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Synthesis and properties of bulk MgWN in a wurtzite-derived structure
Anna A. Berseneva, Christopher L. Rom, Layton Rudolph +5
Experimental synthesis of theoretically predicted materials with controlled elemental coordination environments can lead to realization of useful properties, such as facile ion tra…
Thin-Film Stabilization and Magnetism of η-Carbide Type Iron Nitrides
Baptiste Julien, Abrar Rauf, Liam A. V. Nagle-Cocco +4
Transition-metal nitrides in η-carbide type structures exhibit unusual bonding motifs and proximity to magnetic instabilities. Yet they remain unexplored in thin-film form due to t…
Ferrimagnetic Order in Tetragonal Antiperovskite MnGeN
Shaun O'Donnell, Corlyn Regier, Sharad Mahatara +7
The crystal and magnetic structures of the nitride antiperovskite MnGeN reveals ferrimagnetic order stemming from a distorted kagome-derived lattice of the Mn atoms. Polycrysta…
Interplay of Ferromagnetic and Antiferromagnetic Interactions in Epitaxial CoZnN
Sita Dugu, Sharad Mahatara, Corlyn E Regier +4
Antiperovskite nitrides with the general formula MN have attracted significant attention due to their tunable electronic and magnetic properties. Among them are many cobalt-bas…
Magnetosynthesis effect on the structure and ground state of Cu-based antiferromagnets
Micaela E. Primer, Anna A. Berseneva, Ayesha Ulde +2
Subtle synthetic variables can have an outsizes influence on the crystal structure and magnetic properties of a material, particularly those of quantum materials. In this work, we…
Identifying Universal Spin Excitations in Spin-1/2 Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Materials
Aaron T. Breidenbach, Arthur C. Campello, Jiajia Wen +4
A quantum spin liquid (QSL) is an exotic quantum state of matter characterized by fluctuating spins which may exhibit long-range entanglement. Among the possible host candidates fo…
Structural stability, elemental ordering, and transport properties of layered ScTaN2
Baptiste Julien, Ian A. Leahy, Rebecca W. Smaha +4
Some ternary TM nitrides are predicted to adopt layered structures that make them interesting for thermoelectric conversion and quantum materials applications. Synthesis of TM tern…
Combinatorial synthesis and characterization of thin film Al1-xRExN (RE = Pr3+, Tb3+) heterostructural alloys
Binod Paudel, John S. Mangum, Christopher L. Rom +8
The potential impact of cation-substituted AlN-based materials, such as Al1-xScxN, Al1-xGaxN, and Al1-xBxN, with exceptional electronic, electromechanical, and dielectric propertie…
From Prediction to Experimental Realization of Ferroelectric Wurtzite AlGdN Alloys
Cheng-Wei Lee, Rebecca W. Smaha, Geoff L. Brennecka +3
AlN-based alloys find widespread application in high-power microelectronics, optoelectronics, and electromechanics. The realization of ferroelectricity in wurtzite AlN-based hetero…
Thin Film Synthesis, Structural Analysis, and Magnetic Properties of Novel Ternary Transition Metal Nitride MnCoN2
Sita Dugu, Rebecca W Smaha, Shaham Quadir +8
Recent high-throughput computational searches have predicted many novel ternary nitride compounds providing new opportunities for materials discovery in under explored phase spaces…
Synthesis pathways to thin films of stable layered nitrides
Andriy Zakutayev, Matthew Jankousky, Laszlo Wolf +7
Controlled synthesis of metastable materials away from equilibrium is of interest in materials chemistry. Thin film deposition methods with rapid condensation of vapor precursors c…
Bulk synthesis of ZnWN via solid-state metathesis
Christopher L. Rom, Shaun O'Donnell, Kayla Huang +4
Ternary nitrides are of growing technological importance, with applications as semiconductors, catalysts, and magnetic materials; however, new synthetic tools are needed to advance…
Local probe investigation of the spin dynamics in the kagome and inter-layers of orthorhombic barlowite Cu(OD)FBr: Br and Cu NQR study
