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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 51 cited

Stretching Epitaxial La0.6Sr0.4CoO3-δ for Fast Oxygen Reduction

Dongkyu Lee, Ryan Jacobs, Youngseok Jee +7

The slow kinetics of the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is one of the key challenges in developing high performance energy devices, such as solid oxide fuel cells. Straining a fil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 40 cited

Direct Probing of Polarization Charges at the Nanoscale

Owoong Kwon, Daehee Seol, Dongkyu Lee +8

Ferroelectric materials possess spontaneous polarization that can be used for multiple applications. Owing to a long term development for reducing the sizes of devices, the prepara…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 60 cited

Direct atomic fabrication and dopant positioning in Si using electron beams with active real time image-based feedback

Stephen Jesse, Bethany M. Hudak, Eva Zarkadoula +9

Semiconductor fabrication is a mainstay of modern civilization, enabling the myriad applications and technologies that underpin everyday life. However, while sub-10 nanometer devic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 8 cited

Electronic Reconstruction Enhanced Tunneling Conductance at Terrace Edges of Ultrathin Oxide Films

Lingfei Wang, Rokyeon Kim, Yoonkoo Kim +10

Quantum mechanical tunneling of electrons across ultrathin insulating oxide barriers has been studied extensively for decades due to its great potential in electronic device applic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 44 cited

High-temperature magnetostructural transition in van der Waals-layered a-MoCl3

Michael A. McGuire, Jiaqiang Yan, Paula Lampen-Kelley +9

The crystallographic and magnetic properties of the cleavable 4d3 transition metal compound a-MoCl3 are reported, with a focus on the behavior above room temperature. Crystals were…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 3 cited

Valence, exchange interaction, and location of Mn in polycrystalline Mn(x)Ga(1-x)N (x<0.04)

A. Furrer, K. W. Kraemer, A. Podlesnyak +3

We present an experimental study for polycrystalline samples of the diluted magnetic semiconductor Mn(x)Ga(1-x)N (x<0.04) in order to address some of the existing controversial iss…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 38 cited

Effect of surface ionic screening on polarization reversal scenario in ferroelectric thin films: crossover from ferroionic to antiferroionic states

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Anatolii I. Kurchak +4

Nonlinear electrostatic interaction between the surface ions of electrochemical nature and ferroelectric dipoles gives rise to the coupled ferroionic states in nanoscale ferroelect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 25 cited

E-beam manipulation of Si atoms on graphene edges with aberration-corrected STEM

Ondrej Dyck, Songkil Kim, Sergei V. Kalinin +1

The burgeoning field of atomic level material control holds great promise for future breakthroughs in quantum and memristive device manufacture and fundamental studies of atomic-sc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 56 cited

Stabilization of Polar Nano Regions in Pb-free ferroelectrics

A. Pramanick, W. Dmowski, T. Egami +7

Formation of polar nano regions through solid-solution additions are known to enhance significantly the functional properties of ferroelectric materials. Despite considerable progr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 158 cited

Evaluation of microstructure and mechanical property variations in AlxCoCrFeNi high entropy alloys produced by a high-throughput laser deposition method

Mu Li, Jaume Gazquez, Albina Borisevich +2

Twenty-one distinct AlxCoCrFeNi alloys were rapidly prepared by laser alloying an equiatomic CoCrFeNi substrate with Al powder to create an alloy library ranging x=0.15-1.32. Varia…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 13 cited

Tuning the diffusion of magnon in Y3Fe5O12 by light excitation

Shuanhu Wang, Gang Li, Erjia Guo +11

Deliberate control of magnon transportation will lead to an energy-efficient technology for information transmission and processing. Y3Fe5O12(YIG), exhibiting extremely large magno…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 80 cited

Room-Temperature Electron-Hole Liquid in Monolayer MoS2

Yiling Yu, Alexander Bataller, Robert Younts +6

Excitons in semiconductors are usually non interacting and behave like an ideal gas, but may condense to a strongly correlated liquid like state, i.e. electron hole liquid (EHL), a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 121 cited

