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2022-08-05
Importance of exact exchange to the geometric and electronic structures of Cs$_2$$B$$B'$$X_6$ double perovskites
We investigate the lead-free halide double perovskites (HDPs) Cs$ _2BB'X_6$ ($B$=Ag, Na; $B'$=In, Bi; $X$=Cl, Br) via first-principles calculations. We find that both the geometric and electric structures of the HDPs obtained by the Heyd-Scuseria-Ernzerhof (HSE) hybrid functional are much better than those of the Perde...
2208.02950v1
2022-08-06
Defect control in the Heisenberg-Kitaev candidate material NaRuO$_2$
The combination of geometric frustration, extended hopping, spin-orbit coupling, and a disordered magnetic ground state make NaRuO$_{2}$ an attractive Heisenberg-Kitaev candidate material. Historically, NaRuO$_2$ has been a challenging material to produce, even in polycrystalline form. Here we present synthetic efforts...
2208.03428v2
2022-08-08
Origami-based Zygote structure enables pluripotent shape-transforming deployable structure
We propose an algorithmic framework of a pluripotent structure evolving from a simple compact structure into diverse complex 3-D structures for designing the shape transformable, reconfigurable, and deployable structures and robots. Our algorithmic approach suggests a way of transforming a compact structure consisting ...
2208.04204v1
2022-08-09
Single crystal synthesis and low-lying electronic structure of V$_3$S$_4$
We report successful growth of millimeter-sized high quality single crystals of V$_3$S$_4$, a candidate topological semimetal belonging to a low-symmetry space group and consisting of only low atomic number elements. Using density functional theory calculations and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy, we show tha...
2208.04586v2
2022-08-09
Pressure-Independent Through-Plane Electrical Conductivity Measurements of Highly Filled Conductive Polymer Composites
Highly filled conductive polymer composites (CPCs) are widely used in applications such as bipolar plate materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells and redox flow batteries, electromagnetic interference shielding and sensors due to their useful electrical properties. A common method for determining through-p...
2208.04643v1
2022-08-11
A versatile platform for graphene nanoribbon synthesis, electronic decoupling, and spin polarized measurements
The on-surface synthesis of nano-graphenes has led the charge in prototyping structures with perspectives beyond silicon-based technology. Following reports of open-shell systems in graphene-nanoribbons (GNR), a flurry of research activities is directed at investigating their magnetic properties with a keen eye for spi...
2208.05760v1
2022-08-15
Absorption of Transverse Spin Current in Ferromagnetic NiCu: Dominance of Bulk Dephasing over Spin-Flip Scattering
In ferromagnetic metals, transverse spin currents are thought to be absorbed via dephasing -- i.e., destructive interference of spins precessing about the strong exchange field. Yet, due to the ultrashort coherence length of $\approx$1 nm in typical ferromagnetic thin films, it is difficult to distinguish dephasing in ...
2208.07294v1
2022-08-16
Accelerating nanomaterials discovery with artificial intelligence at the HPC centers
Study of properties of chemicals, drugs, biomaterials and alloys requires decades of dedicated work. Often times the outcome, however, is not what is expected for practical applications. This research procedure can be inverted by the new artificial intelligence and optimization methods. Instead of studying the properti...
2208.07612v1
2022-08-19
A level-set formulation to simulate diffusive solid/solid phase transformation in polycrystalline metallic materials -- Application to austenite decomposition in steels
Numerous full-field numerical methods exist concerning the digital description of polycrystalline materials and the modeling of their evolution during thermomechanical treatments. However, these strategies are globally dedicated to the modeling of recrystallization and grain growth for single-phase materials, or to the...
2208.09434v1
2022-08-24
Multi-scale plasticity homogenization of Sn-3Ag-0.5Cu: from β-Sn micropillars to polycrystals with intermetallics
The mechanical properties of $\beta$-Sn single crystals have been systematically investigated using a combined methodology of micropillar tests and rate-dependent crystal plasticity modelling. The slip strength and rate sensitivity of several key slip systems within $\beta$-Sn single crystals have been determined. Cons...
2208.11453v1
2022-08-27
Magnetic bond-order potential for iron-cobalt alloys
For large-scale atomistic simulations of magnetic materials, the interplay of atomic and magnetic degrees of freedom needs to be described with high computational efficiency. Here we present an analytic bond-order potential (BOP) for iron-cobalt, an interatomic potential based on a coarse-grained description of the ele...
2208.12973v2
2022-09-12
Unified Graph Neural Network Force-field for the Periodic Table
Classical force fields (FF) based on machine learning (ML) methods show great potential for large scale simulations of materials. MLFFs have hitherto largely been designed and fitted for specific systems and are not usually transferable to chemistries beyond the specific training set. We develop a unified atomisitic li...
2209.05554v2
2022-09-16
Parallel energy stable phase field simulations of Ni-based alloys system
In this paper, we investigate numerical methods for solving Nickel-based phase field system related to free energy, including the elastic energy and logarithmic type functionals. To address the challenge posed by the particular free energy functional, we propose a semi-implicit scheme based on the discrete variational ...
