Electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries

P Gentile, M Cuoco, OM Volkov, ZJ Ying… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the dimensions of a material shrink from an extended bulk solid to a nanoscale structure,
size and quantum confinement effects become dominant, altering the properties of the …

Mechanical self-assembly of a strain-engineered flexible layer: wrinkling, rolling, and twisting

Z Chen, G Huang, I Trase, X Han, Y Mei - Physical Review Applied, 2016 - APS
Self-shaping of curved structures, especially those involving flexible thin layers, is attracting
increasing attention because of their broad potential applications in, eg …

Principles and applications of micro and nanoscale wrinkles

Y Mei, S Kiravittaya, S Harazim, OG Schmidt - Materials Science and …, 2010 - Elsevier
In this review, we summarize recent and interesting applications of micro and nanoscale
wrinkles. Fluidic studies are comprehensively highlighted for various wrinkled …

Rolling up MoSe2 Nanomembranes as a Sensitive Tubular Photodetector

X Zhou, Z Tian, HJ Kim, Y Wang, B Xu, R Pan… - Small, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal dichalcogenides, as a kind of 2D material, are suitable for near‐infrared to
visible photodetection owing to the bandgaps ranging from 1.0 to 2.0 eV. However, limited …

Strain induced semiconductor nanotubes: from formation process to device applications

X Li - Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics, 2008 - iopscience.iop.org
Semiconductor nanotubes (SNTs) represent a new class of nanotechnology building blocks.
They are formed by a combination of bottom–up and top–down approaches, using strain …

Thinning and shaping solid films into functional and integrative nanomembranes

G Huang, Y Mei - Advanced Materials, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Conventional solid films on certain substrates play a crucial role in various applications, for
example in flat panel displays, silicon technology, and protective coatings. Recently …

Quantum mechanics of a spin-orbit coupled electron constrained to a space curve

C Ortix - Physical Review B, 2015 - APS
We derive the effective one-dimensional Schrödinger-Pauli equation for electrons
constrained to move on a space curve. The electrons are confined using a double thin-wall …

Strain engineering and mechanical assembly of silicon/germanium nanomembranes

Q Guo, Z Di, MG Lagally, Y Mei - Materials Science and Engineering: R …, 2018 - Elsevier
Silicon (Si) and/or germanium (Ge) nanomembranes (NMs) play crucial roles in various
applications, including conventional microelectronics, as well as recently emerging high …

Nanomechanical architecture of semiconductor nanomembranes

M Huang, F Cavallo, F Liu, MG Lagally - Nanoscale, 2011 - pubs.rsc.org
Semiconductor nanomembranes are single-crystal sheets with thickness ranging from 5 to
500nm. They are flexible, bondable, and mechanically ultra-compliant. They present a new …

Curvature-induced geometric potential in strain-driven nanostructures

C Ortix, S Kiravittaya, OG Schmidt… - Physical Review B …, 2011 - APS
We derive the effective dimensionally reduced Schrödinger equation for electrons in strain-
driven curved nanostructures by adiabatic separation of fast and slow quantum degrees of …