Matériaux Avancés et Nanodispositifs

Our scientific research is focused on the understanding of nanoscale materials (2D materials, quantum dots, thin films, molecules) to get insight into novel properties emerging from reduced dimension, interfaces and surfaces. We study their electrical, optical, ferroelectric and magneto-transport properties. These phenomena are investigated using a broad palette of electrical (impedance spectroscopy, transconductance, …), optical (photoconduction, time resolve photocurrent, reflection/transmission) and magnetic (magnetoresistance, SQUID) techniques, in a large range of temperature (400K-1K).

Our multidisciplinary approach is at the frontier between physics, chemistry and materials science. It relies on fabricating and characterizing nanodevices, within the nanofabrication facility of IPCMS STnano, and the 2DLab. It allows us to process and interconnect nanomaterials with nanoscale precision.

Our philosophy is to tackle technologically relevant issues with a rather fundamental approach. This is why patents applications and valorisation projects are actively pursued in the group. Field of applications gather nanoelectronics, spintronics, optoelectronics and neuromorphic computing.

Research Activities

Nanoelectronics/Optoelectronics

Spintronics

Neuromorphic Electronics/Straintronics

Team Members

Team (Spring 2023)

Scientific staff of Advanced Materials and Nanodevices team :
Jean-François Dayen

Bernard Doudin

Bohdan Kundys

Scientific collaborators of IPCMS :

Stephane Berciaud (Nano-Optics and Low-Dimensional Systems team)

Arnaud Gloppe (NOLDS team)

David Halley (Spintronics Basics team)

Collaborators :
Aleena Joseph (PhD)
Jinu Kurian (PhD)
Krishna Prasad Maity (Post. Doc)
Sataskshi Pandey (PhD)
Ankita Ram (PhD)
Mohamed Soliman (PhD)
Davy Borowski (PhD)
Fuad Safarov( PhD)

Engineers & Technical Staff :
Fabien Chevrier
Hicham Majjad

Recent publications :

