhang, J Qi, H Zhang - Nano-Micro Letters, 2020‏ - Springer
The development of two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors has attracted widespread
attentions in the scientific community and industry due to their ultra-thin thickness, unique …

Strain engineering of low‐dimensional materials for emerging quantum phenomena and functionalities

JM Kim, MF Haque, EY Hsieh, SM Nahid… - Advanced …, 2023‏ - Wiley Online Library
Recent discoveries of exotic physical phenomena, such as unconventional
superconductivity in magic‐angle twisted bilayer graphene, dissipationless Dirac fermions in …

Multidimensional graphene structures and beyond: Unique properties, syntheses and applications

R Ma, Y Zhou, H Bi, M Yang, J Wang, Q Liu… - Progress in Materials …, 2020‏ - Elsevier
Graphene is a single carbon layer of zero bandgap without edges and basal plane
fluctuations. Engineering such infinite plane structure to finite size or appropriate structure …

Valley polarization and inversion in strained graphene via pseudo-Landau levels, valley splitting of real Landau levels, and confined states

SY Li, Y Su, YN Ren, L He - Physical Review Letters, 2020‏ - APS
It is quite easy to control spin polarization and the spin direction of a system via magnetic
fields. However, there is no such direct and efficient way to manipulate the valley …

Creating one-dimensional nanoscale periodic ripples in a continuous mosaic graphene monolayer

KK Bai, Y Zhou, H Zheng, L Meng, H Peng, Z Liu… - Physical review …, 2014‏ - APS
In previous studies, it has proved difficult to realize periodic graphene ripples with
wavelengths of a few nanometers. Here we show that one-dimensional (1D) periodic …

Topological flat bands in strained graphene: Substrate engineering and optical control

MT Mahmud, D Zhai, N Sandler - Nano Letters, 2023‏ - ACS Publications
The discovery of correlated phases in twisted moiré superlattices accelerated the search for
low-dimensional materials with exotic properties. A promising approach uses engineered …

Tunable Optoelectronic Properties of WS2 by Local Strain Engineering and Folding

AR Khan, T Lu, W Ma, Y Lu, Y Liu - Advanced Electronic …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Local strain engineering is an exciting approach to tune optoelectronic properties of
materials. Two‐dimensional (2D) materials such as 2D transition metal dichalcogenides …