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most citedOn-surface synthesis of graphene nanoribbons with zigzag edge topology

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Observation of a phonon bottleneck effect on the thermal depopulation from a photoexcited shallow defect in silicon

Sergio Revuelta, Hai I. Wang, Mischa Bonn +1

We report the observation of a phonon bottleneck effect impacting the thermal depopulation of photoexcited shallow defects in high-resistivity silicon. Using time-resolved terahert…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 32 cited

Cove-edged Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons with Chirality-Dependent Bandgap and Carrier Mobility

K. Liu, W. Zheng, S. Osella +13

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) have garnered significant interest due to their highly customizable physicochemical properties and potential utility in nanoelectronics. Besides control…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

The role of precursor coverage in the synthesis and substrate transfer of graphene nanoribbons

Rimah Darawish, Oliver Braun, Klaus Muellen +4

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) with atomically precise widths and edge topologies have well-defined band gaps that depend on ribbon dimensions, making them ideal for room-temperature…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 44 cited

On the critical competition between singlet exciton decay and free charge generation in non-fullerene-based organic solar cells with low energetic offsets

M. Pranav, A. Shukla, D. Moser +16

In this era of non-fullerene acceptor (NFA) based organic solar cells, reducing voltage losses while maintaining high photocurrents is the holy grail of current research. Recent fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 10 cited

Stabilizing perpendicular magnetic anisotropy with strong exchange bias in PtMn/Co by magneto-ionics

Beatrice Bednarz, Maria-Andromachi Syskaki, Rohit Pachat +7

Electric field control of magnetic properties offers a broad and promising toolbox for enabling ultra-low power electronics. A key challenge with high technological relevance is to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 16 cited

Identifying the Origin of Thermal Modulation of Exchange Bias in MnPS3/Fe3GeTe2 van der Waals Heterostructures

Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar, Patrick Reiser +21

The exchange bias phenomenon, inherent in exchange-coupled ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic systems, has intrigued researchers for decades. Van der Waals materials, with their l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 43 cited

Durable, ultrathin, and antifouling polymer brush coating for efficient condensation heat transfer

Shuai Li, Cheuk Wing Edmond Lam, Matteo Donati +9

Heat exchangers are made of metals because of their high heat conductivity and mechanical stability. Metal surfaces are inherently hydrophilic, leading to inefficient filmwise cond…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 12 cited

Signatures of Mode-Resolved, Nonlocal Electron-Phonon Coupling in Two-Dimensional Spectroscopy

Sheng Qu, Vishal K. Sharma, Jaco Geuchies +4

Electron-phonon coupling (EPC) is foundational in condensed matter physics, determining intriguing phenomena and properties in both conventional and quantum materials. In this manu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 20 cited

Quantifying Alignment and Quality of Graphene Nanoribbons: A Polarized Raman Spectroscopy Approach

Rimah Darawish, Jan Overbeck, Klaus Müllen +4

Graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are atomically precise stripes of graphene with tunable electronic properties, making them promising for room-temperature switching applications like fi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 28 cited

Harnessing van der Waals CrPS4 and Surface Oxides for non-monotonic pre-set field induced Exchange Bias in Fe3GeTe2

Aravind Puthirath Balan, Aditya Kumar, Tanja Scholz +12

Two-dimensional van der Waals (vdW) heterostructures are an attractive platform for studying exchange bias due to their defect free and atomically flat interfaces. Chromium thiopho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 8 cited

Condensed-phase molecular representation to link structure and thermodynamics in molecular dynamics

Bernadette Mohr, Diego van der Mast, Tristan Bereau

Molecular design requires systematic and broadly applicable methods to extract structure-property relationships. The focus of this study is on learning thermodynamic properties fro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 25 cited

Probing Carrier Dynamics in sp-Functionalized Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes with Time-Resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy

Wenhao Zheng, Nicolas F. Zorn, Mischa Bonn +2

The controlled introduction of covalent sp defects into semiconducting single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) gives rise to exciton localization and red-shifted near-infrare…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 252 cited