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V.-B. Vu, J.L. Bubendorff, L.D.N. Mouafo, S. Latil, A. Zaarour, J.-F. Dayen, L. Simon, Y.J. Dappe, Graphene/aluminum oxide interfaces for nanoelectronic devices, Electronic Structure 5 (2023) 045005. https://doi.org/10.1088/2516-1075/acff9e.
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L. Temdie, V. Castel, T. Reimann, M. Lindner, C. Dubs, G. Pradhan, J. Solano, R. Bernard, H. Majjad, Y. Henry, M. Bailleul, V. Vlaminck, Chiral Excitation of Exchange Spin Waves Using Gold Nanowire Grating, Magnetochemistry 9 (2023) 199. https://doi.org/10.3390/magnetochemistry9080199.
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L. Temdie, V. Castel, C. Dubs, G. Pradhan, J. Solano, H. Majjad, R. Bernard, Y. Henry, M. Bailleul, V. Vlaminck, High wave vector non-reciprocal spin wave beams, AIP Advances 13 (2023) 025207. https://doi.org/10.1063/9.0000535.
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M. Soliman, K. Maity, A. Gloppe, A. Mahmoudi, A. Ouerghi, B. Doudin, B. Kundys, J.-F. Dayen, Photoferroelectric All-van-der-Waals Heterostructure for Multimode Neuromorphic Ferroelectric Transistors., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (2023) 15732–15744. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c00092.
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S. Semak, V. Kapustianyk, Y. Eliyashevskyy, O. Bovgyra, M. Kovalenko, U. Mostovoi, B. Doudin, B. Kundys, On the photovoltaic effect asymmetry in ferroelectrics., Journal of Physics. Condensed Matter : An Institute of Physics Journal 35 (2023) 094001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/aca579.
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A. Ram, K. Maity, C. Marchand, A. Mahmoudi, A.R. Kshirsagar, M. Soliman, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, B. Doudin, A. Ouerghi, S. Reichardt, I. O’Connor, J.-F. Dayen, Reconfigurable Multifunctional van der Waals Ferroelectric Devices and Logic Circuits., ACS Nano 17 (2023) 21865–21877. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c07952.
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S. Pierini, C. Abadie, T.H. Dang, A. Khalili, H. Zhang, M. Cavallo, Y. Prado, B. Gallas, S. Ithurria, S. Sauvage, J.F. Dayen, G. Vincent, E. Lhuillier, Lithium-Ion Glass Gating of HgTe Nanocrystal Film with Designed Light-Matter Coupling., Materials 16 (2023) 2335. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma16062335.
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K. Maity, J.-F. Dayen, M. Palluel, N. Daro, G. Chastanet, B. Kundys, B. Doudin, Elucidating the effect of spin crossover materials on graphene sensing devices, Applied Physics Letters 123 (2023) 163503. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0163784.
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K. Maity, J.-F. Dayen, B. Doudin, R. Gumeniuk, B. Kundys, Single Wavelength Operating Neuromorphic Device Based on a Graphene-Ferroelectric Transistor., ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces 15 (2023) 55948–55956. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.3c10010.
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J. Kurian, A. Joseph, S. Cherifi-Hertel, C. Fowley, G. Hlawacek, P. Dunne, M. Romeo, G. Atcheson, J.M.D. Coey, B. Doudin, Deterministic multi-level spin orbit torque switching using focused He+ ion beam irradiation, Applied Physics Letters 122 (2023) 032402. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0131188.
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G. Kremer, A. Mahmoudi, A. M’Foukh, M. Bouaziz, M. Rahimi, M.L. Della Rocca, P. Le Fevre, J.-F. Dayen, F. Bertran, S. Matzen, M. Pala, J. Chaste, F. Oehler, A. Ouerghi, Quantum Confinement and Electronic Structure at the Surface of van der Waals Ferroelectric & alpha; -In2Se3, ACS Nano 17 (2023) 18924–18931. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.3c04186.
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V. Kapustianyk, U. Mostovoi, S. Semak, Y. Eliyashevskyy, Effects of Annealing and Domain Structure on the Photovoltaic Response in Pb[(Mg1/3Nb2/3)0.70Ti0.30]O3 Single Crystal, Physica Status Solidi B-Basic Solid State Physics early access (2023) 2300372. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssb.202300372.
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V. Iurchuk, J. Bran, M. Acosta, B. Kundys, A strain-controlled magnetostrictive pseudo spin valve, Applied Physics Letters 122 (2023) 072404. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0120426.
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K. Hoeflich, G. Hobler, F.I. Allen, T. Wirtz, G. Rius, L. McElwee-White, A.V. Krasheninnikov, M. Schmidt, I. Utke, N. Klingner, M. Osenberg, R. Cordoba, F. Djurabekova, I. Manke, P. Moll, M. Manoccio, J.M. De Teresa, L. Bischoff, J. Michler, O. De Castro, A. Delobbe, P. Dunne, O.V. Dobrovolskiy, N. Frese, A. Goelzhaeuser, P. Mazarov, D. Koelle, W. Moeller, F. Perez-Murano, P. Philipp, F. Vollnhals, G. Hlawacek, Roadmap for focused ion beam technologies, Applied Physics Reviews 10 (2023) 041311. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0162597.
