Publications de Michele Pizzochero

Quantum electronic transport across 'bite' defects in graphene nanoribbons

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Kristians Cernevics

On-surface synthesis has recently emerged as an effective route towards the atomically precise fabrication of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) of controlled topologies and widths. However, whether and to what degree structural disorder occurs in the resulting s ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Edge Disorder in Bottom-Up Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons: Implications for Magnetism and Quantum Electronic Transport

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Kristians Cernevics

We unveil the nature of the structural disorder in bottom-up zigzag graphene nanoribbons along with its effect on the magnetism and electronic transport on the basis of scanning probe microscopies and first-principles calculations. We find that edge-missin ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2021

Probing magnetism in atomically thin semiconducting PtSe2

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi, Cheol Yeon Cheon, Mukesh Kumar Tripathi

Atomic-scale disorder in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides is often accompanied by local magnetic moments, which can conceivably induce long-range magnetic ordering into intrinsically non-magnetic materials. Here, we demonstrate the signatur ...

Nature Research2020

Light induced electron spin resonance properties of van der Waals CrX3 (X = Cl, I) crystals

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Ravi Yadav

The research on layered van der Waals (vdW) magnets is rapidly progressing owing to exciting fundamental science and potential applications. In bulk crystal form, CrCl3 is a vdW antiferromagnet with in-plane ferromagnetic ordering below 17K, and CrI3 is a ...

AMER INST PHYSICS2020

Electronic transport across quantum dots in graphene nanoribbons: Toward built-in gap-tunable metal-semiconductor-metal heterojunctions

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Kristians Cernevics

The success of all-graphene electronics is severely hindered by the challenging realization and subsequent integration of semiconducting channels and metallic contacts. Here, we comprehensively investigate the electronic transport across width-modulated he ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2020

Magnetic exchange interactions in monolayer CrI3 from many-body wavefunction calculations

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Ravi Yadav

The marked interplay between the crystalline, electronic, and magnetic structure of atomically thin magnets has been regarded as the key feature for designing next-generation magneto-optoelectronic devices. In this respect, a detailed understanding of the ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Even-odd conductance effect in graphene nanoribbons induced by edge functionalization with aromatic molecules: basis for novel chemosensors

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Kristians Cernevics

We theoretically investigate the electron transport in armchair and zigzag graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) chemically functionalized withp-polyphenyl and polyacene groups of increasing length. Our nearest-neighbor tight-binding calculations indicate that, depe ...

2020

Structural Disorder and Magnetic Order in Atomically Thin Crystals

Michele Pizzochero

This Thesis is mainly devoted to the exploration of the structural disorder and magnetic order in two-dimensional crystals by means of first-principles methodologies. Firstly, we present a comparative study of defect formation in the semiconducting 2H and ...

EPFL2020

Structural Phase Transition and Bandgap Control through Mechanical Deformation in Layered Semiconductors 1T-ZrX2 (X = S, Se)

Helmuth Berger, Oleg Yazyev, Ana Akrap, Edoardo Martino, Michele Pizzochero, Kristians Cernevics, Konstantin Semeniuk

Applying elastic deformation can tune a material's physical properties locally and reversibly. Spatially modulated lattice deformation can create a bandgap gradient, favoring photogenerated charge separation and collection in optoelectronic devices. These ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Inducing Magnetic Phase Transitions in Monolayer CrI3 via Lattice Deformations

Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero

Atomically thin films of layered chromium triiodide (CrI3) have recently been regarded as suitable candidates for a wide spectrum of technologically relevant applications, mainly owing to the opportunities they offer for achieving a reversible transition b ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Atomic-scale defects in the two-dimensional ferromagnet CrI3 from first principles

Michele Pizzochero

The family of atomically thin magnets holds great promise for a number of prospective applications in magneto-optoelectronics, with CrI3 arguably being its most prototypical member. However, the formation of defects in this system remains unexplored to dat ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2020

Picture of the wet electron: a localized transient state in liquid water

Alfredo Pasquarello, Francesco Ambrosio, Michele Pizzochero

A transient state of the excess electron in liquid water preceding the development of the solvation shell, the so-called wet electron, has been invoked to explain spectroscopic observations, but its binding energy and atomic structure have remained highly ...

2019

Defect induced, layer-modulated magnetism in ultrathin metallic PtSe2

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Dmitrii Unuchek, Michele Pizzochero, Ahmet Avsar, Alberto Ciarrocchi

2019

Manipulating Topological Domain Boundaries in the Single-Layer Quantum Spin Hall Insulator 1T '-WSe2

Oleg Yazyev, Yixing Chen, Artem Pulkin, Michele Pizzochero, Feng Wang

We report the creation and manipulation of structural phase boundaries in the single-layer quantum spin Hall insulator 1T'-WSe2 by means of scanning tunneling microscope tip pulses. We observe the formation of one-dimensional interfaces between topological ...

2019

To bend or not to bend, the dilemma of multiple bonds

Michele Pizzochero

Beyond the second row of the periodic table, the nature of the multiple bonds between the elements of the main groups remains yet elusive, and "non-classical" bonding schemes are often invoked for their description. Here, focusing on group 14, we have perf ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Electronic Properties of Transferable Atomically Thin MoSe2/h-BN Heterostructures Grown on Rh(111)

Olivier Renault, Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Ming-Wei Chen, Hokwon Kim, Michele Pizzochero

2018

Single-layer 1T '-MoS2 under electron irradiation from ab initio molecular dynamics

Michele Pizzochero

2018

Highly Oriented Atomically Thin Ambipolar MoSe2

Andras Kis, Oleg Yazyev, Alessandro Surrente, Philippe Gillet, Oriol López Sánchez, Ming-Wei Chen, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Michele Pizzochero

Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs), together with other two-dimensional (2D) materials, have attracted great interest due to the unique optical and electrical properties of atomically thin layers. In order to fulfill their potential, developing large ...

American Chemical Society2017

Hydrogen on silicene: like or unlike graphene?

Michele Pizzochero

Hydrogenation of free-standing silicene, the two-dimensional allotrope of silicon, is investigated in detail using first-principles methods and compared with the adsorption of H atoms on graphene. Similarly to graphene, chemisorption of a single H atom on ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2016