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Thermoelectric properties and electronic structure of Cr(Mo,V)Nx thin films studied by synchrotron and lab-based X-ray spectroscopy
Susmita Chowdhury, Victor Hjort, Rui Shu +4
Chromium-based nitrides are used in hard, resilient coatings, and show promise for thermoelectric applications due to their combination of structural, thermal, and electronic prope…
Reflective, polarizing, and magnetically soft amorphous Fe/Si multilayer neutron optics with isotope-enriched 11B4C inducing atomically flat interfaces
A. Zubayer, N. Ghafoor, K. A. Thórarinsdóttir +11
The utilization of polarized neutrons is of great importance in scientific disciplines spanning materials science, physics, biology, and chemistry. Polarization analysis offers ins…
Phase formation in CrFeCoNi nitride thin films
Smita G. Rao, Boburjon Mukhamedov, Gyula Nagy +9
As a single-phase alloy, CrFeCoNi is a face centered cubic (fcc) material related to the archetypical high-entropy Cantor alloy CrFeCoNiMn. For thin films, CrFeCoNi of approximatel…
Single photon detection performance of highly disordered NbTiN thin films
Ruoyan Ma, Rui Shu, Xingyu Zhang +9
We experimentally investigated the detection performance of highly disordered NbxTi1-xN based superconducting nanowire single photon detectors (SNSPDs). The dependence on the compo…
Chemical-scissor-mediated structural editing of layered transition metal carbides
Haoming Ding, Youbing Li, Mian Li +12
Intercalation of non-van der Waals (vdW) layered materials can produce new 2D and 3D materials with unique properties, but it is difficult to achieve. Here, we describe a structura…
Influence of generated defects by Ar-implantation on the thermoelectric properties of ScN
R. Burcea, J. -F. Barbot, P. -O. Renault +9
Nowadays, making thermoelectric materials more efficient in energy conversion is still a challenge. In this work, to reduce the thermal conductivity and thus improve the overall th…
P-type behavior of CrN thin films by control of point defects
Arnaud le Febvrier, Davide Gambino, Fabien Giovannelli +5
We report the results of a combined experimental and theoretical study on nonstoichiometric CrN1+d thin films grown by reactive magnetron sputtering on c-plane sapphire, MgO (100)…
Electron-Phonon Coupling and Quantum Correction to Topological Magnetoconductivity in Bi2GeTe4
Niraj Kumar Singh, Divya Rawat, Dibyendu Dey +5
We report on structure, vibrational properties and weak-antilocalization-(WAL-) induced quantum correction to magnetoconductivity in single crystal Bi2GeTe4. Surface band structure…
Early stages of dissolution corrosion in 316L and DIN 1.4970 austenitic stainless steels with and without anticorrosion coatings in static liquid lead-bismuth eutectic (LBE) at 500C
Evangelia Charalampopoulou, Konstantina Lambrinou, Tom Van der Donck +8
This work addresses the early stages (1000 h) of the dissolution corrosion behavior of 316L and DIN 1.4970 austenitic stainless steels in contact with oxygen-poor (C < 10$…
Solid-state Janus nanoprecipitation enables amorphous-like heat conduction in crystalline Mg3Sb2-based thermoelectric materials
Rui Shu, Zhijia Han, Anna Elsukova +12
Solid-state precipitation can be used to tailor materials properties, ranging from ferromagnets and catalysts to mechanical strengthening and energy storage. Thermoelectric propert…
Near-Room-Temperature Ferromagnetic Behavior of Single-Atom-Thick 2D Iron in Nanolaminated Ternary MAX Phases
Youbing Li, Jinghua Liang, Haoming Ding +13
Two dimensional (2D) ferromagnetic materials have attracted much attention in the fields of condensed matter physics and materials science, but their synthesis is still a challenge…
Characterization and identification of Au pathfinder minerals from an artisanal mine site using X-ray diffraction
Gabriel Nzulu, Per Eklund, Martin Magnuson
Gold-associated pathfinder minerals have been investigated by identifying host minerals of Au for samples collected from an artisanal mining site near a potential gold mine (Kubi G…
