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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 17 cited

Magnetism and electronic structure calculation of SmN

C. Morari, F. Beiuşeanu, I. Di Marco +4

The results of the electronic structure calculations performed on SmN by using the LDA+U method with and without including the spin-orbit coupling are presented. Within the LDA+U a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 17 cited

Resistance noise at the metal-insulator transition in thermochromic VO2 films

Zareh Topalian, Shu-Yi Li, Gunnar Niklasson +2

Thermochromic VO2 films were prepared by reactive DC magnetron sputtering onto heated sapphire substrates and were used to make 100-nm-thick samples that were 10 μm wide and 100 mi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 422 cited

Strain Engineering for Phosphorene: The Potential Application as a Photocatalyst

Baisheng Sa, Yan-Ling Li, Jingshan Qi +2

Phosphorene has been attracted intense interest due to its unexpected high carrier mobility and distinguished anisotropic optoelectronic and electronic properties. In this work, we…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 17 cited

Anti-site disorder and improved functionality of MnNi{\it X} ({\it X}= Al, Ga, In, Sn) inverse Heusler alloys

Souvik Paul, Ashis Kundu, Biplab Sanyal +1

Recent first-principles calculations have predicted MnNi{\it X} ({\it X}=Al, Ga, In, Sn) alloys to be magnetic shape memory alloys. Moreover, experiments on MnNiGa and…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 16 cited

First-principles study of the lattice instabilities in MnNi{\it X} ({\it X}= Al, Ga, In, Sn) magnetic shape memory alloys

Souvik Paul, Biplab Sanyal, Subhradip Ghosh

Using first-principles based Density Functional Theory (DFT), we have investigated the structural instabilities in the austenite phases of MnNi{\it X} ({\it X}= Al, Ga, In, S…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 71 cited

Surface aligned magnetic moments and hysteresis of an endohedral single-molecule magnet on a metal

Rasmus Westerström, Anne-Christine Uldry, Roland Stania +10

The interaction between the endohedral unit in the single-molecule magnet DyScN@C and a rhodium (111) substrate leads to alignment of the Dy 4 orbitals. The resulting…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 139 cited

Crystallization characteristics and chemical bonding properties of nickel carbide thin film nanocomposites

Andrej Furlan, Jun Lu, Lars Hultman +2

The crystal structure and chemical bonding of magnetron-sputtering deposited nickel carbide NiC (0.05x0.62) thin films have been investigated by high-reso…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 48 cited

Increased magnetocrystalline anisotropy in epitaxial Fe-Co-C thin films with spontaneous strain

Ludwig Reichel, George Giannopoulos, Sandra Kauffmann-Weiss +8

Rare earth free alloys are in focus of permanent magnet research since the accessibility of the elements needed for nowadays conventional magnets is limited. Tetragonally strained…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 10 cited

Magnetism in stoichiometric and off-stoichiometric MnO clusters: Insights from {\it ab initio} theory

Shreemoyee Ganguly, Mukul Kabir, Carmine Autieri +1

We study the composition dependent evolution of geometric and magnetic structures of MnO clusters within density functional theory. A systematic and extensive search through the po…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 47 cited

Thickness dependence of dynamic and static magnetic properties of pulsed laser deposited LaSrMnO films on SrTiO(001)

Åsmund Monsen, Jos E. Boschker, Ferran Macià +6

We present a comprehensive study of the thickness dependence of static and magneto-dynamic magnetic properties of LaSrMnO. Epitaxial pulsed laser deposited La$_…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 63 cited

Achieving atomic resolution magnetic dichroism by controlling the phase symmetry of an electron probe

Jan Rusz, Juan-Carlos Idrobo, Somnath Bhowmick

The calculations presented here reveal that an electron probe carrying orbital angular momentum is just a particular case of a wider class of electron beams that can be used to mea…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 16 cited

Thermodynamics around the First-Order Ferromagnetic Phase Transition of Single Crystals

