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Publications (29)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Fatigue-free ferroelectricity in Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ultrathin films via interfacial design

Chao Zhou, Yanpeng Feng, Liyang Ma +10

Due to traits of CMOS compatibility and scalability, HfO2-based ferroelectrics are promising candidates for next-generation memory devices. However, their commercialization has bee…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Optical Control of Adaptive Nanoscale Domain Networks

Marc Zajac, Tao Zhou, Tiannan Yang +13

Adaptive networks can sense and adjust to dynamic environments to optimize their performance. Understanding their nanoscale responses to external stimuli is essential for applicati…

cond-mat.str-el2017

Carrier driven coupling in ferromagnetic oxide heterostructures

Ching-Hao Chang, Sujit Das, Sanjeev Kumar +1

Transition metal oxides are well known for their complex magnetic and electrical properties. When brought together in heterostructure geometries, they show particular promise for s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Mechanical configurable nanopatterning of polar topological states and formation of post-skyrmion

Lizhe Hu, Linming Zhou, Yuhui Huang +4

The controllable phase transition and nanopatterning of topological states in a ferroelectric system under external stimuli are critical for realizing the potential applications in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Room-temperature ferromagnetism at an oxide/nitride interface

Qiao Jin, Zhiwen Wang, Qinghua Zhang +26

Heterointerfaces have led to the discovery of novel electronic and magnetic states because of their strongly entangled electronic degrees of freedom. Single-phase chromium compound…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021

Subterahertz collective dynamics of polar vortices

Qian Li, Vladimir A. Stoica, Marek Paściak +29

The collective dynamics of topological structures have been of great interest from both fundamental and applied perspectives. For example, the studies of dynamical properties of ma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Enhanced polarization switching characteristics of HfO2 ultrathin films via acceptor-donor co-doping

Chao Zhou, Liyang Ma, Yanpeng Feng +13

In the realm of ferroelectric memories, HfO2-based ferroelectrics stand out because of their exceptional CMOS compatibility and scalability. Nevertheless, their switchable polariza…

cond-mat.str-el2015

Strain dependence of antiferromagnetic interface coupling in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrRuO3 superlattices

Sujit Das, Andreas Herklotz, Eckhard Pippel +3

We have investigated the magnetic response of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/SrRuO3 superlattices to biaxial in-plane strain applied in-situ. Superlattices grown on piezoelectric substrates of 0.7…

cond-mat.str-el2020

Doping effects on the magnetic frustration in the honeycomb iridates

Sujit Das, Er Jia Guo, Krishanu Roychowdhury

We investigate the doping effects of magnetic and nonmagnetic impurities injected to the honeycomb iridate sample of Na2IrO3 . Both the doping result in changing the ordering tempe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Decoupling effects of the resistive-switching behavior on the polarization reversal in ultrathin ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 films

Chao Zhou, Sizhe Huang, Yangyang Si +10

HfO2-based ferroelectric films have attracted considerable attention as their nanoscale ferroelectricity and compatibility with cmos technology, fulfilling demands of emerging memo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Electric Field Control of Chirality

Piush Behera, Molly A. May, Fernando Gómez-Ortiz +18

Polar textures have attracted significant attention in recent years as a promising analog to spin-based textures in ferromagnets. Here, using optical second harmonic generation bas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Topological spin-texture transitions in van der Waals magnets revealed by X-ray Fourier transform holography

Sourav Chowdhury, Soumyaranjan Dash, Michael Schneider +14

Nontrivial topological spin-textures, such as skyrmions, merons, bimerons, and skyrmioniums, are envisioned as robust building blocks for future memory and logic devices. Controlla…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Nitrogen doping induced metal-insulator transition with iso-symmetric character in rutile VO2

Baichen Lin, Shanquan Chen, Yubo Zhang +18

Metal-insulator transitions (MITs) in correlated oxides offer immense potential for next-generation Mottronic devices. However, their integration into practical applications is oft…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

PTST: A polar topological structure toolkit and database

Guanshihan Du, Yuanyuan Yao, Linming Zhou +11

Ferroelectric oxide superlattices with complex topological structures such as vortices, skyrmions, and flux closure domains have garnered significant attention due to their fascina…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Erbium-Implanted Materials for Quantum Communication Applications

