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2018-03-05
Simulation study of ballistic spin-MOSFET devices with ferromagnetic channels based on some Heusler and oxide compounds
Newly emerged materials from the family of Heuslers and complex oxides exhibit finite bandgaps and ferromagnetic behavior with Curie temperatures much higher than even room temperature. In this work, using the semiclassical top-of-the-barrier FET model, we explore the operation of a spin-MOSFET that utilizes such ferro...
1803.01789v1
2022-03-14
HDPView: Differentially Private Materialized View for Exploring High Dimensional Relational Data
How can we explore the unknown properties of high-dimensional sensitive relational data while preserving privacy? We study how to construct an explorable privacy-preserving materialized view under differential privacy. No existing state-of-the-art methods simultaneously satisfy the following essential properties in dat...
2203.06791v3
2024-01-23
Integration of High-Tc Superconductors with High Q Factor Oxide Mechanical Resonators
Micro-mechanical resonators are building blocks of a variety of applications in basic science and applied electronics. This device technology is mainly based on well-established and reproducible silicon-based fabrication processes with outstanding performances in term of mechanical Q factor and sensitivity to external ...
2401.12758v1
2004-06-25
Resistance Noise Near to Electrical Breakdown: Steady State of Random Networks as a Function of the Bias
A short review is presented of a recently developed computational approach which allows the study of the resistance noise over the full range of bias values, from the linear regime up to electrical breakdown. Resistance noise is described in terms of two competing processes in a random resistor network. The two process...
0406648v1
2010-11-29
Contact effects on transport in magnetite, an archetypal correlated transition metal oxide
Multiterminal measurements have typically been employed to examine electronic properties of strongly correlated electronic materials such as transition metal oxides without the influence of contact effects. In contrast, in this work we investigate the interface properties of Fe$_3$O$_4$ with different metals, with the ...
1011.6407v1
2012-10-01
Thermal Contact Resistance Across Nanoscale Silicon Dioxide and Silicon Interface
Silicon dioxide and silicon (SiO$_{2}$/Si) interface plays a very important role in semiconductor industry. However, at nanoscale, its interfacial thermal properties haven't been well understood so far. In this paper, we systematically study the interfacial thermal resistance (Kapitza resistance) of a heterojunction co...
1210.0354v1
2013-02-19
Local breakdown of the quantum Hall effect in narrow single layer graphene Hall devices
We have analyzed the breakdown of the quantum Hall effect in 1 micrometer wide Hall devices fabricated from an exfoliated monolayer graphene transferred on SiOx. We have observed that the deviation of the Hall resistance from its quantized value is weakly dependent on the longitudinal resistivity up to current density ...
1302.4729v1
2016-01-17
Low-resistance GaN tunnel homojunctions with 150 kA/cm^2 current and repeatable negative differential resistance
We report GaN n++/p++ interband tunnel junctions with repeatable negative differential resistance and low resistance. Reverse and forward tunneling current densities were observed to increase as Si and Mg doping concentrations were increased. Hysteresis-free, bidirectional negative differential resistance was observed ...
1601.04353v2
2017-02-13
Deconstructing temperature gradients across fluid interfaces: the structural origin of the thermal resistance of liquid-vapor interfaces
The interfacial thermal resistance determines condensation-evaporation processes and thermal transport across material-fluid interfaces. Despite its importance in transport processes, the interfacial structure responsible for the thermal resistance is still unknown. By combining non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simul...
1702.03896v2
2018-03-21
Measuring the thermal conductivity and interfacial thermal resistance of suspended MoS2 using electron beam self-heating technique
Establishment of a new technique or extension of an existing technique for thermal and thermoelectric measurements to a more challenging system is an important task to explore the thermal and thermoelectric properties of various materials and systems. The bottleneck lies in the challenges in measuring the thermal conta...
1803.07757v1
2019-09-16
An experimental proof that resistance-switching memories are not memristors
It has been suggested that all resistive-switching memory cells are memristors. The latter are hypothetical, ideal devices whose resistance, as originally formulated, depends only on the net charge that traverses them. Recently, an unambiguous test has been proposed [J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. {\bf 52}, 01LT01 (2019)] to ...
1909.07238v2
2014-08-22
Resistance and lifetime measurements of polymer solar cells using glycerol doped poly[3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene]: poly[styrenesulfonate] hole injection layers
We have performed resistivity measurements of poly[3,4-ethylenedioxythiophene]: poly[styrenesulfonate] (PEDOT:PSS) films with varying concentrations of glycerol. Resistivity is seen to decrease exponentially from roughly 3 ohm-cm for pure PEDOT:PSS to 3x10-2 ohm-cm for 35 mg/cm3 glycerol in PEDOT:PSS. Beyond this conce...
