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most citedDisorder by Design: Unveiling Local Structure and Functional Insights in High Entropy Oxides

40 citations · 135 across the 13 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Epitaxial Oxide Thin Films with High Entropy and Anomalous Crystallinity

Joseph Petruska, Christina M. Rost, Jon-Paul Maria +1

Pulsed laser deposition (PLD) expands the compositional and structural possibilities of high-entropy oxide (HEO) thin films through far-from-equilibrium growth and kinetic arrest o…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Jahn-Teller Distortion-Driven Lattice Parameter Tunability in Coherent High-Entropy Oxide Thin Films

Dhiya Srikanth, Joseph Petruska, Matthew Furst +3

Here, we isolate how Cu concentration and Jahn-Teller distortions control the out-of-plane lattice parameter of pseudomorphic MgCoNiCuZnO-derived high-entropy oxide films on MgO. W…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Ionic Diffusion Properties of Rare-Earth High-Entropy Oxides from a Machine-Learned Interatomic Potential

Mary Kathleen Caucci, Billy E. Yang, Saeed S. I. Almishal +2

Rare-earth high-entropy oxides (RE-HEOs) have emerged as a promising class of functional ceramics for solid-state electrochemical applications due to their chemical complexity, str…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Hydrothermally-Assisted Sintering of Calcium Hydroxide Sputtering Targets: A Route to Quantum-Grade CaO Thin Films

Jake A. DeChiara, Tainara Coutinho, Saeed S. I. Almishal +1

In this report we demonstrate dense polycrystalline calcium hydroxide ceramics fabricated by hydrothermally-assisted sintering - often referred to as cold-sintering - to produce hi…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Quantifying the coupling between strain and cation valence in high entropy oxide thin films using electron microscopy

Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Saeed SI Almishal, Debangshu Mukherjee +3

High entropy oxides (HEOs) are a class of materials with vast compositional space and tunable properties, making them attractive for applications in thermoelectrics, magnetism, ion…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Anomalous Crystallinity and Magnetism in Chemically Disordered Coherent Heterostructures

Saeed S. I. Almishal, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari, Aaron Pearre +9

High-entropy oxide (HEO) thin films uniquely superimpose exceptional chemical disorder with exceptional crystalline quality and coherence - an intersection we term anomalous crysta…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Compositional and Oxygen-Vacancy Effects on Phase Stability and Electronic Properties in Ceria-Based Lanthanide High-Entropy Oxides

Mary Kathleen Caucci, Billy E. Yang, Gerald R. Bejger +5

Cerium-based lanthanide high-entropy oxides (LN-HEOs) are promising candidates for solid-state electrolyte (mass transport) applications due to their ability to accommodate high co…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Resolving Structural Transitions in Lanthanide High-Entropy Oxides

Billy E. Yang, Saeed S. I. Almishal, Sai Venkata Gayathri Ayyagari +6

We report a temperature-composition phase diagram for the chemically disordered and CeO2-LA2O3 high entropy oxides (HEOs), where LA denotes equimolar Y, La, Sm, and Pr, delineating…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Maximizing solubility in rock salt high-entropy oxides

Matthew Furst, Joseph Petruska, Dhiya Srikanth +5

To explore and quantitatively map the cation-size mismatch solubility limits in high-entropy oxides (HEOs), we report on Ca substitution in prototypical MgCoNiCuZnO, because…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 40 cited

Disorder by Design: Unveiling Local Structure and Functional Insights in High Entropy Oxides

John P. Barber, William J. Deary, Andrew N. Titus +3

High entropy oxides (HEOs) are a rapidly growing class of compositionally complex ceramics in which configurational disorder is engineered to unlock novel functionality. While aver…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 14 cited

Lanthanide L-Edge Spectroscopy of High-Entropy Oxides: Insights into Valence and Phase Stability

Gerald R. Bejger, Mary Kathleen Caucci, Saeed S. I. Almishal +4

High-entropy oxides (HEOs) are a promising class of multicomponent ceramics with tunable structural and electronic properties. In this study, we investigate the local electronic st…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 32 cited

Thermodynamics-Inspired High-Entropy Oxide Synthesis

Saeed S. I. Almishal, Matthew Furst, Yueze Tan +8

High-entropy oxide (HEO) thermodynamics transcend temperature-centric approaches, spanning a multidimensional landscape where oxygen chemical potential plays a decisive role. Here,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 11 cited

Chemically-Disordered Transparent Conductive Perovskites with High Crystalline Fidelity

Saeed S. I. Almishal, Pat Kezer, Yasuyuki Iwabuchi +16

This manuscript presents a working model linking chemical disorder and transport properties in correlated-electron perovskites with high-entropy formulations and a framework to act…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Performance of Exchange-Correlation Approximations to Density-Functional Theory for Rare-earth Oxides

Mary Kathleen Caucci, Jacob T. Sivak, Saeed S. I. Almishal +4

Rare-earth oxides (REOs) are an important class of materials owing to their unique properties, including high ionic conductivities, large dielectric constants, and elevated melting…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 34 cited

Discovering High-Entropy Oxides with a Machine-Learning Interatomic Potential

Jacob T. Sivak, Saeed S. I. Almishal, Mary K. Caucci +7

High-entropy materials shift the traditional materials discovery paradigm to one that leverages disorder, enabling access to unique chemistries unreachable through enthalpy alone.…