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cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Inverse determination of light-matter coupling in disordered systems from transmittance spectra

Thales F. Macedo, Julián Faúndez, Antônio S. Coelho +4

We investigate quantum inverse problems in one-dimensional (1D) electronic disordered systems strongly coupled to optical cavities. More specifically, we consider the Anderson and…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Monolayer Capping Provides Close to Optimal Resistance to Laser Dewetting of Au Films

Christopher P. Murray, Daniyar Mamyraimov, Mugahid Ali +5

Next-generation heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) relies on fast, localized heating of the magnetic medium during the write process. Au plasmonic near-field transducers are a…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 14 cited

Deterministic multi-level spin orbit torque switching using He+ microscopy patterning

Jinu Kurian, Aleena Joseph, Salia Cherifi-Hertel +7

He ion irradiation is used to pattern multiple areas of Pt/Co/W films with different irradiation doses in Hall bars. The resulting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy landscape e…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 133 cited

Towards Chirality Control of Graphene Nanoribbons Embedded in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Hui Shan Wang, Lingxiu Chen, Kenan Elibol +16

The integrated inplane growth of two dimensional materials with similar lattices, but distinct electrical properties, could provide a promising route to achieve integrated circuitr…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 29 cited

Helium Ion Microscopy for Reduced Spin Orbit Torque Switching Currents

Peter Dunne, Ciaran Fowley, Gregor Hlawacek +11

Spin orbit torque driven switching is a favourable way to manipulate nanoscale magnetic objects for both memory and wireless communication devices. The critical current required to…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 10 cited

Time-resolved impurity-invisibility in graphene nanoribbons

Riku Tuovinen, Michael A. Sentef, Claudia Gomes da Rocha +1

We investigate time-resolved charge transport through graphene nanoribbons supplemented with adsorbed impurity atoms. Depending on the location of the impurities with respect to th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 70 cited

Environmental effects on the electrical characteristics of back-gated WSe2 field effect transistors

Francesca Urban, Lisanne Peters, Nadia Martucciello +2

We study the effect of polymer coating, pressure and temperature on the electrical characteristics of monolayer WSe2 back-gated transistors with quasi-ohmic Ni/Au contacts. We find…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 123 cited

A WSe2 vertical field emission transistor

Antonio Di Bartolomeo, Francesca Urban, Maurizio Passacantando +6

We report the first observation of gate-controlled field emission current from a tungsten diselenide (WSe2) monolayer, synthesized by chemical-vapour deposition on SiO2/Si substrat…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 27 cited

Antiferromagnetic Single-layer Spin-Orbit Torque Oscillators

Roberto E. Troncoso, Karsten Rode, Plamen Stamenov +2

We show how a charge current through a single antiferromagnetic layer can excite and control self-oscillations. Sustained oscillations with tunable amplitudes and frequencies are p…

cond-mat.mes-hall2018★ 94 cited

Spectroscopic size and thickness metrics for liquid-exfoliated h-BN

Aideen Griffin, Andrew Harvey, Brian Cunningham +8

For many 2D materials, optical and Raman spectra are richly structured, and convey information on a range of parameters including nanosheet size and defect content. By contrast, th…

cond-mat.mes-hall2017★ 31 cited

Multi-scale modelling of current-induced switching in magnetic tunnel junctions using ab initio spin transfer torques

Matthew O. A. Ellis, Maria Stamenova, Stefano Sanvito

There exists a significant challenge in developing efficient magnetic tunnel junctions with low write currents for non-volatile memory devices. With the aim of analysing potential…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 16 cited

Theoretical evaluation of [V(α-CS)] as nuclear-spin sensitive single-molecule spin transistor

Salvador Cardona-Serra, Alejandro Gaita-Ariño, Maria Stamenova +1

In a straightforward application of molecular nanospintronics to quantum computing, single-molecule spin transistors can be used to measure and control nuclear spin qubits. A jump…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016

Programmable graphene doping via electron beam irradiation

Yangbo Zhou, Jakub Jadwiszczak, Darragh Keane +3

Graphene is a promising candidate to succeed silicon based devices and doping holds the key to graphene electronics. Conventional doping methods through surface functionalization o…

cond-mat.mes-hall2016★ 23 cited

Non-equilibrium magnetic fields in ab initio spin dynamics

Jacopo Simoni, Maria Stamenova, Stefano Sanvito

Starting from the continuity equation for the magnetization in time-dependent spin-density functional theory, we derive an expression for the effective time-dependent magnetic fiel…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 31 cited

The role of spin-orbit interaction in the ultrafast demagnetization of small iron clusters

Maria Stamenova, Jacopo Simoni, Stefano Sanvito

The ultra-fast demagnetization of small iron clusters initiated by an intense optical excitation is studied with time-dependent spin density functional theory (TDSDFT). In particul…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 14 cited

Charge transfer energies of benzene physisorbed on a graphene sheet from constrained density functional theory

Subhayan Roychoudhury, Carlo Motta, Stefano Sanvito

Constrained density functional theory (CDFT) is used to evaluate the energy level alignment of a benzene molecule as it approaches a graphene sheet. Within CDFT the problem is conv…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 80 cited

Spectral Sensitivity of Graphene/Silicon Heterojunction Photodetectors

Sarah Riazimehr, Andreas Bablich, Daniel Schneider +5

We have studied the optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) Schottky photodiode heterojunctions made of chemical vapor deposited (CVD) graphene on n- and p-type Silicon (Si) sub…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 29 cited

Understanding and optimising the packing density of perylene bisimide layers on CVD-grown graphene

Nina C. Berner, Sinéad Winters, Claudia Backes +7

The non-covalent functionalisation of graphene is an attractive strategy to alter the surface chemistry of graphene without damaging its superior electrical and mechanical properti…

cond-mat.mes-hall2015★ 1.1k cited

Liquid exfoliation of solvent-stabilised black phosphorus: applications beyond electronics

Damien Hanlon, Claudia Backes, Evie Doherty +20

Few layer black phosphorus is a new two-dimensional material which is of great interest for applications, mainly in electronics. However, its lack of stability severely limits our…

cond-mat.mes-hall2013★ 6 cited

Multiprobe quantum spin Hall bars

Awadhesh Narayan, Stefano Sanvito

We analyze electron transport in multiprobe quantum spin Hall (QSH) bars using the Büttiker formalism and draw parallels with their quantum Hall (QH) counterparts. We find that in…