2209.08001v1
2022-09-20
Stabilizing polar phases in binary metal oxides by hole doping
The recent observation of ferroelectricity in the metastable phases of binary metal oxides, such as HfO2, ZrO2, Hf0.5Zr0.5O2, and Ga2O3, has garnered a lot of attention. These metastable ferroelectric phases are typically stabilized through epitaxial growth, alloying, or defect engineering. Here, we propose hole doping...
2209.09436v3
2022-09-21
Influence of oscillatory shear on nucleation in metallic glasses: a molecular dynamics study
The process of crystal nucleation can be accelerated or retarded by ultrasonic vibration, which is particularly attractive for the addictive manufacture and thermoplastic forming of metallic glasses, however, the effect and mechanism of oscillatory loading on the nucleation process are still elusive. By using molecular...
2209.10068v2
2022-09-27
Chemical Partitioning at Crystalline Defects in PtAu as a Pathway to Stabilize Electrocatalysts
Dissolution of electrocatalysts during long-term and dynamic operation is a challenging problem in energy conversion and storage devices such as fuel cells and electrolyzers. To develop stable electrocatalysts, we adopt the design concept of segregation engineering, which uses solute segregation prone to electrochemica...
2209.13166v1
2022-09-27
Safe Balancing Control of a Soft Legged Robot
Legged robots constructed from soft materials are commonly claimed to demonstrate safer, more robust environmental interactions than their rigid counterparts. However, this motivating feature of soft robots requires more rigorous development for comparison to rigid locomotion. This article presents a soft legged robot ...
2209.13715v1
2022-09-28
Scheduling of Missions with Constrained Tasks for Heterogeneous Robot Systems
We present a formal tasK AllocatioN and scheduling apprOAch for multi-robot missions (KANOA). KANOA supports two important types of task constraints: task ordering, which requires the execution of several tasks in a specified order; and joint tasks, which indicates tasks that must be performed by more than one robot. T...
2209.14040v1
2022-10-04
Localization in a one-dimensional alloy with an arbitrary distribution of spacing between impurities: Application to Lévy glass
We have studied the localization of waves in a one-dimensional lattice consisting of impurities where the spacing between consecutive impurities can take certain values with given probabilities. In general, such a distribution of impurities induces correlations in the disorder. In particular with a power-law distributi...
2210.01377v1
2022-10-05
Partial Equilibration Scenario in 3D athermal martensites quenched below first-order transition temperatures
To test a Partial Equilibration Scenario (PES) of Ritort and colleagues, we do Monte Carlo simulations of discretized-strain spin models, for four 3D martensitic structural transitions under quenches to a bath temperature $T <T_0$ below a first-order transition. The ageing system faces entropy barriers, in {\it searche...
2210.01997v1
2022-10-05
Direct TEM observation and quantification of the Gibbs-Thomson effect in a nickel superalloy
Gibbs-Thompson effect is the general term referring to the influence of interfaces on the course of phase transformations such as precipitation or solidification. Whilst attention is most often focused on the Gibbs-Thomson effect on nucleation, growth and coarsening, the present study considers the reverse process of p...
2210.02133v1
2022-10-06
Quantum spin Hall phase in GeSn heterostructures on silicon
Quantum phases of solid-state electron systems look poised to sustain exotic phenomena and a very rich spin physics. We propose a practical silicon-based architecture that spontaneously sustains topological properties, while being fully compatible with the high-volume manufacturing capabilities of modern microelectroni...
2210.02981v1
2022-10-07
Defects in Halide Perovskites: Does It Help to Switch from 3D to 2D?
Ruddlesden-Popper hybrid iodide 2D perovskites are put forward as stable alternatives to their 3D counterparts. Using first-principles calculations, we demonstrate that equilibrium concentrations of point defects in the 2D perovskites PEA$_2$PbI$_4$, BA$_2$PbI$_4$, and PEA$_2$SnI$_4$ (PEA: phenethyl ammonium, BA: butyl...
2210.03415v1
2022-10-11
Self organized criticality of magnetic avalanches in disordered ferrimagnetic material
We observe multiple step-like jumps in a Dy-Fe-Ga-based ferrimagnetic alloy in its magnetic hysteresis curve at 2 K. The observed jumps have a stochastic character with respect to their magnitude and the critical field of occurrence, and the jumps do not show any temporal effect. The jump size distribution follows a po...
2210.05183v1
2022-10-12
Model order reduction of solidification problems
Advection driven problems are known to be difficult to model with a reduced basis because of a slow decay of the Kolmogorov $N$-width. This paper investigates how this challenge transfers to the context of solidification problems and tries to answer when and to what extend reduced order models (ROMs) work for solidific...
2210.06169v1
2022-10-15
Study on electro-optic noise in crystalline coatings toward future gravitational wave detectors
Thermal noise in high-reflectivity mirror coatings is a limiting factor in ground-based gravitational wave detectors. Reducing this coating thermal noise improves the sensitivity of detectors and enriches the scientific outcome of observing runs. Crystalline gallium arsenide and aluminum-alloyed gallium arsenide (refer...
