Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Enhanced superconductivity in atomically thin TaS2

  • Efrén Navarro-Moratalla,
  • Joshua O. Island,
  • Samuel Mañas-Valero,
  • Elena Pinilla-Cienfuegos,
  • Andres Castellanos-Gomez,
  • Jorge Quereda,
  • Gabino Rubio-Bollinger,
  • Luca Chirolli,
  • Jose Angel Silva-Guillén,
  • Nicolás Agraït,
  • Gary A. Steele,
  • Francisco Guinea,
  • Herre S. J. van der Zant,
  • Eugenio Coronado

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms11043
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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As a material's thickness decreases towards the atomic-scale, dimensional confinement may promote behaviour not found in the bulk, with potential technological applications. Here, the authors study superconductivity in TaS2as it is mechanically exfoliated towards the two-dimensional limit.