M. Hudl, D. Campanini, L. Caron +4

The specific heat and thermodynamics of single-crystals around the first order paramagnetic (PM) to ferromagnetic (FM) phase transition at $T_{\rm C} = 217 \,{\…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 25 cited

Effect of uniaxial strain on the site occupancy of hydrogen in vanadium from density-functional calculations

Robert Johansson, Rajeev Ahuja, Olle Eriksson +2

We investigate the influence of uniaxial strain on site occupancy of hydrogen vanadium, using density functional theory. The site occupancy is found to be strongly influenced by th…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 10 cited

Microscopic electronic configurations after ultrafast magnetization dynamics

I. L. M. Locht, I. Di Marco, S. Garnerone +2

We provide a model for the prediction of the electronic and magnetic configurations of ferromagnetic Fe after an ultrafast decrease or increase of magnetization. The model is based…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 12 cited

Anomalous ideal tensile strength of ferromagnetic Fe and Fe-rich alloys

Xiaoqing Li, Stephan Schönecker, Jijun Zhao +2

Within the same failure mode, iron has the lowest ideal tensile strength among the transition metals crystallizing in the body-centered cubic structure. Here, we demonstrate that t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 15 cited

First-principles study of point defects at semicoherent interface

Erki Metsanurk, Alfredo Caro, Artur Tamm +2

Modeling semicoherent metal-metal interfaces has so far been performed using atomistic simulations based on semiempirical interatomic potentials. We demonstrate through more precis…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 14 cited

Lithium Diffusion & Magnetism in Battery Cathode Material LixNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2

M. Mansson, H. Nozaki, J. M. Wikberg +7

We have studied low-temperature magnetic properties as well as high-temperature lithium ion diffusion in the battery cathode materials LixNi1/3Co1/3Mn1/3O2 by the use of muon spin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 5 cited

Temperature evolution of structural and magnetic properties of stoichiometric LiCu2O2: correlation of thermal expansion coefficient and magnetic order

S. A. Ivanov, P. Anil Kumar, R. Mathieu +3

Temperature-dependent crystallographic and magnetic studies on stoichiometric single crystals of LiCu2O2 are reported. The magnetic properties are similar to earlier findings demon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 984 cited

Dirac materials

T. O. Wehling, A. M. Black-Schaffer, A. V. Balatsky

A wide range of materials, like d-wave superconductors, graphene, and topological insulators, share a fundamental similarity: their low-energy fermionic excitations behave as massl…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 17 cited

Fe clusters (Fe, n=1-6) chemisorbed on vacancy defects in graphene: Stability, spin-dipole moment and magnetic anisotropy

Soumyajyoti Haldar, Bhalchandra S. Pujari, Sumanta Bhandary +4

In this work, we have studied the chemical and magnetic interactions of Fe ; n=1-6 clusters with vacancy defects (monovacancy to correlated vacancies with six missing C atoms)…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 16 cited

Site-dependent charge transfer at the Pt(111)-ZnPc interface and the effect of iodine

S. Ahmadi, B. Agnarsson, I. Bidermane +4

The electronic structure of ZnPc, from sub-monolayers to thick films, on bare and iodated Pt(111) is studied by means of X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), X-ray absorption sp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 16 cited

Electronic Structure and Lattice Dynamics in the FeSb Skutterudite from Density Functional Theory

Mikael Råsander, Lars Bergqvist, Anna Delin

We have performed density functional calculations of the electronic structure and lattice dynamics of the binary skutterudite FeSb. We find that the ground state of FeSb$_{3}…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014★ 127 cited

Electronic structure and magnetic properties of L1_0 binary alloys

Alexander Edström, Jonathan Chico, Adam Jakobsson +2

We present a systematic study of the magnetic properties of L1 binary alloys FeNi, CoNi, MnAl and MnGa via two different density functional theory approaches. Our calculations…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2014

Structure and dehydration mechanism of the proton conducting oxide BaInO(HO)

J. Bielecki, S. F. Parker, L. Borjesson +1

The structure and dehydration mechanism of the proton conducting oxide BaInO(HO) are investigated by means of variable temperature Raman spectroscopy…