A new way to create ultra-thin layers of metals makes it possible for scientists to study a new and unusual class of 2D ...

By taking two flakes of special materials that are just one atom thick and twisting them at high angles, researchers at the ...

Sheets of bismuth, gallium, indium, tin and lead can now be made just a few atoms thick by crushing them at a high ...

Different stacks in 2D van der Waals materials affected by this phenomenon, dubbed "sliding ferroelectricity," are related by a large, device-scale shift of two layers by several angstroms. Past ...

In a significant advancement for semiconductor technology, ECE's Prof. Kaustav Banerjee , co-authors Arnab Pal & Wei Cao and researchers have unveiled novel three-dimensional (3D) transistors ...

A Chinese research team has successfully developed a single-atom-thick metal layer, with a thickness just one ...

Researchers from Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and the University of Montpellier have successfully ...

Researchers show that precisely layering nano-thin materials creates excitons -- essentially, artificial atoms -- that can act as quantum information bits, or qubits.

A research team in India using a computational approach designed a perovskite solar cell combining a Dion-Jacobson (DJ) 2D layer with a 3D lead-free halide perovskite, a combination that could ...

Researchers from the Institute of Physics (IOP) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a convenient, universal, atomic-level manufacturing technique—called vdW squeezing—for the production ...