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most citedOrder-Disorder Ferroelectric Transition of Strained SrTiO3

64 citations · 210 across the 19 of their papers we have counts for

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21 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of AgTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Joshua Maile, Olivia Peek +6

We report the first synthesis of single-crystal AgTaO3 thin films using molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE). High-quality epitaxial AgTaO3 films were grown on both (001)- and (111)-orient…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Solid-State Dealloying Enables Local Symmetry Breaking in Ternary Intermetallic Thin Films

Mizuki Ohno, Reiley Dorrian, Veronica Show +2

Metastable quantum materials often occupy narrow composition windows with local symmetries distinct from competing equilibrium structures. These features open pathways for realizin…

cond-mat.mes-hall2026

Crystalline Germanium Josephson Junctions

Frederik H. Knudsen, Axel Leblanc, Yiliu Li +8

Conventional superconducting quantum electronics rely on well-established Josephson junctions made of Al/AlO where the weak link AlO is amorphous and is believed to hos…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026★ 1 cited

Transport Evidence of Magnetic Polarization in the Altermagnetic Candidate MnTe

Younes Ghorbani, Nayana Devaraj, Joshua Maile +7

The ability to precisely control magnetic properties is central to the development of future spin-based electronics. In this work, we report the successful growth of epitaxial α-Mn…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Sankalpa Hazra +9

Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Large phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3

Mohamed Nawwar, Samuel Poage, Tobias Schwaigert +6

This study reports the observation of phonon-drag thermopower polarity reversal in Ba-doped KTaO3 thin films, mediated by electron-phonon Umklapp scattering. Epitaxial films with d…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Electrostatic control of quantum phases in KTaO3-based planar constrictions

Jordan T. McCourt, Ethan G. Arnault, Merve Baksi +5

Two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) formed at complex oxide interfaces offer a unique platform to engineer quantum nanostructures. However, scalable fabrication of locally addre…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconducting vacancy-ordered rock-salt NbO films

Jeong Rae Kim, Sandra Glotzer, Evan Krysko +5

We report molecular beam epitaxy synthesis of vacancy-ordered rocksalt NbO thin films which display superconductivity. A comparative study of substrates identifies AlO (000…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Superconductivity in tin telluride films grown by molecular beam epitaxy

Antonio Gonzalez, Samuel J. Poage, Bernardo Langa +7

The intersection of superconductivity and ferroelectricity hosts a wide range of exotic quantum phenomena. Here, we report on the observation of superconductivity in high-quality t…

cond-mat.supr-con2025★ 3 cited

Violation of Pauli Limit at KTaO3(110) Interfaces

Samuel J. Poage, Xueshi Gao, Merve Baksi +7

The superconducting order parameter at the KTaO3 interfaces and its dependence on interface orientation remains a subject of debate. The superconductivity at these interfaces exhib…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Surface and Bulk Two-Level System Losses in Lithium Niobate Acoustic Resonators

Rachel G. Gruenke-Freudenstein, Erik Szakiel, Gitanjali P. Multani +7

Lithium niobate (LN) is a promising material for building acoustic resonators used in quantum applications, but its performance is limited by poorly understood material defects cal…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 7 cited

Superconductivity in Substitutional Ga-Hyperdoped Ge Epitaxial Thin Films

Julian A. Steele, Patrick J. Strohbeen, Carla Verdi +12

Doping-induced superconductivity in group IV elements may enable quantum functionalities in material systems accessible with well-established semiconductor technologies. Non-equili…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

High temperature diffusion enabled epitaxy of the Ti-O system

Jeong Rae Kim, Sandra Glotzer, Adrian Llanos +2

High temperatures promote kinetic processes which can drive crystal synthesis towards ideal thermodynamic conditions, thereby realizing samples of superior quality. While accessing…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 9 cited

Monoclinic LaSb Superconducting Thin Films

Adrian Llanos, Giovanna Campisi, Veronica Show +5

Rare-earth diantimondes exhibit coupling between structural and electronic orders which are tunable under pressure and temperature. Here we present the discovery of a new polymorph…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 5 cited

Supercell formation in epitaxial rare-earth ditelluride thin films

Adrian Llanos, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Jinwoong Kim +3

Square net tellurides host an array of electronic ground states and commonly exhibit charge-density-wave ordering. Here we report the epitaxy of DyTe on atomically flat MgO…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 26 cited

Enhanced Critical Field of Superconductivity at an Oxide Interface

Athby H. Al-Tawhid, Samuel J. Poage, Salva Salmani-Rezaie +6

The nature of superconductivity and its interplay with strong spin-orbit coupling at the KTaO3(111) interfaces remains a subject of debate. To address this problem, we grew epitaxi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 26 cited

Molecular Beam Epitaxy of KTaO

Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Razaie, Matthew R. Barone +6

Strain-engineering is a powerful means to tune the polar, structural, and electronic instabilities of incipient ferroelectrics. KTaO3 is near a polar instability and shows anisotro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 14 cited

Tracking ultrafast change of multiterahertz broadband response functions in a photoexcited Dirac semimetal CdAs thin film

Natsuki Kanda, Yuta Murotani, Takuya Matsuda +5

The electromagnetic response of Dirac semimetals in the infrared and terahertz frequency ranges is attracting growing interest for potential applications in optoelectronics and non…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 64 cited

Order-Disorder Ferroelectric Transition of Strained SrTiO3

Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Kaveh Ahadi, William M. Strickland +1

SrTiO3 is an incipient ferroelectric that is believed to exhibit a prototype displacive, soft mode ferroelectric transition when subjected to mechanical stress or alloying. We use…

cond-mat.supr-con2020★ 52 cited

Possible signatures of mixed-parity superconductivity in doped polar SrTiO3 films

Timo Schumann, Luca Galletti, Hanbyeol Jeong +4

Superconductors that possess both broken spatial inversion symmetry and spin-orbit interactions exhibit a mix of spin singlet and triplet pairing. Here, we report on measurements o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2019

Point group symmetry of cadmium arsenide thin films determined by convergent beam electron diffraction

Honggyu Kim, Manik Goyal, Salva Salmani-Rezaie +4

Cadmium arsenide (Cd3As2) is one of the first materials to be discovered to belong to the class of three-dimensional topological semimetals. Reported room temperature crystal struc…