Symmetry-protected ideal Weyl semimetal in HgTe-class materials

J Ruan, SK Jian, H Yao, H Zhang, SC Zhang… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Ideal Weyl semimetals with all Weyl nodes exactly at the Fermi level and no coexisting trivial
Fermi surfaces in the bulk, similar to graphene, could feature deep physics such as exotic …

Topological superconductivity based on antisymmetric spin–orbit coupling

X Zhang, J Liu, F Liu - Nano Letters, 2022 - ACS Publications
Topological superconductivity (TSC) has drawn much attention for its fundamental interest
and application in quantum computation. An outstanding challenge is the lack of intrinsic …

Light-Tunable Polarity and Erasable Physisorption-Induced Memory Effect in Vertically Stacked InSe/SnS2 Self-Powered Photodetector

Y Zhao, J Cho, M Choi, C Ó Coileáin, S Arora… - ACS …, 2022 - ACS Publications
van der Waals heterojunctions with tunable polarity are being actively explored for more
Moore and more-than-Moore device applications, as they can greatly simplify circuit design …

Strain-engineered two-dimensional MoS2 as anode material for performance enhancement of Li/Na-ion batteries

J Hao, J Zheng, F Ling, Y Chen, H Jing, T Zhou… - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Recent years have witnessed a surge of research in two-dimensional (2D) nanostructures
for development of new rechargeable Li/Na-ion battery systems. Herein, via first-principles …

Strain-enhanced Li storage and diffusion on the graphyne as the anode material in the Li-ion battery

Q Zhang, C Tang, W Zhu, C Cheng - The Journal of Physical …, 2018 - ACS Publications
The density functional theory is used to study the effect of the external biaxial strain on the
adsorption and diffusion of Li on the graphyne as an anode material in the Li-ion battery …

Strain-induced bandgap enhancement of InSe ultrathin films with self-formed two-dimensional electron gas

Z Zhang, Y Yuan, W Zhou, C Chen, S Yuan, H Zeng… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Atomically thin indium selenide (InSe) is a representative two-dimensional (2D) family that
have recently attracted extensive interest for their intriguing emerging physics and potential …

Nonlinear Rashba spin splitting in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

C Cheng, JT Sun, XR Chen, HX Fu, S Meng - Nanoscale, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Single-layer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) such as MoS2 and MoSe2 exhibit
unique electronic band structures ideal for hosting many exotic spin-orbital orderings. It has …

Electric field control of Rashba spin splitting in 2D NIIIXVI (N= Ga, In; X= S, Se, Te) monolayer

W Ju, D Wang, T Li, H Wang, Q Zhou… - Journal of Physics …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
Spin splitting of the nonmagnetic two dimensional (2D) layered N III X VI (N= Ga, In; X= S,
Se, Te) monolayer is investigated based on the density functional theory. Due to the mirror …

Bending good beats breaking bad: phase separation patterns in individual cathode particles upon lithiation and delithiation

DA Santos, JL Andrews, Y Bai, P Stein, Y Luo… - Materials …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
The operation of a Li-ion battery involves a concerted sequence of mass and charge
transport processes, which are underpinned by alternating dilation/contraction of the active …

Remarkable Rashba spin splitting induced by an asymmetrical internal electric field in polar III–VI chalcogenides

W Ju, D Wang, T Li, Y Zhang, Z Gao, L Ren… - Physical Chemistry …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Herein, the Rashba spin orbit coupling (SOC) of polar group III–VI chalcogenide XABY (A,
B= Ga, In; X≠ Y= S, Se, Te) monolayers is investigated based on density functional theory …