van der Waals layered materials have large crystal anisotropy and crystallize spontaneously into two-dimensional (2D) morphologies. Two-dimensional materials with hexagonal lattices are emerging 2D confined electronic systems at the limit of one or three atom thickness. Often these 2D lattices also form orthorhombic symmetries, but these materials have not been extensively investigated, mainly due to thermodynamic instability during crystal growth. Here, we show controlled polymorphic growth of 2D tin-sulfide crystals of either hexagonal SnS2 or orthorhombic SnS. Addition of H2 during the growth reaction enables selective determination of either n-type SnS2 or p-type SnS 2D crystal of dissimilar energy band gap of 2.77 eV (SnS2) or 1.26 eV (SnS) as a final product. Based on this synthetic 2D polymorphism of p-n crystals, we also demonstrate p-n heterojunctions for rectifiers and photovoltaic cells, and complementary inverters.
We consider the most general dimension 5 effective Lagrangian that can be built using only Standard Model fields plus right-handed neutrinos, and find that there exists a term that provides electroweak moments (i.e., couplings to the đ and photon) for the right-handed neutrinos. Such term has not been described previously in the literature. We discuss its phenomenology and the bounds that can be derived from LEP results and from the observation of the cooling process of red giants and supernovae. MotivationNeutrino physics has been a hot topic of research and discussion in the last thirty years, and especially since we have compelling evidence that the structure of their masses is highly nontrivial (for a review on the subject, see [1,2]). The remarkable smallness of these masses, at least a factor 10 5 lighter than the electron mass, is usually regarded as an indication that new physics should be involved in their generation.The definite nature of this new physics, of course, depends on the specific model one wishes to consider, and there are plenty of them: the seesaw mechanism [2], which is one of the most popular proposals, the several models for radiative generation of masses [3] and many more. Precisely this abundance of proposals makes appealing the possibility of studying the new physics associated to neutrinos in a model-independent way. This can be done most easily if the new particles are very heavy, by eliminating them from our description of low-energy physics; the result is called an effective theory 1 , and has been for long a powerful tool for examining neutrino physics (see, for example, two early but interesting applications in [5,6]).However, in our current situation, and given the present knowledge and unknowns about neutrino masses, a piece of the puzzle has been mainly ignored: as we don't know if the neutrino masses are Dirac or Majorana, right-handed neutrinos might be among the light degrees of freedom of the theory. If they are, they must be included in the effective theory, or otherwise it will be incomplete. In any case, we don't know yet the nature of neutrino masses, so it seems sensible to include them for the sake of generality. This constitutes our starting point: we want to inspect an effective theory which can describe all possible neutrino mass structures, and see what insight it can cast upon new physics effects;1 For an example of the procedure, see, for instance, [4].
2D vertical stacking and lateral stitching growth of monolayer (ML) hexagonal transition-metal dichalcogenides are reported. The 2D heteroepitaxial manipulation of MoS2 and WS2 MLs is achieved by control of the 2D nucleation kinetics during the sequential vapor-phase growth. It enables the creation of hexagon-on-hexagon unit-cell stacking and hexagon-by-hexagon stitching without interlayer rotation misfits.
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