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From Stacking Disorder to Cubic Order: Ice Crystallization from Deeply Supercooled Water
Yulin Lin, Weimin Guo, Suvo Banik +9
Crystallization far from equilibrium can generate morphologies that defy classical crystal habits, yet the microscopic mechanisms linking atomic-scale disorder to emergent macrosco…
Visualizing Nanoscopic Acoustic Mode Competition in van der Waals Ferroelectric
Zhaodong Chu, Carter Fox, Zixin Zhai +7
Understanding how low-dimensional ferroelectrics respond to ultrafast excitation at nanoscales is essential for controlling energy flow and mechanical functionality in next-generat…
Imaging Nanoscale Carrier, Thermal, and Structural Dynamics with Time-Resolved and Ultrafast Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
Wonseok Lee, Levi D. Palmer, Thomas E. Gage +1
Time-resolved and ultrafast electron energy-loss spectroscopy (EELS) is an emerging technique for measuring photoexcited carriers, lattice dynamics, and near-fields across femtosec…
Nanoscale and Element-Specific Lattice Temperature Measurements using Core-Loss Electron Energy-Loss Spectroscopy
Levi D. Palmer, Wonseok Lee, Daniel B. Durham +5
Measuring nanoscale local temperatures, particularly in vertically integrated and multi-component systems, remains challenging. Spectroscopic techniques like X-ray absorption and c…
Deterministic Creation of Identical Monochromatic Quantum Emitters in Hexagonal Boron Nitride
Muchuan Hua, Wei-Ying Chen, Hanyu Hou +7
Deterministic creation of quantum emitters with high single-photon-purity and excellent indistinguishability is essential for practical applications in quantum information science.…