Recent advances have been made in integrating 2D hBN with other 2D materials, like 2D TMDCs and graphene, to create hybrid 2D materials. For example, the graphene/hBN heterostructure enables the ...

ABC-TLG and hBN in a hBN/ABC-TLG/hBN sandwich heterostructure. Courtesy: Guorui Chen “This dual-gate configuration allows us to control the electron concentration and mini-bandwidth of the ABC-TLG/hBN ...

Left: rigid and relaxed models of graphene/mono-layer hBN heterostructure. Right: MAADF imaging is sensitive to layer stacking. CC-BY 4.0/ Nano Lett. DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b04360 Stacking order ...

hBN-based device fabrication for controlling SPE properties has gained momentum with the increasing understanding of hBN defects. The assembling of graphene/hBN heterostructure devices has become ...

Bond relaxation in the graphene layer, within the supermoire unit cell (top) and a schematic of the hBN/graphene/hBN heterostructure (bottom). In their recent paper published in Nano Letters ( "Double ...

Resonances are abundant when 2-D materials like graphene are used, which enhance photon tunneling. With the graphene-hBN heterostructure, for instance, hBN is a natural hyperbolic material and ...

For non-encapsulated hBN/bilayer graphene heterostructure, where hBN is present only at the bottom, the layer symmetry is broken due to the difference in the potential experienced by the two ...

Graphene-hBN breakthrough to spur new LEDs, quantum computing Date: April 14, 2022 Source: University of Michigan Summary: In a discovery that could speed research into next-generation electronics ...

image: An image of hBN-based deep-ultraviolet LED. This is a schematic diagram showing that a strong deep ultraviolet light can be emitted using the van der Waals heterostructure with graphene/hBN ...

Researchers have developed a new prototype semi-transparent, graphene-based LED device that could form the basis of flexible screens for use in the next-generation of mobile phones, tablets and ...