1408.5199v2
2017-01-17
Grain Boundary Resistance in Copper Interconnects from an Atomistic Model to a Neural Network
Orientation effects on the resistivity of copper grain boundaries are studied systematically with two different atomistic tight binding methods. A methodology is developed to model the resistivity of grain boundaries using the Embedded Atom Model, tight binding methods and non-equilibrum Green's functions (NEGF). The m...
1701.04897v3
2015-07-20
Effect of Covalent Functionalisation on Thermal Transport Across Graphene-Polymer Interfaces
This paper is concerned with the interfacial thermal resistance for polymer composites reinforced by various covalently functionalised graphene. By using molecular dynamics simulations, the obtained results show that the covalent functionalisation in graphene plays a significant role in reducing the graphene-paraffin i...
1507.05397v1
2020-12-05
Machine Learning and Data Analytics for Design and Manufacturing of High-Entropy Materials Exhibiting Mechanical or Fatigue Properties of Interest
This chapter presents an innovative framework for the application of machine learning and data analytics for the identification of alloys or composites exhibiting certain desired properties of interest. The main focus is on alloys and composites with large composition spaces for structural materials. Such alloys or com...
2012.07583v1
2000-11-10
The origin of high transport spin polarization in La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3} $MnO$_{3}$: direct evidence for minority spin states
Using the point contact Andreev reflection technique, we have carried out a systematic study of the spin polarization in the colossal magnetoresistive manganite, La$_{0.7}$Sr$_{0.3}$MnO$_{3}$} (LSMO). Surprisingly, we observed a significant increase in the current spin polarization with the residual resistivity. This c...
0011198v1
2006-05-30
Complex Precipitation Pathways in Multi-Component Alloys
One usual way to strengthen a metal is to add alloying elements and to control the size and the density of the precipitates obtained. However, precipitation in multicomponent alloys can take complex pathways depending on the relative diffusivity of solute atoms and on the relative driving forces involved. In Al-Zr-Sc a...
0605738v1
2006-11-06
Coexisting tuneable fractions of glassy and equilibrium long-range-order phases in manganites
Antiferromagnetic-insulating(AF-I) and the ferromagnetic-metallic(FM-M) phases coexist in various half-doped manganites over a range of temperature and magnetic field, and this is often believed to be an essential ingredient to their colossal magnetoresistence. We present magnetization and resistivity measurements on P...
0611152v1
2008-05-27
Colossal electroresistance effect around room temperature in LuFe2O4
A colossal electroresistance effect is observed around room temperature in a transition metal oxide LuFe2O4. The measurements of resistance under various applied voltages as well as the highly nonlinear current-voltage characteristics reveal that a small electric field is able to drive the material from the insulating ...
0805.4042v1
2008-07-21
Superconducting and thermal properties of ex-situ Glidcop sheathed multifilamentary MgB2 wires
In DC and AC practical applications of MgB2 superconducting wires an important role is represented by the material sheath which has to provide, among other things, a suitable electrical and thermal stabilization. A way to obtain a large enough amount of low resistivity material in to the conductor architecture is to us...
0807.3259v1
2012-12-14
Using metallic photonic crystals as visible light sources
In this paper we study numerically and experimentally the possibility of using metallic photonic crystals (PCs) of different geometries (log-piles, direct and inverse opals) as visible light sources. It is found that by tuning geometrical parameters of a direct opal PC one can achieve substantial reduction of the emiss...
1212.3451v1
2013-01-10
Weak antilocalization in topological insulator Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ microflakes
We have studied the carrier transport in two topological insulator (TI) Bi$_{2}$Te$_{3}$ microflakes between 0.3 and 10 K and under applied backgate voltages ($V_{\rm BG}$). Logarithmic temperature dependent resistance corrections due to the two-dimensional electron-electron interaction effect in the presence of weak d...
1301.2023v1
2013-12-12
Niobium Silicon alloys for Kinetic Inductance Detectors
We are studying the properties of Niobium Silicon amorphous alloys as a candidate material for the fabrication of highly sensitive Kinetic Inductance Detectors (KID), optimized for very low optical loads. As in the case of other composite materials, the NbSi properties can be changed by varying the relative amounts of ...
1312.3588v1
2014-07-05
Approaching the Limits of Transparency and Conductivity in Graphitic Materials through Lithium Intercalation
Various bandstructure engineering methods have been studied to improve the performance of graphitic transparent conductors; however none demonstrated an increase of optical transmittance in the visible range. Here we measure in situ optical transmittance spectra and electrical transport properties of ultrathin-graphite...
