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cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 8 cited

Creation of Localized Skyrmion Bubbles in Co/Pt Bilayers using a Spin Valve Nanopillar

Jennifer L. Grab, Alison E. Rugar, Daniel C. Ralph

We fabricate devices in which a magnetic nanopillar spin valve makes contact to a Co/Pt bilayer thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, in order to achieve local control…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 65 cited

Active Valley-topological Plasmonic Crystal in Metagate-tuned Graphene

Minwoo Jung, Zhiyuan Fan, Gennady Shvets

A valley plasmonic crystal for graphene surface plasmons (GSPs) is proposed. We demonstrate that a designer metagate, placed within a few nanometers from graphene, can be used to i…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 59 cited

Quantum Critical Transition and Kondo Screening of Magnetic Moments in Graphene

Jinhai Mao, Yuhang Jiang, Po-Wei Lo +7

In normal metals, the magnetic moment of impurity spins disappears below a characteristic Kondo temperature, TK, where coupling with the conduction-band electrons produces an entan…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 3 cited

Vector Electric Field Measurement via Position-Modulated Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy

Ryan P. Dwyer, Louisa M. Smieska, Ali Moeed Tirmzi +1

High-quality spatially-resolved measurements of electric fields are critical to understanding charge injection, charge transport, and charge trapping in semiconducting materials. H…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 145 cited

Ultrafast Graphene Light Emitter

Young Duck Kim, Yuanda Gao, Ren-Jye Shiue +17

Ultrafast electrically driven nanoscale light sources are critical components in nanophotonics. Compound semiconductor-based light sources for the nanophotonic platforms have been…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 101 cited

Fast, low-current spin-orbit torque switching of magnetic tunnel junctions through atomic modifications of the free layer interfaces

Shengjie Shi, Yongxi Ou, S. V. Aradhya +2

Future applications of spin-orbit torque will require new mechanisms to improve the efficiency for switching nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs), while also controlling the…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 5 cited

Tunable multi-electron Pancharatnam phase in intensity interferometry

Disha Wadhawan, Krishanu Roychowdhury, Poonam Mehta +1

Pancharatnam phase was discovered in the context of polarization optics in nineteen fifties. However, its full realization in quantum many-body systems still eludes us. This is pri…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 15 cited

Terahertz spectroscopy of an electron-hole bilayer system in AlN/GaN/AlN quantum wells

H. Condori Quispe, S. M. Islam, S. Bader +7

We describe studies on the nanoscale transport dynamics of carriers in strained AlN/GaN/AlN quantum wells: an electron-hole bilayer charge system with large difference in transport…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 8 cited

Magneto Acoustic Spin Hall Oscillators

Mustafa Mert Torunbalci, Tanay A. Gosavi, Kerem Y. Camsari +1

This paper introduces a novel oscillator that combines the tunability of spin Hall-driven nano oscillators with the high quality factor (Q) of high overtone bulk acoustic wave reso…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 145 cited

Thickness dependence of spin-orbit torques generated by WTe2

David MacNeill, Gregory M. Stiehl, Marcos H. D. Guimaraes +3

We study current-induced torques in WTe2/permalloy bilayers as a function of WTe2 thickness. We measure the torques using both second-harmonic Hall and spin-torque ferromagnetic re…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 28 cited

Hybridization-induced interface states in a topological insulator-magnetic metal heterostructure

Yi-Ting Hsu, Kyungwha Park, Eun-Ah Kim

Recent experiments demonstrating large spin-transfer torques in topological insulator (TI)-ferromagnetic metal (FM) bilayers have generated a great deal of excitement due to their…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 58 cited

Strongly interaction-enhanced valley magnetic response in monolayer WSe2

Zefang Wang, Kin Fai Mak, Jie Shan

Coulomb interaction between electrons lies at the heart of magnetism in solids. In contrast to conventional two-dimensional (2D) systems, electrons in monolayer transition metal di…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 75 cited

High efficiency deep-UV emission at 219 nm from ultrathin MBE GaN/AlN quantum heterostructures

SM Islam, Vladimir Protasenko, Kevin Lee +5

Deep ultraviolet (UV) optical emission below 250 nm (~5 eV) in semiconductors is traditionally obtained from high aluminum containing AlGaN alloy quantum wells. It is shown here th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 3 cited

Mesoscopic quantum effects in a bad metal, hydrogen-doped vanadium dioxide

Will J. Hardy, Heng Ji, Hanjong Paik +2

The standard treatment of quantum corrections to semiclassical electronic conduction assumes that charge carriers propagate many wavelengths between scattering events, and succeeds…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 13 cited

Electron Mobility in Polarization-doped AlGaN with a Low Concentration Near 10 cm

Mingda Zhu, Meng Qi, Kazuki Nomoto +6

In this letter, carrier transport in graded AlGaN with a polarization-induced n-type doping as low as ~ 10 cm is repor…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 48 cited

Tunable Magnetic Textures: From Majorana Bound States to Braiding

Alex Matos-Abiague, Javad Shabani, Andrew D. Kent +3

A versatile control of magnetic systems, widely used to store information, can also enable manipulating Majorana bounds states (MBS) and implementing fault-tolerant quantum informa…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 30 cited

Nanosecond magnetization dynamics during spin Hall switching of in-plane magnetic tunnel junctions

Graham E. Rowlands, Sriharsha V. Aradhya, Shengjie Shi +4

We present a study of the magnetic dynamics associated with nanosecond scale magnetic switching driven by the spin Hall effect in 3-terminal nanoscale magnetic tunnel junctions (3T…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 7 cited

Spin relaxation 1/f noise in graphene

S. Omar, M. H. D. Guimarães, A. Kaverzin +2

We report the first measurement of 1/f type noise associated with electronic spin transport, using single layer graphene as a prototypical material with a large and tunable Hooge p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 11 cited

Polarons Explain Luminescence Behavior of Colloidal Quantum Dots at Low Temperature

Meenakshi Khosla, Sravya Rao, Shilpi Gupta

Luminescence properties of colloidal quantum dots have found applications in imaging, light-sources, and displays. Despite wide interest, several experimental observations from the…