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R. Gumeniuk, V. Levytskyi, B. Kundys, A. Leithe-Jasper, Yb3Rh4Sn13: Two-gap superconductor with a complex Fermi surface, Physical Review B 108 (2023) 214515. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.108.214515.
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M. Cavallo, A. Ram, S. Pandey, T. Maroutian, E. Bossavit, N. Ledos, A. Khalili, H. Zhang, Y. Prado, D.L. Nguyen, T.H. Dang, H. Majjad, J. Biscaras, J. Avila, J.F. Dayen, E. Lhuillier, D. Pierucci, Using wafer scale ferroelectric domains of LiNbO3 to form permanent planar p-n junction in narrow band gap nanocrystals, Applied Physics Letters 123 (2023) 253505. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0183277.
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M. Cavallo, E. Bossavit, S. Matzen, T. Maroutian, R. Alchaar, T.H. Dang, A. Khalili, C. Dabard, H. Zhang, Y. Prado, C. Abadie, J.K. Utterback, J.F. Dayen, M.G.G. Silly, P. Dudin, J. Avila, E. Lhuillier, D. Pierucci, Coupling Ferroelectric to colloidal Nanocrystals as a Generic Strategy to Engineer the Carrier Density Landscape, Advanced Functional Materials (2023) 2300846. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202300846.
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N. Ahmed, R. Deffley, B. Kundys, N.A. Morley, 3D printing of magnetostrictive property in 17/4 ph stainless steel, Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 585 (2023) 171115. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmmm.2023.171115.
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R.J. Peña Román, R. Bretel, D. Pommier, L.E. Parra López, E. Lorchat, E. Boer-Duchemin, G. Dujardin, A.G. Borisov, L.F. Zagonel, G. Schull, S. Berciaud, E. Le Moal, Tip-Induced and Electrical Control of the Photoluminescence Yield of Monolayer WS2, Nano Lett. 22 (2022) 9244–9251. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c02142.
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R.J. Pena Roman, D. Pommier, R. Bretel, L.E.P. Lopez, E. Lorchat, J. Chaste, A. Ouerghi, S. Le Moal, E. Boer-Duchemin, G. Dujardin, A.G. Borisov, L.F. Zagonel, G. Schull, S. Berciaud, E. Le Moal, Electroluminescence of monolayer WS2 in a scanning tunneling microscope: Effect of bias polarity on spectral and angular distribution of emitted light, Physical Review B 106 (2022) 085419. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.085419.
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F. Omeis, Z. Boubegtiten-Fezoua, A.F.S. Seica, R. Bernard, M.H. Iqbal, N. Javahiraly, R.M.A. Vergauwe, H. Majjad, F. Boulmedais, D. Moss, P. Hellwig, Plasmonic Resonant Nanoantennas Induce Changes in the Shape and the Intensity of Infrared Spectra of Phospholipids, Molecules 27 (2022) 62. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27010062.
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A. Makhort, R. Gumeniuk, J.-F. Dayen, P. Dunne, U. Burkhardt, M. Viret, B. Doudin, B. Kundys, Photovoltaic-Ferroelectric Materials for the Realization of All-Optical Devices, Advanced Optical Materials 10 (2022) 2102353. https://doi.org/10.1002/adom.202102353.
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K.P. Maity, A. Patra, N. Tanty, V. Prasad, Magnetic field driven dielectric relaxation in non-magnetic composite medium: A low temperature study, Materials Chemistry and Physics 289 (2022) 126486. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2022.126486.
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V. Levytskyi, W. Carrillo-Cabrera, L. Akselrud, B. Kundys, A. Leithe-Jasper, R. Gumeniuk, Superconductivity of structurally disordered Y5Ir6Sn18, Dalton Transactions 51 (2022) 10036–10046. https://doi.org/10.1039/d2dt01353c.
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E. Kume, N. Martin, P. Dunne, P. Baroni, L. Noirez, Collective Effects in Ionic Liquid [emim][Tf2N] and Ionic Paramagnetic Nitrate Solutions without Long-Range Structuring., Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) 27 (2022) 7829. https://doi.org/10.3390/molecules27227829.
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L. Khalil, P.M. Forcella, G. Kremer, F. Bisti, J. Chaste, J.-C. Girard, F. Oehler, M. Pala, J.-F. Dayen, D. Logoteta, M. Goerbig, F. Bertran, P. Le Fevre, E. Lhuillier, J. Rault, D. Pierucci, G. Profeta, A. Ouerghi, alpha-As2Te3 as a platform for the exploration of the electronic band structure of single layer beta-tellurene, Physical Review B 106 (2022) 125152. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.106.125152.
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V. Kapustianyk, I. Bolesta, S. Semak, Yu. Eliyashevskyy, U. Mostovoi, O. Kushnir, B. Turko, M. Rudko, Coupling of the surface plasmon resonance with ferroelectricity in “DMAAlS crystal plus silver nanoparticles” composite, Applied Physics A-Materials Science & Processing 128 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00339-022-06225-1.
