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Atomically localized ingredient-dependent interface phonon in heterogeneous solids
Mei Wu, Ruochen Shi, Ruishi Qi +12
Phonons are the primary heat carriers in non-metallic solids. In compositionally heterogeneous materials, the thermal properties are believed to be mainly governed by the disrupted…
Phonon transition across an isotopic interface
Ning Li, Ruochen Shi, Yifei Li +13
Natural materials usually consist of isotopic mixtures, for which different isotopic ratios can lead to distinct material properties such as thermal conductivity and nucleation pro…
Tunable Interband Transitions in Twisted h-BN/Graphene Heterostructures
Bingyao Liu, Yu-Tian Zhang, Ruixi Qiao +12
In twisted h-BN/graphene heterostructures, the complex electronic properties of the fast-traveling electron gas in graphene are usually considered to be fully revealed. However, th…
Electron microscopy probing electron-photon interactions in SiC nanowires with ultra-wide energy and momentum match
Jinlong Du, Jin-hui Chen, Yuehui Li +4
Nanoscale materials usually can trap light and strongly interact with it leading to many photonic device applications. The light-matter interactions are commonly probed by optical…
Direct observation of local antiferroelectricity induced phonon softening at a SrTiO3 defect
Bo Han, Ruochen Shi, Huining Peng +7
Defects in oxides usually exhibit exotic properties that may be associated with the local lattice dynamics. Here, at atomic spatial resolution, we directly measure phonon modes of…
Approaching the Purcell factor limit with whispering-gallery hyperbolic phonon polaritons in hBN nanotubes
Xiangdong Guo, Ning Li, Xiaoxia Yang +9
Enhanced light-matter interaction at the nanoscale is pivotal in the foundation of nonlinear optics, quantum optics, and nanophotonics, which are essential for a vast range of appl…
Atomic-Scale Probing of Heterointerface Phonon Bridges in Nitride Semiconductor
Yue-Hui Li, Rui-Shi Qi, Ruo-Chen Shi +12
Interface phonon modes that are generated by several atomic layers at the heterointerface play a major role in the interface thermal conductance for nanoscale high-power devices su…
Measuring phonon dispersion at an interface
Ruishi Qi, Ruochen Shi, Yuanwei Sun +9
The breakdown of translational symmetry at heterointerfaces leads to the emergence of new phonon modes localized near the interface. These interface phonons play an essential role…
Creating topological polar structure in a nonpolar matter
Adeel Y. Abid, Yuanwei Sun, Xu Hou +15
Nontrivial topological structures offer rich playground in condensed matter physics including fluid dynamics, superconductivity, and ferromagnetism, and they promise alternative de…
Eightfold Fermionic Excitation in a Charge Density Wave Compound
Xi Zhang, Qiangqiang Gu, Haigen Sun +19
Unconventional quasiparticle excitations in condensed matter systems have become one of the most important research frontiers. Beyond two- and fourfold degenerate Weyl and Dirac fe…
Correlating the Electronic Structures of Metallic/Semiconductor MoTe2 Interface to its Atomic Structures
Bo Han, Chen Yang, Xiaolong Xu +8
Contact interface properties are important in determining the performances of devices based on atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials, especially those with short channels.…
Atomic Origin of Spin-Valve Magnetoresistance at the SrRuO3 Grain Boundary
Xujing Li, Li Yin, Zhengxun Lai +14
Defects ubiquitously exist in crystal materials and usually exhibit a very different nature than the bulk matrix, and hence, their presence can have significant impacts on the prop…
Atomic-environment-dependent thickness of ferroelastic domain walls
Mingqiang Li, Xiaomei Li, Yuehui Li +3
Domain walls are of increasing interest in ferroelectrics because of their unique properties and potential applications in future nanoelectronics. However, the thickness of ferroel…
Chiral spin-wave velocities induced by all-garnet interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction in ultrathin yttrium iron garnet films
Hanchen Wang, Jilei Chen, Tao Liu +14
Spin waves can probe the Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) which gives rise to topological spin textures, such as skyrmions. However, the DMI has not yet been reported in ytt…
Atomic Imaging of Mechanically Induced Topological Transition of Ferroelectric Vortices
Pan Chen, Xiangli Zhong, Jacob A. Zorn +14
Ferroelectric vortices formed through complex lattice-charge interactions have great potential in applications for future nanoelectronics such as memories. For practical applicatio…
Nanoscale Probing of Localized Surface Phonon Polaritons in SiC Nanorods with Swift Electrons
Yuehui Li, Ruishi Qi, Ruochen Shi +4
Surface phonon polaritons hold much potential for subwavelength control and manipulation of light at the infrared to terahertz wavelengths. Here, aided by monochromatic scanning tr…
Interface ferromagnetism and anomalous Hall effect of CdO/ferromagnetic insulator heterostructures
Yang Ma, Yu Yun, Yuehui Li +8
The experimental observation of quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) in magnetic topological insulators has stimulated enormous interest in condensed-matter physics and materials s…
Probing lattice vibration at surface and interface of SiO/Si with nanometer resolution
Yuehui Li, Mei Wu, Ning Li +6
Recent advances in monochromatic aberration corrected electron microscopy make it possible to detect the lattice vibration with both high-energy resolution and high spatial resolut…