Two-dimensional materials are only a few atoms thick yet hold great promise for the electronics of tomorrow. Because they are so thin, they can be piled in strange, twisted configurations that yield ...

Near the 100th anniversary of the discovery of ferroelectricity, so-called sliding ferroelectricity has been proposed and confirmed recently in a series of experiments that have stimulated remarkable ...

Researchers at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have observed a doping-tunable charge density wave (CDW) in a ...

Interlayer coupling provides an opportunity to observe new physics and a novel strategy for modulating the electronic and optoelectronic properties of two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals (vdW) ...

Vacuum tunnelling – an exotic process by which empty space can become temporarily filled with virtual particles when an extremely strong electric or magnetic field is applied to it – has never been ...

It is anticipated that within just a few decades, the surging volume of digital data will constitute one of the world's ...

Physicists at RIKEN have developed an electronic device that hosts unusual states of matter, which could one day be useful for quantum computation. When a material exists as an ultrathin layer—a mere ...