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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 30 cited

Discovery of ferromagnetism with large magnetic anisotropy in ZrMnP and HfMnP

Tej N. Lamichhane, Valentin Taufour, Morgan W. Masters +5

ZrMnP and HfMnP single crystals are grown by a self-flux growth technique and structural as well as temperature dependent magnetic and transport properties are studied. Both compou…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 17 cited

Band-gap tuning and optical response of two-dimensional SiC: A first-principles real space study of disordered 2D materials

Banasree Sadhukhan, Prashant Singh, Arabinda Nayak +3

We present a real-space formulation for calculating the electronic structure and optical conductivity of such random alloys based on the Kubo-Greenwood formalism interfaced with th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 59 cited

Large magnetic anisotropy predicted for rare-earth free Fe16-xCoxN2 alloys

Xin Zhao, Cai-Zhuang Wang, Yongxin Yao +1

Structures and magnetic properties of Fe16-xCoxN2 are studied using adaptive genetic algorithm and first-principles calculations. We show that substituting Fe by Co in Fe16N2 with…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 47 cited

Intrinsic magnetic properties of {(FeCo)Ti} ( = Y and Ce; = H, C, and N)

Liqin Ke, Duane D. Johnson

To guide improved properties coincident with reduction of critical materials in permanent magnets, we investigate via density functional theory (DFT) the intrinsic magnetic propert…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 18 cited

Origin of magnetic anisotropy in doped CeCo alloys

Liqin Ke, D. A. Kukusta, Duane D. Johnson

Magnetocrystalline anisotropy (MCA) in doped CeCo and other competing structures was investigated using density functional theory. We confirmed that the MCA contributi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 16 cited

Physical properties of single crystalline MgCu ( = Y, Ce-Nd, Gd-Dy, Yb) and the search for in-plane magnetic anisotropy in hexagonal systems

Tai Kong, William R. Meier, Qisheng Lin +4

Single crystals of MgCu (=Y, Ce-Nd, Gd-Dy, Yb) were grown using a high-temperature solution growth technique and were characterized by measurements of room-temper…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 7 cited

Tailoring Kinetics on a Topological Insulator Surface by Defect-Induced Strain: Pb Mobility on Bi2Te3

Wen-Kai Huang, Kai-Wen Zhang, Chao-Long Yang +5

Heteroepitaxial structures based on BiTe-type topological insulators (TIs) exhibit exotic quantum phenomena. For optimal characterization of these phenomena, it is desi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 4 cited

Electronic properties of GeTe and Ag- or Sb-substituted GeTe studied by low temperature 125Te NMR

J. Cui, E. M. Levin, Y. Lee +1

We have carried out Te nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) in a wide temperature range of 1.5 -- 300 K to investigate electronic properties of GeTe, AgGe$_…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 43 cited

Magnetic Fluctuations, Precursor Phenomena and Phase Transition in MnSi under Magnetic Field

C. Pappas, L. J. Bannenberg, E. Lelievre-Berna +6

The reference chiral helimagnet MnSi is the first system where skyrmion lattice correlations have been reported. At zero magnetic field the transition at to the helimagnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 33 cited

X-Ray diffraction on large single crystals using a powder diffractometer

A. Jesche, M. Fix, A. Kreyssig +2

Information on the lattice parameter of single crystals with known crystallographic structure allows for estimations of sample quality and composition. In many cases it is suffcien…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016

Electric and Magnetic response in dielectric dark states for low loss subwavelength optical meta atoms

A. Jain, P. Moitra, Th. Koschny +2

Created surfaces or meta surfaces, composed of appropriately shaped sub-wavelength structures, namely, meta-atoms, control light at wavelength scales. Historically, meta surfaces h…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 328 cited

Observation of Fermi Arcs in Type-II Weyl Semimetal Candidate WTe2

Yun Wu, Na Hyun Jo, Daixiang Mou +4

We use ultrahigh resolution, tunable, vacuum ultraviolet laser angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) to study the electronic properties of WTe, a material that was…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 61 cited

Asymmetric mass acquisition in LaBi - a new topological semimetal candidate

Yun Wu, Tai Kong, Lin-Lin Wang +7

We use our high resolution He-lamp based, tunable laser-based ARPES measurements and density functional theory calculations to study the electronic properties of LaBi, a binary sys…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 290 cited

Discovery of Dirac Node Arcs in PtSn4

Yun Wu, Lin-Lin Wang, Eundeok Mun +7

In topological quantum materials the conduction and valence bands are connected at points (Dirac/Weyl semimetals) or along lines (Line Node semimetals) in the momentum space. Numbe…