2210.08381v1
2022-10-18
Modulated Kondo screening along magnetic mirror twin boundaries in monolayer MoS2 on graphene
A many-body resonance emerges at the Fermi energy when an electron bath screens the magnetic moment of a half-filled impurity level. This Kondo effect, originally introduced to explain the abnormal resistivity behavior in bulk magnetic alloys, has been realized in many quantum systems over the past decades, such as qua...
2210.09675v2
2022-10-19
Order Parameter Engineering for Random Systems
The chemical short-range order (CSRO) in the crystalline materials influences the properties and its effect is particularly important in the context of the multicomponent materials. We propose a scheme for CSRO parameter or $\mathrm{\Delta-}$parameter in terms of number of like and unlike bonds in the multicomponent sy...
2210.10339v1
2022-10-20
Strong variation of spin-orbit torques with relative spin relaxation rates in ferrimagnets
Spin-orbit torques (SOTs) have been widely understood as an interfacial transfer of spin that is independent of the bulk properties of the magnetic layer. Here, we report that SOTs acting on ferrimagnetic FexTb1-x layers decrease and vanish upon approaching the magnetic compensation point because the rate of spin trans...
2210.11042v1
2022-10-21
RVE Analysis in LS-DYNA for High-fidelity Multiscale Material Modeling
In modern engineering designs, advanced materials (e.g., fiber/particle-reinforced polymers, metallic alloys, laminar composites, etc.) are widely used, where microscale heterogeneities such as grains, inclusions, voids, micro-cracks, and interfaces significantly affect the macroscopic constitutive behaviors. Obviously...
2210.11761v1
2022-10-27
Precisely computing phonons via irreducible derivatives
Computing phonons from first-principles is typically considered a solved problem, yet inadequacies in existing techniques continue to yield deficient results in systems with sensitive phonons. Here we circumvent this issue using the lone irreducible derivative (LID) and bundled irreducible derivative (BID) approaches t...
2210.15636v1
2022-10-31
Dependence of the electronic structure of $β$-Si$_{6-z}$Al$_{z}$O$_{z}$N$_{8-z}$ on the (Al,O) concentration $z$ and on the temperature
SiAlON is a prominent example of systems suitable as hosts for creating materials for light-emitting diodes (LEDs). In this work, the electronic structure of a series of semiordered and disordered SiAlON systems is investigated by means of ab initio calculations, using the FLAPW and Green function KKR methods. Finite t...
2210.17397v1
2022-11-04
InAs/MoRe hybrid semiconductor/superconductor nanowire devices
Implementing superconductors capable of proximity-inducing a large energy-gap in semiconductors in the presence of strong magnetic fields is a major goal towards applications of semiconductor/superconductor hybrid materials in future quantum information technologies. Here, we study the performance of devices consisting...
2211.02454v1
2022-11-07
First principles prediction of the Al-Li phase diagram including configurational and vibrational entropic contributions
The whole Al-Li phase diagram is predicted from first principles calculations and statistical mechanics including the effect of configurational and vibrational entropy. The formation enthalpy of different configurations at different temperatures was accurately predicted by means of cluster expansions that were fitted f...
2211.03664v1
2022-11-09
Detection of the onset of yielding and creep failure from digital image correlation
There are a multitude of applications in which structural materials would be desired to be nondestructively evaluated, while in a component, for plasticity and failure characteristics. In this way, safety and resilience features can be significantly improved. Nevertheless, while failure can be visible through cracks, p...
2211.04794v1
2022-11-11
A viewpoint from dissipative dynamics on diffusion-controlled directional solidification
The existing theoretical analyses of solidification dynamics lack the insights of historical relevance and transport processes in the whole system. Through the phase-field model, this paper investigates the evolution in the whole domain during entire directional solidification. First, the evolution of characteristic pa...
2211.06207v3
2022-11-13
Cavity nucleation in single-component homogeneous amorphous solids under negative pressure
Understanding the cavity formation and cavity growth mechanisms in solids has fundamental and applied importance for the correct determination of their exploitation capabilities and mechanical characteristics. In this work, we present the molecular dynamics simulation results for the process of homogeneous formation of...
2211.06965v1
2022-11-15
Shear-band cavitation determines the shape of the stress-strain curve of metallic glasses
Metallic glasses are known to have a remarkably robust yield strength, admitting Weibull moduli as high as for crystalline engineering alloys. However, their post-yielding behavior is strongly varying, with large scatter in both flow stress levels and strains at failure. Using x-ray tomography we reveal for the first t...
2211.08492v1
2022-11-16
Carrier and Phonon Dynamics in Multilayer WSe2 captured by Extreme Ultraviolet Transient Absorption Spectroscopy
Carrier and phonon dynamics in a multilayer WSe2 film are captured by extreme ultraviolet (XUV) transient absorption (TA) spectroscopy at the W N6,7, W O2,3, and Se M4,5 edges (30-60 eV). After the broadband optical pump pulse, the XUV probe directly reports on occupations of optically excited holes and phonon-induced ...
