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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 56 cited

Compelling experimental evidence of a Dirac cone in the electronic structure of a 2D Silicon layer

S. Sadeddine, H. Enriquez, A. Bendounan +7

The remarkable properties of graphene stem from its two-dimensional (2D) structure, with a linear dispersion of the electronic states at the corners of the Brillouin zone (BZ) form…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 179 cited

Epitaxial Synthesis of Blue Phosphorene

Wei Zhang, Hanna Enriquez, Yongfeng Tong +6

Phosphorene is a new two-dimensional material composed of a single or few atomic layers of black phosphorus. Phosphorene has both an intrinsic tunable direct band gap and high carr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 4 cited

Study and characterization of SrTiO3 surface

F. Alarab, J. Minar, P. Sutta +5

The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at oxides interfaces and surfaces has attracted large attention in physics and research due to its unique electronic properties and possible…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018★ 16 cited

Distinctive Picosecond Spin Polarization Dynamics in Bulk Half-Metals

M. Battiato, J. Minar, W. Wang +7

Femtosecond laser excitations in half-metal (HM) compounds are theoretically predicted to induce an exotic picosecond spin dynamics. In particular, conversely to what is observed i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2016★ 6 cited

Sub-diffusive electronic states in octagonal tiling

G. Trambly de Laissardière, C. Oguey, D. Mayou

We study the quantum diffusion of charge carriers in octagonal tilings. Our numerical results show a power law decay of the wave-packet spreading, , characteristi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 1 cited

Current Induced Fingering Instability in Magnetic Domain Walls

Jon Gorchon, Javier Curiale, Andrejs Cebers +4

The shape instability of magnetic domain walls under current is investigated in a ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)(As,P) film with perpendicular anisotropy. Domain wall motion is driven by th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 62 cited

Quantum tunneling of oxygen atoms on very cold surfaces

M. Minissale, E. Congiu, S. Baouche +7

Any evolving system can change of state via thermal mechanisms (hopping a barrier) or via quantum tunneling. Most of the time, efficient classical mechanisms dominate at high tempe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 6 cited

Electronic structure and transport in approximants of the Penrose tiling

Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Attila Szállás, Didier Mayou

We present numerical calculations of electronic structure and transport in Penrose approximants. The electronic structure of perfect approximants shows a spiky density of states an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 11 cited

Thermal stability of standalone silicene sheet

Virgile Bocchetti, Hung T. Diep, H. Enriquez +2

Extensive Monte Carlo simulations are carried out to study thermal stability of an infinite standalone silicon sheet. We used the Tersoff potential that has been used with success…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 14 cited

Anomalous electronic transport in Quasicrystals and related Complex Metallic Alloys

Guy Trambly de Laissardière, Didier Mayou

We analyze the transport properties in approximants of quasicrystals alpha-AlMnSi, 1/1-AlCuFe and for the complex metallic phase lambda-AlMn. These phases presents strong analogies…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 76 cited

Combined AFM and STM measurements of a silicene sheet grown on Ag(111) surface

Zsolt Majzik, Mohamed Rachid Tchalala, Martin Švec +7

In this Letter, we present the first non-contact atomic force microscopy (nc-AFM) of a silicene on silver (Ag) surface, obtained by combining non-contact atomic force microscopy (n…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 44 cited

Adsorption of silicon on Au(110): an ordered two dimensional surface alloy

Hanna Enrique, Andrew Mayne, Abdelkader Kara +9

We report on experimental evidence for the formation of a two dimensional Si/Au(110) surface alloy. In this study, we have used a combination of scanning tunneling microscopy, low…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2013★ 16 cited

Monte Carlo Simulation of Melting and Lattice Relaxation of the (111) Surface of Silver

Virgile Bocchetti, Hung T. Diep

It is experimentally observed and theoretically proved that the distance between topmost layers of a metal surface has a contraction. However, well-known potentials such as Lennard…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 14 cited

Electric-field control of the magnetic anisotropy in an ultrathin (Ga,Mn)As/(Ga,Mn)(As,P) bilayer

Tarik Niazi, Mathieu Cormier, Damien Lucot +4

We report on the electric control of the magnetic anisotropy in an ultrathin ferromagnetic (Ga,Mn)As/(Ga,Mn)(As,P) bilayer with competing in-plane and out-of-plane anisotropies. Th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2012★ 1.4k cited

Epitaxial Growth of a Silicene Sheet

Boubekeur Lalmi, Hamid Oughaddou, Hanna Enriquez +4

Using atomic resolved scanning tunneling microscopy, we present here the experimental evidence of a silicene sheet (graphene like structure) epitaxially grown on a close-packed sil…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 38 cited

Monte Carlo Study of Magnetic Resistivity in Semiconducting MnTe

Yann Magnin, Hung The Diep

We investigate in this paper properties of the spin resistivity in the magnetic semiconducting MnTe of NiAs structure. MnTe is a crossroad semiconductor with a large band gap. It i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2011★ 3 cited

Metallization of the β-SiC(100) 3\times2 Surface: a DFT Investigation

James Westover, Hamid Oughaddou, Hanna Enriquez +1

Using density functional theory (DFT) we report results for the electronic structure and vibrational dynamics of hydrogenated β reconstructed Silicon Carbide (001) (3x2) surfaces w…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 11 cited

Breakdown of the semi-classical conduction theory in approximants of the octagonal tiling

Guy Trambly De Laissardière, Christophe Oguey, Didier Mayou

We present numerical calculations of quantum transport in perfect octagonal approximants. These calculations include a Boltzmann (intra-band) contribution and a non-Boltzmann (inte…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2010★ 12 cited

Spin Resistivity in Frustrated Antiferromagnets

Yann Magnin, K. Akabli, Hung The Diep

In this paper we study the spin transport in frustrated antiferromagnetic FCC films by Monte Carlo simulation. In the case of Ising spin model, we show that the spin resistivity ve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009

Theory and Simulation of Spin Transport in Antiferromagnetic Semiconductors: Application to MnTe

K. Akabli, Yann Magnin, Masataka Oko +2

We study in this paper the parallel spin current in an antiferromagnetic semiconductor thin film where we take into account the interaction between itinerant spins and lattice spin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2009★ 14 cited

Crossover from First to Second-Order Transition in Frustrated Ising Antiferromagnetic Films

X. T. Pham Phu, V. Thanh Ngo, Hung the Diep

In the bulk state, the Ising FCC antiferromagnet is fully frustrated and is known to have a very strong first-order transition. In this paper, we study the nature of this phase tra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2008★ 21 cited

Temperature Dependence of the Spin Resistivity in Ferromagnetic Thin Films

K. Akabli, H. T. Diep

The magnetic phase transition is experimentally known to give rise to an anomalous temperature-dependence of the electron resistivity in ferromagnetic crystals. Phenomenological th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2007★ 30 cited

Nature of phase transition in magnetic thin films

X. T. Pham Phu, V. Thanh Ngo, H. T. Diep

We study the critical behavior of magnetic thin films as a function of the film thickness. We use the ferromagnetic Ising model with the high-resolution multiple histogram Monte Ca…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2006

Electron transport through rectifying self-assembled monolayer diodes on silicon: Fermi level pinning at the molecule-metal interface

S. Lenfant, D. Guerin, F. Tran Van +6

We report the synthesis and characterization of molecular rectifying diodes on silicon using sequential grafting of self-assembled monolayers of alkyl chains bearing a pi group at…