1407.1416v1
2014-10-02
Absence of the Ordinary and Extraordinary Hall effects scaling in granular ferromagnets at metal-insulator transition
Universality of the extraordinary Hall effect scaling was tested in granular three-dimensional Ni-SiO2 films across the metal-insulator transition. Three types of magnetotransport behavior have been identified: metallic, weakly insulating and strongly insulating. Scaling between both the ordinary and extraordinary Hall...
1410.0491v1
2014-11-04
Self-consistent modelling of nonlinear dynamic ESM microscopy in mixed ionic-electronic conductors
Dynamic Electrochemical Strain Microscopy (ESM) response of mixed ionic-electronic conductors is analysed in the framework of the Thomas-Fermi screening theory and Vegard law with accounting of the steric effects. The emergence of dynamic charge waves and nonlinear deformation of the surface as result of applying probi...
1411.0966v1
2015-06-03
Stable room-temperature ferromagnetic phase at the FeRh(100) surface
Interfaces and low dimensionality are sources of strong modifications of electronic, structural, and magnetic properties of materials. FeRh alloys are an excellent example because of the first-order phase transition taking place at $\sim$400 K from an antiferromagnetic phase at room temperature to a high temperature fe...
1508.01777v1
2015-09-10
Three-Dimensional Stateful Material Implication Logic
Monolithic three-dimensional integration of memory and logic circuits could dramatically improve performance and energy efficiency of computing systems. Some conventional and emerging memories are suitable for vertical integration, including highly scalable metal-oxide resistive switching devices (memristors), yet inte...
1509.02986v1
2018-01-19
Superconductivity in potassium-doped 2,2$'$-bipyridine
Organic compounds are always promising candidates of superconductors with high transition temperatures. We examine this proposal by choosing 2,2$'$-bipyridine solely composed by C, H, and N atoms. The presence of Meissner effect with a transition temperature of 7.2 K in this material upon potassium doping is demonstrat...
1801.06320v2
2018-05-07
The Role of Grain Boundaries under Long-Time Radiation
Materials containing a high proportion of grain boundaries offer significant potential for the development of radiation-resistent structural materials. However, a proper understanding of the connection between the radiation-induced microstructural behaviour of grain boundary and its impact at long natural time scales i...
1805.02360v1
2019-09-19
Low compressible BP$_3$N$_6$
Using first principles calculation, the structural and mechanical properties of BP$_3$N$_6$ which adopts an orthorhombic structure with space group Pna2$_1$ (no. 33), were determined at three different pressure values (0, 20 and 42.4~GPa). The nine independent elastic constants meet all necessary and sufficient conditi...
1909.08879v2
2014-08-06
Crystal structure and electronic structure of CePt2In7
We report a corrected crystal structure for the CePt2In7 superconductor, refined from single crystal x-ray diffraction data. The corrected crystal structure shows a different Pt-In stacking along the c-direction in this layered material than was previously reported. In addition, all the atomic sites are fully occupied ...
1408.1246v1
2017-01-30
Pressure-induced superconductivity and topological quantum phase transitions in a quasi-one-dimensional topological insulator: Bi4I4
Superconductivity and topological quantum states are two frontier fields of research in modern condensed matter physics. The realization of superconductivity in topological materials is highly desired, however, superconductivity in such materials is typically limited to two- or three-dimensional materials and is far fr...
1701.08860v1
2019-03-12
Structural and electronic properties of the spin-filter material CrVTiAl with disorder
The effects of chemical disorder on the transport properties of the spin-filter material CrVTiAl are investigated experimentally and theoretically. Synchrotron X-ray diffraction experiments on bulk CrVTiAl and the associated Rietveld analysis indicate that the crystal structure consists primarily of a mixture of a part...
1903.05004v1
2019-01-28
Effect of Bi Substitution on Thermoelectric Properties of SbSe2-based Layered Compounds NdO$_{0.8}$F$_{0.2}$Sb$_{1-x}$Bi$_x$Se$_2$
Although SbSe2-based layered compounds have been predicted to be high-performance thermoelectric materials and topological materials, most of these compounds obtained experimentally have been insulators so far. Here, we present the effect of Bi substitution on the thermoelectric properties of SbSe2-based layered compou...
1901.09909v1
2020-08-21
An unexplored MBE growth mode reveals new properties of superconducting NbN
Accessing unexplored conditions in crystal growth often reveals remarkable surprises and new regimes of physical behavior. In this work, performing molecular beam epitaxy of the technologically important superconductor NbN at temperatures greater than 1000$^\circ$C, higher than in the past, is found to reveal persisten...
