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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 108 cited

Molecular beam epitaxy growth and scanning tunneling microscopy study of TiSe ultrathin films

Jun-Ping Peng, Jia-Qi Guan, Hui-Min Zhang +5

Molecular beam epitaxy is used to grow TiSe2 ultrathin films on graphitized SiC(0001) substrate. TiSe2films proceed via a nearly layer-by-layer growth mode and exhibit two dominant…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 114 cited

Electrical manipulation of orbital occupancy and magnetic anisotropy in manganites

Bin Cui, Cheng Song, Gillian A. Gehring +7

Electrical manipulation of lattice, charge, and spin has been realized respectively by the piezoelectric effect, field-effect transistor, and electric field control of ferromagneti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Giant magnetodielectric metamaterial

Ke Bi, Ji Zhou, Xiaoming Liu

Dielectric materials with tunable permittivity are highly desirable for wireless communication, radar technology. However, the tunability of dielectric properties in the microwave…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 37 cited

(Ca,Na)(Zn,Mn)2As2: a new spin & charge doping decoupled diluted ferromagnetic semiconductor with hexagonal CaAl2Si2 structure

K. Zhao, B. J. Chen, Z. Deng +17

Here we report the successful synthesis of a spin- & charge-decoupled diluted magnetic semiconductor (Ca,Na)(Zn,Mn)2As2, crystallizing into the hexagonal CaAl2Si2 structure. The co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 121 cited

Chemical potential dependent gap-opening at the Dirac surface states of Bi2Se3 induced by aggregated substitutional Cr atoms

Cui-Zu Chang, Peizhe Tang, Yi-Lin Wang +11

With angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, gap-opening is resolved at up to room temperature in the Dirac surface states of molecular beam epitaxy grown Cr-doped Bi2Se3 topolo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 31 cited

Prediction of a Stable Post-Post-Perovskite Structure from First Principles

Changsong Xu, Bin Xu, Yurong Yang +6

A novel stable crystallographic structure is discovered in a variety of ABO3, ABF3 and A2O3 compounds (including materials of geological relevance, prototypes of multiferroics, exh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 58 cited

Electrically tuned magnetic order and magnetoresistance in a topological insulator

Zuocheng Zhang, Xiao Feng, Minghua Guo +10

The Dirac-like surface states of the topological insulators (TIs) are protected by time reversal symmetry (TRS) and exhibit a host of novel properties. Introducing magnetism into T…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Mechanical buckling induced periodic kinking/stripe microstructures in mechanically peeled graphite flakes from HOPG

Manrui Ren, Ze Liu, Quan-shui Zheng +1

Mechanical exfoliation is a widely used method to isolate high quality graphene layers from bulk graphite. In our recent experiments, some ordered microstructures, consisting of a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 30 cited

Electrically tunable multiple Dirac cones in thin films of (LaO)2(SbSe2)2 family of materials

Xiao-Yu Dong, Jian-Feng Wang, Rui-Xing Zhang +4

Two-dimensional Dirac physics has aroused great interests in condensed matter physics ever since the discovery of graphene and topological insulators due to its importance in both…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 19 cited

Magnetic domain-wall motion twisted by nanoscale probe-induced spin transfer

J. Wang, L. S. Xie, C. S. Wang +15

A method for deterministic control of the magnetic order parameter using an electrical stimulus is highly desired for the new generation of spintronic and magnetoelectronic devices…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 34 cited

Quantum anomalous Hall phase in (001) double-perovskite monolayers via intersite spin-orbit coupling

Hongbin Zhang, Huaqing Huang, Kristjan Haule +1

Using tight-binding models and first-principles calculations, we demonstrate the possibility to achieve a quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) phase on a two-dimensional square lattice, wh…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 4 cited

Inelastic electron tunneling spectroscopy of nanoporous gold films

H. W. Liu, R. Nishitani, T. Fujita +8

We investigated the localized electronic properties of nanoporous gold films by using an ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscope at low temperature (4.2 K). Second derivati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 38 cited

A general group theoretical method to unfold band structures and its application

Huaqing Huang, Fawei Zheng, Ping Zhang +3

We present a general method to unfold energy bands of supercell calculations to primitive Brillouin zone using group theoretical techniques, where an isomorphic factor group is int…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 23 cited

Quantum Unfolding: A program for unfolding electronic energy bands of materials

Fawei Zheng, Ping Zhang, Wenhui Duan

We present Quantum Unfolding, a Fortran90 program for unfolding first-principles electronic energy bands. It unfolds energy bands accurately by handling the Fourier components of B…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 107 cited

Emergence of a coherent in-gap state in SmB6 Kondo insulator revealed by scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Wei Ruan, Cun Ye, Minghua Guo +4

We use scanning tunneling microscopy to investigate the (001) surface of cleaved SmB6 Kondo insulator. Variable temperature dI/dV spectroscopy up to 60 K reveals a gap-like density…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Tuning Transport Properties of Topological Edge States of Bi(111) Bilayer Film by Edge Adsorption

Z. F. Wang, Li Chen, Feng Liu

Based on first-principles and tight-binding calculations, we report that the transport properties of topological edge states of zigzag Bi(111) nanoribbon can be significantly tuned…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Temperature dependent characteristics of GaSb p-channel MOSFETs with Si-implanted source and drain

Lianfeng Zhao, Zhen Tan, Jing Wang +1

GaSb p-channel MOSFETs with an atomic layer deposited Al2O3 gate dielectric and a self-aligned Si implanted source/drain are demonstrated. Thermal anneal conditions are optimized f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 303 cited

Thermal and Thermoelectric Properties of Graphene

Yong Xu, Zuanyi Li, Wenhui Duan

The subject of thermal transport at the mesoscopic scale and in low-dimensional systems is interesting for both fundamental research and practical applications. As the first exampl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 123 cited

Experimental observation of Dirac-like surface states and topological phase transition in PbSnTe(111) films

Chenhui Yan, Junwei Liu, Yunyi Zang +12

The surface of a topological crystalline insulator (TCI) carries an even number of Dirac cones protected by crystalline symmetry. We epitaxially grew high quality PbSnT…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 249 cited

Functionalized Germanene as a Prototype of Large-Gap Two-Dimensional Topological Insulators

Chen Si, Junwei Liu, Yong Xu +3

We propose new two-dimensional (2D) topological insulators (TIs) in functionalized germanenes (GeX, X=H, F, Cl, Br or I) using first-principles calculations. We find GeI is a 2D TI…