Research highlights collected from users of the facilities, in-house researchers, and broader impact research all published in top journals.

2DCC User Highlights 2022

2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: To assess the potential of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) for future circuits…
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Confined transport of energy carriers in low-dimensional materials could induce unusual…
Wafer scalable single-layer amorphous MoO3
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Molybdenum trioxide (a-MoO3) is a wide bandgap 2D layered oxide (Eg~3 eV) that is of…
Multidimensional imaging reveals mechanisms controlling multimodal label-free biosensing in vertical 2DM heterostructures
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: A multi-dimensional optical imaging technique that combines scattering  was…
An integrated quantum material testbed with multi-resolution photoemission spectroscopy
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has been established as a powerful…
Ultrafast optical melting of trimer superstructure in layered 1T′-TaTe2
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Quasi-two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides are a key platform for exploring…
Tunneling Effects in Crossed Ta2Pt3Se8−Ta2Pd3Se8 Nanowire Junctions: Implications for Anisotropic Photodetectors
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) with van der Waals gaps (vdW) have been a…
Topological Hall Effect in Topological Insulator/Magnetic Insulator Bilayer
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: The topological Hall effect (THE) is a phenomenon that is a consequence of a Berry…
Remote Epitaxy of 3D functional semiconductors and oxides using Graphene as the Interface layer
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Remote epitaxy has drawn attention as it offers epitaxy of functional materials …
Origins of electronic bands in the antiferromagnetic topological insulator MnBi2Te4
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: MnBi2Te4 has been established as the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM)…
Orientation domain dispersions in wafer scale epitaxial monolayer WSe2 on sapphire
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Azimuthal reflection high-energy electron diffraction (ARHEED) is demonstrated as a…
NMR determination of Van Hove singularity and Lifshitz transitions in the nodal-line semimetal ZrSiTe
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Nodal-line semimetals represent a new topological quantum state, which has attracted…
Modeling 2D Materials Growth Across Scales: Closing the MGI Loop
2022 User Research Highlights
What Has Been Achieved: Multiscale/multiphysics models that couple continuum fluid mechanics and phase-…
Light-matter coupling in large-area van der Waals superlattices
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Two-dimensional (2D) crystals have renewed opportunities in design and assembly of…
Hexagonal boron nitride crystal growth from iron, a single component flux
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: The highest quality hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) crystals are grown from molten…
Electronic changes in molybdenum dichalcogenides on gold surfaces
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: The electronic properties of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) vary dramatically…
Bandgap recovery of monolayer MoS2 using defect engineering and chemical doping
2022 User Research Highlights
Project Summary: Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides such as MoS2 have created avenues for…
2022 User Research Highlights
2022 User Research Highlights
What Has Been Achieved: This paper reported a comprehensive study of magnetic proximity effect (MPE) in…
2022 User Research Highlights
2022 User Research Highlights
What Has Been Achieved: Design and demonstration of an ultrafast optical modulator operating at near-IR…
2022 User Research Highlights
2022 User Research Highlights
What Has Been Achieved: This works demonstrates interlayer magnetophononic coupling in the layered…

2DCC Broad Impact Highlights 2022