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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Emergent higher-order optical nonlinearity in self-assembled polar supertextures

Daniel A. Bustamante Lopez, Deepankar Sri Gyan, Xiaojiang Li +13

Giant optical nonlinearities enable advanced materials control and bridge exotic light-matter phenomena to next-generation photonics. However, materials exhibiting strong higher-or…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Grain-Size Dependence of Thermal and Electrical Properties in (Cr,Mo,Ta,V,W)C1-δ High-Entropy Carbide Ceramics

Ali Sarikhani, Gregory E. Hilmas, David W. Lipke +4

Thermal and electrical transport in high-entropy carbides can be influenced by grain-boundary scattering, but the relevant microstructural regime remains uncertain. Here, near-full…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 2 cited

Breaking symmetry to create a parallel-plate varactor dielectric with unparalleled microwave performance

Florian Bergmann, Matthew R. Barone, Zishen Tian +24

Voltage-tunable capacitors (varactors) are key to microwave circuits. Tunable dielectric varactors outperform competing technologies in almost every relevant metric but usually suf…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 4 cited

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Mn2In2Se5 van der Waals Layers Using Mn Intercalation

Qihua Zhang, Ke Wang, Wesley Auker +2

The weak van der Waals (vdW) force in layered chalcogenide materials has enabled the growth of ternary chalcogenide layers using unconventional approaches. Here, we report the mole…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 8 cited

Multi-modal machine learning analysis of GaSe molecular beam epitaxy growth conditions

Mingyu Yu, Isaiah A. Moses, Wesley F. Reinhart +1

Autonomous synthesis platforms integrating machine learning with in situ diagnostics have the potential to revolutionize thin-film growth by enabling real-time process optimization…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ultra-Confinement of Polaritons in Single Atomic Layer Ag Photonic Quantum Dots

Xinyi Li, Tetyana Ignatova, Chengye Dong +8

Light scattering by two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs) is immense, especially given their infinitesimal volume, thus enabling strong light-matter interacti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Tuning the low-energy band structure in twisted bilayer WSe2

T. -H. -Y. Vu, O. J. Clark, N. H. Jo +21

Tuning the electronic structures of two-dimensional (2D) material-based heterostructures is of crucial importance for their use in functional next-generation electronics. Here, thr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Thermal Transport in Defective Uranium Nitride: Effects of Point Defects, Anharmonicity, and Electronic Contributions

Beihan Chen, Marat Khafizov, Zilong Hua +2

The impact of point defects on thermal transport in uranium nitride (UN) is investigated using a MLIP combined with Green-Kubo (GK) and normal mode analysis (NMA) methods over 300-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomistic Mechanisms of Stress-Dependent Molten Salt Corrosion in NiCr Alloys

Hamdy Arkoub, Jia-Hong Ke, Miaomiao Jin

Ni-based structural alloys in molten salt environments often experience simultaneous mechanical loading and corrosive attack, yet the mechanisms governing stress-corrosion interact…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 3 cited

Large-scale Integration of Experimental and Computational Data for 2D Materials

Mohammad A. Akhound, Tara M. Boland, Mikkel O. Sauer +19

The past decade has seen rapid growth in the number of experimentally realized two-dimensional (2D) materials with diverse chemical and physical properties. However, information on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Anomalous Crystallinity and Magnetism in Chemically Disordered Coherent Heterostructures

Saeed S. I. Almishal, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Aaron Pearre +9

High-entropy oxide (HEO) thin films uniquely superimpose exceptional chemical disorder with exceptional crystalline quality and coherence - an intersection we term anomalous crysta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Interplay of Quantum Size Effect and Tensile Strain on Surface Morphology of Sn(100) Islands

Bing Xia, Xiaoyin Li, Hongyuan Chen +16

The quantum size effect (QSE) and strain effect are two key factors influencing the surface morphology of thin films, which can increase film surface roughness through QSE-induced…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

A ReaxFF-based thermomechanical analysis of N-carbophenes: phase-change, thermal expansion, and high temperature synthesis pathway

Chad E. Junkermeier, Kat Lavarez, R. Martin Adra +6

N-carbophenes are a class of two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks with potential for solid-state gas storage and as 2D topological materials. Previous studies have demonstra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Sankalpa Hazra +9

Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters can drive Polarization Reversal in a Non-Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin +3

Heterogeneous nucleation from defects dominates the electric field required for polarization switching of ferroelectrics. Here, we consider the switching of a nominally non-switcha…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Machine Learning Guided Polymorph Selection in Molecular Beam Epitaxy of In2Se3

Ryan Trice, Mingyu Yu, Eric Welp +3

Indium selenide (In2Se3), a layered chalcogenide with multiple polymorphs, is a promising material for optoelectronic and ferroelectric applications. However, achieving polymorph-p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Multiscale Analysis of Plasma-Modified Silk Fibroin and Chitosan Films

Jordan Nashed, Tomasz Bartkowiak, Alexandru Horia Marin +2

Biological interactions with material surfaces span a wide range of length scales, yet conventional surface measurements often fail to account for scale, limiting the insights they…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Rapid synthesis of dual-element isotope-enriched alpha-MoO3 crystals by reactive vapor transport

Ryan W. Spangler, Jacob M. Shusterman, Anton V. Ievlev +3

In this work, we develop a rapid reactive vapor transport technique to efficiently utilize limited isotopically pure precursors, particularly gaseous 18O2, and synthesize mm-scale,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Electric-Field-Dependent Thermal Conductivity in Fresh and Aged Bulk Single Crystalline

Fanghao Zhang, Guanchun Rui, Yujie Quan +4

Active thermal management requires advances in thermal switching materials, whose thermal conductivity responds to external stimuli. The electric field, as one of the most convenie…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Defect-Mediated Phase Engineering of 2D Ag at the Graphene/SiC Interface

Arpit Jain, Boyang Zheng, Sawani Datta +23

Atomically thin silver (Ag) films offer unique opportunities in plasmonic, quantum optics, and energy harvesting, yet conventional growth methods struggle to achieve structural con…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Switchable Polarization in an A-site Deficient Perovskite through Vacancy and Cation Engineering

Suguru Yoshida, Olivier Hernandez, Jinsuke Miyake +7

While defects are unavoidable in crystals and often detrimental to material performance, they can be a key ingredient for inducing functionalities when tailored. Here, we demonstra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strong coupling between coherent ferrons and cavity acoustic phonons

Yujie Zhu, Jiaxuan Wu, Anna N. Morozovska +7

Coherent ferrons, the quanta of polarization waves, can potentially be hybridized with many other quasiparticles for achieving novel control modalities in quantum communication, co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Evaluation of Structural Properties and Defect Energetics in AlGaN Alloys

Farshid Reza, Beihan Chen, Miaomiao Jin

AlGaN alloys are essential for high-performance optoelectronic and power devices, yet the role of composition on defect energetics remains underexplored, largely due to…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Percolating Corrosion Pathways of Chemically Ordered NiCr Alloys in Molten Salts

Hamdy Arkoub, Jia-Hong Ke, Kaustubh Bawane +1

Recent experiments have shown that chemical ordering in NiCr alloys can significantly accelerate corrosion in molten salt environments. However, the underlying mechanisms remain po…