2008.09596v3
2020-09-25
A Possible Method of Carbon Deposit Mapping on Plasma Facing Components Using Infrared Thermography
The material eroded from the surface of plasma facing components is redeposited partly close to high heat flux areas. At these locations, the deposit is heated by the plasma and the deposition pattern evolves depending on the operation parameters. The mapping of the deposit is still a matter of intense scientific activ...
2010.06374v1
2020-10-29
Nature of native atomic defects in ZrTe$_5$ and their impact on the low-energy electronic structure
Over the past decades, investigations of the anomalous low-energy electronic properties of ZrTe$_5$ have reached a wide array of conclusions. An open question is the growth method's impact on the stoichiometry of ZrTe$_5$ samples, especially given the very small density of states near its chemical potential. Here we re...
2010.15513v1
2021-11-17
Anisotropic superconductivity and unusually robust electronic critical field in single crystal La$_{7}$Ir$_{3}$
Polycrystalline La$_{7}$Ir$_{3}$ is reported to show superconductivity breaking time-reversal symmetry while also having an isotropic $s$-wave gap. Single crystals of this noncentrosymmetric superconductor are highly desirable to understand the nature of the electron pairing mechanism in this system. Here we report the...
2111.09239v2
2022-01-09
Phase field fracture predictions of microscopic bridging behaviour of composite materials
We investigate the role of microstructural bridging on the fracture toughness of composite materials. To achieve this, a new computational framework is presented that integrates phase field fracture and cohesive zone models to simulate fibre breakage, matrix cracking and fibre-matrix debonding. The composite microstruc...
2201.03066v1
2022-10-30
Linear nonsaturating magnetoresistance in kagome superconductor CsV3Sb5 thin flakes
Linear nonsaturating magnetoresistance (LMR) represents a class of anomalous resistivity response to external magnetic field that has been observed in a variety of materials including but not limited to topological semi-metals, high-Tc superconductors and materials with charge/spin density wave (CDW/SDW) orders. Here w...
2210.16890v1
2023-08-09
Superionic phase transition of copper(I) sulfide and its implication for purported superconductivity of LK-99
Lee, Kim, and coworkers have recently claimed room-temperature and ambient-pressure superconductivity in a copper-doped lead apatite material named LK-99. However, the polycrystalline material synthesized has a significant fraction of copper(I) sulfide. Copper(I) sulfide has a known phase transition at 104 degrees C fr...
2308.05222v3
2023-11-15
Strongly pinned skyrmionic bubbles and higher-order nonlinear Hall resistances at the interface of Pt/FeSi bilayer
Engineering of magnetic heterostructures for spintronic applications has entered a new phase, driven by the recent discoveries of topological materials and exfoliated van der Waals materials. Their low-dimensional properties can be dramatically modulated in designer heterostructures via proximity effects from adjacent ...
2311.08730v1
2023-11-21
Reliable lift-off patterning of graphene dispersions for humidity sensors
Dispersion-based graphene materials are promising candidates for various sensing applications. They offer the advantage of relatively simple and fast deposition via spin-coating, Langmuir-Blodgett deposition, or inkjet printing. Film uniformity and reproducibility remain challenging in all of these deposition methods. ...
2311.12650v2
2024-04-10
Optimal Matching of Thermal Vibrations into Carbon Nanotubes
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are promising candidates to improve the thermal conductivity of nano-composites. The main obstacle to these applications is the extremely high thermal boundary (Kapitza) resistance between the CNTs and their matrix. In this theoretical work our goal is to maximize the heat flux through the CNT b...
2404.06938v1
2010-11-12
Suspension and Measurement of Graphene and Bi2Se3 Atomic Membranes
Coupling high quality, suspended atomic membranes to specialized electrodes enables investigation of many novel phenomena, such as spin or Cooper pair transport in these two dimensional systems. However, many electrode materials are not stable in acids that are used to dissolve underlying substrates. Here we present a ...
1011.2837v1
2011-11-04
Dual-gated bilayer graphene hot electron bolometer
Detection of infrared light is central to diverse applications in security, medicine, astronomy, materials science, and biology. Often different materials and detection mechanisms are employed to optimize performance in different spectral ranges. Graphene is a unique material with strong, nearly frequency-independent l...
1111.1202v1
2012-11-08
Structural phase transformations in metallic grain boundaries
Structural transformations at interfaces are of profound fundamental interest as complex examples of phase transitions in low-dimensional systems. Despite decades of extensive research, no compelling evidence exists for structural transformations in high-angle grain boundaries in elemental systems. Here we show that th...
