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A Standard and Reliable Method to Fabricate Two-Dimensional Nanoelectronics
Published on: August 28, 2018
Materials with 5d electrons for future technologies
Lin Gu1, Ce-Wen Nan2, Yeqiang Tan3
1Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy and Laboratory of Advanced Materials, State Key Laboratory of New Ceramics and Fine Processing, School of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.
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Materials with 5d electrons show outstanding functional and structural properties. This Perspective systematically analyses the intrinsic electronic structures of materials with 5d electrons to enhance our understanding of their unique functions. Specifically, how the interplay among various factors, including strong nuclear attraction, relativistic effects, strong spin-orbit coupling, large orbital spatial extension, strong crystal field splitting and moderate electron correlation, determines the electronic structures. These electronic characteristics create opportunities for designing new materials and solutions for a variety of applications, including information technologies, quantum sciences, catalysis, aerospace and energy storage.
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