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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Estimating Reaction Rate Constants from Impedance Spectra: Simulating the Multistep Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Freja Vandeputte, Bart van den Boorn, Matthijs van Berkel +3

The efficiency of water electrolysis in a photoelectrochemical cell is largely limited by the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) at its semiconductor photoanode. Reaction rate constan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Lattice excitations with finite polarization and magnetization

Mike Pols, Carl P. Romao, Dominik M. Juraschek

Ferrons are a type of quasiparticle corresponding to elementary excitations of the ferroelectric order. Analogously to how magnons modulate and transport magnetization, ferrons mod…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Inherent electro-optic Kerr rotation

Erlend Syljuåsen, Alireza Qaiumzadeh, Rembert A. Duine +1

We uncover a previously overlooked contribution to the electro-optic Kerr rotation of reflected light, arising from the interplay of matter, the static electric field, and the magn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Impact of Metal Cation on Chiral Properties of 2D Halide Perovskites

Mike Pols, Helena Boom, Geert Brocks +2

Chiral two-dimensional (2D) halide perovskites are formed by embedding chiral organic cations in a perovskite crystal structure. The chirality arises from distortions of the 2D met…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Anomalous phonon magnetic moments

Swati Chaudhary, Carl P. Romao, Dominik M. Juraschek

Circularly polarized phonons conventionally carry an angular momentum and a magnetic moment arising from circular motions of the atoms. Here, we present three anomalous cases that…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 5 cited

SLIDE: Automated Identification and Quantification of Grain Boundary Sliding and Opening in 3D

C. J. A. Mornout, G. Slokker, T. Vermeij +2

Grain Boundary (GB) deformation mechanisms such as Sliding (GBS) and Opening (GBO) are prevalent in alloys at high homologous temperatures but are hard to capture quantitatively. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 16 cited

Structural and optical changes induced by incorporation of antimony into InAs/GaAs(001) quantum dots

A. G. Taboada, A. M. Sánchez, A. M. Beltrán +12

We present experimental evidence of Sb incorporation inside InAs/GaA(001) quantum dots exposed to an antimony flux immediately before capping with GaAs. The Sb composition profile…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 21 cited

Contact Resistance Optimization in MoS Field-Effect Transistors through Reverse Sputtering-Induced Structural Modifications

Yuan Fa, Agata Piacentini, Bart Macco +5

Two-dimensional material (2DM)-based field-effect transistors (FETs), such as molybdenum disulfide (MoS)-FETs, have gained significant attention for their potential for ultra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Chiral Phonons in 2D Halide Perovskites

Mike Pols, Geert Brocks, Sofía Calero +1

Phonons in chiral crystal structures can be circularly polarized, making them chiral. Chiral phonons carry angular momentum, which is observable in heat currents, and, via coupling…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 22 cited

Tracing Ion Migration in Halide Perovskites with Machine Learned Force Fields

Viren Tyagi, Mike Pols, Geert Brocks +1

Halide perovskite optoelectronic devices suffer from chemical degradation and current-voltage hysteresis induced by migration of highly mobile charged defects. Atomic scale molecul…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 116 cited

Circularly polarised electroluminescence from chiral excitons in vacuum-sublimed supramolecular semiconductor thin films

Rituparno Chowdhury, Marco D. Preuss, Hwan-Hee Cho +21

Materials with chiral electronic structures are of great interest. We report a triazatruxene, TAT, molecular semiconductor with chiral alkyl side chains that crystallises from solu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

+SSLIP: Automated Radon-Assisted and Rotation-Corrected Identification of Complex HCP Slip System Activity Fields from DIC Data

T. Vermeij, G. Slokker, C. J. A. Mornout +2

Identification of crystallographic slip in metals and alloys is crucial to understand and improve their mechanical behavior. Recently, a novel slip system identification framework,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Conductive metal oxide and hafnium oxide bilayer ReRAM: an ab initio study

Antoine Honet, Aida Todri-Sanial

We perform generalized gradient approximation (GGA) simulations of interfaces between two Conductive Metal-Oxides (CMO, namely TaO and TiO) and cubic hafnium oxide () in the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 85 cited

Programmable Multi-responsive Nanocellulose-based Hydrogels with Embodied Logic

Beatriz Arsuffi, Gilberto Siqueira, Gustav Nyström +3

Programmable materials are desirable for a variety of functional applications that range from biomedical devices, actuators and soft robots to adaptive surfaces and deployable stru…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 23 cited

Temperature-Dependent Chirality in Halide Perovskites

Mike Pols, Geert Brocks, Sofía Calero +1

With the use of chiral organic cations in two-dimensional metal halide perovskites, chirality can be induced in the metal halide layers, which results in semiconductors with intrig…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 23 cited

Extracting Geometry and Topology of Orange Pericarps for the Design of Bioinspired Energy Absorbing Materials

Chelsea Fox, Kyle Chen, Micaela Antonini +2

As a result of evolution, many biological materials have developed irregular structures that lead to outstanding mechanical properties, like high stiffness-to-weight ratios and goo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Diversity of Ultrafast Spin Dynamics Near the Tricritical Point in a Ferrimagnetic Gd/FeCo Multilayer

T. G. H. Blank, B. D. Muis, T. Lichtenberg +2

It is found that subtle changes in the external magnetic field and temperature result in dramatic changes in the ultrafast response of spins to a femtosecond laser excitation in a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 6 cited

Catalyst-free MBE growth of PbSnTe nanowires with tunable aspect ratio

Mathijs G. C. Mientjes, Xin Guan, Pim J. H. Lueb +2

Topological crystalline insulators (TCIs) are interesting for their topological surface states, which hold great promise for scattering-free transport channels and fault-tolerant q…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 20 cited

Thermal and electrostatic tuning of surface phonon-polaritons in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures

Yixi Zhou, Adrien Waelchli, Margherita Boselli +12

Phonon polaritons are promising for infrared applications due to a strong light-matter coupling and subwavelength energy confinement they offer. Yet, the spectral narrowness of the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 19 cited

Mixing I and Br in Inorganic Perovskites: Atomistic Insights from Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Mike Pols, Adri C. T. van Duin, Sofía Calero +1

All-inorganic halide perovskites have received a lot of attention as attractive alternatives to overcome the stability issues of hybrid halide perovskites that are commonly associa…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 7 cited

Framework for additive manufacturing of porous Inconel 718 for electrochemical applications

Ahmad Zafari, Kiran Kiran, Inmaculada Gimenez-Garcia +4

Porous electrodes were developed using laser powder bed fusion of Inconel 718 lattice structures and electrodeposition of a porous nickel catalytic layer. Laser energy densities of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Competing mechanisms govern the thermal rectification behavior in semi-stochastic polycrystalline graphene with graded grain-size distribution

Simanta Lahkar, Raghavan Ranganathan

Thermal rectifiers are devices that have different thermal conductivities in opposing directions of heat flow. The realization of practical thermal rectifiers relies significantly…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Aging and passivation of magnetic properties in Co/Gd bilayers

T. J. Kools, Y. L. W. van Hees, K. Poissonnier +5

Synthetic ferrimagnets based on Co and Gd bear promise for directly bridging the gap between volatile information in the photonic domain and non-volatile information in the magneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 9 cited

Effective rectification of THz electromagnetic fields in a ferrimagnetic iron garnet

T. G. H. Blank, E. A. Mashkovich, K. A. Grishunin +5

It is found that single-cycle THz electromagnetic fields efficiently excite a GHz spin resonance mode in ferrimagnetic TmFeO, despite the near absence of GHz spectra…