5 papers
Persistent structural distortions and absent superconductivity in trilayer nickelate thin films
Abigail Y. Jiang, Maria Bambrick-Santoyo, Lopa Bhatt +14
A new family of high-temperature superconductors was recently discovered in the Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates, where superconductivity emerges concomitant with suppression o…
Breaking symmetry to create a parallel-plate varactor dielectric with unparalleled microwave performance
Florian Bergmann, Matthew R. Barone, Zishen Tian +24
Voltage-tunable capacitors (varactors) are key to microwave circuits. Tunable dielectric varactors outperform competing technologies in almost every relevant metric but usually suf…
Crystallography of periodic nanotextures in a strained Mott insulator
Benjamin Z. Gregory, Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Noah Schnitzer +9
Here we investigate stripes of alternating structural phases spontaneously forming in epitaxially strained thin films below the metal-insulator transition. Using large-…
Synthesis of epitaxial TaO thin films on AlO by suboxide molecular-beam epitaxy and thermal laser epitaxy
Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Anna S. Park, Noah Schnitzer +28
Tantalum dioxide (TaO2) is a metastable tantalum compound. Here, we report the epitaxial stabilization of TaO2 on Al2O3 (1-102) (r-plane sapphire) substrates using suboxide molecul…
Above Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Epitaxially Strained KTaO3
Tobias Schwaigert, Salva Salmani-Rezaie, Sankalpa Hazra +9
Epitaxial strain is a powerful means to engineer emergent phenomena in thin films and heterostructures. Here, we demonstrate that KTaO3, a cubic perovskite in bulk form, can be epi…