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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 6 cited

Chemical Doping and Enhanced Solar Energy Conversion of Graphene/Silicon Junctions

Xinming Li, Hongwei Zhu, Kunlin Wang +4

The effect of chemical doping of graphene films on the photovoltaic properties of the graphene/silicon Schottky junction solar cells was investigated. Thionyl chloride modification…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 92 cited

Size dependent electric voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy in multiferroic heterostructures: Interface-charge and strain co-mediated magnetoelectric coupling

Jia-Mian Hu, Ce-Wen Nan, Long-Qing Chen

We present a phenomenological scheme to study the size-dependent electric voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy in ferromagnetic (FM)/ferroelectric (FE) heterostructures. The FM l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010

Edge Stability of BN sheets and Its Application for Designing Hybrid BNC Structures

Bing Huang, Hoonkyung Lee, Bing-Lin Gu +2

First-principles investigations on the edge energies and edge stresses of single-layer hexagonal boron-nitride (BN) are presented. The armchair edges of BN nanoribbons (BNNRs) are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 6 cited

Helical Edge Modes near Transition to Topological Insulator with Indirect Gap

Shijun Mao, Yoshio Kuramoto

Helical edge modes are characteristic of topological insulators in two dimensions. This paper demonstrates that helical edge modes remain across transitions to ordinary insulators…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 252 cited

Electron interaction-driven insulating ground state in Bi2Se3 topological insulators in the two dimensional limit

Minhao Liu, Cui-Zu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang +10

We report a transport study of ultrathin Bi2Se3 topological insulators with thickness from one quintuple layer to six quintuple layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy. At low tempe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 5 cited

Dynamic microscopic structures and dielectric response in the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transition for BaTiO3 studied by first-principles molecular dynamics simulation

L. Xie, Y. L. Li, R. Yu +1

The dynamic structures of the cubic and tetragonal phase in BaTiO3 and its dielectric response above the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transition temperature (Tp) are studied by first-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 47 cited

Graphite Nanoeraser

Ze Liu, Peter. Bøggild, Jia-rui Yang +5

We present here a method for cleaning intermediate-size (5~50nm) contamination from highly oriented pyrolytic graphite. Electron beam deposition causes a continuous increase of car…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 3 cited

Releasing H2 molecules with a partial pressure difference without the use of temperature

Hoonkyung Lee, Bing Huang, Wenhui Duan +1

Using the pseudopotential density functional method as well as equilibrium thermodynamic functions, we explore the process of releasing H2 molecules adsorbed on a transition metal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 19 cited

The Half-Metallicity of Zigzag Graphene Nanoribbons with Asymmetric Edge Terminations

Zuanyi Li, Bing Huang, Wenhui Duan

The spin-polarized electronic structure and half-metallicity of zigzag graphene nanoribbons (ZGNRs) with asymmetric edge terminations are investigated by using first principles cal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 129 cited

Multiplexed five-color molecular imaging of cancer cells and tumor tissues with carbon nanotube Raman tags in the near-infrared

Zhuang Liu, Scott Tabakman, Sarah Sherlock +5

Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs) with five different C13/C12 isotope compositions and well-separated Raman peaks have been synthesized and conjugated to five targeting ligand…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 34 cited

Ab initio study of beryllium-decorated fullerenes for hydrogen storage

Hoonkyung Lee, Bing Huang, Wenhui Duan +1

We have found that a beryllium (Be) atom on nanostructured materials with H2 molecules generates a Kubas-like dihydrogen complex [H. Lee et al. arXiv:1002.2247v1 (2010)]. Here, we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 14 cited

Beryllium-dihydrogen complexes on nanostructures

Hoonkyung Lee, Bing Huang, Wenhui Duan +1

Using the pseudopotential density functional method, we find that a Be atom on a nanostructure with H2 molecules forms a Be-dihydrogen complex through the hybridization of the Be s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 35 cited

Spin Helix of Magnetic Impurities in Two-dimensional Helical Metal

Fei Ye, Guo-Hui Ding, Hui Zhai +1

We analyze the Ruderman-Kettel-Kasuya-Yosida(RKKY) interaction between magnetic impurities embedded in the helical metal on the surface of three-dimensional topological insulators.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 38 cited

Anomalous Hall Effect in Fe/Gd Bilayers

W. J. Xu, B. Zhang, Z. X. Liu +5

Non-monotonic dependence of anomalous Hall resistivity on temperature and magnetization, including a sign change, was observed in Fe/Gd bilayers. To understand the intriguing obser…