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Thermal transport properties of IrSbSe
Yu Liu, Milinda Abeykoon, Niraj Aryal +4
We report a thermal transport study of IrSbSe, which crystallizes in a noncentrosymmetric cubic structure with the space group and shows a narrow-gap semiconducting behavio…
Short-range Crystalline Order-Tuned Conductivity in CrSiTe van der Waals Magnetic Crystals
Yu Liu, Resta A. Susilo, Yongbin Lee +8
Two-dimensional magnetic materials (2DMM) are significant for studies on the nature of 2D long range magnetic order but also for future spintronic devices. Of particular interest a…
Thermal transport and mixed valence in ZrTe doped with Hf and Se
Yu Liu, Zhixiang Hu, Xiao Tong +6
Two-dimensional transition metal trichalcogenides (TMTC's) feature covalently bonded metal-chalcogen layers separated by the van der Waals (vdW) gap. Similar to transition metal di…
Electrical and thermal transport in van der Waals magnets 2H-MTaS (M = Mn, Co)
Yu Liu, Zhixiang Hu, Xiao Tong +2
We report a detailed study of electrical and thermal transport properties in 2H-MTaS (M = Mn, Co) magnets where M atoms are intercalated in the van der Waals gap. The inter…
Polaronic transport and thermoelectricity in MnSiTe single crystals
Yu Liu, Zhixiang Hu, Milinda Abeykoon +4
We carried out a comprehensive study of the structural, electrical transport, thermal and thermodynamic properties in ferrimagnetic MnSiTe single crystals. Mn and Te $K…
Three-dimensional ferromagnetism and magnetotransport in van der Waals Mn-intercalated tantalum disufide
Yu Liu, Zhixiang Hu, Eli Stavitski +2
Van der Waals (vdW) ferromagnets are an important class of materials for spintronics applications. The recent discovery of atomically vdW magnets CrI and CrGeTe has…
Anomalous Hall effect in weak-itinerant ferrimagnet FeCrTe
Yu Liu, Hengxin Tan, Zhixiang Hu +2
We carried out a comprehensive study of electronic transport, thermal and thermodynamic properties in FeCrTe single crystals. It exhibits bad-metallic behavior and anomalou…
Magnetic mixed valent semimetal EuZnSb with Dirac states in the band structure
Aifeng Wang, Sviatoslav Baranets, Yu Liu +7
We report discovery of new antiferromagnetic semimetal EuZnSb, obtained and studied in the form of single crystals. Electric resistivity, magnetic susceptibility and heat capac…
Low-Temperature Thermopower in CoSbS
Qianheng Du, Milinda Abeykoon, Yu Liu +2
We report giant thermopower S = 2.5 mV/K in CoSbS single crystals, a material that shows strong high-temperature thermoelectric performance when doped with Ni or Se. Changes of low…
Valence band electronic structure of the van der Waals ferromagnetic insulators: VI and CrI
Asish K. Kundu, Yu Liu, C. Petrovic +1
Ferromagnetic van der Waals (vdW) insulators are of great scientific interest for their promising applications in spintronics. It has been indicated that in the two materials withi…
Three-dimensional Ising Ferrimagnetism of Cr-Fe-Cr trimers in FeCr2Te4
Yu Liu, R. J. Koch, Zhixiang Hu +7
We carried out a comprehensive study of magnetic critical behavior in single crystals of ternary chalcogenide FeCrTe that undergoes a ferrimagnetic transition below $…
Anisotropic magnetocaloric effect and critical behavior in CrSbSe
Yu Liu, Zhixiang Hu, C. Petrovic
We report anisotropic magnetocaloric effect and critical behavior in quasi-one-dimensional ferromagnetic CrSbSe single crystal. The maximum magnetic entropy change $-ΔS_M^{max}…
Thickness-dependent magnetic order in CrI single crystals
Yu Liu, Lijun Wu, Xiao Tong +4
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with intrinsic ferromagnetism provide unique opportunity to engineer new functionalities in nano-spintronics. One such material is CrI, showing l…
Anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in FeGeTe
Yu Liu, Jun Li, Jing Tao +2
We present a comprehensive study on anisotropic magnetocaloric porperties of the van der Waals weak-itinerant ferromagnet FeGeTe that features gate-tunable room-tempera…
Anisotropic magnetic entropy change in CrXTe (X = Si and Ge)
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
Intrinsic, two-dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic semiconductors are an important class of materials for spintronics applications. CrXTe (X = Si and Ge) semiconductors show…
Anomalous Hall effect in trigonal CrTe single crystal
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
We report anomalous Hall effect (AHE) and transport properties of trigonal CrTe (tr-CrTe) single crystals. The electrical resistivity as well as the Seebeck coeffic…
Thermoelectric studies of IrRhTe (0 0.3)
Yu Liu, $^{1}$ Hechang Lei, $^{1}$ Kefeng Wang +5
We report thermoelectric properties of IrRhTe () alloy series where superconductivity at low temperatures emerges as the high-temperatu…
Critical behavior and magnetocaloric effect in MnSiTe
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
The critical properties and magnetocaloric effect of semiconducting ferrimagnet MnSiTe single crystals have been investigated by bulk magnetization and heat capacity ar…
Anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in single crystals of CrI
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
We report a systematic investigation of dc magnetization and ac susceptibility, as well as anisotropic magnetocaloric effect in bulk CrI single crystals. A second-stage magneti…
Polaronic transport and thermoelectricity in FeCoSbS ( = 0, 0.1, and 0.2)
Yu Liu, Chang-Jong Kang, Eli Stavitski +4
We report a study of Co-doped berthierite FeCoSbS ( = 0, 0.1, and 0.2). The alloy series of FeCoSbS crystallize in an orthorhombic struct…
Anomalous Hall effect in van der Waals bonded ferromagnet FeGeTe
Yu Liu, Eli Stavitski, Klaus Attenkofer +1
We report anomalous Hall effect (AHE) in single crystals of quasi-two-dimensional FeGeTe () ferromagnet grown by the flux method which induces defects o…
Critical behavior of the van der Waals bonded ferromagnet FeGeTe
Yu Liu, V. N. Ivanovski, C. Petrovic
The critical properties of the single-crystalline van der Waals bonded ferromagnet FeGeTe were investigated by bulk dc magnetization around the paramagnetic (PM) to fer…
Critical behavior of quasi-two-dimensional weak itinerant ferromagnet trigonal chromium telluride CrTe
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
The critical properties of flux-grown single-crystalline quasi-two-dimensional weak itinerant ferromagnet CrTe were investigated by bulk dc magnetization around the parama…
Three-dimensional magnetic critical behavior in CrI
Yu Liu, C. Petrovic
CrI is a promising candidate for the van der Waals bonded ferromagnetic devices since its ferromagnetism can be maintained upon exfoliating of bulk crystals down to single laye…