An upgraded ultra-high vacuum magnetron-sputtering system for high-versatility and software-controlled deposition
Arnaud le Febvrier, Ludvig Landalv, Thomas Liersch +3
Magnetron sputtering is a widely used physical vapor deposition technique. Reactive sputtering is used for the deposition of, e.g, oxides, nitrides and carbides. In fundamental res…
Halogenated MXenes with Electrochemically Active Terminals for High Performance Zinc Ion Batteries
Mian Li, XinLiang Li, Guifang Qin +12
The class of two-dimensional metal carbides and nitrides known as MXenes offer a distinct manner of property tailoring for a wide range of applications. The ability to tune the sur…
Mechanical properties of VMoNO as a function of oxygen concentration: toward development of hard and tough refractory oxynitrides
Daniel Edström, Davide G. Sangiovanni, Ludvig Landälv +5
Improved toughness is a central goal in the development of wear-resistant refractory ceramic coatings. Extensive theoretical and experimental research has revealed that NaCl struct…
Influence of Si doping and O2-flow on arc deposited (Al,Cr)2O3 coatings
Ludvig Landälv, Emmanuelle Göthelid, Jens Jensen +6
(Al,Cr)2O3 coatings with Al/(Al+Cr) = 0.5 or Al = 70 at.%, doped with 0, 5 or 10 at.% Si, were deposited on hard metal and Si(100) substrates to elucidate the influence of Si on th…
A general Lewis acidic etching route for preparing MXenes with enhanced electrochemical performance in non-aqueous electrolyte
Youbing Li, Hui Shao, Zifeng Lin +14
Two-dimensional carbides and nitrides of transition metals, known as MXenes, are a fast-growing family of 2D materials that draw attention as energy storage materials. So far, MXen…
Deposition of MAX phase containing thin films from a (Ti,Zr)2AlC compound target
Clio Azina, Bensu Tunca, Andrejs Petruhins +7
This work reports on sputter depositions carried out from a compound (Ti,Zr)2AlC target, whereupon Al-containing (Ti,Zr)C thin films (30-40 nm in thickness) were deposited on MgO(1…
Multielemental single-atom-thick A layers in nanolaminated V2(Sn, A)C (A=Fe, Co, Ni, Mn) for tailoring magnetic properties
Youbing Li, Jun Lu, Mian Li +11
Tailoring of individual single-atom-thick layers in nanolaminated materials offers atomic-level control over material properties. Nonetheless, multielement alloying in individual a…
Synthesis of MAX Phases Nb2CuC and Ti2(Al0.1Cu0.9)N by A-site Replacement Reaction in Molten Salts
Haoming Ding, Youbing Li, Jun Lu +12
New MAX phases Ti2(AlxCu1-x)N and Nb2CuC were synthesized by A-site replacement by reacting Ti2AlN and Nb2AlC, respectively, with CuCl2 or CuI molten salt. X-ray diffraction, scann…
Optical and mechanical properties of amorphous Mg-Si-O-N thin films deposited by reactive magnetron sputtering
Sharafat Ali, Biplab Paul, Roger Magnusson +5
In this work, amorphous thin films in Mg-Si-O-N system were prepared in order to investigate the dependence of optical and mechanical properties on Mg composition. Reactive RF magn…
Phase composition and transformations in magnetron-sputtered (Al,V)2O3 coatings
L. Landälv, C-F. Carlström, J. Lu +7
Coatings of (Al1-xVx)2O3, with x ranging from 0 to 1, were deposited by pulsed DC reactive sputter deposition on Si(100) at a temperature of 550 °C. XRD showed three different crys…
Compositional dependence of epitaxial Tin+1SiCn MAX-phase thin films grown from a Ti3SiC2 compound target
Martin Magnusona, Lina Tengdelius, Grzegorz Greczynski +7
We investigate sputtering of a Ti3SiC2 compound target at temperatures ranging from RT (no applied external heating) to 970 oC as well as the influence of the sputtering power at 8…
Tin+1Cn MXene with fully saturated and thermally stable Cl terminations
J. Lu, I. Persson, H. Lind +12
MXenes are a rapidly growing family of 2D materials that exhibit a highly versatile structure and composition, allowing for significant tuning of the material properties. These pro…