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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013

Spontaneous tensor properties for multiferroic phases

Daniel B. Litvin, Vaclav Janovec

We have constructed dichromatic matrices of property coefficients for all 1601 Aizu species. This involves 122 non-magnetic Aizu species and extends the work to the 773 species of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 53 cited

Weak Topological Insulators in PbTe/SnTe Superlattices

Gang Yang, Junwei Liu, Liang Fu +2

It is desirable to realize topological phases in artificial structures by engineering electronic band structures. In this paper, we investigate superlattice…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 73 cited

Prospects of Direct Growth Boron Nitride Films as Substrates for Graphene Electronics

Michael S. Bresnehan, Matthew J. Hollander, Maxwell Wetherington +8

We present a route for direct growth of boron nitride via a polyborazylene to h-BN conversion process. This two-step growth process ultimately leads to a >25x reduction in the RMS…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 63 cited

Epitaxial Growth of VO by Periodic Annealing

J. W. Tashman, J. H. Lee, H. Paik +9

We report the growth of ultrathin VO films on rutile TiO (001) substrates via reactive molecular-beam epitaxy. The films were formed by the cyclical deposition of amorp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 23 cited

Structural control of magnetic anisotropy in a strain driven multiferroic EuTiO3 thin film

X. Ke, T. Birol, R. Misra +5

Octahedral distortion plays a key role in engineering the physical properties of heterostructures composed of perovskite oxides. We observe a strong in-plane uniaxial magnetic anis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013

Intrinsic Magnetism of Grain Boundaries in Two-dimensional Metal Dichalcogenides

Zhuhua Zhang, Xiaolong Zou, Vincent H. Crespi +1

Grain boundaries (GBs) are structural imperfections that typically degrade the performance of materials. Here we show that dislocations and GBs in two-dimensional (2D) metal dichal…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 19 cited

Ferromagnetism and infrared electrodynamics of GaMnAs}

B. C. Chapler, S. Mack, R. C. Myers +7

We report on the magnetic and the electronic properties of the prototype dilute magnetic semiconductor GaMnAs using infrared (IR) spectroscopy. Trends in the ferromagne…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 1 cited

Double Antisymmetry and the Rotation-Reversal Space Groups

Brian K. VanLeeuwen, Venkatraman Gopalan, Daniel B. Litvin

Rotation-reversal symmetry was recently introduced to generalize the symmetry classification of rigid static rotations in crystals such as tilted octahedra in perovskite structures…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 103 cited

Quasiparticle Dynamics in Reshaped Helical Dirac Cone of Topological Insulators

Lin Miao, Z. F. Wang, Wenmei Ming +14

Topological insulators (TIs) and graphene present two unique classes of materials which are characterized by spin polarized (helical) and non-polarized Dirac-cone band structures,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 19 cited

Low-symmetry monoclinic phase stabilized by oxygen octahedra rotations in thin strained EuxSr1-xTiO3 films

Anna N. Morozovska, Yijia Gu, Victoria V. Khist +4

Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire theory and phase field modeling, we explore the complex interplay between the long-range structural order parameter (oxygen octahedron rotations) a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 48 cited

Universal emergence of spatially-modulated structures induced by flexo-antiferrodistortive coupling in multiferroics

Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, Yijia Gu +6

We proved the existence of a universal flexo-antiferrodistortive coupling as a necessary complement to the well-known flexoelectric coupling. The coupling is universal for all anti…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 80 cited

Molecular Beam Epitaxial Growth of Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 Topological Insulators on GaAs (111) Substrates: A Potential Route to Fabricate Topological Insulator p-n Junction

Zhaoquan Zeng, Timothy A. Morgan, Dongsheng Fan +11

High quality Bi2Te3 and Sb2Te3 topological insulators films were epitaxially grown on GaAs (111) substrate using solid source molecular beam epitaxy. Their growth and behavior on b…