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most citedOrientation Controlled Anisotropy in Single Crystals of Quasi-1D BaTiS3

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physics.optics2026

Anti-reflection coatings for highly anisotropic materials in the mid infrared

Hongyan Mei, Jin-Woo Cho, Jae-Seon Yu +6

We develop and optimize thin anti-reflection coatings (ARCs) for highly anisotropic materials in the mid infrared. Unlike conventional ARCs that assume nearly isotropic refractive…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Crystal Growth of Chalcogenides and Oxy-Chalcogenides Using Chloride Exchange Reaction

Shantanu Singh, Boyang Zhao, Christopher E. Stevens +5

Chalcogenides and oxy-chalcogenides, including complex chalcogenides and transition metal dichalcogenides, are emerging semiconductors with direct or indirect band gaps within the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Towards Atomic-Scale Control over Structural Modulations in Quasi-1D Chalcogenides for Colossal Optical Anisotropy

Guodong Ren, Shantanu Singh, Gwan Yeong Jung +10

Optically anisotropic materials are sought after for tailoring the polarization of light. Recently, colossal optical anisotropy was reported in a quasi-one-dimensional chalcogenide…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Electrical contacts for high performance optoelectronic devices of BaZrS3 single crystals

Huandong Chen, Shantanu Singh, Mythili Surendran +3

Chalcogenide perovskites such as BaZrS3 are promising candidates for next generation optoelectronics such as photodetectors and solar cells. Compared to widely studied polycrystall…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Emergent Atomic Scale Polarisation Vortices in BaTiS3

Boyang Zhao, Gwan Yeong Jung, Shantanu Singh +21

Topological defects, such as vortices and skyrmions in magnetic and dipolar systems, can give rise to properties that are not observed in typical magnets and dielectrics. Here, we…

physics.chem-ph2024

Bifunctional Noble Metal-free Ternary Chalcogenide Electrocatalysts for Overall Water Splitting

Shantanu Singh, Ahamed Irshad, Germany Diaz De la Cruz +5

Hydrogen has been identified as a clean, zero carbon, sustainable, and promising energy source for the future, and electrochemical water splitting for hydrogen production is an emi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 10 cited

Molten flux growth of single crystals of quasi-1D hexagonal chalcogenide BaTiS3

Huandong Chen, Shantanu Singh, Hongyan Mei +7

BaTiS3, a quasi-1D complex chalcogenide, has gathered considerable scientific and technological interest due to its giant optical anisotropy and electronic phase transitions. Howev…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Infrared Optical Anisotropy in Quasi-1D Hexagonal Chalcogenide BaTiSe3

Boyang Zhao, Hongyan Mei, Zhengyu Du +9

Polarimetric infrared detection bolsters IR thermography by leveraging the polarization of light. Optical anisotropy, i.e., birefringence and dichroism, can be leveraged to achieve…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

A hybrid pulsed laser deposition approach to grow thin films of chalcogenides

Mythili Surendran, Shantanu Singh, Huandong Chen +4

Vapor-pressure mismatched materials such as transition metal chalcogenides have emerged as electronic, photonic, and quantum materials with scientific and technological importance.…

physics.app-ph2023

Photoconductive Effects in Single Crystals of BaZrS

Boyang Zhao, Huandong Chen, Ragib Ahsan +11

Chalcogenide perovskites, such as BaZrS, are emerging semiconductors with potential for high photovoltaic power conversion efficiency. The role of defects in the efficiency of…

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…

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-sci2022★ 14 cited

Quasi-epitaxial growth of BaTiS films

M. Surendran, B. Zhao, G. Ren +7

Perovskite chalcogenides have emerged as a new class of semiconductors with tunable band gap in the visible-infrared region. High quality thin films are critical to understand the…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 17 cited

Unconventional Charge-density-wave Order in a Dilute d-band Semiconductor

Huandong Chen, Batyr Ilyas, Boyang Zhao +27

Electron-lattice coupling effects in low dimensional materials give rise to charge density wave (CDW) order and phase transitions. These phenomena are critical ingredients for supe…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2022★ 26 cited

Orientation Controlled Anisotropy in Single Crystals of Quasi-1D BaTiS3

Boyang Zhao, Md Shafkat Bin Hoque, Gwan Yeong Jung +17

Low-dimensional materials with chain-like (one-dimensional) or layered (twodimensional) structures are of significant interest due to their anisotropic electrical, optical, thermal…

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…