Professor Amalia Patane's Outputs (80)

Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica (2025)
Journal Article
Barker, T., Gray, A., Weir, M., Sharp, J., Kenton, A., Kudrynskyi, Z., Rostami, H., & Patané, A. (2025). Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica. npj Flexible Electronics, 9, Article 2. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41528-024-00375-3

Understanding the bending behaviour of a crystal onto a flexible platform is crucial for flexible electronics. The Young’s modulus, a measure of how easily a material deforms, plays a critical role in the coupled deformation of a crystal on a flexibl... Read More about Giant Elasto-Optic Response of Gallium Selenide on Flexible Mica.

High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy (2024)
Journal Article
Makarovsky, O., Hill, R. J. A., Cheng, T. S., Summerfield, A., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Mellor, C. J., Patanè, A., Eaves, L., Novikov, S. V., & Beton, P. H. (2024). High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy. Communications Materials, 5, Article 189. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43246-024-00633-x

High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy Graphene placed on hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has received significant interest due to its excellent electrical performan... Read More about High-temperature Brown-Zak oscillations in graphene/hBN moiré field effect transistor fabricated using molecular beam epitaxy.

Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing (2024)
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Bradford, J., Dewes, B. T., Shiffa, M., Cottam, N. D., Rahman, K., Cheng, T. S., Novikov, S. V., Makarovsky, O., O'Shea, J. N., Beton, P. H., Lara-Avila, S., Harknett, J., Greenaway, M. T., & Patanè, A. (2024). Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing. Small, 20(40), Article 2404809. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202404809

2D semiconductors can drive advances in quantum science and technologies. However, they should be free of any contamination; also, the crystallographic ordering and coupling of adjacent layers and their electronic properties should be well‐controlled... Read More about Epitaxy of GaSe Coupled to Graphene: From In Situ Band Engineering to Photon Sensing.

Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing (2024)
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Cottam, N. D., Dewes, B. T., Shiffa, M., Cheng, T. S., Novikov, S. V., Mellor, C. J., Makarovsky, O., Gonzalez, D., Ben, T., & Patanè, A. (2024). Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing. ACS Applied Nano Materials, 7(15), 17553-17560. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsanm.4c02685

Two-dimensional semiconductors (2DSEM) based on van der Waals crystals offer important avenues for nanotechnologies beyond the constraints of Moore's law and traditional semiconductors, such as silicon (Si). However, their application necessitates pr... Read More about Thin Ga2O3 Layers by Thermal Oxidation of van der Waals GaSe Nanostructures for Ultraviolet Photon Sensing.

Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing (2023)
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Shiffa, M., Dewes, B. T., Bradford, J., Cottam, N. D., Cheng, T. S., Mellor, C. J., Makarovskiy, O., Rahman, K., O'Shea, J. N., Beton, P. H., Novikov, S. V., Ben, T., Gonzalez, D., Xie, J., Zhang, L., & Patanè, A. (2024). Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing. Small, 20(7), Article 2305865. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202305865

2D semiconductors (2SEM) can transform many sectors, from information and communication technology to healthcare. To date, top‐down approaches to their fabrication, such as exfoliation of bulk crystals by “scotch‐tape,” are widely used, but have limi... Read More about Wafer-Scale Two-Dimensional Semiconductors for Deep UV Sensing.

Thermally stable quantum Hall effect in a gated ferroelectric-graphene heterostructure (2023)
Journal Article
Dey, A., Cottam, N., Makarovskiy, O., Yan, W., Mišeikis, V., Coletti, C., Kerfoot, J., Korolkov, V., Eaves, L., Linnartz, J. F., Kool, A., Wiedmann, S., & Patanè, A. (2023). Thermally stable quantum Hall effect in a gated ferroelectric-graphene heterostructure. Communications Physics, 6, Article 216. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01340-8

The quantum Hall effect is widely used for the investigation of fundamental phenomena, ranging from topological phases to composite fermions. In particular, the discovery of a room temperature resistance quantum in graphene is significant for compact... Read More about Thermally stable quantum Hall effect in a gated ferroelectric-graphene heterostructure.

A magnetically-induced Coulomb gap in graphene due to electron-electron interactions (2023)
Journal Article
Vdovin, E. E., Greenaway, M. T., Khanin, Y. N., Morozov, S. V., Makarovsky, O., Patanè, A., Mishchenko, A., Slizovskiy, S., Fal’ko, V. I., Geim, A. K., Novoselov, K. S., & Eaves, L. (2023). A magnetically-induced Coulomb gap in graphene due to electron-electron interactions. Communications Physics, 6, Article 159. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01277-y

Insights into the fundamental properties of graphene’s Dirac-Weyl fermions have emerged from studies of electron tunnelling transistors in which an atomically thin layer of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is sandwiched between two layers of high purity... Read More about A magnetically-induced Coulomb gap in graphene due to electron-electron interactions.

