• Explaining doping in material research (Hf substitution in ZnO films) by directly quantifying the van der Waals force 

      Lai, Chia-Yun; Santos Hernandez, Sergio; Moser, Toni; Alfakes, Boulos; Lu, Chun-Yu; Olukan, Tuza Adeyemi; Rajput, Nitul; Boström, Tobias; Chiesa, Matteo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-02-04)
      Non-monotonic behavior has been observed in the optoelectronic properties of ZnO thin films as doped with Hf (HZO). Here we propose that two competing mechanisms are responsible for such behaviour. Specifically, we propose that provided two crystal orientations dominate film growth, only one of them might be responsible for direct Hf substitution. Nonmonotonic behaviour is expected at once by ...
    • Superposition of semiconductor and semi-metal properties of self-assembled 2D SnTiS3 heterostructures 

      Tamalampudi, Srinivasa Reddy; Lu, Jin-You; Rajput, Nitul; Alfakes, Boulos; Sankar, Raman; Apostoleris, Harry; Patole, Shashikant; Almansouri, Ibraheem; Chiesa, Matteo (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2020-07-15)
      Two-dimensional metal dichalcogenide/monochalcogenide thin flakes have attracted much attention owing to their remarkable electronic and electrochemical properties; however, chemical instability limits their applications. Chemical vapor transport (CVT)- synthesized SnTiS<sub>3</sub> thin flakes exhibit misfit heterojunction structure and are highly stable in ambient conditions, offering a ...