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Spin-polarization of the electric current in half-metallic CoMnSi Heusler thin films

José Solano Córdova, Anna Maria Friedel, Quentin Rossi +6

Using propagating spin wave spectroscopy we measure the spin wave Doppler shift in patterned MgO/CoMnSi/MgO thin films and determine the degree of spin-polarization of the elec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries created by high-pressure torsion enhance hydrogen storage kinetics:Mechanisms and significance of activation energy and frequency factor

Runchen Zhou, Payam Edalati, Anthony Alhayek +6

A strategy to overcome sluggish hydrogenation/dehydrogenation of magnesium is demonstrated by creating magnesium-graphene interphase boundaries via high-pressure torsion (HPT). HPT…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

From Ultrafast Demagnetization to Ultrafast Spintronics : a 30 years story

Quentin Remy, Stéphane Mangin

The discovery of femtosecond laser-induced ultrafast demagnetization in 1996 opened a new field, femtomagnetism, in which magnetic order can be quenched on timescales shorter than…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Type-II-like ultrafast demagnetization behavior in NiCo2O4 thin films

Ryunosuke Takahashi, Kaede Yamada, Harjinder Singh +10

Rare-earth-ferrimagnetic oxides are emerging as attractive platforms for investigating ultrafast spin dynamics. Here, we study the photoinduced magnetization dynamics of epitaxial…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Emerging hierarchical dislocation structures: Insights from scanning electron microscopy-electron backscatter diffraction in situ tensile testing and multifractal analysis

Mikhail Lebyodkin, Maxim Gussev, Jamieson Brechtl +1

Understanding the evolution of dislocation structures during plastic deformation is critical for predicting the mechanical performance of metallic materials. In this work, we appli…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

RF field characterization and rectification effects in spin pumping and spin-torque FMR for spin-orbitronics

Melissa Yactayo, Michel Hehn, J. -C. Rojas-Sánchez +1

Quantifying spin-orbital-to-charge conversion efficiency is crucial for spin-orbitronics. Two widely used methods for determining these efficiencies are based on ferromagnetic reso…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 8 cited

Accelerated Discovery of Crystalline Materials with Record Ultralow Lattice Thermal Conductivity via a Universal Descriptor

Xingchen Shen, Jiongzhi Zheng, Michael Marek Koza +9

Ultralow glass-like lattice thermal conductivity in crystalline materials is crucial for enhancing energy conversion efficiency in thermoelectrics and thermal insulators. We introd…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Conduction Band Structure and Ultrafast Dynamics of Ferroelectric -GeTe(111)

Geoffroy Kremer, Laurent Nicolaï, Frédéric Chassot +9

-GeTe(111) is a non-centrosymmetric ferroelectric (FE) material for which a significative lattice distortion combined with a strong spin-orbit interaction gives rise to giant Ra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 10 cited

Diffuson-Dominated Thermal Transport Crossover from Ordered to Liquid-like CuBiS:The Negligible Role of Ion Hopping

Jincheng Yue, Jiongzhi Zheng, Xingchen Shen +7

Fundamentally understanding lattice dynamics and thermal transport behavior in liquid-like, partially occupied compounds remains a long-standing challenge in condensed matter physi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Interfacial Behavior from the Atomic Blueprint: Machine Learning-Guided Design of Spatially Functionalized a-SiO2 Surfaces

Evgenii Strugovshchikov, Viktor Mandrolko, Dominika Lesnicki +3

a-Quartz surfaces functionalized with hydroxyl and methyl groups provide a versatile platform for controlling interfacial properties critical to applications such as catalysis, pro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Tailoring non-collinear magnetism and 3d 4f exchange interactions in RVO epitaxial thin films

O. Copie, J. Varignon, I. C. Infante +8

In orthorhombic perovskite oxides (RMO), substituting R rare-earth cations tailors the spin, orbital, and charge degrees of freedom of the central M transition me…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Parity Metamaterials and Dynamic Acoustic Mimicry

