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most citedPolymorphism in Ruddlesden-Popper : Discovery of a Hidden Phase with Distinctive Layer Stacking

122 citations · 189 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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16 papers

cond-mat.supr-con2026

Superconductivity at the metal-insulator phase boundary in a bulk nickelate at ambient pressure

Hyo-Bin Ahn, Xinglong Chen, Hong Zheng +9

The discovery of superconductivity in nickelates has seeded a new field for exploring unconventional superconductivity in transition metal oxides. However, to date superconductivit…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Atomic-Scale Observation of Symmetry Breaking in Altermagnetic MnTe

Guodong Ren, Jonathan M. DeStefano, Xiao-Wei Zhang +20

The recent discovery of altermagnetism has sparked growing interest in compensated magnetic systems as promising platforms for highly scalable spintronics. Altermagnetism is a dist…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Strong tunability of epitaxial relationship and reconstruction at improper ferroelectric interface

Xin Li, Yu Yun, Guodong Ren +4

The atomic structures at epitaxial film-substrate interfaces determine scalability of thin films and can result in new phenomena. However, it is challenging to control the interfac…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Polarization Pinning at Antiphase Boundaries in Multiferroic YbFeO

Guodong Ren, Pravan Omprakash, Xin Li +4

The switching characteristics of ferroelectrics and multiferroics are influenced by the interaction of topological defects with domain-walls. We report on the pinning of polarizati…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 2 cited

Strain Effects in SrHfO Films Grown by Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Patrick T. Gemperline, Arashdeep S. Thind, Chunli Tang +5

Perovskite oxides hetero-structures are host to a large number of interesting phenomena such as ferroelectricity and 2D-superconductivity. Ferroelectric perovskite oxides have been…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Improper flexoelectricity in hexagonal rare-earth ferrites

Xin Li, Guodong Ren, Yu Yun +5

Flexoelectricity is a universal effect that generates electric polarization due to broken inversion symmetry caused by local strain gradient. The large strain gradient at nanoscale…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024

Coherent Erbium Spin Defects in Colloidal Nanocrystal Hosts

Joeson Wong, Mykyta Onizhuk, Jonah Nagura +13

We demonstrate nearly a microsecond of spin coherence in Er3+ ions doped in cerium dioxide nanocrystal hosts, despite a large gyromagnetic ratio and nanometric proximity of the spi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Formation of Mn-rich interfacial phases in Co2FexMn1-xSi thin films

Ka Ming Law, Arashdeep S. Thind, Mihir Pendharkar +7

We report the formation of Mn-rich regions at the interface of Co2FexMn1-xSi thin films grown on GaAs substrates by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Scanning transmission electron mic…

cond-mat.supr-con2023★ 122 cited

Polymorphism in Ruddlesden-Popper : Discovery of a Hidden Phase with Distinctive Layer Stacking

Xinglong Chen, Junjie Zhang, A. S. Thind +8

We report the discovery of a novel form of Ruddlesden-Popper (RP) oxide, which stands as the first example of long-range, coherent polymorphism in this class of inorganic solids. R…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 14 cited

Giant Modulation of Refractive Index from Picoscale Atomic Displacements

Boyang Zhao, Guodong Ren, Hongyan Mei +21

Structural disorder has been shown to enhance and modulate magnetic, electrical, dipolar, electrochemical, and mechanical properties of materials. However, the possibility of obtai…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023★ 4 cited

Dual mechanisms for transient capacitance anomaly in improper ferroelectrics

Xin Li, Yu Yun, Pratyush Buragohain +6

The recent discovery of transient negative capacitance has sparked an intense debate on the role of homogeneous and inhomogeneous mechanisms in polarizations switching. In this wor…

physics.optics2023★ 2 cited

Colossal optical anisotropy from atomic-scale modulations

Hongyan Mei, Guodong Ren, Boyang Zhao +17

In modern optics, materials with large birefringence (Δn, where n is the refractive index) are sought after for polarization control (e.g. in wave plates, polarizing beam splitters…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021

Epitaxial Thin Films of a Chalcogenide Perovskite

Mythili Surendran, Huandong Chen, Boyang Zhao +9

Chalcogenide perovskites have emerged as a new class of electronic materials, but fundamental properties and applications of chalcogenide perovskites remain limited by the lack of…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2021★ 11 cited

Direct Observation and Control of Surface Termination in Perovskite Oxide Heterostructures

Thomas Orvis, Tengfei Cao, Mythili Surendran +4

The interfacial behavior of quantum materials leads to emergent phenomena such as two dimensional electron gases, quantum phase transitions, and metastable functional phases. Probe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 19 cited

Magnetoelectric coupling and decoupling in multiferroic hexagonal YbFeO3 thin films

Yu Yun, Xin Li, Arashdeep Singh Thind +9

The coupling between ferroelectric and magnetic orders in multiferroic materials and the nature of magnetoelectric (ME) effects are enduring experimental challenges. In this work,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2017★ 13 cited

Stochastic Replica Voting Machine Prediction of Stable Cubic and Double Perovskite Materials and Binary Alloys

T. Mazaheri, Bo Sun, J. Scher-Zagier +6

A machine learning approach that we term the `Stochastic Replica Voting Machine' (SRVM) algorithm is presented and applied to a binary and a 3-class classification problems in mate…