(Nanowerk Spotlight) Blackbody response is highly desired in two-dimensional (2D) infrared photodetectors, which determines their practical applications. State-of-the-art available blackbody response ...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials, which are only a few atoms thick, are known to exhibit unique electrical, mechanical and optical properties, which differ considerably from the properties of bulk ...

Definition: Van der Waals materials encompass a broad category of layered substances, including individual van der Waals materials and their engineered stacks known as van der Waals heterostructures, ...

Certain two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals-bonded bilayers (e.g., WTe₂ and h-BN) exhibit “sliding ferroelectricity (SF),” where electric polarization arises from specific stacking configurations ...

Researchers at Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) and the University of Montpellier have successfully achieved the wafer-scale synthesis of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) with an ...

image: A schematic illustration depicting the conformal growth and seperation of atomically thin semiconductor films in a three-dimensional membrane form with monolayer precision. This material ...