Epitaxial growth of main group monoelemental 2D materials

D Zhou, H Li, N Si, H Li, H Fuchs… - Advanced Functional …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Since the discovery of graphene, 2D materials have attracted significant attention for their
unique properties. Monoelemental 2D materials (ME2DMs) are of particular interest …

The Coexistence of Superconductivity and Topological Order in the Bi2Se3 Thin Films

MX Wang, C Liu, JP Xu, F Yang, L Miao, MY Yao… - Science, 2012 - science.org
Three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) are characterized by their nontrivial surface
states, in which electrons have their spin locked at a right angle to their momentum under …

Atomistic Insights into Elemental Two-Dimensional Materials and Their Heterostructures

S Rajak, JF Schultz, L Li, N Jiang - Annual Review of Physical …, 2025 - annualreviews.org
Inspired by the success of graphene, two-dimensional (2D) materials have been at the
forefront of advanced (opto-) nanoelectronics and energy-related fields owing to their exotic …

Modulating epitaxial atomic structure of antimonene through interface design

T Niu, W Zhou, D Zhou, X Hu, S Zhang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Antimonene, a new semiconductor with fundamental bandgap and desirable stability, has
been experimentally realized recently. However, epitaxial growth of wafer‐scale single …

Two-Dimensional artificial Ge superlattice confining in electronic kagome lattice potential valleys

Q Tian, S Izadi Vishkayi, M Bagheri Tagani… - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Constructing two-dimensional (2D) artificial superlattices based on single-atom and few-
atom nanoclusters is of great interest for exploring exotic physics. Here we report the …

Epitaxial growth of ultraflat bismuthene with large topological band inversion enabled by substrate-orbital-filtering effect

S Sun, JY You, S Duan, J Gou, YZ Luo, W Lin, X Lian… - ACS …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Quantum spin Hall (QSH) systems hold promises of low-power-consuming spintronic
devices, yet their practical applications are extremely impeded by the small energy gaps …

Hourglass fermion in two-dimensional material

ZF Wang, B Liu, W Zhu - Physical Review Letters, 2019 - APS
The hourglass fermion, as an exotic quasiparticle protected by nonsymmorphic symmetry,
has excited great research interest recently. However, its bulk counterpart in two …

Structural and electronic properties of atomically thin Bismuth on Au (111)

B He, G Tian, J Gou, B Liu, K Shen, Q Tian, Z Yu… - Surface Science, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Atomically thin Bismuth (Bi) films are predicated to be candidates for high
temperature quantum spin hall materials. Here, we reported the structural evolutions and the …

Absence of topological β-antimonene and growth of α-antimonene on noble metal Ag (111) and Cu (111) surfaces

P Zhang, C Ma, S Sheng, H Liu, J Gao, Z Liu… - Physical Review …, 2022 - APS
Antimonene is a promising two-dimensional material predicted to host intriguing properties.
Recent works have claimed the successful preparation of β-antimonene on noble metal …

Broken symmetry induced band splitting in the surface alloy on Ag(111)

W Wang, HM Sohail, JR Osiecki, RIG Uhrberg - Physical Review B, 2014 - APS
We report a study of the atomic and electronic structures of the ordered Ag 2 Ge surface
alloy containing ⅓ monolayer of Ge. Low-energy electron diffraction (LEED), scanning …