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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 138 cited

Elastic effects of vacancies in strontium titanate: Short- and long-range strain fields, elastic dipole tensors, and chemical strain

Daniel A. Freedman, D. Roundy, T. A. Arias

We present a study of the local strain effects associated with vacancy defects in strontium titanate and report the first calculations of elastic dipole tensors and chemical strain…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 62 cited

Electrically Driven Light Emission from Individual CdSe Nanowires

Yong-Joo Doh, Kristin N. Maher, Lian Ouyang +3

We report electroluminescence (EL) measurements carried out on three-terminal devices incorporating individual n-type CdSe nanowires. Simultaneous optical and electrical measuremen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 91 cited

Absence of Critical Thickness in an Ultrathin Improper Ferroelectric Film

Na Sai, Craig J. Fennie, Alexander A. Demkov

We study the ferroelectric stability and surface structural properties of an oxygen-terminated hexagonal YMnO ultra-thin film using density functional theory. Under an open cir…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 36 cited

Emission of Terahertz Radiation from SiC

Jared H. Strait, Paul A. George, Jahan Dawlaty +4

We report the emission of strong coherent broadband terahertz radiation from 6H-Silicon-Carbide (SiC) excited with optical pulses. The measured terahertz spectral signal-to-noise r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 7 cited

Penrose Matching Rules from Realistic Potentials in a Model System

Sejoon Lim, M. Mihalkovic, C. L. Henley

We exhibit a toy model of a binary decagonal Al-Co quasicrystal -- closely related to actual structures -- in which realistic pair potentials yield a ground state which appears to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 124 cited

Thickness Estimation of Epitaxial Graphene on SiC using Attenuation of Substrate Raman Intensity

Shriram Shivaraman, M. V. S. Chandrashekhar, John J. Boeckl +1

A simple, non-invasive method using Raman spectroscopy for the estimation of the thickness of graphene layers grown epitaxially on silicon carbide (SiC) is presented, enabling simu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 2.9k cited

Impermeable Atomic Membranes from Graphene Sheets

J. Scott Bunch, Scott S. Verbridge, Jonathan S. Alden +4

We demonstrate that a monolayer graphene membrane is impermeable to standard gases including helium. By applying a pressure difference across the membrane, we measure both the elas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 6 cited

Epitaxial checkerboard arrangement of nanorods in ZnMnGaO4 films studied by x-ray diffraction

S. M. O'Malley, P. L. Bonanno, K. H. Ahn +4

The intriguing nano-structural properties of a ZnMnGaO4 film epitaxially grown on MgO (001) substrate have been investigated using synchrotron radiation-based x-ray diffraction. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 33 cited

Electrical transport and ferromagnetism in Ga1-xMnxAs synthesized by ion implantation and pulsed-laser melting

M. A. Scarpulla, R. Farshchi, P. R. Stone +4

We present a detailed investigation of the magnetic and magnetotransport properties of thin films of ferromagnetic Ga1-xMnxAs synthesized using ion implantation and pulsed-laser me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 18 cited

A comparison of finite element and atomistic modelling of fracture

Valerie R Coffman, James P. Sethna, Gerd Heber +4

Are the cohesive laws of interfaces sufficient for modelling fracture in polycrystals using the cohesive zone model? We examine this question by comparing a fully atomistic simulat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 61 cited

Empirical oscillating potentials for alloys from ab-initio fits

M. Mihalkovič, C. L. Henley, M. Widom +1

By fitting to a database of ab-initio forces and energies, we can extract pair potentials for alloys, with a simple six-parameter analytic form including Friedel oscillations, whic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 548 cited

Measurement of the Optical Absorption Spectra of Epitaxial Graphene from Terahertz to Visible

Jahan M. Dawlaty, Shriram Shivaraman, Jared Strait +6

We present experimental results on the optical absorption spectra of epitaxial graphene from the visible to the terahertz (THz) frequency range. In the THz range, the absorption is…