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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Fracture energy of 6H-SiC at the microscale: effects of testing geometry and notch preparation

Zhuoqi Lucas Li, Siyang Wang, Ao Li +5

Micromechanical testing enables small-scale fracture energy measurements, but values depend strongly on geometry and specimen preparation. Here, the fracture energy of the single-c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Kinetically Arrested Twin-Domain State in Formamidinium Lead Iodide

Xia Liang, Milos Dubajic, Zezhu Zeng +4

Hybrid lead halide perovskites exhibit a delicate interplay between average crystallographic symmetry, local structural disorder and A-site orientational dynamics, giving rise to u…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Microstructural characteristics, atomic-scale features, and growth mechanisms of deuterides (hydrides) in hafnium

Di Wang, Catriona M McGilvery, James O Douglas +1

Hafnium hydride is a promising material for next-generation nuclear reactors, particularly as control rods for fast fission and shielding in fusion systems. The material's intrinsi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 8 cited

Microstructural origin of the simultaneous enhancements in strength and ductility of a nitrogen-doped high-entropy alloy

Xiaoxiang Wu, Zhujun Sun, Wenqi Guo +9

As one of the most abundant interstitial elements, nitrogen (N) is effective in improving yield strength of metallic materials, due to interstitial solid solution strengthening. Do…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Tailoring Ultrathin Magnetic Multilayers at Terraced Topologically Insulating Interfaces for Perpendicularly Magnetized Domains

Benjamin A. Brereton, Soumyarup Hait, Ahmet Yagmur +8

Topological insulators and skyrmion-hosting, chiral magnetic multilayers are two well-explored areas of modern condensed matter physics, each offering unique advantages for spintro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Momentum-Resolved Electronic Structure and Orbital Hybridization in the Layered Antiferromagnet CrPS

Lasse Sternemann, David Maximilian Janas, Eshan Banerjee +8

Chromium thiophosphate (CrPS) is a layered two-dimensional antiferromagnetic semiconductor exhibiting intriguing spintronic and magneto-optical properties, yet its electronic b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

In situ elucidation of mechanisms governing crack transition to plasticity arrest

Abdalrhaman Koko, Bemin Sheen, Caitlin Green +1

Despite extensive theoretical treatment of short- to long-crack transitions, direct experimental quantification of how elastic and plastic energy contributions evolve at the crack…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Protection of metal interfaces against hydrogen-assisted cracking

Guillaume Hachet, Shaolou Wei, Ali Tehranchi +8

Enabling a hydrogen economy requires the development of materials resistant to hydrogen embrittlement (HE). More than 100 years of research have led to several mechanisms and model…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Magnetostriction as the origin of the magnetodielectric effect in La2CoMnO6

M. Boldrin, A. Bagri, D. Barlettani +12

The La2CoMnO6 (LCMO) perovskite has received a lot of attention due to its near room temperature magnetodielectric effect. Despite the recent efforts, the mechanism ruling the corr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Enhancement of spin-wave nonreciprocity and group velocity in a low-wavenumber regime

Shion Yoshimura, Shugo Yoshii, Ryo Ohshima +1

Nonreciprocity of spin waves is essential for components such as magnetic isolators and circulators used in spin-wave-based computing. A ferromagnetic (FM) bilayer exhibits signifi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Magnetic Ordering in Moiré Graphene Multilayers from a Continuum Hartree+U Approach

Christopher T. S. Cheung, Valerio Vitale, Lennart Klebl +5

Recently, symmetry-broken ground states, such as correlated insulating states, magnetic order and superconductivity, have been discovered in twisted bilayer graphene (tBLG) and twi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

General Learning of the Electric Response of Inorganic Materials

Bradley A. A. Martin, Alex M. Ganose, Venkat Kapil +2

We introduce \texttt{MACE-Field}, a field-aware, -equivariant interatomic potential that learns a single electric enthalpy functional an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Spin wave resonance in yttrium iron garnet stripe domains

Daniel Prestwood, Chris E. A. Barker, Kilian D. Stenning +15

We study a thin film yttrium iron garnet sample that exhibits magnetic stripe domains due to a small perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Using wide-field magneto-optic Kerr effect m…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Electronic Trap Detection with Carrier-Resolved Photo-Hall Effect

Oki Gunawan, Chaeyoun Kim, Bonfilio Nainggolan +11

Electronic trap states are a critical yet unavoidable aspect of semiconductor devices, impacting performance of various electronic devices such as transistors, memory devices, sola…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Terahertz-permittivity of Carbon Nitrides: Revealing humidity-enhanced dielectric properties on the picosecond timescales relevant for charge carrier photogeneration

Reehab Jahangir, Filip Podjaski, Paransa Alimard +6

Organic based semiconductor materials offer emerging and sustainable solutions for solar energy conversion technologies and electronics. However, knowledge of their intrinsic (phot…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 38 cited

Sulfur Vacancies Limit the Open-circuit Voltage of Sb2S3 Solar Cells

Xinwei Wang, Seán R. Kavanagh, Aron Walsh

Antimony sulfide (Sb2S3) is a promising candidate as an absorber layer for single-junction solar cells and the top subcell in tandem solar cells. However, the power conversion effi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

Field-induced antiferromagnetic correlations in a nanopatterned van der Waals ferromagnet: a potential artificial spin ice

Avia Noah, Nofar Fridman, Yishay Zur +15

Nano-patterned magnetic materials have opened new venues on the investigation of strongly correlated phenomena including artificial spin-ice systems, geometric frustration, magneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Stochastic cloaking: concealing a region from diffusive particles

Connor Roberts, Ziluo Zhang, Helder Rojas +4

We introduce "stochastic cloaking," where a region of space is concealed from an ensemble of diffusing particles whose individual trajectories are governed by a stochastic (Langevi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 14 cited

Roadmap for Animate Matter

Giorgio Volpe, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Maria Guix +37

Humanity has long sought inspiration from nature to innovate materials and devices. As science advances, nature-inspired materials are becoming part of our lives. Animate materials…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 26 cited

Segregation at prior austenite grain boundaries: the competition between boron and hydrogen

Guillaume Hachet, Ali Tehranchi, Hao Shi +8

The interaction between boron and hydrogen at grain boundaries has been investigated experimentally and numerically in boron-doped and boron-free martensitic steels using thermal d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 14 cited

Defects induce phase transition from dynamic to static rippling in graphene

Fabian L. Thiemann, Camille Scalliet, Erich A. Müller +1

Two-dimensional (2D) materials display nanoscale dynamic ripples that significantly impact their properties. Defects within the crystal lattice are the elementary building blocks t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 32 cited

Dynamic Nanodomains Dictate Macroscopic Properties in Lead Halide Perovskites

Milos Dubajic, James R. Neilson, Johan Klarbring +26

Empirical A-site cation substitution has advanced the stability and efficiency of hybrid organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites solar cells and the functionality of X-ray detect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Robust Quasi-Bound States in the continuum: Accidental and Symmetry-Protected Variants in Dielectric Metasurfaces

Hicham Mangach, Abdelhaq Belkacem, Younes Achaoui +3

Recently, man-made dielectric materials composed of finite-sized dielectric constituents have emerged as a promising platform for quasi-bound states in the continuum (QBICs). These…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 82 cited

doped: Python toolkit for robust and repeatable charged defect supercell calculations

Seán R. Kavanagh, Alexander G. Squires, Adair Nicolson +6

Defects are a universal feature of crystalline solids, dictating the key properties and performance of many functional materials. Given their crucial importance yet inherent diffic…