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Publications (27)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

TBHubbard: tight-binding and extended Hubbard model database for metal-organic frameworks

Pamela C. Carvalho, Federico Zipoli, Alan C. Duriez +5

Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are porous materials composed of metal ions and organic linkers. Due to their chemical diversity, MOFs can support a broad range of applications in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012

High-frequency performance of scaled carbon nanotube array field-effect transistors

Mathias Steiner, Michael Engel, Yu-Ming Lin +10

We report the radio-frequency performance of carbon nanotube array transistors that have been realized through the aligned assembly of highly separated, semiconducting carbon nanot…

physics.geo-ph2020

High accuracy capillary network representation in digital rock reveals permeability scaling functions

Rodrigo F. Neumann, Mariane Barsi-Andreeta, Everton Lucas-Oliveira +4

Permeability is the key parameter for quantifying fluid flow in porous rocks. Knowledge of the spatial distribution of the connected pore space allows, in principle, to predict the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

A black phosphorus photo-detector for multispectral, high-resolution imaging

Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner, Phaedon Avouris

Black phosphorus is a layered semiconductor that is intensely researched in view of applications in optoelectronics. In this Letter, we investigate a multi-layer black phosphorus p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

How does the substrate affect the Raman and excited state spectra of a carbon nanotube?

Mathias Steiner, Marcus Freitag, James C. Tsang +4

We study the optical properties of a single, semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotube (CNT) that is partially suspended across a trench and partially supported by a SiO2-substr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Prediction of Adsorption in Nano-Pores with Graph Neural Networks

Guojing Cong, Anshul Gupta, Rodrigo Neumann +3

We investigate the graph-based convolutional neural network approach for predicting and ranking gas adsorption properties of crystalline Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) adsorbents fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

CRAFTED -- An exploratory database of simulated adsorption isotherms of metal-organic frameworks

Felipe Lopes Oliveira, Conor Cleeton, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira +4

Grand Canonical Monte Carlo is an important method for performing molecular-level simulations and assisting the study and development of nanoporous materials for gas capture applic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Automated, LLM enabled extraction of synthesis details for reticular materials from scientific literature

Viviane Torres da Silva, Alexandre Rademaker, Krystelle Lionti +12

Automated knowledge extraction from scientific literature can potentially accelerate materials discovery. We have investigated an approach for extracting synthesis protocols for re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2014

Origin of photoresponse in black phosphorus photo-transistors

Tony Low, Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner +1

We study the origin of photocurrent generated in doped multilayer BP photo-transistors, and find that it is dominated by thermally driven thermoelectric and bolometric processes. T…

quant-ph2025

Scaling active spaces in simulations of surface reactions through sample-based quantum diagonalization

Marco Antonio Barroca, Tanvi Gujarati, Vidushi Sharma +6

Quantum-chemical simulations are essential for predicting energies of chemical reactions. Accurately solving the many-body Schrödinger equation for reagent and product states of m…

physics.comp-ph2026

Equivariant Interatomic Potentials without Tensor Products

Thiago Reschützegger, Sarp Aykent, Gabriel Jacob Perin +5

Foundational machine-learned interatomic potentials have emerged as powerful tools for atomistic simulations, promising near first-principles accuracy across diverse chemical space…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010

Efficient narrow-band light emission from a single carbon nanotube p-n diode

Thomas Mueller, Megumi Kinoshita, Mathias Steiner +4

Electrically-driven light emission from carbon nanotubes could be exploited in nano-scale lasers and single-photon sources, and has therefore been the focus of much research. Howev…

quant-ph2024

Exploration of Quantum Computing in Materials Discovery for Direct Air Capture Applications

Marco Antonio Barroca, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira, Mathias Steiner

Direct air capture (DAC) of carbon dioxide is a promising method for mitigating climate change. Solid sorbents, such as metal-organic frameworks, are currently being tested for DAC…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Mode-selective Raman imaging of metal-organic frameworks reveals surface heterogeneities of single HKUST-1 crystals