FAIR data enabling new horizons for materials research

Matthias Scheffler, Martin Aeschlimann, Martin Albrecht +11

The prosperity and lifestyle of our society are very much governed by achievements in condensed matter physics, chemistry and materials science, because new products for sectors su…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 46 cited

Growth optimization and device integration of narrow-bandgap graphene nanoribbons

Gabriela Borin Barin, Qiang Sun, Marco Di Giovannantonio +26

The electronic, optical and magnetic properties of graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) can be engineered by controlling their edge structure and width with atomic precision through bottom-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 90 cited

Chemical design rules for non-fullerene acceptors in organic solar cells

A. Markina, K. -H. Lin, W. Liu +14

Efficiencies of organic solar cells have practically doubled since the development of non-fullerene acceptors (NFAs). However, generic chemical design rules for donor-NFA combinati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 61 cited

Charge Photogeneration in Non-Fullerene Organic Solar Cells: Influence of Excess Energy and Electrostatic Interactions

Maria Saladina, Pablo Simón Marqués, Anastasia Markina +11

In organic solar cells, photogenerated singlet excitons form charge transfer (CT) complexes, which subsequently split into free charge carriers. Here, we consider the contributions…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 20 cited

Determination of the elastic moduli of CVD graphene by probing graphene/polymer Bragg stacks

Bohai Liu, Christos Pavlou, Zuyuan Wang +3

Graphene has been widely used in the form of micro-flakes to fabricate composite materials with enhanced mechanical properties. Due to the small size of the inclusions and their ra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 34 cited

Spatially resolved fluorescence of caesium lead halide perovskite supercrystals reveals quasi-atomic behavior of nanocrystals

Dmitry Lapkin, Christopher Kirsch, Jonas Hiller +16

We correlate spatially resolved fluorescence (-lifetime) measurements with X-ray nanodiffraction to reveal surface defects in supercrystals of self-assembled caesium lead halide pe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 24 cited

Using silicon-vacancy centers in diamond to probe the full strain tensor

Kelsey M. Bates, Matthew W. Day, Christopher L. Smallwood +5

An ensemble of silicon vacancy centers in diamond (\ce{SiV-}) is probed using two coherent spectroscopy techniques. Two main distinct families of \ce{SiV-} centers are identified u…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 12 cited

Thickness-dependent electron momentum relaxation times in iron films

K. L. Krewer, W. Zhang, J. Arabski +4

Terahertz time-domain conductivity measurements in 2 to 100 nm thick iron films resolve the femtosecond time delay between applied electric fields and resulting currents. This curr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 117 cited

Long-Lived Charge Separation Following Pump-Energy Dependent Ultrafast Charge Transfer in Graphene/WS Heterostructures

Shuai Fu, Indy du Fossé, Xiaoyu Jia +11

Van der Waals heterostructures consisting of graphene and transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) have recently shown great promise for high-performance optoelectronic application…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 40 cited

Transferability of neural network potentials for varying stoichiometry: phonons and thermal conductivity of MnGe compounds

Claudia Mangold, Shunda Chen, Giuseppe Barbalinardo +7

Germanium manganese compounds exhibit a variety of stable and metastable phases with different stoichiometry. These materials entail interesting electronic, magnetic and thermal pr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 27 cited

On-surface synthesis of polyazulene with 2,6-connectivity

Qiang Sun, Ian Cheng-Yi Hou, Kristjan Eimre +4

Azulene, the smallest neutral nonalternant aromatic hydrocarbon, serves as not only a prototype for fundamental studies but also a versatile building block for functional materials…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019★ 96 cited

On-surface synthesis of antiaromatic and open-shell indeno[2,1-b]fluorene polymers and their lateral fusion into porous ribbons

Marco Di Giovannantonio, Kristjan Eimre, Aliaksandr V. Yakutovich +8

Polycyclic hydrocarbons have received great attention due to their potential role in organic electronics and, for open-shell systems with unpaired electron densities, in spintronic…