Takashi Imai, Jiaming Wang, Rebecca W. Smaha +3
We report Br and Cu nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) in the paramagnetic state above K of the antiferromagnetic orthorhombic phase of barlowite Cu…
Bulk and film synthesis pathways to ternary magnesium tungsten nitrides
Christopher L. Rom, Rebecca W. Smaha, Callan A. Knebel +4
Bulk solid state synthesis of nitride materials usually leads to thermodynamically stable, cation-ordered crystal structures, whereas thin film synthesis tends to favor disordered,…
Autonomous sputter synthesis of thin film nitrides with composition controlled by Bayesian optimization of optical plasma emission
Davi M. Febba, Kevin R. Talley, Kendal Johnson +5
Autonomous experimentation has emerged as an efficient approach to accelerate the pace of materials discovery. Although instruments for autonomous synthesis have become popular in…
Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of Thin Film LaWN
Rebecca W. Smaha, John S. Mangum, Ian A. Leahy +9
Nitride perovskites are an emerging class of materials that have been predicted to display a range of interesting physics and functional properties, but they are under-explored due…
Emergence of the spin polarized domains in the kagome lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnet Zn-barlowite (ZnCu)Cu(OD)FBr
Weishi Yuan, Jiaming Wang, Philip M. Singer +4
Kagome lattice Heisenberg antiferromagnets are known to be highly sensitive to perturbations caused by structural disorder. NMR is a local probe ideally suited for investigating su…
Combinatorial synthesis of cation-disordered manganese tin nitride MnSnN thin films with magnetic and semiconducting properties
Christopher L. Rom, Rebecca W. Smaha, Celeste L. Melamed +11
Magnetic semiconductors may soon improve the energy efficiency of computers, but materials exhibiting these dual properties remain underexplored. Here, we report the computational…
Emergence of spin singlets with inhomogeneous gaps in the kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnets Zn-barlowite and herbertsmithite
Jiaming Wang, Weishi Yuan, Philip M. Singer +5
The kagome Heisenberg antiferromagnet formed by frustrated spins arranged in a lattice of corner-sharing triangles is a prime candidate for hosting a quantum spin liquid (QSL) grou…
Freezing of the Lattice in the Kagome Lattice Heisenberg Antiferromagnet Zn-barlowite ZnCu(OD)FBr
Jiaming Wang, Weishi Yuan, Philip M. Singer +5
We use Br nuclear quadrupole resonance (NQR) to demonstrate that ultra slow lattice dynamics set in below the temperature scale set by the Cu-Cu super-exchange interaction $…
Field-tuned ferroquadrupolar quantum phase transition in the insulator TmVO
Pierre Massat, Jiajia Wen, Jack M. Jiang +7
We report results of low-temperature heat capacity, magnetocaloric effect and neutron diffraction measurements of TmVO, an insulator that undergoes a continuous ferroquadrupo…
High energy spin excitations in the quantum spin liquid candidate Zn-barlowite probed by resonant inelastic x-ray scattering
Rebecca W. Smaha, Jonathan Pelliciari, Ignace Jarrige +6
A quantum spin liquid is a novel ground state that can support long-range entanglement between magnetic moments, resulting in exotic spin excitations involving fractionalized $S=\f…
Site-Specific Structure at Multiple Length Scales in Kagome Quantum Spin Liquid Candidates
Rebecca W. Smaha, Idris Boukahil, Charles J. Titus +11
Realizing a quantum spin liquid (QSL) ground state in a real material is a leading issue in condensed matter physics research. In this pursuit, it is crucial to fully characterize…
Evidence for a Parity Broken Monoclinic Ground State in the S = 1/2 Kagomé Antiferromagnet Herbertsmithite
N. J. Laurita, A. Ron, J. W. Han +9
Nearest-neighbor interacting S = 1/2 spins on the ideal Kagomé lattice are predicted to form a variety of novel quantum entangled states, including quantum spin-liquid (SL) and val…