2211.08731v2
2022-11-16
Synaptic modulation of conductivity and magnetism in a CoPt-based electrochemical transistor
Among various types of neuromorphic devices towards artificial intelligence, the electrochemical synaptic transistor emerges, in which the channel conductance is modulated by the insertion of ions according to the history of gate voltage across the electrolyte. Despite the striking progress in exploring novel channel m...
2211.08886v1
2022-11-04
Fitting the grain orientation distribution of a polycrystalline material conditioned on a Laguerre tessellation
The description of distributions related to grain microstructure helps physicists to understand the processes in materials and their properties. This paper presents a general statistical methodology for the analysis of crystallographic orientations of grains in a 3D Laguerre tessellation dataset which represents the mi...
2211.11536v1
2022-11-24
Large Magnetic-Field-Induced Strains in Sintered Chromium Tellurides
Sintered samples of Cr3Te4 and Cr2Te3 are found to show large strains accompanied by large volume changes under a magnetic field. In Cr3Te4, volume increases of deltaV/V = 500-1170 ppm by applying a magnetic field of 9 T are observed over the entire temperature range below 350 K. At room temperature, the deltaV/V value...
2211.13388v1
2022-11-24
Influence of non-local damping on magnon properties of ferromagnets
We study the influence of non-local damping on magnon properties of Fe, Co, Ni and Fe$_{1-x}$Co$_{x}$ ($x=30\%,50\%$) alloys. The Gilbert damping parameter is typically considered as a local scalar both in experiment and in theoretical modelling. However, recent works have revealed that Gilbert damping is a non-local q...
2211.13486v1
2022-11-28
Anomalous Nernst effect in compensated ferrimagnetic CoxGd1-x films
The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) is one of the most intriguing thermoelectric phenomena which has attracted growing interest both for its underlying physics and potential applications. Typically, a large ANE response is observed in magnets with pronounced magnetizations or nontrivial Berry curvature. Here, we report a...
2211.15074v1
2022-11-28
Interstitial segregation has the potential to mitigate liquid metal embrittlement in iron
The embrittlement of metallic alloys by liquid metals leads to catastrophic material failure and severely impacts their structural integrity. The weakening of grain boundaries by the ingress of liquid metal and preceding segregation in the solid are thought to promote early fracture. However, the potential of balancing...
2211.15216v1
2022-11-29
3D time-resolved analysis of the evolution metamagnetic phase transition in FeRh system
The FeRh alloy is an attractive material for studies of magnetic first-order phase transitions. The phase transition in FeRh from an antiferromagnetic to the ferromagnetic state is accompanied by the nucleation, growth, and merging of ferromagnetic clusters. The ferromagnetic phase evolution is studied in detail, and i...
2211.15984v1
2022-11-29
Lateral quantum confinement regulates charge carrier transfer and biexciton interaction in CdSe/CdSeS core/crown nanoplatelets
Charge carrier dynamics essentially determine the performance of various optoelectronic applications of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals. Among them, two-dimensional nanoplatelets provide new adjustment freedom for their unique core/crown heterostructure. Herein, we demonstrate that by fine-tuning the core size and...
2211.16252v1
2022-11-30
Fabrication and Characterization of Magnetic-Field-Resilient MoRe Superconducting Coplanar Waveguide Resonators
Magnetic-field-resilient superconducting coplanar waveguide (SCPW) resonators are essential for developing integrated quantum circuits of various qubits and quantum memory devices. Molybdenum-Rhenium (MoRe), which is a disordered superconducting alloy forming a highly transparent contact to the graphene and carbon nano...
2211.16948v1
2022-11-30
Impact of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya and anisotropic exchange interactions on the cubic kagome antiferromagnets Mn$_3$X and Mn$_3$AB
We perform a symmetry analysis of the ABC-stacked kagome planes of Mn atoms common to the $L1_2$ Mn$_3$X and antiperovskite Mn$_3$AB alloys. In addition to the single-ion-anisotropy and Kitaev-type anisotropic exchange known to stabilize 120{\deg} spin structures in these materials, our analysis results in a staggered ...
2211.17243v1
2022-12-02
Atomic resolution observations of silver segregation in a [111] tilt grain boundary in copper
Alloying a material and hence segregating solutes to grain boundaries is one way to tailor a material to the demands of its application. Direct observation of solute segregation is necessary to understand how the interfacial properties are altered. In this study, we investigate the atomic structure of a high angle grai...
2212.01180v1
2022-12-05
Magnetic shielding for large photoelectron multipliers for the OSIRIS facility of the JUNO detector
We present the technical design and characteristics of the magnetic shield developed for 20" PMTs of the low-background OSIRIS facility. A ribbon of amorphous alloy with the extreme magnetic permeability was used in its design providing the excellent efficiency in screening the Earth's magnetic field with a relatively ...
