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Probing lattice fluctuations using solid-state high-harmonic spectroscopy
Lance Hatch, Navdeep Rana, Shoushou He +8
Solid-state high-harmonic spectroscopy allows the study of strongly driven ultrafast electron dynamics. Microscopically, high harmonics are generated by strong-laser-field accelera…
Structural Phase Separation Couples to Charge-Density-Wave Formation in Kagome Metal FeGe
Boyang Zhao, Youngjun Ahn, Qinwen Deng +7
The intertwining of charge, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom underlies the emergent properties of correlated materials. A recent prominent example is the kagome metal FeGe, whi…
Crystal Growth of Chalcogenides and Oxy-Chalcogenides Using Chloride Exchange Reaction
Shantanu Singh, Boyang Zhao, Christopher E. Stevens +5
Chalcogenides and oxy-chalcogenides, including complex chalcogenides and transition metal dichalcogenides, are emerging semiconductors with direct or indirect band gaps within the…
Towards Atomic-Scale Control over Structural Modulations in Quasi-1D Chalcogenides for Colossal Optical Anisotropy
Guodong Ren, Shantanu Singh, Gwan Yeong Jung +10
Optically anisotropic materials are sought after for tailoring the polarization of light. Recently, colossal optical anisotropy was reported in a quasi-one-dimensional chalcogenide…
Electrical contacts for high performance optoelectronic devices of BaZrS3 single crystals
Huandong Chen, Shantanu Singh, Mythili Surendran +3
Chalcogenide perovskites such as BaZrS3 are promising candidates for next generation optoelectronics such as photodetectors and solar cells. Compared to widely studied polycrystall…
Strain-driven stabilization of a room-temperature chiral multiferroic with coupled ferroaxial and ferroelectric order
Guodong Ren, Gwan Yeong Jung, Huandong Chen +9
Noncollinear ferroic materials are sought after as testbeds to explore the intimate connections between topology and symmetry, which result in electronic, optical and magnetic func…
Emergent Atomic Scale Polarisation Vortices in BaTiS3
Boyang Zhao, Gwan Yeong Jung, Shantanu Singh +21
Topological defects, such as vortices and skyrmions in magnetic and dipolar systems, can give rise to properties that are not observed in typical magnets and dielectrics. Here, we…
Molten flux growth of single crystals of quasi-1D hexagonal chalcogenide BaTiS3
Huandong Chen, Shantanu Singh, Hongyan Mei +7
BaTiS3, a quasi-1D complex chalcogenide, has gathered considerable scientific and technological interest due to its giant optical anisotropy and electronic phase transitions. Howev…
Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3
Boyang Zhao, Hongyan Mei, Zhengyu Du +9
Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve…
Vibrational properties differ between halide and chalcogenide perovskite semiconductors, and it matters for optoelectronic performance
K. Ye, M. Menahem, T. Salzillo +7
We report a comparative study of temperature-dependent photoluminescence and structural dynamics of two perovskite semiconductors, the chalcogenide BaZrS (BZS) and the halide C…
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…
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…
Quasi-epitaxial growth of BaTiS films
M. Surendran, B. Zhao, G. Ren +7
Perovskite chalcogenides have emerged as a new class of semiconductors with tunable band gap in the visible-infrared region. High quality thin films are critical to understand the…
Unconventional Charge-density-wave Order in a Dilute d-band Semiconductor
Huandong Chen, Batyr Ilyas, Boyang Zhao +27
Electron-lattice coupling effects in low dimensional materials give rise to charge density wave (CDW) order and phase transitions. These phenomena are critical ingredients for supe…
Orientation Controlled Anisotropy in Single Crystals of Quasi-1D BaTiS3
Boyang Zhao, Md Shafkat Bin Hoque, Gwan Yeong Jung +17
Low-dimensional materials with chain-like (one-dimensional) or layered (twodimensional) structures are of significant interest due to their anisotropic electrical, optical, thermal…
Epitaxial Thin Films of a Chalcogenide Perovskite
Mythili Surendran, Huandong Chen, Boyang Zhao +9
Chalcogenide perovskites have emerged as a new class of electronic materials, but fundamental properties and applications of chalcogenide perovskites remain limited by the lack of…
Discovery of highly-polarizable semiconductors BaZrS3 and Ba3Zr2S7
Stephen Filippone, Boyang Zhao, Shanyuan Niu +6
There are few known semiconductors exhibiting both strong optical response and large dielectric polarizability. Inorganic materials with large dielectric polarizability tend to be…
Band gap evolution in Ruddlesden-Popper phases
Wei Li, Shanyuan Niu, Boyang Zhao +3
We investigate the variation of the band gap across the Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) series (An+1BnX3n+1) in model chalcogenide, oxide, and halide materials to understand the factors inf…
Crystal growth and structural analysis of perovskite chalcogenide BaZrS and Ruddlesden-Popper phase BaZrS
Shanyuan Niu, Boyang Zhao, Kevin Ye +7
Perovskite chalcogenides are gaining substantial interest as an emerging class of semiconductors for optoelectronic applications. High quality samples are of vital importance to ex…
Thermal Stability Study of Transition Metal Perovskite Sulfides
Shanyuan Niu, JoAnna Milam-Guerrero, Yucheng Zhou +4
Transition metal perovskite chalcogenides, a class of materials with rich tunability in functionalities, are gaining increased attention as candidate materials for renewable energy…
Mid-wave and Long-wave IR Linear Dichroism in a Hexagonal Perovskite Chalcogenide
Shanyuan Niu, Huan Zhao, Yucheng Zhou +6
Mid-wave infrared (IR) and long-wave IR spectral ranges are of growing interest in various applications such as thermal imaging, thermography-based remote sensing, and night vision…