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most citedDisentangling stress and curvature effects in layered 2D ferroelectric CuInP2S6

36 citations · 156 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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25 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Absence of lateral domain wall mobility in Zn1-xMgxO thin films

Jack Eckstein, Kyle P. Kelley, William Prudnick +4

Polarization reversal in ferroelectrics arises from the coupled processes of domain nucleation and subsequent growth, yet the governing mechanisms differ fundamentally between clas…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Electromechanical Hysteresis in Phase Change Material Sb2S3

Jack Kaman, Evan Musterman, Kyle P. Kelley +3

Antimony sulfide is an emerging phase change material for optical and electrical memory and computation elements. It has additionally been reported as a ferroelectric, with recent…

physics.optics2024

Non-perturbative cathodoluminescence microscopy of beam-sensitive materials

Malcolm Bogroff, Gabriel Cowley, Ariel Nicastro +9

Cathodoluminescence microscopy is now a well-established and powerful tool for probing the photonic properties of nanoscale materials, but in many cases, nanophotonic materials are…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Reversible long-range domain wall motion in an improper ferroelectric

M. Zahn, A. M. Müller, K. P. Kelley +8

Reversible ferroelectric domain wall movements beyond the 10 nm range associated with Rayleigh behavior are usually restricted to specific defect-engineered systems. Here, we demon…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 8 cited

Photoinduced Patterning of Oxygen Vacancies to Promote the Ferroelectric Phase of

Thomas E Beechem, Fernando Vega, Samantha T. Jaszewski +3

Photoinduced reductions in the oxygen vacancy concentration were leveraged to increase the ferroelectric phase fraction of (HZO) thin-films. Modest (…

physics.optics2023

Closed-Loop Electron-Beam-Induced Spectroscopy and Nanofabrication Around Individual Quantum Emitters

Jawaher Almutlaq, Kyle P. Kelley, Hyeongrak Choi +5

Color centers in diamond play a central role in the development of quantum photonic technologies, and their importance is only expected to grow in the near future. For many quantum…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 1 cited

Ferroelectric domain nucleation and switching pathways in hafnium oxide

Sebastian Calderon, Samantha T. Jaszewski, Kyle P. Kelley +2

Nanoscale ferroelectrics that can be integrated into microelectronic fabrication processes are highly desirable for low-power computing and non-volatile memory devices. However, sc…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

The interplay between ferroelectricity and electrochemical reactivity on the surface of binary ferroelectric AlBN

Yongtao Liu, Anton Ievlev, Joseph Casamento +5

Polarization dynamics and domain structure evolution in ferroelectric AlBN are studied using piezoresponse force microscopy and spectroscopies in ambient and cont…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

An effective Landau-type model of HfZrO thin film - graphene nanostructure

Anna N. Morozovska, Maksym V. Strikha, Kyle P. Kelley +2

To describe the charge-polarization coupling in the nanostructure formed by a thin HfZrO film with a single-layer graphene as a top electrode, we develop the "effec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Bending-induced isostructural transitions in ultrathin layers of van der Waals ferrielectrics

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Yongtao Liu +8

Using Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) phenomenological approach we analyze the bending-induced re-distribution of electric polarization and field, elastic stresses and strains ins…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 36 cited

Disentangling stress and curvature effects in layered 2D ferroelectric CuInP2S6

Yongtao Liu, Anna N. Morozovska, Ayana Ghosh +5

Nanoscale ferroelectric 2D materials offer unique opportunity to investigate curvature and strain effects on materials functionalities. Among these, CuInP2S6 (CIPS) has attracted t…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 16 cited

Large Enhancements in Optical and Piezoelectric Properties in Ferroelectric Zn1-xMgxO Thin Films through Engineering Electronic and Ionic Anharmonicities

Rui Zu, Gyunghyun Ryu, Kyle P. Kelley +10

Multifunctionality as a paradigm requires materials exhibiting multiple superior properties. Integrating second-order optical nonlinearity and large bandgap with piezoelectricity c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 35 cited

