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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 94 cited

Giant Enhancement of Intrinsic Spin Hall Conductivity in Tungsten via Substitutional Doping

Xuelei Sui, Chong Wang, Jinwoong Kim +4

A key challenge in manipulating the magnetization in heavy-metal/ferromagnetic bilayers via the spin-orbit torque is to identify materials that exhibit an efficient charge-to-spin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 232 cited

Superconductivity in Few-Layer Stanene

Menghan Liao, Yunyi Zang, Zhaoyong Guan +11

A single atomic slice of α-tin-stanene-has been predicted to host quantum spin Hall effect at room temperature, offering an ideal platform to study low-dimensional and topological…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 45 cited

Native point defects of semiconducting layered Bi2O2Se

Huanglong Li, Xintong Xu, Yi Zhang +3

Bi2O2Se is an emerging semiconducting, air-stable layered material (Nat. Nanotechnol. 2017, 12, 530; Nano Lett. 2017, 17, 3021), potentially exceeding MoS2 and phosphorene in elect…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 24 cited

First-principles studies of the local structure and relaxor behavior of Pb(MgNb)O-PbTiO-derived ferroelectric perovskite solid solutions

Hengxin Tan, Hiroyuki Takenaka, Changsong Xu +3

We have investigated the effect of transition metal dopants on the local structure of the prototypical 0.75 Pb(MgNb)O-0.25 PbTiO relaxor ferroelectric. We f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 31 cited

Extremely Large Magnetoresistance and Electronic Structure of TmSb

Yi-Yan Wang, Hongyun Zhang, Xiao-Qin Lu +6

We report the magneto-transport properties and the electronic structure of TmSb. TmSb exhibits extremely large transverse magnetoresistance and Shubnikov-de Haas (SdH) oscillation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 23 cited

Temperature-Dependent Electron-Electron Interaction in Graphene on SrTiO3

Hyejin Ryu, Jinwoong Hwang, Debin Wang +6

The electron band structure of graphene on SrTiO3 substrate has been investigated as a function of temperature. The high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission study reveals that…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

First-principles study of the layered thermoelectric material TiNBr

Shuofeng Zhang, Ben Xu, Yuanhua Lin +2

Layer-structured materials are often considered to be good candidates for thermoelectric materials, because they tend to exhibit intrinsically low thermal conductivity as a result…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 48 cited

Mechanical Switching of Nanoscale Multiferroic Phase Boundaries

Yong-Jun Li, Jian-Jun Wang, Jian-Chao Ye +13

Tuning the lattice degree of freedom in nanoscale functional crystals is critical to exploit the emerging functionalities such as piezoelectricity, shape-memory effect, or piezomag…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 127 cited

Dimensional Crossover Induced Topological Hall Effect in a Magnetic Topological Insulator

Chang Liu, Yunyi Zang, Wei Ruan +5

We report transport studies of Mn-doped Bi2Te3 topological insulator (TI) films with accurately controlled thickness grown by molecular beam epitaxy. We find that films thicker tha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 7 cited

Giant tunnel magnetoresistance with a single magnetic phase-transition electrode

Jia Zhang, X. Z. Chen, C. Song +3

Magnetic phase transition tunnel magnetoresistance (MPT-TMR) effect with a single magnetic electrode has been investigated by first-principles calculations. The calculations show t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 32 cited

Two-dimensional Massless Dirac Fermions in Antiferromagnetic AFe2As2 (A = Ba, Sr)

Zhi-Guo Chen, Luyang Wang, Yu Song +7

We report infrared studies of AFeAs (A = Ba, Sr), two representative parent compounds of iron-arsenide superconductors, at magnetic fields (B) up to 17.5 T. Optical tra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 44 cited

Prediction of Ideal Topological Semimetals with Triply Degenerate Points in NaCuTe Family

Jianfeng Wang, Xuelei Sui, Wujun Shi +6

Triply degenerate points (TDPs) in band structure of a crystal can generate novel TDP fermions without high-energy counterparts. Although identifying ideal TDP semimetals, which ho…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 71 cited

Berry Phase and Topological Effects of Phonons

Yizhou Liu, Yong Xu, Wenhui Duan

Phonons as collective excitations of lattice vibrations are the main heat carriers in solids. Tremendous effort has been devoted to investigate phonons and related properties, givi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 71 cited

Tunneling anisotropic magnetoresistance driven by magnetic phase transition

X. Z. Chen, J. F. Feng, Z. C. Wang +16

The independent control of two magnetic electrodes and spin-coherent transport in magnetic tunnel junctions are strictly required for tunneling magnetoresistance, while junctions w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 170 cited

Experimental discovery of nodal chains

Qinghui Yan, Rongjuan Liu, Zhongbo Yan +4

Three-dimensional (3D) topological nodal points, such as Weyl and Dirac nodes have attracted wide-spread interest across multiple disciplines and diverse material systems. Unlike n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 70 cited

Voltage-Controllable Colossal Magnetocrystalline Anisotropy in Single Layer Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Xuelei Sui, Tao Hu, Jianfeng Wang +3

Materials with large magnetocrystalline anisotropy and strong electric field effects are highly needed to develop new types of memory devices based on electric field control of spi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 28 cited

Magnetic quantum phase transition in Cr-doped Bi2(SexTe1-x)3 driven by the Stark effect

Zuocheng Zhang, Xiao Feng, Jing Wang +11

The interplay between magnetism and topology, as exemplified in the magnetic skyrmion systems, has emerged as a rich playground for finding novel quantum phenomena and applications…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 64 cited

Dynamical birefringence: Electron-hole recollisions as probes of Berry curvature

Hunter B. Banks, Qile Wu, Darren C. Valovcin +5

The direct measurement of Berry phases is still a great challenge in condensed matter systems. The bottleneck has been the ability to adiabatically drive an electron coherently acr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 91 cited

Terahertz spin currents and inverse spin Hall effect in thin-film heterostructures containing complex magnetic compounds

T. Seifert, U. Martens, S. Günther +20

Terahertz emission spectroscopy of ultrathin multilayers of magnetic and heavy metals has recently attracted much interest. This method not only provides fundamental insights into…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 54 cited

Time resolved measurements of the switching trajectory of Pt/Co elements induced by spin-orbit torques

Martin M. Decker, Martin S. Wörnle, Matthias Kronseder +6

We report the experimental observation of spin-orbit torque induced switching of perpendicularly magnetized Pt/Co elements in a time resolved stroboscopic experiment based on high…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 8 cited

Fano Resonance in a Subwavelength Mie-based Metamolecule with Split Ring Resonator

Xiaobo Wang, Ji Zhou

In this letter, we report a method of symmetry-breaking in an artificial Mie-based metamolecule. A Fano resonance with a Q factor of 96 is observed at microwave frequencies in a st…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 132 cited

Superconducting Two-Dimensional Metal-Organic Framework

Xiaoming Zhang, Yinong Zhou, Bin Cui +2

Superconductivity is a fascinating quantum phenomenon characterized by zero electrical resistance and the Meissner effect. To date, several distinct families of superconductors (SC…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 199 cited

High quality atomically thin PtSe2 films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Mingzhe Yan, Eryin Wang, Xue Zhou +13

Atomically thin PtSe2 films have attracted extensive research interests for potential applications in high-speed electronics, spintronics and photodetectors. Obtaining high quality…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 241 cited

Experimental evidence of type-II Dirac fermions in PtSe2

Kenan Zhang, Mingzhe Yan, Haoxiong Zhang +6

Topological semimetals have attracted extensive research interests for realizing condensed matter physics counterparts of three-dimensional Dirac and Weyl fermions, which were orig…