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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 3 cited

Magnetic resonance study of bulk and thin film EuTiO3

V. V. Laguta, S. Kamba, M. Maryško +5

Magnetic resonance spectra of EuTiO3 in both bulk and thin film form were taken at temperatures from 3-350 K and microwave frequencies from 9.2-9.8 and 34 GHz. In the paramagnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 72 cited

Strained GaN Quantum-Well FETs on Single Crystal Bulk AlN Substrates

Meng Qi, Guowang Li, Satyaki Ganguly +8

We report the first realization of molecular beam epitaxy grown strained GaN quantum well field-effect transistors on single-crystal bulk AlN substrates. The fabricated double hete…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 423 cited

Intrinsic Electron Mobility Limits in beta-Ga2O3

Nan Ma, Nicholas Tanen, Amit Verma +5

By systematically comparing experimental and theoretical transport properties, we identify the polar optical phonon scattering as the dominant mechanism limiting electron mobility…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 116 cited

MBE-grown 232-270 nm Deep-UV LEDs using Monolayer thin Binary GaN/AlN quantum heterostructures

SM Islam, Kevin Lee, Jai Verma +5

Electrically injected deep ultra-violet (UV) emission is obtained using monolayer (ML) thin GaN/AlN quantum structures as active regions. The emission wavelength is tuned by contro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 121 cited

Atomic Lattice Disorder in Charge Density Wave Phases of Exfoliated Dichalcogenides (1T-TaS2)

Robert Hovden, Adam W. Tsen, Pengzi Liu +8

Charge density waves (CDW) and their concomitant periodic lattice distortions (PLD) govern the electronic properties in many layered transition-metal dichalcogenides. In particular…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 82 cited

Ferromagnetism and conductivity in atomically thin SrRuO3

H. Boschker, T. Harada, T. Asaba +13

Atomically thin ferromagnetic and conducting electron systems are highly desired for spintronics, because they can be controlled with both magnetic and electric fields. We present…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 114 cited

Deformation of crystals: Connections with statistical physics

James P. Sethna, Matthew K. Bierbaum, Karin A. Dahmen +12

We give a bird's-eye view of the plastic deformation of crystals aimed at the statistical physics community, and a broad introduction into the statistical theories of forced rigid…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 41 cited

Measuring nonlinear stresses generated by defects in 3D colloidal crystals

Neil Y. C. Lin, Matthew Bierbaum, Peter Schall +2

The mechanical, structural and functional properties of crystals are determined by their defects and the distribution of stresses surrounding these defects has broad implications f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 126 cited

On the origin of field-like spin-orbit torques in heavy metal-ferromagnet-oxide thin film heterostructures

Yongxi Ou, Chi-Feng Pai, Shengjie Shi +2

We report measurements of the thickness and temperature (T) dependencies of current-induced spin-orbit torques, especially the field-like (FL) component, in various heavy metal (HM…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 28 cited

Chiral magnetic excitations in FeGe films

Emrah Turgut, Albert Park, Kayla Nguyen +3

Although chiral magnetic materials have emerged as a potential ingredient in future spintronic memory devices, there are few comprehensive studies of magnetic properties in scalabl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 7 cited

Epitaxial growth and electronic properties of mixed valence YbAl3 thin films

Shouvik Chatterjee, Suk Hyun Sung, David J. Baek +3

We report the growth of thin films of the mixed valence compound YbAl on MgO using molecular-beam epitaxy. Employing an aluminum buffer layer, epitaxial (001) films can be gr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 27 cited

Lattice stability and high pressure melting mechanism of dense hydrogen up to 1.5 TPa

Hua Y. Geng, R. Hoffmann, Q. Wu

Lattice stability and metastability, as well as melting, are important features of the physics and chemistry of dense hydrogen. Using ab initio molecular dynamics (AIMD), the class…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 932 cited

Interface-Induced Phenomena in Magnetism

Frances Hellman, Axel Hoffmann, Yaroslav Tserkovnyak +24

This article reviews static and dynamic interfacial effects in magnetism, focusing on interfacially-driven magnetic effects and phenomena associated with spin-orbit coupling and in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 75 cited

Domains and ferroelectric switching pathways in CaTiO from first principles

Elizabeth A. Nowadnick, Craig J. Fennie

Hybrid improper ferroelectricity, where an electrical polarization can be induced via a trilinear coupling to two non-polar structural distortions of different symmetry, has recent…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 320 cited

Temperature Dependence of Wavelength Selectable Zero-Phonon Emission from Single Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Nicholas R. Jungwirth, Brian Calderon, Yanxin Ji +3

We investigate the distribution and temperature-dependent optical properties of sharp, zero-phonon emission from defect-based single photon sources in multilayer hexagonal boron ni…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Stable artificial solid electrolyte interfaces for lithium batteries

Lin Ma, Mun Sek Kim, Lynden A. Archer

A rechargeable lithium metal battery (LMB), which uses metallic lithium at the anode, is among the most promising technologies for next generation electrochemical energy storage de…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 107 cited

Strong Spin Hall Effect in the Antiferromagnet PtMn

Yongxi Ou, Shengjie Shi, D. C. Ralph +1

Effectively manipulating magnetism in ferromagnet (FM) thin film nanostructures with an in-plane current has become feasible since the determination of a 'giant' spin Hall effect (…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 121 cited

MPInterfaces: A Materials Project based Python Tool for High-Throughput Computational Screening of Interfacial Systems

Kiran Mathew, Arunima K. Singh, Joshua J. Gabriel +5

A Materials Project based open-source Python tool, MPInterfaces, has been developed to automate the high-throughput computational screening and study of interfacial systems. The fr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 7 cited

Current Control of Magnetic Anisotropy via Stress in a Ferromagnetic Metal Waveguide

Kyongmo An, Xin Ma, Chi-Feng Pai +6

We demonstrate that in-plane charge current can effectively control the spin precession resonance in an Al2O3/CoFeB/Ta heterostructure. Brillouin Light Scattering (BLS) was used to…