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Publications (27)

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Topological textures and emergent altermagnetic signatures in ultrathin BiFeO3

George Fratian, Maya Ramesh, Xinyan Li +23

Magnetoelectric multiferroics, materials with intrinsically coupled electric polarization and magnetic order, promise ultralow-power switching, nonvolatile memory, and energy-effic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Discovery of a new weberite-type antiferroelectric: La3NbO7

Louis Alaerts, Jesse Schimpf, Xinyan Li +7

Antiferroelectrics are antipolar materials which possess an electric field-induced phase transition to a polar, ferroelectric phase and offer significant potential for sensing/actu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Deep sub-Ã ngstrom imaging of 2D materials with a high dynamic range detector

Yi Jiang, Zhen Chen, Yimo Han +9

Aberration-corrected optics have made electron microscopy at atomic-resolution a widespread and often essential tool for nanocharacterization. Image resolution is dominated by beam…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020

Imaging Polarity in Two Dimensional Materials by Breaking Friedel's Law

Pratiti Deb, Michael C. Cao, Yimo Han +5

Friedel's law guarantees an inversion-symmetric diffraction pattern for thin, light materials where a kinematic approximation or a single-scattering model holds. Typically, breakin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Preserving Surface Strain in Nanocatalysts via Morphology Control

Chuqiao Shi, Zhihua Cheng, Alberto Leonardi +4

Engineering strain critically affects the properties of materials and has extensive applications in semiconductors and quantum systems. However, the deployment of strain-engineered…

physics.app-ph2018

Strain Mapping of Two-Dimensional Heterostructures with Sub-Picometer Precision

Yimo Han, Kayla Nguyen, Michael Cao +7

Next-generation, atomically thin devices require in-plane, one-dimensional heterojunctions to electrically connect different two-dimensional (2D) materials. However, the lattice mi…