Titanium Trisulfide Nanosheets and Nanoribbons for Field Emission-Based Nanodevices

The field emission (FE) properties of TiS3 nanosheets and nanoribbons, synthesized by direct sulfuration of bulk titanium, are investigated. The nanosheets show an enhanced FE behavior with a low turn-on field of ∼0.3 V/μm, required for drawing an emission current density of ∼10 μA/cm2. Interestingly, the TiS3 nanosheet emitter delivered a...

Raman Fingerprint of Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in TiS₃Nanoribbons: Implications for Thermal Measurements under Extreme Stress Conditions

Two-dimensional layered trichalcogenide materials have recently attracted the attention of the scientific community because of their robust mechanical and thermal properties and applications in opto- and nanoelectronics devices. We report the pressure dependence of out-of-plane Ag Raman modes in high quality few-layer titanium trisulfide ...

Investigating Laser-Induced Phase Engineering in MoS₂ Transistors

Phase engineering of MoS₂ transistors has recently been demonstrated and has led to record low contact resistances. The phase patterning of MoS₂ flakes with laser radiation has also been realized via spectroscopic methods, which invites the potential of controlling the metallic and semiconducting phases of MoS&#x2082...

High Current Density Electrical Breakdown of TiS₃ Nanoribbon-Based Field-Effect Transistors

The high field transport characteristics of nanostructured transistors based on layered materials are not only important from a device physics perspective but also for possible applications in next generation electronics. With the growing promise of layered materials as replacements to conventional silicon technology, the high current density...

Proximity-Induced Shiba States in a Molecular Junction

Superconductors containing magnetic impurities exhibit intriguing phenomena derived from the competition between Cooper pairing and Kondo screening. At the heart of this competition are the Yu-Shiba-Rusinov (Shiba) states which arise from the pair breaking effects a magnetic impurity has on a superconducting host. Hybrid superconductor...

Franckeite as a naturally occurring van der Waals heterostructure

The fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures, artificial materials assembled by individual stacking of 2D layers, is among the most promising directions in 2D materials research. Until now, the most widespread approach to stack 2D layers relies on deterministic placement methods, which are cumbersome and tend to suffer from poor control...

Titanium trisulfide (TiS3): A 2D semiconductor with quasi-1D optical and electronic properties

We present characterizations of few-layer titanium trisulfide (TiS3) flakes which, due to their reduced in-plane structural symmetry, display strong anisotropy in their electrical and optical properties. Exfoliated few-layer flakes show marked anisotropy of their in-plane mobilities reaching ratios as high as 7.6 at low temperatures. Based on...

Thickness dependent interlayer transport in vertical MoS₂ Josephson junctions

Wereport on observations of thickness dependent Josephson coupling and multiple Andreev reflections (MAR) in vertically stacked molybdenum disulfide (MoS₂)-molybdenum rhenium (MoRe) Josephson junctions. MoRe, a chemically inert superconductor, allows for oxide free fabrication of high transparency vertical MoS₂ devices....

Spatial conductivity mapping of unprotected and capped black phosphorus using microwave microscopy

Thin layers of black phosphorus present an ideal combination of a 2Dmaterial with a tunable direct bandgap and high carrier mobility. However the material suffers from degradation in ambient conditions due to an oxidation reaction which involves water, oxygen and light. Wehave measured the spatial profile of the conductivity on flakes of...

Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin TaS 2

The ability to exfoliate layered materials down to the single layer limit has presented the opportunity to understand how a gradual reduction in dimensionality affects the properties of bulk materials. Here we use this top-down approach to address the problem of superconductivity in the two-dimensional limit. The transport properties of...