Recent progress in strain engineering on van der Waals 2D materials: Tunable electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and optical properties

Y Qi, MA Sadi, D Hu, M Zheng, Z Wu… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Strain engineering is a promising way to tune the electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and
optical properties of 2D materials, with the potential to achieve high‐performance 2D …

Nonlinear hall effects

ZZ Du, HZ Lu, XC Xie - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
The Hall effects comprise one of the oldest but most vital fields in condensed matter physics,
and they persistently inspire new findings, such as quantum Hall effects and topological …

Engineering symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials

L Du, T Hasan, A Castellanos-Gomez, GB Liu… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Symmetry breaking in 2D layered materials plays a significant role in their macroscopic
electrical, optical, magnetic and topological properties, including, but not limited to, spin …

Berry curvature dipole senses topological transition in a moiré superlattice

S Sinha, PC Adak, A Chakraborty, K Das, K Debnath… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Topological aspects of the electron wave function—including the Berry curvature and Chern
number—play a crucial role in determining the physical properties of materials. Although the …

Giant nonlinear Hall and wireless rectification effects at room temperature in the elemental semiconductor tellurium

B Cheng, Y Gao, Z Zheng, S Chen, Z Liu… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The second-order nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) in non-centrosymmetric materials has
recently drawn intense interest, since its inherent rectification could enable various device …

Growth of bilayer MoTe2 single crystals with strong non-linear Hall effect

T Ma, H Chen, K Yananose, X Zhou, L Wang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
The reduced symmetry in strong spin-orbit coupling materials such as transition metal
ditellurides (TMDTs) gives rise to non-trivial topology, unique spin texture, and large charge …

Electronic materials with nanoscale curved geometries

P Gentile, M Cuoco, OM Volkov, ZJ Ying… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
As the dimensions of a material shrink from an extended bulk solid to a nanoscale structure,
size and quantum confinement effects become dominant, altering the properties of the …

Control over Berry Curvature Dipole with Electric Field in

XG Ye, H Liu, PF Zhu, WZ Xu, SA Yang, N Shang… - Physical Review Letters, 2023 - APS
Berry curvature dipole plays an important role in various nonlinear quantum phenomena.
However, the maximum symmetry allowed for nonzero Berry curvature dipole in the …

Strong room-temperature bulk nonlinear Hall effect in a spin-valley locked Dirac material

L Min, H Tan, Z Xie, L Miao, R Zhang, SH Lee… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Nonlinear Hall effect (NLHE) is a new type of Hall effect with wide application prospects.
Practical device applications require strong NLHE at room temperature (RT). However …

Light-enhanced nonlinear Hall effect

F Qin, R Chen, CH Lee - Communications Physics, 2024 - nature.com
The Hall response can be dramatically different from its quantized value in materials with
broken inversion symmetry. This stems from the leading Hall contribution beyond the linear …