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Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride (2018)
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Patanè, A., Mishchenko, A., Greenaway, M., Vdovin, E., Ghazaryan, D., Misra, A., …Eaves, L. (2018). Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride. Communications Physics, 1(1), Article 94. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-018-0097-1

Hexagonal boron nitride is a large band gap layered crystal, frequently incorporated in van der Waals heterostructures as an insulating or tunnel barrier. Localised states with energies within its band gap can emit visible light, relevant to applicat... Read More about Tunnel spectroscopy of localised electronic states in hexagonal boron nitride.

Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures (2018)
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Bhuiyan, M. A., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Mazumder, D., Greener, J. D., Makarovsky, O., Mellor, C. J., …Patanè, A. (2019). Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(3), Article 1805491. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201805491

The transfer of electronic charge across the interface of two van der Waals crystals can underpin the operation of a new class of functional devices. Amongst van der Waals semiconductors, an exciting and rapidly growing development involves the “post... Read More about Photo-quantum Hall effect and light-induced charge transfer at the interface of graphene/InSe heterostructures.

High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride with high active nitrogen fluxes (2018)
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Cheng, T. S., Summerfield, A., Mellor, C. J., Khlobystov, A. N., Eaves, L., Foxon, C. T., …Novikov, S. V. (2018). High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride with high active nitrogen fluxes. Materials, 11(7), https://doi.org/10.3390/ma11071119

Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has attracted much attention as a key component in van der Waals heterostructures and as a wide band gap material for deep-ultraviolet devices. We have recently demonstrated plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy (PA-MBE... Read More about High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride with high active nitrogen fluxes.

Moiré-modulated conductance of hexagonal boron nitride tunnel barriers (2018)
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Summerfield, A., Kozikov, A., Cheng, T. S., Davies, A., Cho, Y., Khlobystov, A. N., …Beton, P. H. (in press). Moiré-modulated conductance of hexagonal boron nitride tunnel barriers. Nano Letters, https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.8b01223

Monolayer hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) tunnel barriers investigated using conductive atomic force microscopy reveal moiré patterns in the spatial maps of their tunnel conductance consistent with the formation of a moiré superlattice between the hB... Read More about Moiré-modulated conductance of hexagonal boron nitride tunnel barriers.

Magnon-assisted tunnelling in van der Waals heterostructures based on CrBr3 (2018)
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Ghazaryan, D., Greenaway, M., Wang, Z., Guarochico-Moreira, V., Vera-Marun, I., Yin, J., …Misra, A. (2018). Magnon-assisted tunnelling in van der Waals heterostructures based on CrBr3. Nature Electronics, 1(6), https://doi.org/10.1038/s41928-018-0087-z

Van der Waals heterostructures, which are composed of layered two-dimensional materials, offer a platform to investigate a diverse range of physical phenomena and could be of use in a variety of applications. Heterostructures containing two-dimension... Read More about Magnon-assisted tunnelling in van der Waals heterostructures based on CrBr3.

High-order fractal states in graphene superlattices (2018)
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Krishna Kumar, R., Mishchenko, A., Chen, X., Pezzini, S., Auton, G., Ponomarenko, L., …Geim, A. (2018). High-order fractal states in graphene superlattices. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 115(20), https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1804572115

Graphene superlattices were shown to exhibit high-temperature quantum oscillations due to periodic emergence of delocalized Bloch states in high magnetic fields such that unit fractions of the flux quantum pierce a superlattice unit cell. Under these... Read More about High-order fractal states in graphene superlattices.

Epitaxial growth of γ-InSe and α, β, and γ-In2Se3 on ε-GaSe (2018)
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Balakrishnan, N., Steer, E. D., Smith, E. F., Kudrynskyi, Z. R., Kovalyuk, Z. D., Eaves, L., …Beton, P. H. (2018). Epitaxial growth of γ-InSe and α, β, and γ-In2Se3 on ε-GaSe. 2D Materials, 5(3), https://doi.org/10.1088/2053-1583/aac479

We demonstrate that γ-InSe and the α, β and γ phases of In2Se3 can be grown epitaxially on ε-GaSe substrates using a physical vapour transport method. By exploiting the temperature gradient within the tube furnace, we can grow selectively different p... Read More about Epitaxial growth of γ-InSe and α, β, and γ-In2Se3 on ε-GaSe.

High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride layers (2018)
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Cheng, T. S., Summerfield, A., Mellor, C. J., Davies, A., Khlobystov, A. N., Eaves, L., …Novikov, S. V. (in press). High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride layers. Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology B, 36(2), Article 02D103-1. https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5011280

The growth and properties of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) have recently attracted much attention due to applications in graphene-based monolayer thick 2D-structures and at the same time as a wide band gap material for deep-ultraviolet device (DUV) a... Read More about High-temperature molecular beam epitaxy of hexagonal boron nitride layers.