Direct Measurements of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in γ-InSe Nanolayers via Cross-Sectional Scanning Thermal Microscopy (2023)
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Gonzalez-Munoz, S., Agarwal, K., Castanon, E. G., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Spièce, J., Kazakova, O., Patanè, A., & Kolosov, O. V. (2023). Direct Measurements of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in γ-InSe Nanolayers via Cross-Sectional Scanning Thermal Microscopy. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 10(17), Article 2300081. https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202300081

Van der Waals (vdW) atomically thin materials and their heterostructures offer a versatile platform for the management of nanoscale heat transport and the design of novel thermoelectrics. These require the measurement of highly anisotropic heat trans... Read More about Direct Measurements of Anisotropic Thermal Transport in γ-InSe Nanolayers via Cross-Sectional Scanning Thermal Microscopy.

Subnanometer-Wide Indium Selenide Nanoribbons (2023)
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Cull, W. J., Skowron, S. T., Hayter, R., Stoppiello, C. T., Rance, G. A., Biskupek, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Allen, C. S., Slater, T. J. A., Kaiser, U., Patanè, A., & Khlobystov, A. N. (2023). Subnanometer-Wide Indium Selenide Nanoribbons. ACS Nano, 17(6), 6062-6072. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c00670

Indium selenides (InxSey) have been shown to retain several desirable properties, such as ferroelectricity, tunable photoluminescence through temperature-controlled phase changes, and high electron mobility when confined to two dimensions (2D). In th... Read More about Subnanometer-Wide Indium Selenide Nanoribbons.

Graphene FETs with high and low mobilities have universal temperature-dependent properties (2023)
Journal Article
Gosling, J., Morozov, S. V., Vdovin, E. E., Greenaway, M. T., Khanin, Y. N., Kudrynskyi, Z., Patanè, A., Eaves, L., Turyanska, L., Fromhold, T. M., & Makarovsky, O. (2023). Graphene FETs with high and low mobilities have universal temperature-dependent properties. Nanotechnology, 34(12), Article 125702. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-6528/aca981

We use phenomenological modelling and detailed experimental studies of charge carrier transport to investigate the dependence of the electrical resistivity,ρ, on gate voltage,Vg, for a series of monolayer graphene field effect transistors with mobili... Read More about Graphene FETs with high and low mobilities have universal temperature-dependent properties.

Magnetic and Electric Field Dependent Charge Transfer in Perovskite/Graphene Field Effect Transistors (2022)
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Cottam, N. D., Austin, J. S., Zhang, C., Patanè, A., Escoffier, W., Goiran, M., Pierre, M., Coletti, C., Mišeikis, V., Turyanska, L., & Makarovsky, O. (2023). Magnetic and Electric Field Dependent Charge Transfer in Perovskite/Graphene Field Effect Transistors. Advanced Electronic Materials, 9(2), Article 2200995. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202200995

Stable all-inorganic CsPbX3 perovskite nanocrystals (PNCs) with high optical yield can be used in combination with graphene as photon sensors with high responsivity (up to 106 A W−1) in the VIS-UV range. The performance of these perovskite/graphene f... Read More about Magnetic and Electric Field Dependent Charge Transfer in Perovskite/Graphene Field Effect Transistors.

Large Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Junctions (2022)
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Zhu, W., Xie, S., Lin, H., Zhang, G., Wu, H., Hu, T., Wang, Z., Zhang, X., Xu, J., Wang, Y., Zheng, Y., Yan, F., Zhang, J., Zhao, L., Patanè, A., Zhang, J., Chang, H., & Wang, K. (2022). Large Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Junctions. Chinese Physics Letters, 39(12), Article 128501. https://doi.org/10.1088/0256-307x/39/12/128501

A magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is the core component in memory technologies, such as the magnetic random-access memory, magnetic sensors and programmable logic devices. In particular, MTJs based on two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) heterostructur... Read More about Large Room-Temperature Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Junctions.

Van der Waals interfaces in multilayer junctions for ultraviolet photodetection (2022)
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Xie, S., Shiffa, M., Shiffa, M., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovskiy, O., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Zhu, W., Wang, K., & Patanè, A. (2022). Van der Waals interfaces in multilayer junctions for ultraviolet photodetection. npj 2D Materials and Applications, 6(1), Article 61. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41699-022-00338-0

Developments in semiconductor science have led to the miniaturization and improvement of light detection technologies for many applications. However, traditional pn-junctions or three-dimensional device geometries for detection of ultraviolet (UV) li... Read More about Van der Waals interfaces in multilayer junctions for ultraviolet photodetection.

