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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 19 cited

Realization of Stable Ferromagnetic Order in Topological Insulator: Codoping Enhanced Magnetism in 4f Transition Metal Doped Bi2Se3

Bei Deng, Yiou Zhang, S. B. Zhang +3

The realization of long range and insulating ferromagnetic states in topological insulator (TI) has been a pressing issue since its discovery. Only recently, such state was achieve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 24 cited

Converting normal insulators into topological insulators via tuning orbital levels

Wu-Jun Shi, Junwei Liu, Yong Xu +3

Tuning the spin-orbit coupling strength via foreign element doping and/or modifying bonding strength via strain engineering are the major routes to convert normal insulators to top…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 18 cited

Monolayer charge-neutral graphene on platinum with extremely weak electron-phonon coupling

Wei Yao, Eryin Wang, Ke Deng +13

Epitaxial growth of graphene on transition metal substrates is an important route for obtaining large scale graphene. However, the interaction between graphene and the substrate of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 2 cited

Isotropic Negative Thermal Expansion Metamaterials

Lingling Wu, Bo Li, Ji Zhou

Negative thermal expansion materials are important and desirable in science and engineering applications. However, natural materials with isotropic negative thermal expansion are r…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1 cited

Electrical control of magnetism in oxides

Cheng Song, Bin Cui, Jingjing Peng +2

This review article aims at illustrating the recent progresses in the electrical control of magnetism in oxides with profound physics and enormous potential applications. In the fi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 4 cited

Single neutral substitutional 3d-transition metal in GeTe and GeSb2Te4 by the screened exchange functional

Huanglong Li, Luping Shi

Fe doped GST has shown experimentally the ability to alter its magnetic properties by phase change. In this work, we use screened exchange hybrid functional to study the single neu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 12 cited

Standardized compliance matrixes for general anisotropic materials and a simple measure of anisotropy degree based on shear-extension coupling coefficient

Jiamin Zhao, Xiaoxiong Song, Bin Liu

The compliance matrix for a general anisotropic material is usually expressed in an arbitrarily chosen coordinate system, which brings some confusion or inconvenience in identifyin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 3 cited

The role of single oxygen or metal induced defect and correlated multiple defects in the formation of conducting filaments

Ziyang Zhang, Huanglong Li, Luping Shi

We study the dependence of the formation energies of oxygen and metal induced defects in Ta2O5, TaO2, TaO, TiO2 and Ti4O7 on the chemical potential of electron and atomic constitut…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 9 cited

The electronic structures of TiO2/Ti4O7, Ta2O5/TaO2 interfaces and the interfacial effects of dopants

Huanglong Li, Ziyang Zhang, Luping Shi

We study the electronic structures of TiO2/Ti4O7 and Ta2O5/TaO2 interfaces using the screened exchange (sX-LDA) functional. Both of these bilayer structures are useful infrastructu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 102 cited

Emergence of a Chern-insulating state from a semi-Dirac dispersion

Huaqing Huang, Zhirong Liu, Hongbin Zhang +2

A Chern insulator (quantum anomalous Hall insulator) phase is demonstrated to exist in a typical semi-Dirac system, the TiO2/VO2 heterostructure. By combining first-principles calc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 128 cited

Large-Gap Quantum Spin Hall States in Stanene Grown on Substrate

Yong Xu, Peizhe Tang, Shou-Cheng Zhang

Two-dimensional stanene is a promising candidate material for realizing room-temperature quantum spin Hall (QSH) effect. Monolayer stanene has recently been fabricated by molecular…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 78 cited

A novel self-locked energy absorbing system

Yuli Chen, Chuan Qiao, Shougen Zhao +2

Metallic thin-walled round tubes are widely used as energy absorption elements. However, lateral splash of the round tubes under impact loadings reduces the energy absorption effic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1.8k cited

Epitaxial Growth of Two-Dimensional Stanene

Fengfeng Zhu, Wei-jiong Chen, Yong Xu +6

Ultrathin semiconductors present various novel electronic properties. The first experimental realized two-dimensional (2D) material is graphene. Searching 2D materials with heavy e…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 33 cited

Effects of ferroelectric polarization on surface phase diagram: an evolutionary algorithm study of the BaTiO(001) surface

Pengcheng Chen, Yong Xu, Na Wang +2

We have constructed the surface phase diagram of the BaTiO(001) surface by employing an evolutionary algorithm for surface structure prediction, where the ferroelectric polar…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 433 cited

Quantum Hall Effect in Black Phosphorus Two-dimensional Electron Gas

Likai Li, Fangyuan Yang, Guo Jun Ye +10

Development of new, high quality functional materials has been at the forefront of condensed matter research. The recent advent of two-dimensional black phosphorus has greatly enri…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 369 cited

Accurate Measurement of the Cleavage Energy of Graphite

Wen Wang, Shuyang Dai, Xide Li +3

The basal plane cleavage energy (CE) of graphite is a key material parameter for understanding many of the unusual properties of graphite, graphene, and carbon nanotubes. The CE is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 36 cited

Selective doping Barlowite for quantum spin liquid: a first-principles study

Zheng Liu, Xiaolong Zou, Jia-Wei Mei +1

Barlowite is a newly found mineral containing kagome planes. Despite similarities in many aspects to Herbertsmithite , the well-known qu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 121 cited

Observation of the zero Hall plateau in a quantum anomalous Hall insulator

Yang Feng, Xiao Feng, Yunbo Ou +10

Quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) effect in magnetic topological insulator (TI) is a novel transport phenomenon in which the Hall resistance reaches the quantum plateau in the absence o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 21 cited

Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Superconducting LiFeAs Film on SrTiO3(001) Substrate

Kai Chang, Peng Deng, Teng Zhang +8

The stoichiometric "111" iron-based superconductor, LiFeAs, has attacted great research interest in recent years. For the first time, we have successfully grown LiFeAs thin film by…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 47 cited

Disentangling the magnetoelectric and thermoelectric transport in topological insulator thin films

Jinsong Zhang, Xiao Feng, Yong Xu +14

We report transport studies on (Bi,Sb)2Te3 topological insulator thin films with tunable electronic band structure. We find a doping and temperature regime in which the Hall coeffi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 1.7k cited

Experimental discovery of Weyl semimetal TaAs

B. Q. Lv, H. M. Weng, B. B. Fu +11

Weyl semimetals are a class of materials that can be regarded as three-dimensional analogs of graphene breaking time reversal or inversion symmetry. Electrons in a Weyl semimetal b…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 8 cited

Structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of tris(8-hydroxyquinoline)iron(III) molecules and its magnetic coupling with ferromagnetic surface: first-principles study

Wei Jiang, Miao Zhou, Zheng Liu +3

Using first-principles calculations, we have systematically investigated the structural, electronic, and magnetic properties of facial (fac-) and meridional (mer-) tris(8-hydroxyqu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2015★ 19 cited

Simultaneous electrical-field-effect modulation of both top and bottom Dirac surface states of epitaxial thin films of three-dimensional topological insulators

Cui-Zu Chang, Zuocheng Zhang, Kang Li +11

It is crucial for the studies of the transport properties and quantum effects related to Dirac surface states of three-dimensional topological insulators (3D TIs) to be able to sim…