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 developing semiconductor devices at ever‐decreasing
scales, strain engineering of 2D materials has recently seen a surge of interest. The goal of …

A review on mechanics and mechanical properties of 2D materials—Graphene and beyond

D Akinwande, CJ Brennan, JS Bunch, P Egberts… - Extreme Mechanics …, 2017 - Elsevier
Since the first successful synthesis of graphene just over a decade ago, a variety of two-
dimensional (2D) materials (eg, transition metal-dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron-nitride …

Electronic and optical properties of strained graphene and other strained 2D materials: a review

GG Naumis, S Barraza-Lopez… - Reports on Progress …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
This review presents the state of the art in strain and ripple-induced effects on the electronic
and optical properties of graphene. It starts by providing the crystallographic description of …

Strain-tuning of the electronic, optical, and vibrational properties of two-dimensional crystals

E Blundo, E Cappelluti, M Felici, G Pettinari… - Applied Physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The variegated family of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has developed rapidly since the
isolation of its forerunner: Graphene. Their planeconfined nature is typically associated with …

Strained bubbles in van der Waals heterostructures as local emitters of photoluminescence with adjustable wavelength

AV Tyurnina, DA Bandurin, E Khestanova… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
The possibility to tailor photoluminescence (PL) of monolayer transition metal
dichalcogenides (TMDCs) using external factors such as strain, doping, and external …

[HTML][HTML] Imaging quantum oscillations and millitesla pseudomagnetic fields in graphene

H Zhou, N Auerbach, M Uzan, Y Zhou, N Banu, W Zhi… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
The exceptional control of the electronic energy bands in atomically thin quantum materials
has led to the discovery of several emergent phenomena. However, at present there is no …

Observation of elastic topological states in soft materials

S Li, D Zhao, H Niu, X Zhu, J Zang - Nature communications, 2018 - nature.com
Topological elastic metamaterials offer insight into classic motion law and open up
opportunities in quantum and classic information processing. Theoretical modeling and …

Pseudo-magnetic field-induced slow carrier dynamics in periodically strained graphene

DH Kang, H Sun, M Luo, K Lu, M Chen, Y Kim… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The creation of pseudo-magnetic fields in strained graphene has emerged as a promising
route to investigate intriguing physical phenomena that would be unattainable with …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] Linear scaling quantum transport methodologies

Z Fan, JH Garcia, AW Cummings, JE Barrios-Vargas… - Physics Reports, 2021 - Elsevier
In recent years, predictive computational modeling has become a cornerstone for the study
of fundamental electronic, optical, and thermal properties in complex forms of condensed …