Carrier dynamics in InSe and the impact of terahertz pulses (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Venanzi, T., Selig, M., Pashkin, A., Winnerl, S., Katzer, M., Arora, H., Erbe, A., Patane, A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Baldassarre, L., Knorr, A., Helm, M., & Schneider, H. (2022, August). Carrier dynamics in InSe and the impact of terahertz pulses. Presented at 2022 47th International Conference on Infrared, Millimeter and Terahertz Waves (IRMMW-THz), Delft, Netherlands

We investigate the electron-hole dynamics in few-layer InSe, a van der Waals semiconductor with promising opt-electronic properties. We show that terahertz pulses modulate the spontaneous emission via absorption by photo-excited carriers. We further... Read More about Carrier dynamics in InSe and the impact of terahertz pulses.

Hydrogen-Induced Conversion of SnS2 into SnS or Sn: A Route to Create SnS2/SnS Heterostructures (2022)
Journal Article
Patanè, A., Felton, J., Blundo, E., Kudrynskyi, Z., Ling, S., Bradford, J., Pettinari, G., Cooper, T., Wadge, M., Kovalyuk, Z., Polimeni, A., Beton, P., Grant, D., Walker, G., & Patane, A. (2022). Hydrogen-Induced Conversion of SnS2 into SnS or Sn: A Route to Create SnS2/SnS Heterostructures. Small, 18(33), Article 2202661. https://doi.org/10.1002/smll.202202661

The family of van der Waals (vdW) materials is large and diverse with applications ranging from electronics and optoelectronics to catalysis and chemical storage. However, despite intensive research, there remains significant knowledge-gaps pertainin... Read More about Hydrogen-Induced Conversion of SnS2 into SnS or Sn: A Route to Create SnS2/SnS Heterostructures.

Memristive effects due to charge transfer in graphene gated through ferroelectric CuInP2S6 (2022)
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Dey, A., Yan, W., Balakrishnan, N., Xie, S., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Makarovskiy, O., Yan, F., Wang, K., & Patanè, A. (2022). Memristive effects due to charge transfer in graphene gated through ferroelectric CuInP2S6. 2D Materials, 9(3), Article 035003. https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/ac6191

Ferroelectricity at the nanometre scale can drive the miniaturisation and wide application of ferroelectric devices for memory and sensing applications. The two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdWs) ferroelectrics CuInP2S6 (CIPS) has attracted much att... Read More about Memristive effects due to charge transfer in graphene gated through ferroelectric CuInP2S6.

Terahertz control of photoluminescence emission in few-layer InSe (2022)
Journal Article
Venanzi, T., Selig, M., Pashkin, A., Winnerl, S., Katzer, M., Arora, H., Erbe, A., Patanè, A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Baldassarre, L., Knorr, A., Helm, M., & Schneider, H. (2022). Terahertz control of photoluminescence emission in few-layer InSe. Applied Physics Letters, 120(9), Article 092104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0080784

A promising route for the development of opto-electronic technology is to use terahertz radiation to modulate the optical properties of semiconductors. Here, we demonstrate the dynamical control of photoluminescence (PL) emission in few-layer InSe us... Read More about Terahertz control of photoluminescence emission in few-layer InSe.

High-Performance Phototransistors by Alumina Encapsulation of a 2D Semiconductor with Self-Aligned Contacts (2022)
Journal Article
Liang, G., Wang, Y., Zhang, J., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z., Patanè, A., Xin, Q., & Song, A. (2022). High-Performance Phototransistors by Alumina Encapsulation of a 2D Semiconductor with Self-Aligned Contacts. Advanced Electronic Materials, 8(5), Article 2100954. https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202100954

2D semiconductors are promising candidates for next generation electronics and optoelectronics. However, their exposure to air and/or resists during device fabrication can cause considerable degradation of material quality, hindering their study and... Read More about High-Performance Phototransistors by Alumina Encapsulation of a 2D Semiconductor with Self-Aligned Contacts.

Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterojunctions (2021)
Journal Article
Zhu, W., Lin, H., Yan, F., Hu, C., Wang, Z., Zhao, L., Deng, Y., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Zhou, T., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Zheng, Y., Patanè, A., Žutić, I., Li, S., Zheng, H., & Wang, K. (2021). Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterojunctions. Advanced Materials, 33(51), Article 2104658. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104658

2D layered chalcogenide semiconductors have been proposed as a promising class of materials for low-dimensional electronic, optoelectronic, and spintronic devices. Here, all-2D van der Waals vertical spin-valve devices, that combine the 2D layered se... Read More about Large Tunneling Magnetoresistance in van der Waals Ferromagnet/Semiconductor Heterojunctions.

Tunable spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional InSe (2021)
Journal Article
Ceferino, A., Magorrian, S. J., Zólyomi, V., Bandurin, D. A., Geim, A. K., Patanè, A., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Grigorieva, I. V., & Fal'Ko, V. I. (2021). Tunable spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional InSe. Physical Review B, 104(12), Article 125432. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.104.125432

We demonstrate that spin-orbit coupling (SOC) strength for electrons near the conduction band edge in few-layer γ-InSe films can be tuned over a wide range. This tunability is the result of a competition between film-thickness-dependent intrinsic and... Read More about Tunable spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional InSe.