activity
20242026
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8 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Dislocation-templated antiferromagnetic domains in epitaxial NiO

Alexandra Fonseca Montenegro, Justin Michel, Fengyuan Yang +1

Controlling antiferromagnetic domains is essential for spintronics, yet deterministic manipulation remains challenging due to their lack of net magnetization. Here, we utilize scan…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Cryogenically Enhanced Laser-Induced Amorphous Phase Transitions in Crystalline Silicon

Conrad Kuz, Andy Lee, Shashu Tomar +6

Amorphization of silicon is crucial to applications in photonics, microelectronics and solar cell technologies. Ultrafast lasers have been used to generate amorphous silicon from c…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

A common origin of photoplastic and electroplastic effects in ZnS

Alexandra Fonseca Montenegro, Sevim Genlik Polat, Md Mohsinur Rahman Adnan +2

Dislocation motion--the atomic-scale mechanism of crystal plasticity--governs the strength and ductility of materials. In functional materials, external stimuli beyond mechanical s…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Photoluminescence excitation spectroscopy of quantum wire-like dislocation states in ZnS

Alexander Blackston, Alexandra Fonseca Montenegro, Sevim Polat Genlik +2

Recent \textit{ab initio} calculations predict 1D dispersive electronic bands confined to the atomic scale cores of dislocations in the wide bandgap (3.84 eV) semiconductor ZnS. We…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Epitaxially-stabilized growth of wüstite FeO on 4H-SiC

Faisal Kimbugwe, Marzieh Baan, Alexandra Fonseca Montenegro +2

Iron(II) monoxide (FeO) is thermodynamically stable in the halite (wüstite) structure only at elevated temperatures in a typically non-stoichiometric, Fe-deficient, FeO fo…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024

Origin of the Anisotropic Beer-Lambert Law from Dichroism and Birefringence in -GaO

Md Mohsinur Rahman Adnan, Mathias Schubert, Roberto C. Myers

The anisotropic optical absorption edge of -GaO follows a modified Beer-Lambert law having two effective absorption coefficients. The absorption coefficient of linearly…