Jinjie Shi, Hongchen Chu, Aurelien Merkel +4

While parity transformation represents a fundamental symmetry operation in physics, its implications remain underexplored in metamaterial science. Here, we introduce a framework le…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Single-Shot Magnetization Reversal in Ferromagnetic Spin Valves Enabled via Heat Control

Kazuaki Ishibashi, Junta Igarashi, Alberto Anadón +7

We study laser induced ultrafast magnetization reversal in a ferromagnetic spin valve by comparing the effects of direct laser excitation and ultrashort hot electron pulses. A wedg…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 36 cited

Effect of substrate temperature on the deposition of Al-doped ZnO thin films using high power impulse magnetron sputtering

Martin Mickan, Ulf Helmersson, David Horwat

Al-doped ZnO thin films were deposited using reactive high power impulse magnetron sputtering at substrate temperatures between room temperature and 600 C. Two sample ser…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Nanoscale characterization of atomic positions in orthorhombic perovskite thin films

M. Martirosyan, S. Passuti, G. Masset +12

The crystal structure determines many of the physical properties of oxide perovskites (ABO) and only a tiny modification of the lattice structure causes major changes in the fu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 21 cited

Influence of Chemistry and Topography on the Wettability of Copper

Sarah Marie Lößlein, Rolf Merz, Yerila Rodríguez-Martínez +5

To understand the complex interplay of topography and surface chemistry in wetting, fundamental studies investigating both parameters are needed. Due to the sensitivity of wetting…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 20 cited

Energy-efficient picosecond spin-orbit torque magnetization switching in ferro- and ferrimagnetic films

Eva Díaz, Alberto Anadón, Pablo Olleros-Rodríguez +7

Electrical current pulses can be used to manipulate magnetization efficiently via spin-orbit torques (SOTs). Pulse durations as short as a few picoseconds have been used to switch…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

High-quality hexagonal boron nitride selectively grown on patterned epigraphene by MOVPE

Vishnu Ottapilakkal, Abhishek Juyal, Suresh Sundaram +14

Hexagonal boron nitride encapsulation is the method of choice for protecting graphene from environmental doping and impurity scattering. It was previously demonstrated that metal-o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 4 cited

All-optical helicity-dependent switching in NiCoO thin films

Ryunosuke Takahashi, Yann Le Guen, Suguru Nakata +8

All-optical switching (AOS) involves manipulating magnetization using only pulsed laser, presenting a promising approach for next-generation magnetic recording devices. NiCo2O4 (NC…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 19 cited

Influence of surface pre-deformation on the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect and the related multiscale complexity of plastic flow in an Al-Mg alloy

Hafsa Jaber, Benoît Beausir, Denis Entemeyer +3

The influence of the surface pre-deformation on jerky flow caused by the Portevin-Le Chatelier (PLC) effect was investigated using flat tensile specimens of an Al-Mg alloy. Althoug…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Bonding states underpinning structural transitions in IrTe observed with micro-ARPES

C. W. Nicholson, M. D. Watson, A. Pulkkinen +6

Competing interactions in low-dimensional materials can produce nearly degenerate electronic and structural phases. We investigate the staircase of structural phase transitions in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Self-induced spin pumping and inverse spin Hall effect in single FePt thin films

J. L. Ampuero, A. Anadón, H. Damas +7

In this study, we investigate the spin-charge current conversion characteristics of chemically disordered ferromagnetic single FePt thin films by spin-pumping ferromagnetic resonan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 7 cited

Light-induced torque in ferromagnetic metals via orbital angular momentum generated by photon-helicity

Koki Nukui, Satoshi Iihama, Kazuaki Ishibashi +7

We investigated photon-helicity-induced magnetization precession in CoPt alloy thin films. In addition to field-like torque, attributable to magnetic field generation…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 3 cited

Van der Waals epitaxy of Weyl-semimetal Td-WTe

Alexandre Llopez, Frédéric Leroy, Calvin Tagne-Kaegom +13

Epitaxial growth of WTe offers significant advantages, including the production of high-qualityfilms, possible long range in-plane ordering and precise control over layer thick…