Current-Driven to Thermally Driven Multistep Phase Transition of Charge Density Wave Order in 1T-TaS2

Qianyi Yang1,2, Wu Shi2,3, Zhipeng Zhong1,2

  • 1State Key Laboratory of Photovoltaic Science and Technology, Shanghai Frontiers Science Research Base of Intelligent Optoelectronic and Perception, Institute of Optoelectronic and Department of Material Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.

Nano Letters
|December 12, 2024
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