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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 342 cited

Hybrid, Gate-Tunable, van der Waals p-n Heterojunctions from Pentacene and MoS2

Deep Jariwala, Sarah L. Howell, Kan-Sheng Chen +7

The recent emergence of a wide variety of two-dimensional (2D) materials has created new opportunities for device concepts and applications. In particular, the availability of semi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 142 cited

A Novel Material for In Situ Construction on Mars: Experiments and Numerical Simulations

Lin Wan, Roman Wendner, Gianluca Cusatis

A significant step in space exploration during the 21st century will be human settlement on Mars. Instead of transporting all the construction materials from Earth to the red plane…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 59 cited

Accurate First-Principles Electrochemical Phase Diagrams for Ti Oxides from Density Functional Calculations

Liang-Feng Huang, James M. Rondinelli

Developing an accurate simulation method for the electrochemical stability of solids, as well as understanding the physics related with its accuracy, is critically important for im…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 34 cited

Direct Observation of Large Flexoelectric Bending at the Nanoscale in Lanthanide Scandates

Pratik Koirala, Christopher Mizzi, Laurence D. Marks

Large bending of materials can occur at the nanoscale in response to an electric polarization, what is called the flexoelectric effect, but to date this has not been observed direc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015

Nanosecond Phase Transition Dynamics in Compressively Strained Epitaxial BiFeO3

Margaret P. Cosgriff, Pice Chen, Sung Su Lee +11

A highly strained BiFeO3 (BFO) thin film is transformed between phases with distinct structures and properties by nanosecond-duration applied electric field pulses. Time-resolved s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 262 cited

Anisotropic Thermal Conductivity of Exfoliated Black Phosphorus

Hyejin Jang, Joshua D. Wood, Christopher R. Ryder +2

We ascertain the anisotropic thermal conductivity of alumina passivated black phosphorus (BP), a reactive 2D nanomaterial with strong in-plane anisotropy. We measure the room tempe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 121 cited

All electrical manipulation of magnetization dynamics in a ferromagnet by antiferromagnets with anisotropic spin Hall effects

Wei Zhang, Matthias B. Jungfleisch, Frank Freimuth +6

We investigate spin-orbit torques of metallic CuAu-I-type antiferromagnets using spin-torque ferromagnetic resonance tuned by a dc-bias current. The observed spin torques predomina…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 101 cited

Asymptotic Expansion Homogenization of Discrete Fine-Scale Models with Rotational Degrees of Freedom for the Simulation of Quasi-Brittle Materials

Roozbeh Rezakhani, Gianluca Cusatis

Discrete fine-scale models, in the form of either particle or lattice models, have been formulated successfully to simulate the behavior of quasi-brittle materials whose mechanical…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 102 cited

Crystal Structure and Electronic Properties of Bulk and Thin Film Brownmillerite Oxides

Joshua Young, James M. Rondinelli

The equilibrium structure and functional properties exhibited by brownmillerite oxides, a family of perovskite-derived structures with alternating layers of O octahedra and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 101 cited

Analysis of the Behavior of Ultra High Performance Concrete at Early Age

Lin Wan, Roman Wendner, Benliang Liang +1

Ultra high performance concretes (UHPCs) are cementitious composite materials with high level of perfor- mance characterized by high compressive strength, high tensile strength and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 22 cited

Fracture resistance of zigzag single walled carbon nanotubes

Qiang Lu, Baidurya Bhattacharya

Brittle fracture is one of the important failure modes of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube (SWNT) due to mechanical loading. In this paper, the fracture resistance of zigzag SWNTs wit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 253 cited

Intrinsic femtosecond charge generation dynamics in a single crystal organometal halide perovskite

David A. Valverde-Chávez, Carlito Ponseca, Constantinos Stoumpos +4

Hybrid metal-organic perovskite solar cells have astounded the solar cell community with their rapid rise in efficiency over the past three years. Despite this success, the basic p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 17 cited

Nanoscale -Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Depth Imaging of Topological Insulators

Dimitrios Koumoulis, Gerald D. Morris, Liang He +8

Considerable evidence suggests that variations in the properties of topological insulators (TIs) at the nanoscale and at interfaces can strongly affect the physics of topological m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 40 cited

Understanding Bulk Defects in Topological Insulators from Nuclear-Spin Interactions

Dimitrios Koumoulis, Belinda Leung, Thomas C. Chasapis +4

Non-invasive local probes are needed to characterize bulk defects in binary and ternary chalcogenides. These defects contribute to the non-ideal behavior of topological insulators.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 44 cited

Silicon-nitride photonic circuits interfaced with monolayer MoS

Guohua Wei, Teodor K. Stanev, David A. Czaplewski +2

We report on the integration of monolayer molybdenum disulphide with silicon nitride microresonators assembled by visco-elastic layer transfer techniques. Evanescent coupling from…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 209 cited

Three-dimensional coordinates of individual atoms in materials revealed by electron tomography

Rui Xu, Chien-Chun Chen, Li Wu +11

Crystallography, the primary method for determining the three-dimensional (3D) atomic positions in crystals, has been fundamental to the development of many fields of science. Howe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 13 cited

High pressure layered structure of carbon disulfide

S. Shahab Naghavi, Yanier Crespo, Roman Martonak +1

Solid CS is superficially similar to CO, with the same molecular crystal structure at low pressures, which has suggested similar phases also at high pressures. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 750 cited

Solvent Exfoliation of Electronic-Grade, Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus

Joohoon Kang, Joshua D. Wood, Spencer A. Wells +4

Solution dispersions of two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP), often referred to as phosphorene, are achieved by solvent exfoliation. These pristine, electronic-grade BP dispe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 42 cited

Strain-induced Giant Second-harmonic Generation in Monolayered -MoX (X=S,Se,Te)

S. H. Rhim, Yong Soo Kim, A. J. Freeman

Dynamic second-order nonlinear susceptibilities, , are calculated here within a fully first-principles scheme for monolayered molybdenum dichalcog…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 80 cited

Design of a Mott Multiferroic from a Non-Magnetic Polar Metal

Danilo Puggioni, Gianluca Giovannetti, Massimo Capone +1

We examine the electronic properties of newly discovered "ferroelectric" metal LiOsO combining density-functional and dynamical mean-field theories. We show that the material i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 111 cited

Phonon Properties, Thermal Expansion, and Thermomechanics of Silicene and Germanene

Liang-Feng Huang, Peng-Lai Gong, Zhi Zeng

We report a hierarchical first-principles investigation on the entangled effects of lattice dimensionality and bond characteristics in the lattice dynamics of silicene and germanen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1.5k cited

Blowing Magnetic Skyrmion Bubbles

Wanjun Jiang, Pramey Upadhyaya, Wei Zhang +9

Soap bubbles form when blowing air through a suspended thin film of soapy water and this phenomenon entertains children and adults alike. The formation of soap bubbles from thin fi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 240 cited

In Situ Thermal Decomposition of Exfoliated Two-Dimensional Black Phosphorus

Xiaolong Liu, Joshua D. Wood, Kan-Sheng Chen +2

With a semiconducting band gap and high charge carrier mobility, two-dimensional (2D) black phosphorus (BP), often referred to as phosphorene, holds significant promise for next ge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 46 cited

Understanding the role and interplay of heavy hole and light hole valence bands in the thermoelectric properties of PbSe

Thomas C. Chasapis, Yeseul Lee, Euripides Hatzikraniotis +4

The thermoelectric properties of PbSe have significantly improved in recent years reaching figures of merit ZT 1.6. The transport properties of the hole doped high temperature ther…