2212.02562v3
2022-12-07
Concentration behavior of liquidus temperatures and undercooling of Al-Cu-Co at normal pressure
Differential thermal analysis has been conducted for the Al-Cu-Co alloys with the composition range of 15 at.% Co and 10 to 30 at.% Cu, and 25 at.% Co and 2.5 to 20 at.% Co. The features of the formation of solid phases have been studied during the crystallization in a crucible in the conditions of slow cooling (rate o...
2212.03535v1
2022-12-08
The Effect of short-range order on the viscosity and crystallization of Al-Mg melts
In this work, using the methods of viscosimetry and thermal analysis, the concentration changes in the values of the supercooling viscosity of Al-Mg melts with Mg content from 2.5 to 95 at.% are studied. It is shown that the temperature dependences of viscosity are well described by an exponential dependence. The conce...
2212.04404v1
2022-12-13
Logarithmic wave-mechanical effects in polycrystalline metals: Theory and experiment
Schrodinger-type wave equations with logarithmic nonlinearity occur in hydrodynamic models of Korteweg-type materials with capillarity and surface tension, which can undergo liquid-solid or liquid-gas phase transitions. One of the predictions of the theory is a periodic pattern of density inhomogeneities occurring in t...
2212.06407v1
2022-12-21
High-temperature stable refractory high-entropy nanoalloys with enhanced sinterability
Nanocrystalline alloys (nanoalloys) are prone to grain growth. It is known that grain boundary segregation and precipitation can stabilize nanoalloys, but the stabilization becomes less effective at high temperatures and adding grain growth inhibitors often reduces sinterability. Herein, we have simultaneously achieved...
2212.10932v1
2022-12-21
Random spin-orbit gates in the system of a Topological insulator and a Quantum dot
The spin-dependent scattering process in a system of topological insulator and quantum dot is studied. The unitary scattering process is viewed as a gate transformation applied to an initial state of two electrons. Due to the randomness imposed through the impurities and alloying-induced effects of band parameters, the...
2212.11026v1
2022-12-22
Magnetoelasticity-driven phase inversion of ultrafast spin precession in NixFe100-x thin films
We present strong evidences for the deterministic role of magnetoelasticity in ultrafast spin dynamics of ferromagnetic NixFe100-x alloy films. Without a change in the crystal structure, we observed sudden Pi-phase inversion of the spin precession in the range of x = 87.0 - 97.5. In addition, it was found that the phas...
2212.11852v1
2022-12-27
Determination of the ensemble transition dipole moments of self-assembled quantum dot films by time and angle resolved emission spectroscopy measurements
The spontaneous emission of light in semiconductors is due to the excitonic relaxation process. The emission of light requires a change in the transition dipole matrix of the system. This is captured in terms of the physical quantity called transition dipole moment. The transition dipole moment (TDM) characterizes the ...
2212.13510v1
2023-01-03
The antiferromagnetic phase transition in the layered Cu$_{0.15}$Fe$_{0.85}$PS$_3$ semiconductor: experiment and DFT modelling
The experimental studies of the paramagnetic-antiferromagnetic phase transition through M\"{o}ssbauer spectroscopy and measurements of temperature and field dependencies of magnetic susceptibility in the layered Cu$_{0.15}$Fe$_{0.85}$PS$_3$ crystal are presented. The peculiar behavior of the magnetization - field depen...
2301.01338v1
2023-01-07
Significance of Strain Rate in Severe Plastic Deformation on Steady-State Microstructure and Strength
The microstructure and mechanical properties of materials saturate to steady states after severe plastic deformation (SPD). Despite the well-known effect of temperature on the steady-state microstructure, there is no general agreement on the significance of strain rate and the applicability of the Zener-Hollomon parame...
2301.02805v1
2023-01-08
Spin glass behavior in amorphous Cr2Ge2Te6 phase-change alloy
The layered crystal structure of Cr2Ge2Te6 shows ferromagnetic ordering at the two-dimensional limit, which holds promise for spintronic applications. However, external voltage pulses can trigger amorphization of the material in nanoscale electronic devices, and it is unclear whether the loss of structural ordering lea...
2301.02974v2
2023-01-07
Defective high-entropy oxide photocatalyst with high activity for CO2 conversion
High-entropy oxides (HEOs), as a new family of materials with five or more principal cations, have shown promising properties for various applications. In this work and inspired by inherent defective and strained structure of HEOs, photocatalytic CO2 conversion is examined on a dual-phase TiZrNbHfTaO11 synthesized by a...
2301.05008v1
2023-01-19
Unusual anisotropic magnetoresistance due to magnetization-dependent spin-orbit interactions
One of recent surprising discoveries is the unusual anisotropic magnetoresistance (UAMR) that depends on two magnetization components perpendicular to the current differently, in contrast to the conventional anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) that predicts no change in resistance when the magnetization varies in the p...
