Van der Waals heterostructuresdoi:10.1038/s43586-022-00151-5This PrimeView highlights the fabrication of van der Waals heterostructures using top-down and bottom-up processes.Nature Publishing Group UKNature Reviews Methods Primers
Looking beyond this field, isolated atomic planes can also be reassembled into designer heterostructures made layer by layer in a precisely chosen sequence. The first, already remarkably complex, such heterostructures (often referred to as 'van der Waals') have recently been fabricated and ...
Figure 4.Representative studies of HG in van der Waals Heterostructures. (a) Twisting causes the change of the relative position of the sulfur atoms in the two layers, and affects the interlayer separation. (b) The electronic structures of a 60° bilayer system with twists corresponding to 30...
such heterostructures (often referred to as ‘van der Waals’) have recently been fabricated and investigated, revealing unusual properties and new phenomena. Here we review this emerging research area and identify possible future directions. With steady improvement in fabrication techniques and using gra...
Strong covalent bonds provide in-plane stability of 2D crystals, whereas relatively weak, van-der-Waals-like forces are sufficient to keep the stack together. The possibility of making multilayer van der Waals heterostructures has been demonstrated experimentally only1School of Physics and Astronomy, ...
Two-dimensional van der Waals heterostructures (2D vdW HSs) can be constructed by stacking different 2D materials together in nearly endless ways, and have significantly enriched the 2D materials family. They have attracted intense research attention effort, due to their exotic physical properties and...
Heterostructureswith designable electronic interfaces represent the material foundation for modern electronic and optoelectronic devices. The conventional heterostructures rely oncovalent bondsto integrate the constituent materials with strict lattice-matching requirements. The use of van der Waals (VDW) force al...
Such GQDs embedded in an hBN matrix are ideally suited for the formation of van der Waals heterostructures25,26,27. To this end, we prepared vertical tunnelling single-electron transistors28,29,30,31, where the transparency of the contacts is controlled by tunnelling through atomically thin hBN ...
Van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) based on 2D layered materials with selectable materials properties pave the way to integration at the atomic scale, which may give rise to fresh heterostructures exhibiting absolutely novel physics and versatility. This feature article reviews the state-of-the-ar...
The direct growth technique applied here enables us to investigate the heterostructure nucleation and growth mechanisms at the atomic level without sample handling and transfer. Importantly, this approach can be utilized to study a wide spectrum of van der Waals heterostructures. 展开 ...