Matheus Esteves Ferreira, Mariana Del Grande, Felipe Lopes Oliveira +6

Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) are nanoporous materials with high surface-to-volume ratio that have potential applications as gas sorbents. Sample quality is, however, often compr…

physics.app-ph2018

Graphene-enabled, directed nanomaterial placement from solution for large-scale device integration

Michael Engel, Damon B. Farmer, Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz +6

Controlled placement of nanomaterials at predefined locations with nanoscale precision remains among the most challenging problems that inhibit their large-scale integration in the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

A metric for wettability at the nanoscale

Ronaldo Giro, Peter W. Bryant, Michael Engel +2

Wettability is the affinity of a liquid for a solid surface. For energetic reasons, macroscopic drops of liquid are nearly spherical away from interfaces with solids, and any local…

cond-mat.mes-hall2012

Light-matter interaction in a microcavity-controlled graphene transistor

Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner, Antonio Lombardo +4

Graphene has extraordinary electronic and optical properties and holds great promise for applications in photonics and optoelectronics. Demonstrations including high-speed photodet…

cond-mat.mes-hall2010

Thermal infrared emission reveals the Dirac point movement in biased graphene

Marcus Freitag, Hsin-Ying Chiu, Mathias Steiner +2

Graphene is a 2-dimensional material with high carrier mobility and thermal conductivity, suitable for high-speed electronics. Conduction and valence bands touch at the Dirac point…

quant-ph2025

Computing band gaps of periodic materials via sample-based quantum diagonalization

Alan Duriez, Pamela C. Carvalho, Marco Antonio Barroca +7

A key objective of computational solid state physics is to predict electronic properties of periodic materials. However, electronic structure simulations based on density functiona…

cs.CE2023

Discovery of Novel Reticular Materials for Carbon Dioxide Capture using GFlowNets

Flaviu Cipcigan, Jonathan Booth, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira +2

Artificial intelligence holds promise to improve materials discovery. GFlowNets are an emerging deep learning algorithm with many applications in AI-assisted discovery. By using GF…

physics.app-ph2022

Artificial intelligence enables mobile soil analysis for sustainable agriculture

Ademir Ferreira da Silva, Ricardo Luis Ohta, Jaione Tirapu Azpiroz +13

For optimizing production yield while limiting negative environmental impact, sustainable agriculture benefits greatly from real-time, on-the-spot analysis of soil at low cost. Col…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018

Room-Temperature Quantum-Confined Stark Effect in Atomically Thin Semiconductor

Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner

Electric field-controlled, two-dimensional (2D) exciton dynamics in transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers is a current research focus in condensed matter physics. We have expe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

pyMSER -- An open-source library for automatic equilibration detection in molecular simulations

Felipe Lopes Oliveira, Binquan Luan, Pierre Mothé Esteves +2

Automated molecular simulations are used extensively for predicting material properties. Typically, these simulations exhibit two regimes: a dynamic equilibration part, followed by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

Energy dissipation in graphene field-effect transistors

Marcus Freitag, Mathias Steiner, Yves Martin +4

We measure the temperature distribution in a biased single-layer graphene transistor using Raman scattering microscopy of the 2D-phonon band. Peak operating temperatures of 1050 K…

physics.geo-ph2022

Full scale, microscopically resolved tomographies of sandstone and carbonate rocks augmented by experimental porosity and permeability values

Matheus Esteves Ferreira, Mariana Del Grande, Rodrigo Neumann Barros Ferreira +9

We report a dataset containing full-scale, 3D images of rock plugs augmented by petrophysical lab characterization data for application in digital rock and capillary network analys…

quant-ph2024

Quantum-centric Supercomputing for Materials Science: A Perspective on Challenges and Future Directions

Yuri Alexeev, Maximilian Amsler, Paul Baity +124

Computational models are an essential tool for the design, characterization, and discovery of novel materials. Hard computational tasks in materials science stretch the limits of e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Power dissipation and electrical breakdown in black phosphorus

Michael Engel, Mathias Steiner, Shu-Jen Han +1

We report operating temperatures and heating coefficients measured in a multi-layer black phosphorus device as a function of injected electrical power. By combining micro-Raman spe…