Assembling Di- and Multiatomic Si Clusters in Graphene via Electron Beam Manipulation

Ondrej Dyck, Songkil Kim, Elisa Jimenez-Izal +3

We demonstrate assembly of di-, tri- and tetrameric Si clusters on the graphene surface using sub-atomically focused electron beam of a scanning transmission electron microscope. H…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 38 cited

Data Mining for better material synthesis: the case of pulsed laser deposition of complex oxides

Steven R. Young, Artem Maksov, Maxim Ziatdinov +8

The pursuit of more advanced electronics, finding solutions to energy needs, and tackling a wealth of social issues often hinges upon the discovery and optimization of new function…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 71 cited

Charge transfer in iridate-manganite superlattices

Satoshi Okamoto, John Nichols, Changhee Sohn +3

Charge transfer in superlattices consisting of SrIrO and SrMnO is investigated using density functional theory. Despite the nearly identical work function and non-polar int…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 86 cited

Electron Accumulation and Emergent Magnetism in LaMnO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures

Zuhuang Chen, Zhanghui Chen, Z. Q. Liu +19

Emergent phenomena at polar-nonpolar oxide interfaces have been studied intensely in pursuit of next-generation oxide electronics and spintronics. Here we report the disentanglemen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 9 cited

Pinning, Rotation, and Metastability of BiFeO Cycloidal Domains in a Magnetic Field

Randy S. Fishman

Earlier models for the room-temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 implicitly assumed that a very strong anisotropy restricts the domain wavevectors q to the three-fold symmetric axis nor…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 7 cited

Magnetic ground states and magnetodielectric effect in Cr(BO) ( = Y and Ho)

R. Sinclair, H. D. Zhou, M. Lee +4

The layered perovskites Cr(BO) ( = Y and Ho) with magnetic triangular lattices were studied by performing ac/dc susceptibility, specific heat, elastic and inelastic n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 10 cited

Evolution of the magnetic and structural properties of FeCoVO

R. Sinclair, J. Ma, H. B. Cao +4

The magnetic and structural properties of single crystal FeCoVO samples have been investigated by performing specific heat, susceptibility, neutron diffractio…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 39 cited

Mitigating E-beam-induced Hydrocarbon Deposition on Graphene for Atomic-Scale Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy Studies

Ondrej Dyck, Songkil Kim, Sergei V. Kalinin +1

CVD grown graphene used in (scanning) transmission electron microscopy ((S)TEM) studies must undergo a careful transfer of the one-atom-thick membrane from the growth surface (typi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 5 cited

Temperature dependence of interlayer coupling in perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions with GdOx barriers

T. Newhouse-Illige, Y. H. Xu, Y. H. Liu +6

Perpendicular magnetic tunnel junctions with GdOX tunneling barriers have shown a unique voltage controllable interlayer magnetic coupling effect. Here we investigate the quality o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 28 cited

Magnetic order induces symmetry breaking in the single crystalline orthorhombic CuMnAs semimetal

Eve Emmanouilidou, Huibo Cao, Peizhe Tang +7

Recently, orthorhombic CuMnAs has been proposed to be a magnetic material where topological fermions exist around the Fermi level. Here we report the magnetic structure of the orth…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 21 cited

Manipulating Multiple Order Parameters via Oxygen Vacancies: The case of Eu0.5Ba0.5TiO3-δ

Weiwei Li, Qian He, Le Wang +27

Controlling functionalities, such as magnetism or ferroelectricity, by means of oxygen vacancies (VO) is a key issue for the future development of transition metal oxides. Progress…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 16 cited

The Microscopic Model of BiFeO

Randy S. Fishman

Many years and great effort have been spent constructing the microscopic model for the room temperature multiferroic BiFeO3 However, earlier models implicitly assumed that the cycl…