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most citedInterlayer Electronic Coupling on Demand in a 2D Magnetic Semiconductor

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cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

RIXS Identification of Optical Phonon-Spin Coupling Effects in CrSBr

Jayajeewana N. Ranhili, Chamini S. Pathiraja, Brody Brogdon +10

Resonant inelastic x-ray scattering provides experimental signatures of spin-phonon coupling in CrSBr through temperature-dependent Cr -edge spectra. Low-energy excitations are…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 4 cited

Angle evolution of the superconducting phase diagram in twisted bilayer WSe2

Yinjie Guo, John Cenker, Ammon Fischer +13

Recent observations of superconductivity in twisted bilayer WSe have extended the family of moiré superconductors beyond twisted graphene. In WSe two different twist angles…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Mapping the moiré potential in multi-layer rhombohedral graphene

Eric Seewald, Sanat Ghosh, Nishchhal Verma +11

Rhombohedral graphene (rG) aligned with hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) has been shown to host flat bands that stabilize various strongly correlated quantum phases, including Mott in…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025★ 13 cited

Engineering robust strain transmission in van der Waals heterostructure devices

John Cenker, Jordan Fonseca, Mai Nguyen +8

Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical streng…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Exciton Dressing by Extreme Nonlinear Magnons in a Layered Semiconductor

Geoffrey M. Diederich, Mai Nguyen, John Cenker +9

Collective excitations presenting nonlinear dynamics are fundamental phenomena with broad applications. A prime example is nonlinear optics, where diverse frequency mixing processe…

physics.ins-det2024★ 12 cited

Continuously tunable uniaxial strain control of van der Waals heterostructure devices

Zhaoyu Liu, Xuetao Ma, John Cenker +13

Uniaxial strain has been widely used as a powerful tool for investigating and controlling the properties of quantum materials. However, existing strain techniques have so far mostl…

cond-mat.str-el2023★ 1 cited

Strain Tuning Three-state Potts Nematicity in a Correlated Antiferromagnet

Kyle Hwangbo, Elliott Rosenberg, John Cenker +5

Electronic nematicity, a state in which rotational symmetry is spontaneously broken, has become a familiar characteristic of many strongly correlated materials. One widely studied…

cond-mat.mes-hall2023★ 7 cited

Strain-programmable van der Waals magnetic tunnel junctions

John Cenker, Dmitry Ovchinnikov, Harvey Yang +12

The magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) is a backbone device for spintronics. Realizing next generation energy efficient MTJs will require operating mechanisms beyond the standard means…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 131 cited

Tunable Exciton-Hybridized Magnon Interactions in a Layered Semiconductor

Geoffrey M. Diederich, John Cenker, Yafei Ren +8

The interaction between distinct excitations in solids is of both fundamental interest and technological importance. One example of such interactions is coupling between an exciton…

cond-mat.mes-hall2022★ 262 cited

Exciton-Coupled Coherent Magnons in a 2D Semiconductor

Youn Jue Bae, Jue Wang, Allen Scheie +13

Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic semiconductors feature both tightly-bound excitons with large oscillator strength and potentially long-lived coherent magnons due to the presence of b…

cond-mat.str-el2021★ 144 cited

Evidence for equilibrium excitons and exciton condensation in monolayer WTe2

Bosong Sun, Wenjin Zhao, Tauno Palomaki +14

A single monolayer of the layered semimetal WTe2 behaves as a two-dimensional topological insulator, with helical conducting edge modes surrounding a bulk state that becomes insula…

cond-mat.mes-hall2021★ 338 cited

Interlayer Electronic Coupling on Demand in a 2D Magnetic Semiconductor

Nathan P. Wilson, Kihong Lee, John Cenker +10

When monolayers of two-dimensional (2D) materials are stacked into van der Waals structures, interlayer electronic coupling can introduce entirely new properties, as exemplified by…

cond-mat.mes-hall2020★ 187 cited

Direct observation of 2D magnons in atomically thin CrI

John Cenker, Bevin Huang, Nishchay Suri +8

Exfoliated chromium triiodide (CrI) is a layered van der Waals (vdW) magnetic insulator that consists of ferromagnetic layers coupled through antiferromagnetic interlayer excha…

cond-mat.mes-hall2019★ 148 cited

Tuning Inelastic Light Scattering via Symmetry Control in 2D Magnet CrI

Bevin Huang, John Cenker, Xiaoou Zhang +7

The coupling between spin and charge degrees of freedom in a crystal imparts strong optical signatures on scattered electromagnetic waves. This has led to magneto-optical effects w…