Two-dimensional (2D) semiconductors with desirable bandgaps and high carrier mobility have great potential in electronic and optoelectronic applications. In this work, we proposed α-TeB and β-TeB monolayers using density functional theory (DFT) combi...
We propose a new compact polarization beam splitter based on the self-collimation effect of two-dimensional photonic crystals and photonic bandgap characteristics. The device is composed of a rectangular air holes-based polarization beam splitting st...
Today, two-dimensional materials are one of the key research topics for scientists around the world. Interest in 2D materials is not surprising because, thanks to their remarkable mechanical, thermal, electrical, magnetic, and optical properties, the...
The layered orthorhombic quaternary tellurides EuRECuTe3 (RE = Ho, Tm, Sc) with Cmcm symmetry were first synthesized. Single crystals of the compounds up to 500 μm in size were obtained by the halide-flux method at 1120 K from elements taken in a...
This paper reports for the first time on a new layered magnetic heterometallic erbium telluride EuErCuTe3. Single crystals of the compound were obtained from the elements at 1120 K using CsI as a flux. The crystal structure of EuErCuTe3 was solved in...
We propose a type of polarization-independent circulator based on a composite rod of ferrite and plasma materials in a two-dimensional photonic crystal (PhC) slab. Only one composite rod was set at the center of the structure to provide circulation f...
In this paper, we propose a polarization-independent optoelectronic modulator based on the electrical absorption effect of graphene. Firstly, we use the simulation software COMSOL Multiphysics to design the structure, and find via changing the applie...
A novel, highly efficient terahertz fully polarized transmission line is designed by two-dimensional tellurium photonic crystals consisting of square lattice rod arrays with a complete photonic bandgap. The TE and TM photonic bandgaps of the telluriu...
Emerging two-dimensional gallium chalcogenides, such as gallium telluride (GaTe), are considered promising layered semiconductors that can serve as vital building blocks towards the implementation of nanodevices in the fields of nanoelectronics, opto...
It is challenging to simultaneously consider device dimension, polarization extinction ratio (PER), insertion loss (IL), and operable bandwidth (BW) to design a polarization beam splitter (PBS) that is extensively used in photonic integrated circuits...
Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are key materials in ultrafast photonics. However, the performance of conventional TMDs is limited by their bandwidth and carrier recovery time. The novel Dirac semimetal nickel ditelluride (NiT...
The advancement of Industry 4.0 has significantly propelled the widespread application of automated guided vehicle (AGV) systems within smart factories. As the structural diversity and complexity of smart factories escalate, the conventional two-dime...
Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) ferromagnets possess outstanding scalability, controllable ferromagnetism, and out-of-plane anisotropy, enabling the compact spintronics-based non-volatile in-memory computing (nv-IMC) that promises to tackle th...
A novel terahertz polarization isolator using a two-dimensional square lattice tellurium rod array is numerically investigated at the interesting band of 0.22 THz in this short paper. The isolator is designed by inserting six hexagonal tellurium rods...
This paper reports for the first time on the new laminar quaternary orthorhombic heterometallic quaternary tellurides SrLnCuTe3, the fabrication of which has been a challenge until this work. Data on the crystal structure of tellurides complete the s...
Single crystals of ternary chalcogenides with the composition BaLu2Ch4 (Ch = S, Se and Te; orthorhombic, Pnma; a = 1211.4–1353.6, b = 395.6–438.5, c = 1427.8–1593.6 pm) could be obtained after attempts to synthesize ternary lutetium(III) nitride chal...