van der Waals epitaxy: 2D materials and topological insulators

LA Walsh, CL Hinkle - Applied Materials Today, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract van der Waals epitaxy (VDWE) is an ideal method for growing 2D materials and
topological insulators (TIs) onto a variety of substrates for heterostructure and integrated …

Synthesis and characterization of 2D transition metal dichalcogenides: Recent progress from a vacuum surface science perspective

K Lasek, J Li, S Kolekar, PM Coelho, M Zhang… - Surface Science …, 2021 - Elsevier
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are a diverse group of materials whose
properties vary from semiconducting to metallic with a variety of many body phenomena …

Metallic twin boundaries boost the hydrogen evolution reaction on the basal plane of molybdenum selenotellurides

T Kosmala, H Coy Diaz, HP Komsa… - Advanced Energy …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a fundamental process that impacts several
important clean energy technologies. Great efforts have been taken to identify alternative …

Metallic Twin Grain Boundaries Embedded in MoSe2 Monolayers Grown by Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Y Ma, S Kolekar, H Coy Diaz, J Aprojanz, I Miccoli… - ACS …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Twin grain boundaries in MoSe2 are metallic and undergo a metal to insulator Peierls
transition at low temperature. Growth of MoSe2 by molecular beam epitaxy results in the …

Emergence of interfacial polarons from electron–phonon coupling in graphene/h-BN van der Waals heterostructures

C Chen, J Avila, S Wang, Y Wang… - Nano …, 2018 - ACS Publications
van der Waals heterostructures, vertical stacks of layered materials, offer new opportunities
for novel quantum phenomena which are absent in their constituent components. Here we …

Mirror twin grain boundaries in molybdenum dichalcogenides

M Batzill - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Mirror twin grain boundaries (MTBs) exist at the interface between two grains of 60 rotated
hexagonal transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC). These grain boundaries form a regular …

Higher-indexed Moiré patterns and surface states of MoTe2/graphene heterostructure grown by molecular beam epitaxy

TT Pham, P Vancsó, M Szendrő, K Palotás… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2022 - nature.com
Stabilization of the 2 H phase of MoTe2 during molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth on
graphene terminated 6 H-SiC (0001) is highly desirable in order to take advantage of its …

Metallic transition metal dichalcogenides of Group VIB: Preparation, stabilization, and energy applications

Y Li, M Wang, Y Yi, C Lu, S Dou, J Sun - Small, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Layered transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) of group VIB have been widely used in the
realms of energy storage and conversions. Along with the existence of semiconducting …

Telluride-based atomically thin layers of ternary two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide alloys

A Apte, A Krishnamoorthy, JA Hachtel… - Chemistry of …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Alloying in two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has allowed
band gap engineering and phase transformation, as well as modulation of electronic …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid level-based learning swarm algorithm with mutation operator for solving large-scale cardinality-constrained portfolio optimization problems

M Kaucic, F Piccotto, G Sbaiz, G Valentinuz - Information Sciences, 2023 - Elsevier
We propose a hybrid variant of the level-based learning swarm optimizer (LLSO) for solving
large-scale portfolio optimization problems. This solver fills the gap due to the inadequacy of …