Nanowerk  April 23, 2022 Within the Transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMD) family, iridium ditelluride (IrTe2) is ideally suited for the systematic study of competing factors that can affect a material’s electronic properties. An international team of researchers (USA – Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, UC Berkeley, Sandford University, South Korea, Egypt) synthesized bilayer and monolayer IrTe2 samples and characterized their atomic and electronic structures. The analysis of the material showed that monolayer IrTe2 develops a large band gap that’s an order of magnitude larger than is typical for TMD systems, transforming the material into an insulator through the removal […]