2301.07886v1
2023-01-20
Inhibited spontaneous emission of quantum dots weakly coupled to off resonant silver nanoplatelets and silver nanowires
Spontaneous emission (SE) rate of any light emitters directly scales with the locally available modes for photons. The emission rate can be modified, by changing the dielectric environment of light emitters. Generally cavities with modes in resonance to light emission frequency, are used to amplify the light emission r...
2301.08702v2
2023-01-27
Fracture properties of La(Fe,Mn,Si)13 magnetocaloric materials
La(Fe,Mn,Si)13 alloys are a promising material family for magnetic refrigeration. Challenges associated with their structural integrity during device assembly and operation requires deep understanding of the mechanical properties. Here we developed a workflow to quantitatively study the fracture properties of La(Fe,Mn,...
2301.11872v1
2023-02-05
Dramatic enhancement of visible-light absorption in TiO2 by adding Bi
TiO2 is a wide band-gap semiconductor that has been intensively investigated for photocatalysis and water-spiting. However, weak light absorption in the visible region of the spectrum poses stringent limitation to its practical application. Doping of TiO2 with N or transition-metal impurities has been explored to shift...
2302.02461v1
2023-02-06
Clarifying Trust of Materials Property Predictions using Neural Networks with Distribution-Specific Uncertainty Quantification
It is critical that machine learning (ML) model predictions be trustworthy for high-throughput catalyst discovery approaches. Uncertainty quantification (UQ) methods allow estimation of the trustworthiness of an ML model, but these methods have not been well explored in the field of heterogeneous catalysis. Herein, we ...
2302.02595v1
2023-02-08
Mo$_{3}$ReRuC: A noncentrosymmetric superconductor formed in the MoReRu-Mo$_{2}$C system
A quaternary compound with the composition Mo$_{3}$ReRuC is obtained in a previously unexplored MoReRu-Mo$_{2}$C system. According to x-ray structural analysis, Mo$_{3}$ReRuC crystallizes in the noncentrosymmetric space group $P$4$_{1}$32 (cubic $\beta$-Mn type structure, $a$ = 6.8107(1) {\AA}). Below 7.7 K, Mo$_{3}$Re...
2302.03944v1
2023-02-09
Single-shot laser-induced switching of an exchange biased antiferromagnet
Ultrafast manipulation of magnetic order has challenged our understanding the fundamental and dynamic properties of magnetic materials. So far single shot magnetic switching has been limited to ferrimagnetic alloys and multilayers. In ferromagnetic (FM)/antiferromagnetic (AFM) bilayers, exchange bias (He) arises from t...
2302.04510v1
2023-02-13
Topological transition in Pb1-xSnxSe using Meta-GGA
We calculate the mirror Chern number (MCN) and the band gap for the alloy Pb1-xSnxSe as a function of the concentration x by using virtual crystalline approximation. We use the electronic structure from the relativistic density functional theory calculations in the Generalized-Gradient- Approximation (GGA) and meta-GGA...
2302.06612v1
2023-02-18
Fractional Marcus-Hush-Chidsey-Yakopcic current-voltage model for redox-based resistive memory devices
We propose a circuit-level model combining the Marcus-Hush-Chidsey electron current equation and the Yakopcic equation for the state variable for describing resistive switching memory devices of the structure metal-ionic conductor-metal. We extend the dynamics of the state variable originally described by a first-order...
2302.09407v2
2023-03-14
An asynchronous parallel high-throughput model calibration framework for crystal plasticity finite element constitutive models
Crystal plasticity finite element model (CPFEM) is a powerful numerical simulation in the integrated computational materials engineering (ICME) toolboxes that relates microstructures to homogenized materials properties and establishes the structure-property linkages in computational materials science. However, to estab...
2303.07542v4
2023-03-15
Control of Impurity Phase Segregation in a PdCrO$_2$/CuCrO$_2$ Heterostructure
PdCrO$_2$ films are synthesized on CuCrO$_2$ buffer layers on Al$_2$O$_3$ substrates. This synthesis is accompanied by impurity phase segregation, which hampers the synthesis of high quality PdCrO$_2$ films. The potential causes of impurity phase segregation were studied by using a combination of experiments and ab ini...
2303.08377v1
2023-03-16
Contribution of the oxygen reduction reaction to the electrochemical cathodic partial reaction for Mg-Al-Ca solid solutions
The electrochemical corrosion rate of Magnesium (Mg) and Mg alloys depends on the stability of the formed surface layer. Based on the Mg substrate, the oxide structure comprises a dense MgO/Mg(OH)2 mixture underneath a porous plate-like Mg(OH)2 layer. While the kinetics of the anodic partial reaction has been mainly at...
2303.09324v1
2023-03-16
Characterisation of the strain rate sensitivity of basal, prismatic and pyramidal slip in Zircaloy-4 using micropillar compression
For polycrystalline deformation in metals such as Zircaloy-4, the slip strength at different strain rates will control mechanical response and strongly influence the anisotropy of plastic deformation. In this work, the slip activity and strain rate sensitivity of the <a> basal, <a> prismatic, and <c+a> pyramidal slip s...
