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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 22 cited

Phase-field model for grain boundary grooving in multi-component thin films

Mathieu Bouville, Shenyang Hu, Long-Qing Chen +2

Polycrystalline thin films can be unstable with respect to island formation (agglomeration) through grooving where grain boundaries intersect the free surface and/or thin film-subs…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 53 cited

Static Polarizabilities of Dielectric Nanoclusters

Hye-Young Kim, Jorge O. Sofo, Darrell Velegol +2

A cluster consisting of many atoms or molecules may be considered, in some circustances, to be a single large molecule with a well defined polarizability. Once the polarizability o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 12 cited

Radial Dependence of the Carrier Mobility in Semiconductor Nanowires

Kunal K. Das, Ari Mizel

The mobility of charge carriers in a semiconductor nanowire is explored as a function of increasing radius, assuming low temperatures where impurity scattering dominates. The compe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 25 cited

Capillary condensation in cylindrical nanopores

Silvina M. Gatica, Milton W. Cole

Using grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations, we have explored the phenomenon of capillary condensation (CC) of Ar at the triple temperature inside infinitely long, cylindrical po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 6 cited

Fabrication and Characterization of Modulation-Doped ZnSe/(Zn,Cd)Se (110) Quantum Wells: A New System for Spin Coherence Studies

K. C. Ku, S. H. Chun. W. H. Wang, W. Fadgen +4

We describe the growth of modulation-doped ZnSe/(Zn,Cd)Se quantum wells on (110) GaAs substrates. Unlike the well-known protocol for the epitaxy of ZnSe-based quantum structures on…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 19 cited

Exchange Biasing of the Ferromagnetic Semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As by MnO

K. F. Eid, M. B. Stone, O. Maksimov +6

We provide an overview of progress on the exchange biasing of a ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga1-xMnxAs) by proximity to an antiferromagnetic oxide layer (MnO). We present a detail…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 10 cited

Correlation regimes in fluctuations of fatigue crack growth

Nicola Scafetta, Asok Ray, Bruce J. West

This paper investigates correlation properties of fluctuations in fatigue crack growth of polycrystalline materials, such as ductile alloys, that are commonly encountered in struct…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 48 cited

Magnetoresistance Anomalies in (Ga,Mn)As Epilayers with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

G. Xiang, A. W. Holleitner, B. L. Sheu +5

We report the observation of anomalies in the longitudinal magnetoresistance of tensile-strained (Ga,Mn)As epilayers with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy. Magnetoresistance measu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 120 cited

Nanoscale piezoelectric response across a single antiparallel ferroelectric domain wall

David A. Scrymgeour, Venkatraman Gopalan

Surprising asymmetry in the local electromechanical response across a single antiparallel ferroelectric domain wall is reported. Piezoelectric force microscopy is used to investiga…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 721 cited

Ferromagnetic Semiconductors: Moving Beyond (Ga,Mn)As

A. H. MacDonald, P. Schiffer, N. Samarth

The recent development of MBE techniques for growth of III-V ferromagnetic semiconductors has created materials with exceptional promise in spintronics, i.e. electronics that explo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 135 cited

Phenomenological theory of a single domain wall in uniaxial trigonal ferroelectrics: lithium niobate and lithium tantalate

David A Scrymgeour, Venkatraman Gopalan, Amit Itagi +2

A phenomenological treatment of domain walls based on the Ginzburg-Landau-Devonshire theory is developed for uniaxial, trigonal ferroelectrics lithium niobate and lithium tantalate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 42 cited

Evolution of topological order in Xe films on a quasicrystal surface

Stefano Curtarolo, Wahyu Setyawan, Nicola Ferralis +2

We report results of the first computer simulation studies of a physically adsorbed gas on a quasicrystalline surface, Xe on decagonal Al-Ni-Co. The grand canonical Monte Carlo met…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2005★ 26 cited

Nanoengineered Curie Temperature in Laterally-Patterned Ferromagnetic Semiconductor Heterostructures

K. F. Eid, B. L. Sheu, O. Maksimov +3

We demonstrate the manipulation of the Curie temperature of buried layers of the ferromagnetic semiconductor (Ga,Mn)As using nanolithography to enhance the effect of annealing. Pat…