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Elastic Stiffening Induces One-Dimensional Phonons In Thin Ta2Se3 Nanowires

2021 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

Demonstrates 1D phonon-mediated thermal transport in Ta2Se3 nanowires, which is enabled by a phonon stiffening effect.

Importance of the Achievement:

This work demonstrate 1D phonons through thermal conductivity measurements on Ta2Se3 nanowires. This result would motivate other researches to explore signatures of 1D phonon transport in other quasi-1D systems.

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Benchmarking Monolayer MoS2 And WS2 Field-Effect Transistors

2021 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

We have carried out a comprehensive statistical analysis of device-to-device variation of key device parameters of monolayer MoS2 and WS2 FETs related to ON-state and OFF-state performance such as threshold voltage, subthreshold slope, field effect mobility, contact resistance, etc.  The results are benchmarked against literature reports of TMD FETs and ultra-thin body silicon-on-insulator FETs. 

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Bandgap Recovery Of Monolayer MoS2 Using Defect Engineering And Chemical Doping

2021 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

Controlled introduction of single and divacancy defects in monolayer MoS2 using a Helium Ion Microscope. This enabled a detailed study correlating defect density with the carrier concentration and optical properties of MoS2. Reduced photoluminescence intensity in defected MoS2 was restored and dramatically enhanced due to adsorption of p-type dopants (FATCNQ) on the MoS2 surface.

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An Integrated Quantum Material Testbed With Multi-Resolution Photoemission Spectroscopy

2021 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

A MRPES platform that integrates helium lamp ARPES, static laser ARPES, trARPES, μARPES, MBE, and μMBE into one system.

Importance of the Achievement:

MRPES is not merely a combination of different ARPES modules, but also simultaneous probing into energy, momentum, space, and time, with uncompromised resolutions in each domain. This setup allows researchers to fully reveal the complex physics in novel quantum materials.

Unique Feature(s) of the MIP that Enabled this Achievement:

Quantification Of Defects Engineered In Single Layer MoS2

2020 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

We presented an elegant method that can be used to quantify atomic vacancies with sulfur terminations in 1L MoS2 created by helium ion irradiation. It is important to note that low mass of helium ion allows us to study gentle changes in crystallographic structure compared other data in literature using significantly heavier ions.

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Electronic Correlations In Nodal-Line Semimetals

2020 User Research Highlights

What Has Been Achieved:

Through zero-field and magneto-infrared spectroscopy studies on single crystals of topological semimetal ZrSiSe, hallmarks of prominent electronic correlations in the nondal-line semimetal state have been revealed, i.e. strong reduction of the free carrier Drude weight and also the Fermi velocity compared to predictions of density functional band theory

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