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most citedNanoscale Phonon Spectroscopy Reveals Emergent Interface Vibrational Structure of Superlattices

94 citations · 250 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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24 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Phonon selection and interference in momentum-resolved electron energy loss spectroscopy

Thomas W. Pfeifer, Harrison A. Walker, Henry T. Aller +5

As momentum-resolved Electron Energy Loss Spectroscopy (q-EELS) becomes more widely used for phonon measurements, better understanding of the intricacies of the acquired signal is…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Antiferroelectric Hafnia Down to the 2D Limit

Xin Li, Guodong Ren, Haidong Lu +16

Antiferroelectricity is a material property characterized by alternating electric dipoles spontaneously ordered in antiparallel directions. Antiferroelectrics are promising for ene…

physics.chem-ph2024★ 3 cited

Hydrogen bonding in water under extreme confinement

Xintong Xu, Matthias Kuehne, Harrison A. Walker +10

Fluids under extreme confinement exhibit unique structures and intermolecular bonding, distinct from their bulk analogs, driving innovative applications at the water-energy nexus.…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Probing Lithium Ion Transport at Individual Interfaces

Kartik Venkatraman, Yongqiang Cheng, Alexandra Moy +6

Ion transport across solid solid interfaces is often slower than through the bulk of a material, impeding the charge and discharge rate of batteries. Designing highly conductive in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Ruddlesden-Popper chalcogenides push the limit of mechanical stiffness and glass-like thermal conductivity in single crystals

Md Shafkat Bin Hoque, Eric R. Hoglund, Boyang Zhao +20

Insulating materials featuring ultralow thermal conductivity for diverse applications also require robust mechanical properties. Conventional thinking, however, which correlates st…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Giant Modulation of Refractive Index from Picoscale Atomic Displacements

Boyang Zhao, Guodong Ren, Hongyan Mei +21

Structural disorder has been shown to enhance and modulate magnetic, electrical, dipolar, electrochemical, and mechanical properties of materials. However, the possibility of obtai…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Non-linear optics at twist interfaces in h-BN/SiC heterostructures

Abhijit Biswas, Rui Xu, Gustavo A. Alvarez +24

Understanding the emergent electronic structure in twisted atomically thin layers has led to the exciting field of twistronics. However, practical applications of such systems are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Control of the phonon band gap with isotopes in hexagonal boron nitride

Paul Zeiger, Jordan Hachtel, Dominik Legut +5

The isotopic mass of constituent elements of materials has a well-known effect on the energy of vibrational modes. By means of monochromated scanning transmission electron microsco…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Colossal optical anisotropy from atomic-scale modulations

Hongyan Mei, Guodong Ren, Boyang Zhao +17

In modern optics, materials with large birefringence (Δn, where n is the refractive index) are sought after for polarization control (e.g. in wave plates, polarizing beam splitters…

physics.app-ph2022★ 18 cited

Properties and device performance of BN thin films grown on GaN by pulsed laser deposition

Abhijit Biswas, Mingfei Xu, Kai Fu +18

Wide and ultrawide-bandgap semiconductors lie at the heart of next-generation high-power, high-frequency electronics. Here, we report the growth of ultrawide-bandgap boron nitride…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Direct Visualization of Localized Vibrations at Complex Grain Boundaries

Eric R. Hoglund, De-Liang Bao, Andrew O'Hara +7

Grain boundaries (GBs) are a prolific microstructural feature that dominates the functionality of a wide class of materials. The change in functionality at a GB is a direct result…

physics.bio-ph2022

A New Path to Nanoscale Cellular Analysis with Monochromated Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy

Jordan A. Hachtel, Jacek Jakowski, Jingsong Huang +6

High-spatial-resolution vibrational spectroscopy is one of the principal techniques for nanoscale compositional analysis in biological materials. Here, we present a new method for…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

High throughput data-driven design of laser crystallized 2D MoS2 chemical sensors

Drake Austin, Paige Miesle, Deanna Sessions +19

High throughput characterization and processing techniques are becoming increasingly necessary to navigate multivariable, data-driven design challenges for sensors and electronic d…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 94 cited

Nanoscale Phonon Spectroscopy Reveals Emergent Interface Vibrational Structure of Superlattices

Eric R. Hoglund, De-Liang Bao, Andrew O'Hara +16

As the length-scales of materials decrease, heterogeneities associated with interfaces approach the importance of the surrounding materials. Emergent electronic and magnetic interf…

physics.optics2021

Revealing Nanoscale Confinement Effects on Hyperbolic Phonon Polaritons with an Electron Beam

Andrea Konečná, Jiahan Li, James H. Edgar +2

Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs) in hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) enable the direct manipulation of mid-infrared light at nanometer scales, many orders of magnitude below the f…

physics.optics2021★ 3 cited

Unraveling Ultrafast Photoionization in Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Lianjie Xue, Song Liu, Yang Hang +17

The non-linear response of dielectrics to intense, ultrashort electric fields has been a sustained topic of interest for decades with one of its most important applications being f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 29 cited

Predictability of localized plasmonic responses in nanoparticle assemblies

Kevin M. Roccapriore, Maxim Ziatdinov, Shin Hum Cho +2

Design of nanoscale structures with desired nanophotonic properties are key tasks for nanooptics and nanophotonics. Here, the correlative relationship between local nanoparticle ge…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 20 cited

Separating physically distinct mechanisms in complex infrared plasmonic nanostructures via machine learning enhanced electron energy loss spectroscopy

Sergei V. Kalinin, Kevin M. Roccapriore, Shin Hum Cho +4

Low-loss electron energy loss spectroscopy (EELS) has emerged as a technique of choice for exploring the localization of plasmonic phenomena at the nanometer level, necessitating a…

cond-mat.soft2018

Seeing Site-Specific Isotopic Labeling of Amino Acids with Vibrational Spectroscopy in the Electron Microscope

Jordan A. Hachtel, Jingsong Huang, Ilja Popovs +3

Isotope labeling is a fundamental staple for the study of cellular metabolism and protein function. The conventional techniques that allow resolution and identification of isotopic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2018

Controlling the Infrared Dielectric Function through Atomic-Scale Heterostructures

Daniel C. Ratchford, Christopher J. Winta, Ioannis Chatzakis +20

Surface phonon polaritons (SPhPs) - the surface-bound electromagnetic modes of a polar material resulting from the coupling of light with optic phonons - offer immense technologica…

physics.optics2017★ 35 cited

Colossal photon bunching in quasiparticle-mediated nanodiamond cathodoluminescence

Matthew A. Feldman, Eugene F. Dumitrescu, Denzel Bridges +8

Nanoscale control over the second-order photon correlation function is critical to emerging research in nonlinear nanophotonics and integrated quantum information scie…

physics.optics2017

Spatially and spectrally resolved orbital angular momentum interactions in plasmonic vortex generators

Jordan A. Hachtel, Sang Yeon Cho, Roderick B. Davidson +5

Understanding the near-field electromagnetic interactions that produce optical orbital angular momentum (OAM) is central to the integration of twisted light into nanotechnology. He…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017

Quaternary two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tunable bandgap

Sandhya Susarla, Alex Kutana, Jordan A. Hachtel +7

Alloying/doping in two-dimensional material has been important due to wide range band gap tunability. Increasing the number of components would increase the degree of freedom which…

hep-ex2007★ 12 cited

Search for Neutral B-Meson Decays to a0pi, a0K, etarho0, and etaf0

The BABAR Collaboration, B. Aubert

We present a search for B0 decays to charmless final states involving an eta meson, a charged pion and a second charged pion or kaon. The data sample corresponds to 383x10^6 BBbar…