Group-IV 2D materials beyond graphene on nonmetal substrates: Challenges, recent progress, and future perspectives

M Galbiati, N Motta, M De Crescenzi… - Applied Physics …, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
The family of two-dimensional materials has been expanding rapidly over the last few years.
Within it, a special place is occupied by silicene, germanene, and stanene due to their …

Cold source field-effect transistors: Breaking the 60-mV/decade switching limit at room temperature

S Wang, J Wang, T Zhi, J Xue, D Chen, L Wang… - Physics Reports, 2023 - Elsevier
With the size of devices continuously shrinking, power consumption has become one of the
most critical issues concerning modern integrated circuits, which can be reduced by …

Layer-sliding-mediated controllable synthetic strategy for the preparation of multifunctional materials

M Ali, M Yousaf, H Naeem, J Munir - Materials Today Communications, 2023 - Elsevier
Strategies capable of inducing multifunctionality in materials in a controllable manner are
highly desirable. In this work, we have brought multifunctionality to a two-dimensional (2D) …

Insights into photoinduced carrier dynamics and overall water splitting of Z-scheme van der Waals heterostructures with intrinsic electric polarization

J Wang, X Zhang, X Song, Y Fan… - The Journal of …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Using first-principles calculations in combination with nonadiabatic molecular dynamics
(NAMD), we propose novel heterostructures of carbon nitride (C7N6) and the Janus …

ZnO/g-GeC van der Waals heterostructure: novel photocatalyst for small molecule splitting

X Gao, Y Shen, Y Ma, S Wu, Z Zhou - Journal of Materials Chemistry C, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The theoretical construction of two-dimensional materials to generate the van der Waals
heterostructures (vdWHs) has recently been impersonated as a fascinating means for …

Structural and electronic properties of a van der Waals heterostructure based on silicene and gallium selenide: effect of strain and electric field

PTT Le, NN Hieu, LM Bui, HV Phuc, BD Hoi… - Physical Chemistry …, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Combining van der Waals heterostructures by stacking different two-dimensional materials
on top of each other layer-by-layer can enhance their desired properties and greatly extend …

Tunable electronic properties of an Sb/InSe van der Waals heterostructure by electric field effects

Z Zhang, Y Zhang, Z Xie, X Wei, T Guo, J Fan… - Physical Chemistry …, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
The electronic properties of an Sb/InSe heterostructure are investigated by using the density
functional theory method. A type-II staggered-gap band alignment is achieved from the …

Germanene/2D-SiC van der Waals heterobilayer: Structural features and tunable electronic properties

MS Islam, MRH Mojumder, N Ferdous, J Park - Materials Today …, 2021 - Elsevier
Van der Waals heterobilayer, consisting of different two-dimensional (2D) materials, has
recently drawn substantial research attention. We present a detailed investigation of the …

[HTML][HTML] Germanene/2D-AlP van der Waals heterostructure: Tunable structural and electronic properties

MRH Mojumder, MS Islam, J Park - AIP Advances, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Developing van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) utilizing vertical mounting of diverse
two-dimensional (2D) materials is an efficient way of achieving favorable characteristics …

Graphene/GeTe van der Waals heterostructure: functional Schottky device with modulated Schottky barriers via external strain and electric field

X Gao, Y Shen, Y Ma, S Wu, Z Zhou - Computational Materials Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Vertical heterogeneous combinations of two-dimensional (2D) materials have been evident
as an effective strategy to design novel photovoltaic and optoelectronic devices. Herein, we …