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V. Kapustianyk, S. Semak, Y. Chornii, M. Rudko, Manifestation of ferroelastoelectric phase transition in temperature changes of the optical absorption edge in (NH4)(2)CuCl4 center dot 2H(2)O crystal, Phase Transitions 95 (2022) 626–633. https://doi.org/10.1080/01411594.2022.2088372.
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L. Joly, F. Scheurer, P. Ohresser, B. Kengni-Zanguim, J.-F. Dayen, P. Seneor, B. Dlubak, F. Godel, D. Halley, X-ray magnetic dichroism and tunnel magneto-resistance study of the magnetic phase in epitaxial CrVO x nanoclusters, Journal of Physics-Condensed Matter 34 (2022) 175801. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648X/ac4f5e.
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A. Gloppe, M. Onga, R. Hisatomi, A. Imamoglu, Y. Nakamura, Y. Iwasa, K. Usami, Magnon-exciton proximity coupling at a van der Waals heterointerface, Physical Review B 105 (2022) L121403. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.105.L121403.
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C. Ferrante, G.D. Battista, L.E.P. López, G. Batignani, E. Lorchat, A. Virga, S. Berciaud, T. Scopigno, Picosecond energy transfer in a transition metal dichalcogenide–graphene heterostructure revealed by transient Raman spectroscopy, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 119 (2022) e2119726119. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2119726119.
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T.K. Ekanayaka, K.P. Maity, B. Doudin, P.A. Dowben, Dynamics of Spin Crossover Molecular Complexes, Nanomaterials 12 (2022) 1742. https://doi.org/10.3390/nano12101742.
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A.A. Dev, P. Dunne, T.M. Hermans, B. Doudin, Fluid Drag Reduction by Magnetic Confinement, Langmuir 38 (2022) 719–726. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.langmuir.1c02617.
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L.E. Parra Lopez, L. Moczko, J. Wolff, A. Singh, E. Lorchat, M. Romeo, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, S. Berciaud, Single-and narrow-line photoluminescence in a boron nitride-supported MoSe2/graphene heterostructure, Comptes Rendus Physique 22 (2021) 77–88. https://doi.org/10.5802/crphys.58.
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H. Mishra, J. Panda, M. Ramu, T. Sarkar, J.-F. Dayen, D. Belotcerkovtceva, M.V. Kamalakar, Experimental advances in charge and spin transport in chemical vapor deposited graphene, Journal of Physics-Materials 4 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ac1247.
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N. Konstantinov, A. Tauzin, U.N. Noumbe, D. Dragoe, B. Kundys, H. Majjad, A. Brosseau, M. Lenertz, A. Singh, S. Berciaud, M.-L. Boillot, B. Doudin, T. Mallah, J.-F. Dayen, Electrical read-out of light-induced spin transition in thin film spin crossover/graphene heterostructures, Journal of Materials Chemistry C 9 (2021) 2712–2720. https://doi.org/10.1039/d0tc05202g.
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L. Khalil, J.-C. Girard, D. Pierucci, F. Bisti, J. Chaste, F. Oehler, C. Greboval, U.N. Noumbe, J.-F. Dayen, D. Logoteta, G. Patriarche, J. Rault, M. Pala, E. Lhuillier, A. Ouerghi, Electronic band gap of van der Waals alpha-As2Te3 crystals, Applied Physics Letters 119 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0058291.
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C. Gréboval, C. Dabard, N. Konstantinov, M. Cavallo, S.-S. Chee, A. Chu, T.H. Dang, A. Khalili, E. Izquierdo, Y. Prado, H. Majjad, X.Z. Xu, J.-F. Dayen, E. Lhuillier, Split-Gate Photodiode Based on Graphene/HgTe Heterostructures with a Few Nanosecond Photoresponse, ACS Applied Electronic Materials 3 (2021) 4681–4688. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsaelm.1c00442.
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J.-F. Dayen, N. Konstantinov, M. Palluel, N. Daro, B. Kundys, M. Soliman, G. Chastanet, B. Doudin, Room temperature optoelectronic devices operating with spin crossover nanoparticles, Materials Horizons 8 (2021) 2310–2315. https://doi.org/10.1039/d1mh00703c.
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A. Chu, C. Greboval, Y. Prado, H. Majjad, C. Delerue, J.-F. Dayen, G. Vincent, E. Lhuillier, Infrared photoconduction at the diffusion length limit in HgTe nanocrystal arrays, Nature Communications 12 (2021) 1794. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21959-x.
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X. Zhang, K. Makles, L. Colombier, D. Metten, H. Majjad, P. Verlot, S. Berciaud, Dynamically-enhanced strain in atomically thin resonators, Nature Communications 11 (2020) 5526. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19261-3.
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P. Rastogi, A. Chu, C. Greboval, J. Qu, U.N. Noumbe, S.-S. Chee, M. Goyal, A. Khalili, X.Z. Xu, H. Cruguel, S. Ithurria, B. Gallas, J.-F. Dayen, L. Dudy, M.G. Silly, G. Patriarche, A. Degiron, G. Vincent, E. Lhuillier, Pushing Absorption of Perovskite Nanocrystals into the Infrared, Nano Letters 20 (2020) 3999–4006. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c01302.
