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Letter |
Partitioning of on-demand electron pairs
The splitting of electron pairs, which is essential for electron-based quantum information processing, can now be obtained with electron pairs that have been generated on-demand.
- Niels Ubbelohde
- , Frank Hohls
- & Rolf J. Haug
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Research Highlights |
Our choice from the recent literature
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News & Views |
Metallic when narrow
Subnanometre metallic wires can be engineered from semiconducting sheets of transition-metal dichalcogenides by means of a focused electron beam.
- Wanlin Guo
- & Xiaofei Liu
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News & Views |
Phosphorus joins the family
Transistor devices can be fabricated from exfoliated layers of black phosphorus.
- Hugh O. H. Churchill
- & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
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Letter |
Optoelectronic devices based on electrically tunable p–n diodes in a monolayer dichalcogenide
An electrostatically defined p–n junction in monolayer WSe2 is employed for photodetection, photovoltaic operation and as a light-emitting diode.
- Britton W. H. Baugher
- , Hugh O. H. Churchill
- & Pablo Jarillo-Herrero
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Letter |
Fractionalized wave packets from an artificial Tomonaga–Luttinger liquid
Charge fractionalization can be observed in artificial Tomonaga–Luttinger liquids by using a time-resolved electron transport experiment.
- H. Kamata
- , N. Kumada
- & T. Fujisawa
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Research Highlights |
Our choice from the recent literature
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Letter |
Formation of a protected sub-band for conduction in quantum point contacts under extreme biasing
Strong electron–phonon scattering in a quantum point contact that is driven into extreme non-equilibrium can lead to the formation of a protected subband for electrical conduction.
- J. Lee
- , J. E. Han
- & J. P. Bird
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Our choice from the recent literature
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Letter |
Strain-mediated coupling in a quantum dot–mechanical oscillator hybrid system
Coupling of the electronic states in a quantum dot and the vibrations in a nanowire can be achieved by using strain.
- I. Yeo
- , P-L. de Assis
- & M. Richard
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Editorial |
A better spin on organic semiconductors
Progress in the field of organic spintronics has, to a degree, stagnated, but what can the community do about it?
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Commentary |
Challenges for organic spintronics
In recent years, there has been a proliferation of models for spin-dependent electronic processes in organic semiconductors. Researchers aiming to utilize these processes for new organic spintronics devices should focus more on scrutinizing these models experimentally by embracing spectroscopy.
- Christoph Boehme
- & John M. Lupton
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Review Article |
Artificial honeycomb lattices for electrons, atoms and photons
Artificial honeycomb lattices offer a tunable platform for studying massless Dirac quasiparticles, and their topological and correlated phases.
- Marco Polini
- , Francisco Guinea
- & Vittorio Pellegrini
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Letter |
Optical generation of excitonic valley coherence in monolayer WSe2
Excitonic valley quantum coherence is optically generated and detected by polarization-resolved photoluminescence spectroscopy in the monolayer semiconductor WSe2.
- Aaron M. Jones
- , Hongyi Yu
- & Xiaodong Xu
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Article |
Observation of room-temperature ballistic thermal conduction persisting over 8.3 µm in SiGe nanowires
SiGe nanowires exhibit ballistic thermal conduction at room temperature with a long phonon mean free path.
- Tzu-Kan Hsiao
- , Hsu-Kai Chang
- & Chih-Wei Chang
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News & Views |
Harvest season for hot electrons
The excitation of plasmons in nanostructured metallic electrodes generates short-lived highly energetic carriers that can be injected into the conduction band of a semiconductor and used to drive artificial photosynthesis.
- Hamidreza Chalabi
- & Mark L. Brongersma
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Correspondence |
Measurement of mobility in dual-gated MoS2 transistors
- Michael S. Fuhrer
- & James Hone
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Correspondence |
Reply to 'Measurement of mobility in dual-gated MoS2 transistors'
- B. Radisavljevic
- & A. Kis
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Research Highlights |
Semiconductors join forces
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News & Views |
Moving into the red
Can silicon ever be a true direct-bandgap semiconductor? The first observation of a new, short-lived photoluminescence band from silicon nanocrystals offers fresh hope.
- Dmitry Kovalev
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Letter |
Length scaling of carbon nanotube transistors
Carbon-nanotube transistors exhibit improved performance when their channel length is scaled from 3 μm to 15 nm, and are adversely affected by contact length scaling below 100 nm.
- Aaron D. Franklin
- & Zhihong Chen
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Coping with the heat
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News & Views |
Memory grows up
Three-dimensional integration may allow for continued improvements in the speed, density and cost of non-volatile memory.
- Agostino Pirovano
- & Klaus Schuegraf
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Research Highlights |
Another gate opens
Molecular bandgap engineering of bottom-up synthesized graphene nanoribbon heterojunctions