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Myeongjin Jang

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arXiv2026

Interplay between Interlayer Shift and Twist: Twisted van der Waals Nanowires Driven by Rotational Twinning

In van der Waals(vdW) layered materials, interlayer shift and twist have enabled the control of material properties through polytype and moire engineering. Various approaches, including bottom-up synthesis and manual layer-by-layer stacking, have been utilized to engineer targeted stacking configurations. However, the interplay between interlayer shift and twist, as well as reliable mechanisms for fine-tuning these parameters, remains largely unexplored. Here, we report a previously unrecognized twisting mechanism arising from preferred tilted stacking and twinning in vdW crystals. Electron diffraction and atomic-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy(STEM) imaging reveal that the lattice planes of group-IV chalcogenide GeSe_{2-x}Te_x rotate continuously along the nanowire growth axis, with twist rates depending systematically on nanowire radius. Atomic-scale imaging further identifies a continuous rotational twin boundary extending along the central region of the nanowire. First-principles calculations and structural relaxation simulations confirm that the twisting deformation originates from energetic competition between the preferred interlayer stacking registry and the strain cost imposed by rotational twinning. These findings establish rotational twinning as an intrinsic route to spontaneous twist formation and provide a design principle for realizing twist-engineered vdW crystals with compatible crystal symmetries and stacking motifs.

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arXiv2026

FiDeSR: High-Fidelity and Detail-Preserving One-Step Diffusion Super-Resolution

Diffusion-based approaches have recently driven remarkable progress in real-world image super-resolution (SR). However, existing methods still struggle to simultaneously preserve fine details and ensure high-fidelity reconstruction, often resulting in suboptimal visual quality. In this paper, we propose FiDeSR, a high-fidelity and detail-preserving one-step diffusion super-resolution framework. During training, we introduce a detail-aware weighting strategy that adaptively emphasizes regions where the model exhibits higher prediction errors. During inference, low- and high-frequency adaptive enhancers further refine the reconstruction without requiring model retraining, enabling flexible enhancement control. To further improve the reconstruction accuracy, FiDeSR incorporates a residual-in-residual noise refinement, which corrects prediction errors in the diffusion noise and enhances fine detail recovery. FiDeSR achieves superior real-world SR performance compared to existing diffusion-based methods, producing outputs with both high perceptual quality and faithful content restoration. The source code will be released at: https://github.com/Ar0Kim/FiDeSR.

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arXiv2025

Energetically Favored One-Dimensional Moiré Superstructure in the Pseudo-Square Lattice GdTe3

Moiré engineering in layered crystals has recently gained considerable attention due to the discovery of various structural and physical phenomena, including interfacial reconstruction, superconductivity, magnetism, and distinctive optoelectronic properties. Nevertheless, most explored moiré systems have been limited to hexagonal lattices, thereby constraining a comprehensive understanding and technological application of moiré phenomena in general layered crystals. Here, we investigate GdTe3, a pseudo-tetragonal layered crystal, as a platform to explore unconventional moiré phenomena. GdTe3 exhibits a slight in-plane distortion correlated with the direction of charge density wave formation. Through vertical stacking of layers with different distortions-induced via a controlled strain/release process-we realize energetically favorable one-dimensional (1D) moiré superstructures. Using transmission electron microscopy (TEM), including high-resolution scanning TEM imaging, dark-field TEM imaging, and sample tilting experiments, we systematically examine stacking variations across the 1D moiré structure. Additionally, electron energy loss spectroscopy reveals modulations in electronic properties associated with the 1D moiré structure. Our findings expand the scope of moiré systems beyond conventional hexagonal twistronics, enabling exploration of moiré phenomena in low-symmetry van der Waals crystals.

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arXiv2021

Single-Crystalline Metallic Films Induced by van der Waals Epitaxy on Black Phosphorus

The properties of metal-semiconductor junctions are often unpredictable because of non-ideal interfacial structures, such as interfacial defects or chemical reactions introduced at junctions. Black phosphorus (BP), an elemental two-dimensional (2D) semiconducting crystal, possesses the puckered atomic structure with high chemical reactivity, and the establishment of a realistic atomic-scale picture of BP's interface toward metallic contact has remained elusive. Here we examine the interfacial structures and properties of physically-deposited metals of various kinds on BP. We find that Au, Ag, and Bi form single-crystalline films with (110) orientation through guided van der Waals epitaxy. Transmission electron microscopy and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy confirm that atomically sharp van der Waals metal-BP interfaces forms with exceptional rotational alignment. Under a weak metal-BP interaction regime, the BP's puckered structure play an essential role in the adatom assembly process and can lead to the formation of a single crystal, which is supported by our theoretical analysis and calculations. The experimental survey also demonstrates that the BP-metal junctions can exhibit various types of interfacial structures depending on metals, such as the formation of polycrystalline microstructure or metal phosphides. This study provides a guideline for obtaining a realistic view on metal-2D semiconductor interfacial structures, especially for atomically puckered 2D crystals.

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arXiv2021

Unidirectional Alignment of AgCN Microwires on Distorted Transition Metal Dichalcogenide Crystals

Van der Waals epitaxy on the surface of two-dimensional (2D) layered crystals has gained significant research interest for the assembly of well-ordered nanostructures and fabrication of vertical heterostructures based on 2D crystals. Although van der Waals epitaxial assembly on the hexagonal phase of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) has been relatively well characterized, a comparable study on the distorted octahedral phase (1T' or Td) of TMDCs is largely lacking. Here we investigate the assembly behavior of one-dimensional (1D) AgCN microwires on various distorted TMDC crystals, namely 1T'-MoTe2, Td-WTe2, and 1T'-ReS2. The unidirectional alignment of AgCN chains is observed on these crystals, reflecting the symmetry of underlying distorted TMDCs. Polarized Raman spectroscopy and transmission electron microscopy directly confirm that AgCN chains display the remarkable alignment behavior along the distorted chain directions of underlying TMDCs. The observed unidirectional assembly behavior can be attributed to the favorable adsorption configurations of 1D chains along the substrate distortion, which is supported by our theoretical calculations and observation of similar assembly behavior from different cyanide chains. The aligned AgCN microwires can be harnessed as facile markers to identify polymorphs and crystal orientations of TMDCs.

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