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Superlattice

About: Superlattice is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 18669 publications have been published within this topic receiving 392435 citations.


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18 Apr 2008-Science
TL;DR: This work reports on electron transport in quantum dot devices carved entirely from graphene, demonstrating the possibility of molecular-scale electronics based on graphene.
Abstract: The exceptional electronic properties of graphene, with its charge carriers mimicking relativistic quantum particles and its formidable potential in various applications, have ensured a rapid growth of interest in this new material. We report on electron transport in quantum dot devices carved entirely from graphene. At large sizes (>100 nanometers), they behave as conventional single-electron transistors, exhibiting periodic Coulomb blockade peaks. For quantum dots smaller than 100 nanometers, the peaks become strongly nonperiodic, indicating a major contribution of quantum confinement. Random peak spacing and its statistics are well described by the theory of chaotic neutrino billiards. Short constrictions of only a few nanometers in width remain conductive and reveal a confinement gap of up to 0.5 electron volt, demonstrating the possibility of molecular-scale electronics based on graphene.

2,032 citations

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24 Nov 1995-Science
TL;DR: In this article, the self-organization of CdSe nanocrystallites into three-dimensional semiconductor quantum dot superlattices (colloidal crystals) is demonstrated.
Abstract: The self-organization of CdSe nanocrystallites into three-dimensional semiconductor quantum dot superlattices (colloidal crystals) is demonstrated. The size and spacing of the dots within the superlattice are controlled with near atomic precision. This control is a result of synthetic advances that provide CdSe nanocrystallites that are monodisperse within the limit of atomic roughness. The methodology is not limited to semiconductor quantum dots but provides general procedures for the preparation and characterization of ordered structures of nanocrystallites from a variety of materials.

1,996 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the transport properties of a finite superlattice from the tunneling point of view have been computed for the case of a limited number of spatial periods or a relatively short electron mean free path.
Abstract: We have computed the transport properties of a finite superlattice from the tunneling point of view. The computed I‐V characteristic describes the experimental cases of a limited number of spatial periods or a relatively short electron mean free path.

1,996 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, the effects of the twist angle between different layers in a van der Waals heterostructure have been investigated and it was shown that when this angle is close to the magic angle, the electronic band structure near zero Fermi energy becomes flat, owing to strong interlayer coupling.
Abstract: A van der Waals heterostructure is a type of metamaterial that consists of vertically stacked two-dimensional building blocks held together by the van der Waals forces between the layers. This design means that the properties of van der Waals heterostructures can be engineered precisely, even more so than those of two-dimensional materials. One such property is the 'twist' angle between different layers in the heterostructure. This angle has a crucial role in the electronic properties of van der Waals heterostructures, but does not have a direct analogue in other types of heterostructure, such as semiconductors grown using molecular beam epitaxy. For small twist angles, the moire pattern that is produced by the lattice misorientation between the two-dimensional layers creates long-range modulation of the stacking order. So far, studies of the effects of the twist angle in van der Waals heterostructures have concentrated mostly on heterostructures consisting of monolayer graphene on top of hexagonal boron nitride, which exhibit relatively weak interlayer interaction owing to the large bandgap in hexagonal boron nitride. Here we study a heterostructure consisting of bilayer graphene, in which the two graphene layers are twisted relative to each other by a certain angle. We show experimentally that, as predicted theoretically, when this angle is close to the 'magic' angle the electronic band structure near zero Fermi energy becomes flat, owing to strong interlayer coupling. These flat bands exhibit insulating states at half-filling, which are not expected in the absence of correlations between electrons. We show that these correlated states at half-filling are consistent with Mott-like insulator states, which can arise from electrons being localized in the superlattice that is induced by the moire pattern. These properties of magic-angle-twisted bilayer graphene heterostructures suggest that these materials could be used to study other exotic many-body quantum phases in two dimensions in the absence of a magnetic field. The accessibility of the flat bands through electrical tunability and the bandwidth tunability through the twist angle could pave the way towards more exotic correlated systems, such as unconventional superconductors and quantum spin liquids.

1,961 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, it was shown that charge-density waves and their concomitant periodic structural distortions occur in all the 4d1/5d1 dichalcogenides and related the observed periodicities of these CDW states to the theoretical form of the parent Fermi surfaces.
Abstract: The d1 layer metals TaS2, TaSe2, NbSe2, in all their various polytypic modifications, acquire, below some appropriate temperature, phase conditions that their electromagnetic properties have previously revealed as ‘anomalous’. Our present electron-microscope studies indicate that this anomalous behaviour usually includes the adoption, at some stage, of a superlattice. The size of superlattice adopted often is forecast in the pattern of satellite spotting and strong diffuse scattering found above the transition. Our conclusions are that charge-density waves and their concomitant periodic structural distortions occur in all these 4d1/5d1 dichalcogenides. We have related the observed periodicities of these CDW states to the theoretical form of the parent Fermi surfaces. Particularly for the 1T octahedrally coordinated polytypes the Fermi surface is very simple and markedly two-dimensional in character, with large near-parallel walls. Such a situation is known theoretically to favour the formation of...

1,648 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023559
20221,114
2021391
2020465
2019502
2018432