2303.09600v1
2023-03-17
Learning from 2D: machine learning of 3D effective properties of heterogeneous materials based on 2D microstructure sections
Microstructure--property relationships are key to effective design of structural materials for advanced applications. Advances in computational methods enabled modeling microstructure-sensitive properties using 3D models (e.g., finite elements) based on microstructure representative volumes. 3D microstructure data requ...
2303.10092v1
2023-03-19
Q-RBSA: High-Resolution 3D EBSD Map Generation Using An Efficient Quaternion Transformer Network
Gathering 3D material microstructural information is time-consuming, expensive, and energy-intensive. Acquisition of 3D data has been accelerated by developments in serial sectioning instrument capabilities; however, for crystallographic information, the electron backscatter diffraction (EBSD) imaging modality remains ...
2303.10722v1
2023-03-20
2D Magnetic Semiconductors via Substitutional Doping of Transition Metal Dichalcogenides
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are two-dimensional (2D) materials with remarkable electrical, optical and chemical properties. One promising strategy to tailor TMD properties of TMDs is to create alloys through dopant-induced modification. Dopants can introduce additional states within the bandgap of TMDs, lea...
2303.11173v1
2023-03-21
pgm: A Python package for free energy calculations within the phonon gas model
The quasi-harmonic approximation (QHA) is a powerful method that uses the volume dependence of non-interacting phonons to compute the free energy of materials at high pressures (P) and temperatures (T). However, anharmonicity, electronic excitations in metals, or both, introduce an intrinsic T-dependence on phonon freq...
2303.11583v1
2023-03-21
Design methodology for functionally graded materials: framework for considering cracking
In functionally graded materials (FGMs) fabricated using directed energy deposition (DED) additive manufacturing (AM), cracks may form due to interdendritic stress during solidification, the formation of intermetallics, or the buildup of residual stresses. This study builds on our previously proposed concept of three-a...
2303.11849v2
2023-03-22
Theoretical studies of enhanced anomalous Nernst effect in Fe$_3$Ga
The anomalous Nernst effect (ANE) is a member of the extensive family of topological effects in solid state physics. It converts a heat current into electric voltage and originates from the Berry curvature of electronic bands near the Fermi level. Recent results established the Fe$_3$Ga alloy as one of the most promisi...
2303.12886v1
2023-03-23
Machine learning-enabled tomographic imaging of chemical short-range atomic ordering
In solids, chemical short-range order (CSRO) refers to the self-organisation of atoms of certain species occupying specific crystal sites. CSRO is increasingly being envisaged as a lever to tailor the mechanical and functional properties of materials. Yet quantitative relationships between properties and the morphology...
2303.13433v1
2023-03-24
Updates to the DScribe Library: New Descriptors and Derivatives
We present an update of the DScribe package, a Python library for atomistic descriptors. The update extends DScribe's descriptor selection with the Valle-Oganov materials fingerprint and provides descriptor derivatives to enable more advanced machine learning tasks, such as force prediction and structure optimization. ...
2303.14046v1
2023-04-01
Magnetic proximity effect at the interface of two-dimensional materials and magnetic oxide insulators
Two-dimensional (2D) materials provide a platform for developing novel spintronic devices and circuits for low-power electronics. In particular, inducing magnetism and injecting spins in graphene have promised the emerging field of graphene spintronics. This review focuses on the magnetic proximity effect at the interf...
2304.00356v1
2023-04-05
Orientation relationship of FeNiC and FeNiCSi from variant detection in EBSD data
The determination of orientation relationships in dual or multi-phase materials is very important in the field of interface engineering for the design of materials with tailored properties. In this work, a code is developed for the automated and statistical analysis of the orientation relationship of electron backscatt...
2304.02329v1
2023-04-05
Modeling martensitic transformation in shape memory alloys using multi-phase-field elasticity models based on partial rank-one energy relaxation on pairwise interfaces
To model the mechanically-driven phase transformations, e.g. martensitic transformation, using the phase-field theory, suitable models are needed for describing the mechanical fields of the individual non-vanishing phase-fields in the interface regions in order to obtain the mechanical driving forces of phase-field mot...
2304.02406v1
2023-04-06
Electron Paramagnetic Resonance of $V_{N}-V_{Ga}$ complex in $BGaN$
Metastable photoinduced Electron Paramagnetic Resonance (EPR) signal at low temperatures is reported in GaN alloyed with boron ($B_{x}Ga_{1-x}N$) epitaxial layers grown at temperatures ranging from 840 {\deg}C to 1090 {\deg}C. An isotropic EPR line with g = 2.004 is observed with intensity depending on the growth tempe...
2304.03027v1
2023-04-11
Micromagnetics and Multiscale Hysteresis Simulations of Permanent Magnets
Confronting the unveiled sophisticated multiscale structural and physical characteristics of hysteresis simulation of permanent magnets, notably samarium-cobalt (Sm-Co) alloy, a novel scheme is proposed linking physics-based micromagnetics on the nanostructure level and magnetostatic homogenization on the mesoscale pol...
