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Physical properties, electronic structure, and strain-tuned monolayer of the weak topological insulator RbTi3Bi5 with Kagome lattice
Ying Zhou, Long Chen, Xuecong Ji +6
Kagome metals AV3Sb5 (A = K, Rb, and Cs) with a V-Kagome lattice acting as a fertile platform to investigate geometric frustration, electron correlation, superconductivity, and non…
Non-Equilibrium Spark Plasma Reactive Doping Enables Highly Adjustable Metal to Insulator Transitions and Improved Mechanical Stability for VO2
Xuanchi Zhou, Yuchen Cui, Yanlong Shang +7
Although vanadium dioxide (VO2) exhibits the most abrupt metal to insulator transition (MIT) properties near room-temperature, the present regulation of their MIT functionalities i…
Atomically engineered cobaltite layers for robust ferromagnetism
Shengru Chen, Qinghua Zhang, Xujing Li +18
Emergent phenomena at heterointerfaces are directly associated with the bonding geometry of adjacent layers. Effective control of accessible parameters, such as the bond length and…
Hydrogen induced electronic transition within correlated perovskite nickelates with heavy rare-earth composition
Yi Bian, Haiyan Li, Fengbo Yan +6
Although discovery in hydrogen induced electronic transition within perovskite family of rare-earth nickelate (ReNiO3) opens up a new paradigm in exploring both the new materials f…
Revealing the role of interfacial heterogeneous nucleation in metastable thin film growth of rare earth nickelates electronic transition materials
Fengbo Yan, Zhishan Mi, Jinhao Chen +7
Although rare earth nickelates (ReNiO3) exhibit abundant electronic phases and widely adjustable metal to insulator electronic transition properties, their practical electronic app…
Room-temperature ferromagnetism at an oxide/nitride interface
Qiao Jin, Zhiwen Wang, Qinghua Zhang +26
Heterointerfaces have led to the discovery of novel electronic and magnetic states because of their strongly entangled electronic degrees of freedom. Single-phase chromium compound…
Facet Dependent Topological Phase Transition in Bi4Br4
Jingyuan Zhong, Ming Yang, Fei Ye +5
The realization of the coexistence of various topologically nontrivial surface states in one material is expected to lay a foundation for new electric applications with selective r…
Anisotropic electronic phase transition in CrN epitaxial thin films
Qiao Jin, Jiali Zhao, Manuel Roldan +12
Electronic phase transition in strongly correlated materials is extremely sensitive to the dimensionality and crystallographic orientations. Transition metal nitrides (TMNs) are se…
Large-Gap Quantum Spin Hall State and Temperature-Induced Lifshitz Transition in Bi4Br4
Ming Yang, Yundan Liu, Wei Zhou +9
Searching for new quantum spin Hall insulators with large fully opened energy gap to overcome the thermal disturbance at room temperature has attracted tremendous attention due to…
Emergent Magnetic Phenomenon with Unconventional Structure in Epitaxial Manganate Thin Films
Mingwei Yang, Kuijuan Jin, Hongbao Yao +12
A variety of emergent phenomena has been enabled by interface engineering in the complex oxides heterostructures. While extensive attention has been attracted to LaMnO3 (LMO) thin…
Dimensional Control of Octahedral Tilt in SrRuO3 via Infinite-layered Oxides
Shan Lin, Qinghua Zhang, Xiahan Sang +16
Manipulation of octahedral distortion at atomic length scale is an effective means to tune the physical ground states of functional oxides. Previous work demonstrates that epitaxia…
Structural Twinning-induced Insulating Phase in CrN (111) Films
Qiao Jin, Zhiwen Wang, Qinghua Zhang +15
Electronic states of a correlated material can be effectively modified by structural variations delivered from a single-crystal substrate. In this letter, we show that the CrN film…
Strong Ferromagnetism Achieved via Breathing Lattices in Atomically Thin Cobaltites
Sisi Li, Qinghua Zhang, Shan Lin +22
Low-dimensional quantum materials that remain strongly ferromagnetic down to mono layer thickness are highly desired for spintronic applications. Although oxide materials are impor…
Strain-mediated high conductivity in ultrathin antiferromagnetic metallic nitrides
Qiao Jin, Hu Cheng, Zhiwen Wang +18
Strain engineering provides the ability to control the ground states and associated phase transition in the epitaxial films. However, the systematic study of intrinsic characters a…
AC-frequency switchable correlated transports in rare-earth perovskite nickelates
Jikun Chen, Haifan Li, Jiaou Wang +6
Whilst electron correlations were previously recognized to trigger beyond conventional direct current (DC) electronic transportations (e.g. metal-to-insulator transitions, bad meta…
Experimental Realization of Two-Dimensional Buckled Lieb lattice
Haifeng Feng, Chen Liu, Si Zhou +9
Two-dimensional (2D) materials with a Lieb lattice can host exotic electronic band structures. Such a system does not exist in nature, and it is also difficult to obtain in the lab…
Overlooked transportation anisotropies in d-band correlated rare-earth perovskite nickelates
Jikun Chen, Haiyang Hu, Fanqi Meng +7
Anisotropies in electronic transportations conventionally originate from the nature of low symmetries in crystal structures, and were not anticipated for perovskite oxides, the cry…
Entropy driven reverse-metal-to-insulator transition and delta-temperatural transports in metastable perovskites of correlated rare-earth nickelate
Jikun Chen, Haiyang Hu, Takeaki Yajima +5
The metal to insulator transition (MIT) in Mott-Hubbard systems is one of the most important discoveries in condensed matter physics, and results in abrupt orbital transitions from…
Electronic nature of coverage-dependent nanosurface effect by cooperative orbital redistribution
Guolei Xiang, Yan Tang, Zigeng Liu +6
Nanomaterial surface states can effectively modify or even dominate their physical and chemical properties due to large surface-to-volume ratios. Such surface effects are highly de…
Electronic states and molecular orientation of ITIC film
Ying-Ying Du, De-Qu Lin, Guang-Hua Chen +6
ITIC is the milestone of non-fullerene small molecule acceptors used in organic solar cells. We have studied the electronic states and molecular orientation of ITIC film using phot…
In situ resonant photoemission and X-ray absorption study of the BiFeO3 thin film
Abduleziz Ablat, Mamatrishat Mamat, Yasin Ghupur +6
Multiferroic bismuth ferrite (BiFeO3) thin films were prepared by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) technique. Electronic structures of the film have been studied by in situ photoemiss…
Observation of van Hove Singularities in Twisted Silicene Multilayers
Zhi Li, Jincheng Zhuang, Lan Chen +7
Interlayer interactions perturb the electronic structure of two-dimensional materials and lead to new physical phenomena, such as van Hove singularities and Hofstadter's butterfly…
Investigation of Electron-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial Silicene by In-situ Raman Spectroscopy
Jincheng Zhuang, Xun Xu, Yi Du +7
In this letter, we report that the special coupling between Dirac fermion and lattice vibrations, in other words, electron-phonon coupling (EPC), in silicene layers on Ag(111) surf…
Effects of Oxygen Adsorption on the Surface State of Epitaxial Silicene on Ag(111)
Xun Xu, Jincheng Zhuang, Yi Du +9
Epitaxial silicene, which is one single layer of silicon atoms packed in a honeycomb structure, demonstrates a strong interaction with the substrate that dramatically affects its e…