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cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 28 cited

Frictional magneto-Coulomb drag in graphene double-layer heterostructure

Xiaomeng Liu, Lei Wang, Kin Chung Fong +7

Coulomb interaction between two closely spaced parallel layers of electron system can generate the frictional drag effect by interlayer Coulomb scattering. Employing graphene doubl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 117 cited

Increased low-temperature damping in yttrium iron garnet thin films

C. L. Jermain, S. V. Aradhya, J. T. Brangham +6

We report measurements of the frequency and temperature dependence of ferromagnetic resonance (FMR) for a 15-nm-thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) film grown by off-axis sputtering. A…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Spin-Hall Torques Generated by Rare-Earth (Lanthanide) Thin Films

Neal Reynolds, Priyamvada Jadaun, John T. Heron +6

We report an initial experimental survey of spin-Hall torques generated by the rare-earth metals Gd, Dy, Ho, and Lu, along with comparisons to first-principles calculations of thei…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 1 cited

Constructing oxide interfaces and heterostructures by atomic layer-by-layer laser molecular beam epitaxy

Qingyu Lei, Maryam Golalikhani, Bruce A. Davidson +14

Advancements in nanoscale engineering of oxide interfaces and heterostructures have led to discoveries of emergent phenomena and new artificial materials. Combining the strengths o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 15 cited

Low-power photothermal self-oscillation of bimetallic nanowires

Roberto De Alba, T. S. Abhilash, Richard Rand +2

We investigate the nonlinear mechanics of a bimetallic, optically absorbing SiN-Nb nanowire in the presence of incident laser light and a reflecting Si mirror. Situated in a standi…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 7 cited

First principles modeling of defects in the Al_2O_3/In_0.53Ga_0.47As system

Gabriel Greene-Diniz, Kelin J. Kuhn, Paul K. Hurley +1

Density functional theory paired with a first order many-body perturbation theory correction is applied to determine formation energies and charge transition energies for point def…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 41 cited

Low-damping sub-10-nm thin films of lutetium iron garnet grown by molecular-beam epitaxy

C. L. Jermain, H. Paik, S. V. Aradhya +3

We analyze the structural and magnetic characteristics of (111)-oriented lutetium iron garnet (LuFeO) films grown by molecular-beam epitaxy, for films as thin as 2.8…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 59 cited

Repeatable Room Temperature Negative Differential Conductance in GaN/AlN Resonant Tunneling Diodes

Jimy Encomendero, Faiza Afroz Faria, S. M. Islam +5

Double barrier GaN/AlN resonant tunneling heterostructures have been grown by molecular beam epitaxy on the (0001) plane of commercially available bulk GaN substrates. Resonant tun…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 157 cited

Nanosecond-timescale low error switching of in-plane magnetic tunnel junctions through dynamic Oersted-field assisted spin-Hall effect

Sriharsha V. Aradhya, Graham E. Rowlands, Junseok Oh +2

We investigate fast-pulse switching of in-plane-magnetized magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) within 3-terminal devices in which spin-transfer torque is applied to the MTJ by the gia…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 265 cited

Atomically-thin Ohmic Edge Contacts Between Two-dimensional Materials

Marcos H. D. Guimaraes, Hui Gao, Yimo Han +6

With the decrease of the dimensions of electronic devices, the role played by electrical contacts is ever increasing, eventually coming to dominate the overall device volume and to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 66 cited

Nanomaterial datasets to advance tomography in scanning transmission electron microscopy

Barnaby D. A. Levin, Elliot Padgett, Chien-Chun Chen +17

Electron tomography in materials science has flourished with the demand to characterize nanoscale materials in three dimensions (3D). Access to experimental data is vital for devel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 810 cited

Control of spin-orbit torques through crystal symmetry in WTe2/ferromagnet bilayers

D. MacNeill, G. M. Stiehl, M. H. D. Guimaraes +3

Recent discoveries regarding current-induced spin-orbit torques produced by heavy-metal/ferromagnet and topological-insulator/ferromagnet bilayers provide the potential for dramati…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 716 cited

The hot pick-up technique for batch assembly of van der Waals heterostructures

Filippo Pizzocchero, Lene Gammelgaard, Bjarke Sørensen Jessen +5

The assembly of individual two-dimensional materials into van der Waals heterostructures enables the construction of layered three-dimensional materials with desirable electronic a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 4 cited

Large Electron Concentration Modulation using Capacitance Enhancement in SrTiO3/SmTiO3 FinFETs

Amit Verma, Kazuki Nomoto, Wan Sik Hwang +3

Solid-state modulation of 2-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) with extreme (~3.3 x 1014 cm-2) densities corresponding to 1/2 electron per interface unit cell at complex oxide hete…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 90 cited

Bulk Fermi-surface of the Weyl type-II semi-metallic candidate MoTe2

D. Rhodes, R. Schönemann, N. Aryal +15

The electronic structure of WTe and orthorhombic MoTe, are claimed to contain pairs of Weyl type-II points. A series of ARPES experiments claim a broad agreement with t…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 9 cited

Acoustic Localization Phenomena in Ferroelectric Nanophononic Devices

A. Bruchhausen, N. D. Lanzillotti-Kimura, B. Jusserand +4

The engineering of phononic resonances in ferroelectric structures appears as a new knob in the design and realization of novel multifunctional devices. In this work we experimenta…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 166 cited

Tunable phonon cavity coupling in graphene membranes

R. De Alba, F. Massel, I. R. Storch +5

A major achievement of the past decade has been the realization of macroscopic quantum systems by exploiting interactions between optical cavities and mechanical resonators. In the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 306 cited

Electron optics with ballistic graphene junctions

Shaowen Chen, Zheng Han, Mirza M. Elahi +9

Electrons transmitted across a ballistic semiconductor junction undergo refraction, analogous to light rays across an optical boundary. A pn junction theoretically provides the equ…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 3 cited

Dynamic nuclear polarization in a magnetic resonance force microscope experiment

Corinne E. Isaac, Christine M. Gleave, Paméla T. Nasr +6

We report achieving enhanced nuclear magnetization in a magnetic resonance force microscope experiment at 0.6 tesla and 4.2 kelvin using the dynamic nuclear polarization (DNP) effe…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 16 cited

Radiative and Non-Radiative Exciton Energy Transfer in Monolayers of Two-Dimensional Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Christina Manolatou, Haining Wang, Weimin Chan +2

We present results on the rates of interlayer energy transfer between excitons in two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs). We consider both radiative (mediated by r…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 40 cited

Detection of DNA and Poly-L-Lysine using CVD Graphene-channel FET Biosensors

Aniket Kakatkar, T. S. Abhilash, Roberto De Alba +2

A graphene channel field-effect biosensor is demonstrated for detecting the binding of double-stranded DNA and poly-l-lysine. Sensors consist of CVD graphene transferred using a cl…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 27 cited

Transfer Printing of CVD Graphene FETs on Patterned Substrates

T. S. Abhilash, Roberto De Alba, Nikolay Zhelev +2

We describe a simple and scalable method for the transfer of CVD graphene for the fabrication of field effect transistors. This is a dry process that uses a modified RCA cleaning s…