Nature Communications (Jan 2022)

Two-dimensional charge order stabilized in clean polytype heterostructures

  • Suk Hyun Sung,
  • Noah Schnitzer,
  • Steve Novakov,
  • Ismail El Baggari,
  • Xiangpeng Luo,
  • Jiseok Gim,
  • Nguyen M. Vu,
  • Zidong Li,
  • Todd H. Brintlinger,
  • Yu Liu,
  • Wenjian Lu,
  • Yuping Sun,
  • Parag B. Deotare,
  • Kai Sun,
  • Liuyan Zhao,
  • Lena F. Kourkoutis,
  • John T. Heron,
  • Robert Hovden

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27947-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Correlated quantum states in free-standing two-dimensional materials are susceptible to defects and thermal disorder. Here, the authors demonstrate two-dimensional ordered charge density wave states above room temperature in clean interleaved polytype heterostructures of a van der Waals material.