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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 104 cited

Computational Investigation of Inverse-Heusler compounds for Spintronics Applications

Jianhua Ma, Jiangang He, Dipanjan Mazumdar +6

First-principles calculations of the electronic structure, magnetism and structural stability of inverse-Heusler compounds with the chemical formula \textit{XYZ} are presented…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 36 cited

Lattice thermal transport in group II-alloyed PbTe

Yi Xia, James M. Hodges, Mercouri G. Kanatzidis +1

PbTe, one of the most promising thermoelectric materials, has recently demonstrated thermoelectric figure of merit () of above 2.0 when alloyed with group II elements. The impr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 41 cited

Valley-selective optical Stark effect probed by Kerr rotation

Trevor LaMountain, Hadallia Bergeron, Itamar Balla +3

The ability to monitor and control distinct states is at the heart of emerging quantum technologies. The valley pseudospin in transition metal dichalcogenide (TMDC) monolayers is a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 22 cited

Electronic Structure of Lanthanide Scandates

Christopher A. Mizzi, Pratik Koirala, Laurence D. Marks

X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy, ultraviolet photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory calculations were used to study the electronic structure of three lanthanide…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 46 cited

Nonlinear Phononic Control and Emergent Magnetism in Mott Insulating Titanates

Mingqiang Gu, James M. Rondinelli

Optical control of structure-driven magnetic order offers a platform for magneto-optical terahertz devices. We control the magnetic phases of Mott insulating titanates using…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 11 cited

Reentrant Metallic Behavior in the Weyl Semimetal NbP

J. Xu, D. E. Bugaris, Z. L. Xiao +4

We report the occurrence of reentrant metallic behavior in the Weyl semimetal NbP. When the applied magnetic field is above a critical value , a reentrance appears as a pe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 155 cited

A polymorphous band structure model of gapping in the anti-ferromagnetic and paramagnetic phases of the Mott insulators MnO, FeO, CoO, and NiO

Giancarlo Trimarchi, Alex Zunger

A band structure description of the observed large band gaps and moments in both the antiferromagnetic (AFM) and paramagnetic (PM) phases of the classic NaCl-structure Mott insulat…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 50 cited

Separation of Electron and Hole Dynamics in the Semimetal LaSb

F. Han, J. Xu, A. S. Botana +8

We report investigations on the magnetotransport in LaSb, which exhibits extremely large magnetoresistance (XMR). Foremost, we demonstrate that the resistivity plateau can be expla…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 61 cited

Correlated local dipoles in PbTe

Boris Sangiorgio, Emil S. Bozin, Christos D. Malliakas +6

We present a combined single-crystal x-ray diffuse scattering and ab-initio molecular dynamics study of lead telluride, PbTe. Well-known for its thermoelectric and narrow-gap semic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 29 cited

Ice-Templated W-Cu Composites with High Anisotropy

André Röthlisberger, Sandra Häberli, Henning Galinski +2

Controlling anisotropy in self-assembled structures enables engineering of materials with highly directional response. Here, we harness the anisotropic growth of ice walls in a the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 21 cited

Simulating complex crystal structures using the phase-field crystal model

Eli Alster, David Montiel, Katsuyo Thornton +1

We introduce a phase-field crystal model that creates an array of complex three- and two-dimensional crystal structures via a numerically tractable three-point correlation function…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 55 cited

Simulation and analysis of -Ni cellular growth during laser powder deposition of Ni-based superalloys

Supriyo Ghosh, Nana Ofori-Opoku, Jonathan E. Guyer

Cellular or dendritic microstructures that result as a function of additive manufacturing solidification conditions in a Ni-based melt pool are simulated in the present work using…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 63 cited

Changes in charge density vs changes in formal oxidation states: The case of Sn halide perovskites and their ordered vacancy analogues

Gustavo M. Dalpian, Qihang Liu, Constantinos C. Stoumpos +4

Shifting the Fermi energy in solids by doping, defect formation or gating generally results in changes in the charge density distribution, which reflect the ability of the bonding…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 46 cited

Assessing the performance of self-consistent hybrid functional for band gap calculation in oxide semiconductors

Jiangang He, Cesare Franchini

In this paper we assess the predictive power of the self-consistent hybrid functional scPBE0 in calculating the band gap of oxide semiconductors. The computational procedure is bas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

A two-dimensional hexagonal sheet of TiO

Hossein Asnaashari Eivari, S. Alireza Ghasemi, Hossein Tahmasbi +5

We report on the ab initio discovery of a novel putative ground state for quasi two-dimensional TiO through a structural search using the minima hopping method with an artifici…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 2 cited

Cubine, a superconducting 2-dimensional copper-bismuth nano sheet

Maximilian Amsler, Zhenpeng Yao, Chris Wolverton

We report on the discovery of a 2-dimensional copper-bismuth nano sheet from \textit{ab initio} calculations, which we call cubine. According to our predictions, single layers of c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 46 cited

A critical study of the elastic properties and stability of Heusler compounds: Phase change and tetragonal compounds

Shu-Chun Wu, S. Shahab Naghavi, Gerhard H. Fecher +1

In the present work, the elastic constants and derived properties of tetragonal and cubic Heusler compounds were calculated using the high accuracy of the full-potential linearized…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 6 cited

Nanoscale Voltage Enhancement at Cathode Interfaces in Li-ion Batteries

Shenzhen Xu, Ryan Jacobs, Chris Wolverton +2

Interfaces are ubiquitous in Li-ion battery electrodes, occurring across compositional gradients, regions of multiphase intergrowths, and between electrodes and solid electrolyte i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 259 cited

Second-Order Spectral Lineshapes from Charged Interfaces

Paul E. Ohno, Hong-fei Wang, Franz M. Geiger

Second-order nonlinear spectroscopy has proven to be a powerful tool in elucidating key chemical and structural characteristics at a variety of interfaces. However, the presence of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 31 cited

Atomic Order in Non-Equilibrium Silicon-Germanium-Tin Semiconductors

S. Mukherjee, N. Kodali, D. Isheim +5

The precise knowledge of the atomic order in monocrystalline alloys is fundamental to understand and predict their physical properties. With this perspective, we utilized laser-ass…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 82 cited

Relative Permittivity in the Electrical Double Layer from Nonlinear Optics

Mavis D. Boamah, Paul E. Ohno, Franz M. Geiger +1

Second harmonic generation (SHG) spectroscopy has been applied to probe the fused silica/water interface at pH 7 and the uncharged 11bar02 sapphire/water interface at pH 5.2 in con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 239 cited

Valley-Polarized Exciton-Polaritons in a Monolayer Semiconductor

Yen-Jung Chen, Jeffrey D. Cain, Teodor K. Stanev +2

Single layers of transition metal dichalcogenides are two-dimensional direct bandgap semiconductors with degenerate, but inequivalent, `valleys' in the electronic structure that ca…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 11 cited

Influence of grafting on the glass transition temperature of PS thin films

Hénot Marceau, Chennevière Alexis, Drockenmuller Eric +3

We present an investigation of the effect of the interaction between a thin polystyrene film and its supporting substrate on its glass transition temperature (Tg). We modulate this…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 232 cited

Liquid-like thermal conduction in a crystalline solid

B. Li, Y. Kawakita, Q. Zhang +14

A solid conducts heat through both transverse and longitudinal acoustic phonons, but a liquid employs only longitudinal vibrations. Here, we report that the crystalline solid AgCrS…