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Anomalous properties of spark plasma sintered boron nitride solids
Abhijit Biswas, Peter Serles, Gustavo A. Alvarez +22
Hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) is a brittle ceramic with a layered structure, however, recent experiments have suggested that inter-layer structural engineering could be key to new…
VO2 Phase Change Electrodes in Li-ion Batteries
Samuel Castro-Pardo, Anand B. Puthirath, Shaoxun Fan +6
Use of electrode materials that show phase change behavior and hence drastic changes in electrochemical activity during operation, have not been explored for Li-ion batteries. Here…
Bottom-up Integration of TMDCs with Pre-Patterned Device Architectures via Transfer-free Chemical Vapor Deposition
Lucas M. Sassi, Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, Anand B. Puthirath +11
Two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) remain a topic of immense interest. Specifically, given their low operational switching costs, they find many niche ap…
Structural, optical, and thermal properties of BN thin films grown on diamond via pulsed laser deposition
Abhijit Biswas, Gustavo A. Alvarez, Tao Li +19
Heterostructures based on ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors (bandgap >4.0 eV), boron nitride (BN) and diamond are important for next-generation high-power electronics. Howeve…
Phase Stability of Hexagonal/cubic Boron Nitride Nanocomposites
Abhijit Biswas, Rui Xu, Joyce Christiansen-Salameh +21
Boron nitride (BN) is an exceptional material and among its polymorphs, two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal and three-dimensional (3D) cubic BN (h-BN and c-BN) phases are most common. T…
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…
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…
Unidirectional domain growth of hexagonal boron nitride thin films
Abhijit Biswas, Qiyuan Ruan, Frank Lee +16
Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) layered hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has gained tremendous research interest over recent years due to its unconventional domain growth morp…
Unravelling the room temperature growth of two-dimensional h-BN nanosheets for multifunctional applications
Abhijit Biswas, Rishi Maiti, Frank Lee +21
Room temperature growth of two-dimensional van der Waals (2D-vdW) materials is indispensable for state-of-the-art nanotechnology. The low temperature growth supersedes the requirem…
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…
Stability of Oxygenated Groups on Pristine and Defective Diamond Surfaces
Eliezer Oliveira, Chenxi Li, Xiang Zhang +11
The surface functionalization of diamond has been extensively studied through a variety of techniques, such as oxidation. Several oxygen groups have been correspondingly detected o…
Thin film growth of MAX phases as functional materials
Abhijit Biswas, Varun Natu, Anand B. Puthirath
Layered nanolaminate ternary carbides, nitrides and carbonitrides with general formula Mn+1AXn or MAX (n = 1, 2, or 3, M is an early transition metal, A is mostly group 13 or 14 el…
Soft-Pinning: Experimental Validation of Static Correlations in Supercooled Molecular Glass-forming Liquids
Rajsekhar Das, Bhanu Prasad Bhowmik, Anand B. Puthirath +2
Enormous enhancement in the viscosity of a liquid near its glass transition is generally connected to the growing many-body static correlations near the transition, often coined as…
A Reactive Molecular Dynamics Study of Hydrogenation on Diamond Surfaces
Eliezer F. Oliveira, Mahesh R. Neupane, Chenxi Li +9
Hydrogenated diamond has been regarded as a promising material in electronic device applications, especially in field-effect transistors (FETs). However, the quality of diamond hyd…
Three-dimensional Printing of Complex Graphite Structures
Seyed Mohammad Sajadi, Shayan Enayat, Lívia Vásárhelyi +14
Graphite, with many industrial applications, is one of the widely sought-after allotropes of carbon. The sp2 hybridized and thermodynamically stable form of carbon forms a layered…
Apparent Ferromagnetism in Exfoliated Ultra-thin Pyrite Sheets
Anand B. Puthirath, Aravind Puthirath Balan, Eliezer F. Oliveira +11
Experimental evidence for ferromagnetic ordering in isotropic atomically thin two-dimensional crystals has been missing until a bilayer Cr2Ge2Te6, and a three-atom thick monolayer…
Corrosion Resistance of Sulfur-Selenium Alloy Coatings
Sandhya Susarla, Govind Chilkoor, Yufei Cui +14
Despite decades of research, metallic corrosion remains a long-standing challenge in many engineering applications. Specifically, designing a material that can resist corrosion bot…
U-carbon: metallic and magnetic
Hong Fang, Michael Masaki, Anand B. Puthirath +6
We report the discovery of a pristine crystalline 3D carbon that is magnetic, electrically conductive and stable under ambient conditions. This carbon material, which has remained…