The possibility of generating a large range of elastic strain in low-dimensional materials
offers a vast design space that has led to a plethora of scientific and technological …

Epitaxial growth, a crystallographically oriented growth induced by the chemical bonding
between crystalline substrate and atomic building blocks, has been a key technique in the …

This work aimed to precisely evaluate the physical properties of vanadium dioxide (M),
particularly the optical characteristics. We employed different exchange-correlation …

Realizing stress-free inorganic epitaxial films on weakly bonding substrates is of importance
for applications that require film transfer onto surfaces that do not seed epitaxy. Film …

Strongly correlated electron materials harbor interesting materials physics, such as high-T c
superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance, and metal–insulator transition. These …

Nonlinear oxides such as LiNbO 3 have found many applications in both conventional
electro-optics and quantum optics. In this work, we demonstrate the van der Waals and …

VO 2 is a promising thermochromic material for smart windows. The major challenge for its
practical application is to strike a balance between a comfortable phase transition …

VO2 is an attractive material for sustainable smart window applications due to its unique
near-infrared light modulation capabilities; however, its energy efficiency is affected by its …

There has been increasing interest in the fabrication of thin film materials with mixed
dimensions, in particular, 2D to 3D and 3D to 2D heterostructures. Often, if the interface …

1.1 Motivation 1: van der Waals Epitaxy and Remote Epitaxy of LiNbO3 Thin Films by Pulsed
Laser Deposition Nonlinear optical phenomena such as the Kerr effect, frequency mixing …