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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 29 cited

Intra-wire coupling in segmented Ni/Cu nanowires deposited by electrodeposition

Philip Sergelius, Ji Lee, Olivier Fruchart +18

Segmented magnetic nanowires are a promising route for the development of three dimensional data storage techniques. Such devices require a control of the coercive field and the co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 27 cited

On the origin of the anomalous compliance of dealloying-derived nanoporous gold

B. -N. D. Ngô, B. Roschning, K. Albe +2

The origin of the anomalously compliant behavior of nanoporous gold is studied by comparing the elasticity obtained from molecular dynamics (MD) and finite element method (FEM) sim…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 13 cited

Eshelbian mechanics of novel materials: Quasicrystals

Markus Lazar, Eleni Agiasofitou

In this work, the so-called Eshelbian or configurational mechanics of quasicrystals is presented. Quasicrystals are considered as a prototype of novel materials. Material balance l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 24 cited

Multiscale examination of strain effects in Nd-Fe-B permanent magnets

Min Yi, Hongbin Zhang, Oliver Gutfleisch +1

We have performed a combined first-principles and micromagnetic study on the strain effects in Nd-Fe-B magnets. First-principles calculations on Nd2Fe14B reveal that the magnetocry…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 65 cited

High yield synthesis and liquid exfoliation of two-dimensional belt like hafnium disulphide

Harneet Kaur, Sandeep Yadav, Avanish K. Srivastava +5

Producing monolayers and few-layers in high yield with environment-stability is still a challenge in hafnium disulphide (HfS2), which is a layered two-dimensional material of group…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 53 cited

Structural origins of the boson peak in metals: From high-entropy alloys to metallic glasses

Tobias Brink, Leonie Koch, Karsten Albe

The boson peak appears in all amorphous solids and is an excess of vibrational states at low frequencies compared to the phonon spectrum of the corresponding crystal. Until recentl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 11 cited

Determination of optimal reversed field with maximal electrocaloric cooling by a direct entropy analysis

Yang-Bin Ma, Nikola Novak, Karsten Albe +1

Application of a negative field on a positively poled ferroelectric sample can enhance the electrocaloric cooling and appears as a promising method to optimize the electrocaloric c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 34 cited

State transition and electrocaloric effect of BaZrTiO: simulation and experiment

Yang-Bin Ma, Christian Molin, Vladimir V. Shvartsman +4

The electrocaloric effect (ECE) of BaZrTiO (BZT) is closely related to the relaxor state transition of the materials. This work presents a systematic study on the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 57 cited

Impact of lattice dynamics on the phase stability of metamagnetic FeRh: Bulk and thin films

Michael Wolloch, Markus E. Gruner, Werner Keune +20

We present phonon dispersions, element-resolved vibrational density of states (VDOS) and corresponding thermodynamic properties obtained by a combination of density functional theo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 7 cited

Micromechanics and dislocation theory in anisotropic elasticity

Markus Lazar

In this work, dislocation master-equations valid for anisotropic materials are derived in terms of kernel functions using the framework of micromechanics. The second derivative of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 10 cited

Broad-band dielectric response of BTZ-BCT piezoceramics: soft and central mode behaviour

S. Kamba, E. Simon, V. Skoromets +6

Dielectric properties of BTZ-BCT ceramics were probed in the frequency range from 10 Hz to 100 THz in a broad temperature range (10-900 K). Polar soft phonon observed in infrared s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 7 cited

Flexocoupling impact on the kinetics of polarization reversal

Ivan S. Vorotiahin, Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev +1

The impact of flexoelectric coupling on polarization reversal kinetics and space charge dynamics in thin films of ferroelectric-semiconductors has been theoretically studied. The r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 11 cited

Hafnium carbide formation in oxygen deficient hafnium oxide thin films

C. Rodenbücher, E. Hildebrandt, K. Szot +6

On highly oxygen deficient thin films of hafnium oxide (hafnia, HfO) contaminated with adsorbates of carbon oxides, the formation of hafnium carbide (HfC) at the surfac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 38 cited

Flexocoupling impact on the size effects of piezo- response and conductance in mixed-type ferroelectrics-semiconductors under applied pressure

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Yuri A. Genenko +6

Flexocoupling impact on the size effects of the spontaneous polarization, effective piezo-response, elastic strain and compliance, carrier concentration and piezo-conductance have…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 16 cited

Fatigue effect on polarization switching dynamics in polycrystalline bulk ferroelectrics

S. Zhukov, J. Glaum, H. Kungl +4

Statistical distribution of switching times is a key information necessary to describe the dynamic response of a polycrystalline bulk ferroelectric to an applied electric field. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 78 cited

Large Area Fabrication of Semiconducting Phosphorene by Langmuir Blodgett Assembly

Harneet Kaur, Sandeep Yadav, A. K. Srivastava +5

Although a considerable number of solvent based methodologies have been developed for exfoliating black phosphorus, so far there are no reports on controlled organization of these…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 473 cited

Probing the ultimate limits of metal plasticity

Luis A. Zepeda-Ruiz, Alexander Stukowski, Tomas Oppelstrup +1

Along with high strength, plasticity is what makes metals so widely usable in our material world. Both strength and plasticity properties of a metal are defined by the motion of di…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 268 cited

Mastering hysteresis in magnetocaloric materials

Oliver Gutfleisch, Tino Gottschall, Maximilian Fries +8

Hysteresis is more than just an interesting oddity, which occurs in materials with a first-order transition. It is a real obstacle on the path from existing lab-scale prototypes of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 204 cited

Anomalous Hall effect in Weyl semimetal half Heusler compounds RPtBi (R = Gd and Nd)

Chandra Shekhar, Nitesh Kumar, V. Grinenko +17

Topological materials ranging from topological insulators to Weyl and Dirac semimetals form one of the most exciting current fields in condensed-matter research. Many half-Heusler…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 73 cited

Influence of defect thickness on the angular dependence of coercivity in rare-earth permanent magnets

Simon Bance, Harald Oezelt, Thomas Schrefl +12

The coercive field and angular dependence of the coercive field of single-grain NdFeB permanent magnets are computed using finite element micromagnetics. It is shown t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 110 cited

Role of Berry phase theory for describing orbital magnetism: From magnetic heterostructures to topological orbital ferromagnets

Jan-Philipp Hanke, Frank Freimuth, Ashis Kumar Nandy +3

We address the importance of the modern theory of orbital magnetization for spintronics. Based on an all-electron first-principles approach, we demonstrate that the predictive powe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 51 cited

Fluid dynamics: an emerging route for the scalable production of graphene in the last five years

Min Yi, Zhigang Shen

Bulk applications of graphene in fields such as advanced composites, conductive ink, and energy storage require cheap and scalable graphene. Fortunately, in the last decade, liquid…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 24 cited

Tailoring Magnetic Frustration in Strained Epitaxial FeRh Films

Ralf Witte, Robert Kruk, Markus E. Gruner +8

We report on a strain-induced martensitic transformation, accompanied by a suppression of magnetic order in epitaxial films of chemically disordered FeRh. X-ray diffraction, transm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 52 cited

Multiferroic clusters: a new perspective for relaxor-type room-temperature multiferroics

Leonard F. Henrichs, Oscar Cespedes, James Bennett +9

Multiferroics are promising for sensor and memory applications, but despite all efforts invested in their research no single-phase material displaying both ferroelectricity and lar…