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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 231 cited

Landau quantization and the thickness limit of topological insulator thin films of Sb2Te3

Yeping Jiang, Yilin Wang, Mu Chen +7

We report the experimental observation of Landau quantization of molecular beam epitaxy grown Sb2Te3 thin films by a low-temperature scanning tunneling microscope. Different from a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 188 cited

Fermi Level Tuning of Epitaxial Sb2Te3 Thin Films on Graphene by Regulating Intrinsic Defects and Substrate Transfer Doping

Yeping Jiang, Y. Y. Sun, Mu Chen +9

High-quality Sb2Te3 films are obtained by molecular beam epitaxy on graphene substrate and investigated by in situ scanning tunneling microscopy/spectroscopy. Intrinsic defects res…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 480 cited

Suppression of Phase Separation in LiFePO4 Nanoparticles During Battery Discharge

Peng Bai, Daniel A. Cogswell, Martin Z. Bazant

Using a novel electrochemical phase-field model, we question the common belief that LixFePO4 nanoparticles separate into Li-rich and Li-poor phases during battery discharge. For sm…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 76 cited

Current induced anisotropic magnetoresistance in topological insulator films

Jian Wang, Handong Li, Cui-Zu Chang +7

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but possess spin-momentum locked metallic surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. The existence of these surface state…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 283 cited

Carrier-independent ferromagnetism and giant anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological insulator

Cui-Zu Chang, Jin-Song Zhang, Min-Hao Liu +13

Breaking the time-reversal symmetry of a topological insulator (TI) by ferromagnetism can induce exotic magnetoelectric phenomena such as quantized anomalous Hall (QAH) effect. Exp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 573 cited

Band structure engineering in (Bi1-xSbx)2Te3 ternary topological insulators

Jinsong Zhang, Cui-Zu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang +10

Three-dimensional (3D) topological insulators (TI) are novel quantum materials with insulating bulk and topologically protected metallic surfaces with Dirac-like band structure. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 55 cited

Interplay between topological insulators and superconductors

Jian Wang, Cui-Zu Chang, Handong Li +8

Topological insulators are insulating in the bulk but possess metallic surface states protected by time-reversal symmetry. Here, we report a detailed electronic transport study in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 20 cited

Viscous damping of nanobeam resonators: humidity, thermal noise and the paddling effect

Chao Chen, Ming Ma, Jefferson Zhe Liu +2

The nanobeam resonator is the key mechanical component in the nano-electromechanical system. In addition to its high frequency originating from its low dimension, the performance i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 275 cited

Mechanical Properties of Graphene Papers

Yilun Liu, Bo Xie, Zhong Zhang +2

Graphene-based papers attract particular interests recently owing to their outstanding properties, the key of which is their layer-by-layer hierarchical structures similar to the b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 16 cited

Adsorption and dissociation of water on Zr(0001) with density-functional theory studies

Shuang-Xi Wang, Ping Zhang, Peng Zhang +2

The adsorption and dissociation of isolated water molecule on Zr(0001) surface are theoretically investigated for the first time by using density-functional theory calculations. Tw…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 353 cited

Stable nontrivial Z2 topology in ultrathin Bi (111) films: a first-principles study

Zheng Liu, Chao-Xing Liu, Yong-Shi Wu +3

Recently, there have been intense efforts in searching for new topological insulator (TI) materials. Based on first-principles calculations, we find that all the ultrathin Bi (111)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 8 cited

Adsorption and diffusion of H2O molecule on the Be(0001) surface: A density-functional theory study

Shuang-Xi Wang, Peng Zhang, Jian Zhao +2

Using first-principles calculations, we systematically study the adsorption behavior of a single molecular HO on the Be(0001) surface. We find that the favored molecular adso…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 365 cited

Crossover between weak localization and weak antilocalization in magnetically doped topological insulator

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

Topological insulators (TI) are a new class of quantum materials with insulating bulk enclosed by topologically protected metallic boundaries. The surface states of three-dimension…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 33 cited

Half-metallic Surface States and Topological Superconductivity in NaCoO from first principles

Hongming Weng, Gang Xu, Haijun Zhang +3

Based on first-principles calculations, we predict a half-metallic surface state in layered bulk insulator NaCoO2, with tunable surface hole concentration. The half-metallic surfac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 21 cited

Comment on "Atomic Scale Structure and Chemical Composition across Order-Disorder Interfaces"

Binghui Ge, Jing Zhu

Interfaces have long been known to be the key to many mechanical and electric properties. To nickel base superalloys which have perfect creep and fatigue properties and have been w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 233 cited

Topological insulators for high performance terahertz to infrared applications

Xiao Zhang, Jing Wang, Shou-Cheng Zhang

Topological insulators in the Bi2Se3 family have an energy gap in the bulk and a gapless surface state consisting of a single Dirac cone. Low frequency optical absorption due to th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 28 cited

Fast electrochemical doping due to front instability in organic semiconductors

V. Bychkov, P. Matyba, V. Akkerman +6

The electrochemical doping transformation in organic semiconductor devices is studied in application to light-emitting cells. It is shown that the device performance can be signifi…