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F. Omeis, A.F.S. Seica, R. Bernard, N. Javahiraly, H. Majjad, D. Moss, P. Hellwig, Following the Chemical Immobilization of Membrane Proteins on Plasmonic Nanoantennas Using Infrared Spectroscopy, ACS Sensors 5 (2020) 2191–2197. https://doi.org/10.1021/acssensors.0c00824.
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U.N. Noumbe, C. Greboval, C. Livache, A. Chu, H. Majjad, L.E.P. Lopez, L.D.N. Mouafo, B. Doudin, S. Berciaud, J. Chaste, A. Ouerghi, E. Lhuillier, J.-F. Dayen, Reconfigurable 2D/0D p-n Graphene/HgTe Nanocrystal Heterostructure for Infrared Detection, ACS Nano 14 (2020) 4567–4576. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.0c00103.
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L.D.N. Mouafo, F. Godel, L. Simon, Y.J. Dappe, W. Baaziz, U.N. Noumbe, E. Lorchat, M.-B. Martin, S. Berciaud, B. Doudin, O. Ersen, B. Dlubak, P. Seneor, J.-F. Dayen, 0D/2D Heterostructures Vertical Single Electron Transistor, Advanced Functional Materials (2020) 2008255. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202008255.
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T.N. Moshkina, P. Le Poul, A. Barsella, O. Pytela, F. Bures, F. Robin-Le Guen, S. Achelle, E.V. Nosova, G.N. Lipunova, V.N. Charushin, Electron-Withdrawing Substituted Quinazoline Push-Pull Chromophores: Synthesis, Electrochemical, Photophysical and Second-Order Nonlinear Optical Properties, European Journal of Organic Chemistry (2020) 5445–5454. https://doi.org/10.1002/ejoc.202000870.
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E. Lorchat, L.E.P. Lopez, C. Robert, D. Lagarde, G. Froehlicher, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, X. Marie, S. Berciaud, Filtering the photoluminescence spectra of atomically thin semiconductors with graphene, Nature Nanotechnology 15 (2020) 283+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-020-0644-2.
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D. Kundys, F. Graffitti, R.A. McCracken, A. Fedrizzi, B. Kundys, Numerical Study of Reconfigurable Mid-IR Single Photon Sources Based on Functional Ferroelectrics, Advanced Quantum Technologies 3 (2020) 1900092. https://doi.org/10.1002/qute.201900092.
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D. Kundys, A. Cascales, A.S. Makhort, H. Majjad, F. Chevrier, B. Doudin, A. Fedrizzi, B. Kundys, Optically Rewritable Memory in a Graphene-Ferroelectric-Photovoltaic Heterostructure, Physical Review Applied 13 (2020) 064034. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.13.064034.
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C. Greboval, U.N. Noumbe, A. Chu, Y. Prado, A. Khalili, C. Dabard, T.H. Dang, S. Colis, J. Chaste, A. Ouerghi, J.-F. Dayen, E. Lhuillier, Gate tunable vertical geometry phototransistor based on infrared HgTe nanocrystals, Applied Physics Letters 117 (2020) 251104. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0032622.
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P. Dunne, T. Adachi, A.A. Dev, A. Sorrenti, L. Giacchetti, A. Bonnin, C. Bourdon, P.H. Mangin, J.M.D. Coey, B. Doudin, T.M. Hermans, Liquid flow and control without solid walls, Nature 581 (2020) 58+. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-020-2254-4.
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P. Dunne, C. Fowley, G. Hlawacek, J. Kurian, G. Atcheson, S. Colis, N. Teichert, B. Kundys, M. Venkatesan, J. Lindner, A.M. Deac, T.M. Hermans, J.M.D. Coey, B. Doudin, Helium Ion Microscopy for Reduced Spin Orbit Torque Switching Currents, Nano Letters 20 (2020) 7036–7042. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.0c02060.
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B. Doppagne, T. Neuman, R. Soria-Martinez, L.E.P. López, H. Bulou, M. Romeo, S. Berciaud, F. Scheurer, J. Aizpurua, G. Schull, Single-molecule tautomerization tracking through space- and time-resolved fluorescence spectroscopy, Nature Nanotechnology (2020). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-019-0620-x.
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J.-F. Dayen, S.J. Ray, O. Karis, I.J. Vera-Marun, M.V. Kamalakar, Two-dimensional van der Waals spinterfaces and magnetic-interfaces, Applied Physics Reviews 7 (2020) 011303. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5112171.
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P.S. Costa, G. Hao, A.T. N’Diaye, L. Routaboul, P. Braunstein, X. Zhang, J. Zhang, T.K. Ekanayaka, Q.-Y. Shi, V. Schlegel, B. Doudin, A. Enders, P.A. Dowben, Manipulation of the molecular spin crossover transition of Fe(H2B(pz)2)2(bipy) by addition of polar molecules, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32 (2020) 034001. https://doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ab468c.
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S. Berciaud, M. Potemski, C. Faugeras, Many-Body Effects in Suspended Graphene Probed through Magneto-Phonon Resonances, PHYSICA STATUS SOLIDI-RAPID RESEARCH LETTERS (2020) 2000345. https://doi.org/10.1002/pssr.202000345.