Manipulating Hubbard-type Coulomb blockade effect of metallic wires embedded in an insulator.

Correlated states have emerged in low-dimensional systems owing to enhanced Coulomb interactions. Elucidating these states requires atomic-scale characterization and delicate control capabilities. Herein, spectroscopic imaging-scanning tunneling microscopy was employed to investigate the correlated states residing in 1D electrons of the monolayer and bilayer MoSe mirror twin boundary (MTB).

Spin-Resolved Imaging of Antiferromagnetic Order in Fe Se Ultrathin Films on SrTiO.

Unraveling the magnetic order in iron chalcogenides and pnictides at atomic scale is pivotal for understanding their unconventional superconducting pairing mechanism, but is experimentally challenging. Here, by utilizing spin-polarized scanning tunneling microscopy, real-space spin contrasts are successfully resolved to exhibit atomically unidirectional stripes in Fe Se ultrathin films, the plausible closely related compound of bulk FeSe with ordered Fe-vacancies, which are grown by molecular beam epitaxy. As is substantiated by the first-principles electronic structure calculations, the spin contrast originates from a pair-checkerboard antiferromagnetic ground state with in-plane magnetization, which is modulated by a spin-lattice coupling.

Self-Intercalated 1T-FeSe as an Effective Kagome Lattice.

In kagome lattice, with the emergence of Dirac cones and flat band in electronic structure, it provides a versatile ground for exploring intriguing interplay among frustrated geometry, topology and correlation. However, such engaging interest is strongly limited by available kagome materials in nature. Here we report on a synthetic strategy of constructing kagome systems via self-intercalation of Fe atoms into the van der Waals gap of FeSe via molecular beam epitaxy.

Spin mapping of intralayer antiferromagnetism and field-induced spin reorientation in monolayer CrTe.

Intrinsic antiferromagnetism in van der Waals (vdW) monolayer (ML) crystals enriches our understanding of two-dimensional (2D) magnetic orders and presents several advantages over ferromagnetism in spintronic applications. However, studies of 2D intrinsic antiferromagnetism are sparse, owing to the lack of net magnetisation. Here, by combining spin-polarised scanning tunnelling microscopy and first-principles calculations, we investigate the magnetism of vdW ML CrTe, which has been successfully grown through molecular-beam epitaxy.

Heterostructures of tellurium on NbSe from sub-monolayer to few-layer films.

As a single-elemental system, tellurium can exist stably in the form of layers with an intriguing multivalence character, which constructs a new member of the 2D family. However, the growth and electronic structure of tellurium films are still far from known at present. Here, combined with molecular beam epitaxy, scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy measurements and density functional theory calculations, we report the geometric and electronic structures of tellurium grown on NbSe2 from sub-monolayer to few-layer films.