Qiyin Lin

TL;DR: In this article, the authors reported the room-temperature, cross-plane thermal conductivities, and longitudinal speeds of sound of multilayer films and misfit-layer dichalcogenide films synthesized by the modulated elemental reactants method.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general synthesis approach for the preparation of new families of misfit layer compounds was described and the first 64 members of the [(PbSe)0.99]m(WSe2)n) family were synthesized by annealing reactant precursors containing m layers of alternating elemental Pb and Se followed by n layers of W and Se, in which the thickness of each pair of elemental layers was calibrated to yield a structural bilayer of rock salt structured PbSe and a trilayer of hexagonal WSe2.

TL;DR: Fifty-three new misfit layered compounds within the [(BiSe) 1.14 ] m [NbSe 2 ] n, and [(PbSe 1.12 ] m[TaSe 2 ], were successfully synthesized as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The in-plane thermal conductivity is measured to be three times lower in misfit-layered (PbSe)0.99]x(WSe2)x superlattice thin films than disordered-layer WSe2 because of interface scattering despite a higher crossplane value in the former than the latter as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this article, the synthesis of misfit-layered compounds is demonstrated, which are crystalline along the c-axis and in the ab-plane, but show very short coherence lengths between ab-planes.