Paul Stevenson, Christopher M Phenicie, Isaiah Gray +10

Erbium-doped materials can serve as spin-photon interfaces with optical transitions in the telecom C-band, making them an exciting class of materials for long-distance quantum comm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Harnessing the polar vortex motion in oxide heterostructures

Pushpendra Gupta, Mohit Tanwani, Qi Xu +7

Polar topology, an analogue of the magnetic topology, serves as a large playground for exotic physical phenomena with a wide range of multifunctional applications. Polar vortices a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Local Manipulation of Polar Skyrmions and Topological Phase Transitions

Linming Zhou, Yongjun Wu, Sujit Das +7

Topological phases such as polar skyrmions have been a fertile playground for ferroelectric oxide superlattices, with exotic physical phenomena such as negative capacitance. Herein…

cs.AI2014

Consensus and Consistency Level Optimization of Fuzzy Preference Relation: A Soft Computing Approach

Sujit Das, Samarjit Kar

In group decision making (GDM) problems fuzzy preference relations (FPR) are widely used for representing decision makers' opinions on the set of alternatives. In order to avoid mi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Hexagonal close-packed polar-skyrmion lattice in ultrathin ferroelectric PbTiO3 films

Shuai Yuan, Zuhuang Chen, Sergei Prokhorenko +7

Polar skyrmions are topologically stable, swirling polarization textures with particle-like characteristics, which hold promise for next-generation, nanoscale logic and memory. Whi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Unlocking Cryogenic Energy Storage by Constructing Dipole Glass with Unit-cell-level Polar Disorder

Yangyang Si, Denan Li, Yijie Li +21

Cryogenic energy storage is vital for frontier technologies including deep-space exploration and quantum computing, yet conventional electrochemical energy systems fail below ~230…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023

Emergent chirality in a polar meron to skyrmion phase transition

Yu-Tsun Shao, Sujit Das, Zijian Hong +10

Polar skyrmions are predicted to emerge from the interplay of elastic, electrostatic and gradient energies, in contrast to the key role of the anti-symmetric Dzyalozhinskii-Moriya…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Non-equilibrium pathways to emergent polar supertextures

Vladimir A. Stoica, Tiannan Yang, Sujit Das +31

Ultrafast stimuli can stabilize metastable states of matter inaccessible by equilibrium means. Establishing the spatiotemporal link between ultrafast excitation and metastability i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ideal antiferroelectricity with large digital electrostrain in PbZrO3 epitaxial thin films

Yangyang Si, Ningbo Fan, Yongqi Dong +13

Antiferroelectrics exhibit reversible antipolar-polar phase transitions under electric fields, yielding large electrostrain suitable for electromechanical devices. Nevertheless, in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Antiferroelectric Oxide Thin-Films: Fundamentals, Properties, and Applications

Yangyang Si, Tianfu Zhang, Chenhan Liu +5

Antiferroelectrics have received blooming interests because of a wide range of potential applications in energy storage, solid-state cooling, thermal switch, transducer, actuation,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Enhancing ferroelectric stability: Wide-range of adaptive control in epitaxial HfO2/ZrO2 superlattices

Jingxuan Li, Shiqing Deng, Liyang Ma +12

The metastability of the polar phase in HfO2, despite its excellent compatibility with the complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor process, remains a key obstacle for its industria…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Large Enhancement of Properties in Strained Lead-free Multiferroic Solid Solutions with Strong Deviation from Vegard's Law

Tao Wang, Mingjie Zou, Dehe Zhang +18

Efforts to combine the advantages of multiple systems to enhance functionlities through solid solution design present a great challenge due to the constraint imposed by the classic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Silicon-compatible ideal antiferroelectricity with large digital electromechanical responses enabled by thermal-strain domain engineering

Hao Xiong, Huazhang Zhang, Liang Shu +16

Antiferroelectrics exhibit reversible antipolar-polar transformations, offering a compelling platform for multiple functionalities in modern nanoelectronics, yet deterministic cont…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Order-disorder transitions in a polar vortex lattice

Linming Zhou, Cheng Dai, Peter Meisenheimer +9

Order-disorder transitions are widely explored in various vortex structures in condensed matter physics, i.e., in the type-II superconductors and Bose-Einstein condensates. In this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Terahertz-field activation of polar skyrons

Huaiyu Wang, Vladimir Stoica, Cheng Dai +27

Unraveling collective modes arising from coupled degrees of freedom is crucial for understanding complex interactions in solids and developing new functionalities. Unique collectiv…