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most citedExploring leakage in dielectric films via automated experiment in scanning probe microscopy

13 citations · 32 across the 11 of their papers we have counts for

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11 papers

cond-mat.str-el2026

Giant spontaneous Kerr effect and its self-doping dependence in altermagnetic MnTe

Weitung Yang, Choongjae Won, Cory Cress +9

Altermagnetism, a third class of collinear magnetism with spin-split bands and vanishing net magnetization, has emerged in hexagonal α-MnTe, a promising platform for ultrafast, str…

cond-mat.str-el2026★ 1 cited

Conductivity scaling of the anomalous Hall effect in the altermagnetic semiconductor α-MnTe

Sara Bey, Shelby S. Fields, Nicholas G. Combs +22

α-MnTe is a prototypical altermagnet exhibiting a strong anomalous Hall effect (AHE), despite having a nearly vanishing magnetization. Lately, sample-to-sample variations of the am…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Facile Optimization of Combinatorial Sputtering Processes with Arbitrary Numbers of Components for Targeted Compositions

Shelby Sutton Fields, Christopher David White, Keith Knipling +1

Combinatorial sputtering is a physical vapor deposition method that enables the high-throughput synthesis of compositionally varied thin films. Using this technique, the effects of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Non-Altermagnetic Origin of Exchange Bias Behaviors in Incoherent RuO/Fe Bilayer Heterostructures

Shelby S. Fields, Joseph C. Prestigiacomo, Cory D. Cress +14

Initially identified as a promising altermagnetic (AM) candidate, rutile RuO has since become embroiled in controversy due to contradictory findings of modeling and measurement…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Probing Magnetic Properties of RuO Heterostructures Through the Ferromagnetic Layer

Frank M. Abel, Subhash Bhatt, Shelby S. Fields +20

RuO has been proposed as the prototypical altermagnetic material. However, several reports have recently questioned its intrinsic magnetic ordering, leading to conflicting fi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Interface, bulk and surface structure of heteroepitaxial altermagnetic α-MnTe films grown on GaAs(111)

Sara Bey, Maksym Zhukovskyi, Tatyana Orlova +7

Epitaxial MnTe films have recently seen a spur of research into their altermagnetic semiconducting properties. However, those properties may be extremely sensitive to structural an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 2 cited

Effects of altermagnetic order, strain and doping in RuO

Darshana Wickramaratne, Marc Currie, Shelby S. Fields +2

RuO, one of the most widely studied transition metal oxides, was recently predicted to host a novel form of collinear magnetic order referred to as altermagnetism. In this stud…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Unexpected Tuning of the Anomalous Hall Effect in Altermagnetic MnTe Thin Films

Sara Bey, Shelby S. Fields, Nicholas G. Combs +10

The discovery of an anomalous Hall effect (AHE) sensitive to the magnetic state of antiferromagnets can trigger a new era of spintronics, if materials that host a tunable and stron…

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-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…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 8 cited

Thermal Stability of Hafnium Zirconium Oxide on Transition Metal Dichalcogenides

Maria Gabriela Sales, Samantha T. Jaszewski, Shelby S. Fields +2

Ferroelectric oxides interfaced with transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) offer a promising route toward ferroelectric-based devices due to lack of dangling bonds on the TMDC s…