Volume 15 Issue 7, July 2020

In reviewing a recent book, Chris Toumey reflects on the impact that social networks can have on the development of a number of technologies.

Simultaneous electrodeposition of metals facilitates the realization of memrisitive devices with high yield and improved reliability.

An approach to identify and classify different shapes of nanomaterials starting from transmission electron microscopy images could be a powerful instrument to categorize the different shapes of nanoparticles and fingerprint the geometrical variability of an ensemble.

Radiative Auger processes in the single-photon limit provide insights in single particle states of quantum dots, which remain otherwise inaccessible.

Tuning the twist angle in bilayer transitional metal dichalcogenides yields ordered structural phases with mesoscopically modulated electronic properties revealed by the combination of electron and scanning probe microscopies.

This Review highlights the progress made towards the development of neuromorphic devices and architectures enabled by low-dimensional nanomaterials

This Review provides an overview of memory devices and the key computational primitives for in-memory computing, and examines the possibilities of applying this computing approach to a wide range of applications.

This Review discusses the recent progress and future prospects of two-dimensional materials for next-generation nanoelectronics.

In a radiative Auger process, an excited electron relaxes by concomitant emission of a redshifted photon and energy transfer to another electron. Measuring radiative Auger processes in a quantum dot with single-photon resolution enables determination of the energy of single-electron levels as well as their lifetimes.

Easy-plane antiferromagnet materials promise low-energy control of ultrafast magnetic dynamics in future spintronics applications, but host magnons with vanishing angular momentum, which makes spin transport via magnons unlikely. Through interference of two linearly polarized propagating magnons, spin transport over micrometre distances is yet possible.

Compressibility measurements on high-quality monolayer WSe₂ samples enable the observation of fractional quantum Hall states in the lowest Landau levels.

Alloying conduction channels of a Si memristor enables stable and controllable device operation with high switching uniformity.

An electromechanical response to an out-of-plane electric field in van der Waals heterostructures enables direct visualization of moiré superlattices using piezoresponse force microscopy.

The accidental band-crossing origin of Weyl nodes paired with the absence of sizeable band gaps hampers the exploitation of low-energy relativistic quasiparticles in Weyl semimetals. In a gate-tunable high-quality tellurene film, quantum Hall measurements unveil a topologically non-trivial π Berry phase caused by unconventional Weyl nodes in these tellurium two-dimensional sheets.

Lattice reconstruction in twisted transition metal dichalcogenides manifest in intrinsic asymmetry of electronic wavefunctions for 3R homo-bilayers and strong piezoelectric textures in 2H homo-bilayers.

Super-resolution microscopy of defects in a two-dimensional material unveils the transport of single proton charges at solid/water interfaces.

A zwitterionic micelle platform enables the oral delivery and high bioavailability of insulin by transporting the protein across mucus and epithelial barriers in the gut without opening tight junctions.