2304.05343v1
2023-04-16
Using various machine learning algorithms for quantitative analysis in Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy technique is employed for quantitative analysis of aluminum samples by different classical machine learning approaches. A Q-switch Nd:YAG laser at fundamental harmonic of 1064 nm is utilized for creation of LIBS plasma for prediction of constituent concentrations of the aluminum sta...
2304.07786v1
2023-04-16
A comparison between Recurrent Neural Networks and classical machine learning approaches In Laser induced breakdown spectroscopy
Recurrent Neural Networks are classes of Artificial Neural Networks that establish connections between different nodes form a directed or undirected graph for temporal dynamical analysis. In this research, the laser induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) technique is used for quantitative analysis of aluminum alloys by ...
2304.08500v1
2023-04-20
Investigation of the Influence of Macrozones in Titanium Alloys on the Propagation and Scattering of Ultrasound
The presence of macrozones (or micro-textured regions) in Ti-6Al-4V (Ti64) was shown to be a potential cause to the onset of cold dwell fatigue which reduces fatigue life significantly. Past research has demonstrated the potential of using ultrasonic testing for macrozone characterisation, with the variation of ultraso...
2304.10189v1
2023-03-29
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Transition Metal Dichalcogenide (Mo,Mn)Se$_2$ on 2D, 3D and polycrystalline substrates
Magnetic doping of 2D materials such as Transition Metal Dichalcogenides is promising for the enhancement of magneto-optical properties, as it was previously observed for 3D diluted magnetic semiconductors. To maximize the effect of magnetic ions, they should be incorporated into the crystal lattice of 2D material rath...
2304.12428v2
2023-05-03
From Early Theories of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Interactions in Metallic Systems to Today's Novel Roads
Since the early 1960's, the discovery of Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction (DMI) helped to explain the physical mechanisms behind certain magnetic phenomena, such as net moment in antiferromagnets, or enhanced anisotropy field from heavy metals impurity in dilute Cu:Mn alloy. Since the researchers unveil the key role t...
2305.02163v1
2023-05-05
Minority-spin conducting states in Fe substituted pyrite CoS$_2$
There has been a longstanding debate whether the pyrite CoS$_2$ or its alloys with FeS$_2$ are half metallic. We argue using first principles calculations that there is a finite occupation of minority-spin states at the Fermi level throughout the series Co$_{1-x}$Fe$_x$S$_2$. Although the exchange-correlation functiona...
2305.03551v1
2023-05-08
Genomic Materials Design: CALculation of PHAse Dynamics
The CALPHAD system of fundamental phase-level databases, now known as the Materials Genome, has enabled a mature technology of computational materials design and qualification that has already met the acceleration goals of the national Materials Genome Initiative. As first commercialized by QuesTek Innovations, the met...
2305.05060v2
2023-05-09
Thermodynamic route of Nb3Sn nucleation: Role of oxygen
Intermetallic Nb3Sn alloys have long been believed to form through Sn diffusion into Nb. However, our observations of significant oxygen content in Nb3Sn prompted an investigation of alternative formation mechanisms. Through experiments involving different oxide interfaces (clean HF-treated, native oxidized, and anodiz...
2305.05114v2
2023-05-11
Thermodynamic properties for metal oxides from first-principles
In this study, an efficient first-principles approach for calculating the thermodynamic properties of mixed metal oxides at high temperatures is demonstrated. More precisely, this procedure combines density functional theory and harmonic phonon calculations with tabulated thermochemical data to predict the heat capacit...
2305.06828v1
2023-05-13
Estimation of spatio-temporal temperature evolution during laser spot melting using in-situ dynamic x-ray radiography
Understanding the spatio-temporal evolution of thermal gradient (G) at and velocity (R) of the solid-liquid and liquid-vapor interfaces is critical for the control of site-specific microstructures in additive manufacturing. In-situ dynamic x-ray radiography (DXR) has been used in recent years to probe the evolution of ...
2305.08020v2
2023-05-16
Ultra-low lattice thermal conductivity in tungsten-based scheelite ceramics
$BaWO_{4}$, $Ce_{2/3}\square_{1/3}WO_{4}$ and $La_{2/3}\square_{1/3}WO_{4}$ polycrystalline ceramics were synthesized by conventional solid-state reaction route. The effect of cation-deficiency on the crystallographic structure, microstructure and thermal properties of these scheelite-type compounds were investigated. ...
2305.09576v1
2023-05-30
High temperature decomposition and age hardening of single-phase wurtzite Ti$_{1-x}$Al$_{x}$N thin films grown by cathodic arc deposition
We investigated the high temperature decomposition behavior of wurtzite phase Ti$_{1-x}$Al$_{x}$N films using experimental methods and first-principles calculations. Single phase metastable wurtzite Ti$_{1-x}$Al$_{x}$N (x = 0.65, 0.75, 085 and 0.95) solid solution films were grown by cathodic arc deposition using low d...
2305.18950v1