Electron Transport in Multidimensional Fuzzy Graphene Nanostructures.

Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials offer a range of superlative electronic and electrochemical properties that facilitate applications in sensing, energy conversion, and storage. Graphene, a 2D allotrope of carbon, has exceptional surface area per unit mass and highly catalytic edges. To leverage these properties, efforts have been made to synthesize complex three-dimensional (3D) geometries of graphene, with an eye toward integration into functional electronic devices.

Tuning Ising superconductivity with layer and spin-orbit coupling in two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenides.

Systems simultaneously exhibiting superconductivity and spin-orbit coupling are predicted to provide a route toward topological superconductivity and unconventional electron pairing, driving significant contemporary interest in these materials. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMD) superconductors in particular lack inversion symmetry, yielding an antisymmetric form of spin-orbit coupling that admits both spin-singlet and spin-triplet components of the superconducting wavefunction. Here, we present an experimental and theoretical study of two intrinsic TMD superconductors with large spin-orbit coupling in the atomic layer limit, metallic 2H-TaS and 2H-NbSe.