Exploring the microstructural origins of conductivity and hysteresis in metal halide perovskites via active learning driven automated scanning probe microscopy

Yongtao Liu, Jonghee Yang, Rama K. Vasudevan +4

Electronic transport and hysteresis in metal halide perovskites (MHPs) are key to the applications in photovoltaics, light emitting devices, and light and chemical sensors. These p…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Disentangling electronic transport and hysteresis at individual grain boundaries in hybrid perovskites via automated scanning probe microscopy

Yongtao Liu, Jonghee Yang, Benjamin J. Lawrie +4

Underlying the rapidly increasing photovoltaic efficiency and stability of metal halide perovskites (MHPs) is the advance in the understanding of the microstructure of polycrystall…

physics.app-ph2022★ 4 cited

Mapping the Pathways of Photo-induced Ion Migration in Organic-inorganic Hybrid Halide Perovskites

Taeyong Kim, Soyeon Park, Vasudevan Iyer +7

Organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites (OIHPs) exhibiting exceptional photovoltaic and optoelectronic properties are of fundamental and practical interest, owing to their tunability…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 2 cited

Ferroelectricity in Hafnia Controlled via Surface Electrochemical State

Kyle P. Kelley, Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev +6

Ferroelectricity in binary oxides including hafnia and zirconia have riveted the attention of the scientific community due to highly unconventional physical mechanisms and the pote…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Probing temperature-induced phase transitions at individual ferroelectric domain walls

Kyle P. Kelley, Sergei V. Kalinin, Eugene Eliseev +4

Ferroelectric domain walls have emerged as one of the most fascinating objects in condensed matter physics due to the broad variability of functional behaviors they exhibit. Howeve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 3 cited

Learning the right channel in multimodal imaging: automated experiment in Piezoresponse Force Microscopy

Yongtao Liu, Rama K. Vasudevan, Kyle P. Kelley +3

We report the development and experimental implementation of the automated experiment workflows for the identification of the best predictive channel for a phenomenon of interest i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Automated Experiments of Local Non-linear Behavior in Ferroelectric Materials

Yongtao Liu, Kyle P. Kelley, Rama K. Vasudevan +7

We develop and implement an automated experiment in multimodal imaging to probe structural, chemical, and functional behaviors in complex materials and elucidate the dominant physi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Exploring Physics of Ferroelectric Domain Walls in Real Time: Deep Learning Enabled Scanning Probe Microscopy

Yongtao Liu, Kyle P. Kelley, Hiroshi Funakubo +2

The functionality of ferroelastic domain walls in ferroelectric materials is explored in real-time via the in-situ implementation of computer vision algorithms in scanning probe mi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Bayesian Active Learning for Scanning Probe Microscopy: from Gaussian Processes to Hypothesis Learning

Maxim Ziatdinov, Yongtao Liu, Kyle Kelley +2

Recent progress in machine learning methods, and the emerging availability of programmable interfaces for scanning probe microscopes (SPMs), have propelled automated and autonomous…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 32 cited

Autonomous scanning probe microscopy with hypothesis learning: Exploring the physics of domain switching in ferroelectric materials

Yongtao Liu, Anna Morozovska, Eugene Eliseev +4

We report the development and implementation of a hypothesis learning based automated experiment, in which the microscope operating in the autonomous mode identifies the physical l…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022

Temperature-assisted Piezoresponse Force Microscopy: Probing Local Temperature-Induced Phase Transitions in Ferroics

Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Kyle Kelley +1

Combination of local heating and biasing at the tip-surface junction in temperature-assisted piezoresponse force microscopy (tPFM) opens the pathway for probing local temperature i…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 13 cited

Exploring leakage in dielectric films via automated experiment in scanning probe microscopy

Yongtao Liu, Shelby S. Fields, Takanori Mimura +3

Electronic conduction pathways in dielectric thin films are explored using automated experiments in scanning probe microscopy (SPM). Here, we use large field of view scanning to id…