Thin films are two-dimensional (2D) material layers deposited on a bulk substrate, possessing a thickness of a few nanometers to impart properties that cannot be realized by base materials. The unique ...

"A compelling reason to find ways to produce stable thin films with layered, nearly two-dimensional structures is that many of them have unusual chemical, semiconducting, or quantum properties. This ...

Most machines that grow atom-thin films top out around 2,000 Kelvin. That temperature ceiling locks researchers out of an entire class of ultra-refractory compounds, the very materials that physicists ...

Thin films might not come up in conversation every day, but they are all around us. Take the metallic plastic films of chip bags, for example, or the anti-reflective coatings on eyeglasses. Even the ...