1211.1756v2
2014-10-10
Topological Origin of Fracture Toughening in Complex Solids: the Viewpoint of Rigidity Theory
In order to design tougher materials, it is crucial to understand the relationship between their composition and their resistance to fracture. To this end, we investigate the fracture toughness of usual sodium silicate glasses (NS) and complex calcium--silicate--hydrates (CSH), the binding phase of cement. Their atomis...
1410.2916v1
2015-02-09
Pressure-induced superconductivity in the three-dimensional Dirac semimetal Cd3As2
The recently discovered Dirac and Weyl semimetals are new members of topological materials. Starting from them, topological superconductivity may be achieved, e.g. by carrier doping or applying pressure. Here we report high-pressure resistance and X-ray diffraction study of the three-dimensional topological Dirac semim...
1502.02509v2
2017-06-19
Electrical and Thermal Transport at the Planckian Bound of Dissipation in the Hydrodynamic Electron Fluid of WP2
Materials with strongly-correlated electrons exhibit interesting phenomena such as metal-insulator transitions and high-temperature superconductivity. In stark contrast to ordinary metals, electron transport in these materials is thought to resemble the flow of viscous fluids. Despite their differences, it is predicted...
1706.05925v2
2017-09-22
On Extracting Mechanical Properties from Nanoindentation at Temperatures up to 1000$^{\circ}$C
Alloyed MCrAlY bond coats, where M is usually cobalt and/or nickel, are essential parts of modern turbine blades, imparting environmental resistance while mediating thermal expansivity differences. Nanoindentation allows the determination of their properties without the complexities of traditional mechanical tests, but...
1709.07714v1
2017-03-16
Equivalence of Effective Medium and Random Resistor Network models for disorder-induced unsaturating linear magnetoresistance
A linear unsaturating magnetoresistance at high perpendicular magnetic fields, together with a quadratic positive magnetoresistance at low fields, has been seen in many different experimental materials, ranging from silver chalcogenides and thin films of InSb to topological materials like graphene and Dirac semimetals....
1703.05478v1
2017-08-24
Probing the Fermi surface and magnetotransport properties in MoAs$_{2}$
Transition metal dipnictides (TMDs) have recently been identified as possible candidates to host topology protected electronic band structure. These materials belong to an isostructural family and show several exotic transport properties. Especially, the large values of magnetoresistance (MR) and carrier mobility have ...
1708.07294v1
2019-03-18
Zirconia UV-curable colloids for additive manufacturing via hybrid inkjet printing-stereolithography
Currently, additive manufacturing of ceramics by stereolithography (SLA) is limited to single materials and by a poor thickness resolution that strongly depends on the ceramic particles-UV light interaction. Combining selective laser curing with inkjet printing represents a novel strategy to overcome these constrains. ...
1903.07731v1
2019-12-23
Large $d_{33}$ Piezoelectric-Polymer Composites For RF Acoustic Resonators
While piezoelectric transduction enables designing acoustic resonators operating at multi-GHz frequencies, the deposition of piezoelectric materials typically requires high temperature processes and specific crystallographic orientation of substrates, thus imposing a limitation on materials that could be used. In this ...
1912.10713v1
2021-01-25
Polycaprolactone/graphite nanoplates composite nanopapers
Nanopapers based on graphene and related materials were recently proposed for application in heat spreader applications. To overcome typical limitations in brittleness of such materials, this work addressed the combination of graphite nanoplatelets (GNP) with a soft, tough and crystalline polymer, acting as an efficien...
2101.10283v1
2019-11-13
Portable and wireless signal transducer for field testing of environmental sensors based on 2D materials
In this paper we present the design and fabrication of a portable device for environmental monitoring applications. This novel hand-held apparatus monitors the changes in the resistance of a sensing surface with a high accuracy and resolution and transmits the recorded data wirelessly to a cellphone. Such a design offe...
1911.05764v2
2022-01-08
Dynamical Mean Field Studies of Infinite Layer Nickelates: Physics Results and Methodological Implications
This article summarizes recent work on the many-body (beyond density functional theory) electronic structure of layered rare-earth nickelates, both in the context of the materials themselves and in comparison to the high-temperature superconducting (high-$T_c$) layered copper-oxide compounds. It aims to outline the cur...
2201.02852v1
2022-03-04
Broadband Cross-Circular Polarization Carpet Cloaking based on a Phase Change Material Metasurface in the Mid-infrared Region
In view of the fact that most invisibility devices focus on linear polarization cloaking and that the characteristics of mid infrared cloaking are rarely studied, we propose a cross circularly polarized invisibility carpet cloaking device in the mid infrared band. Based on the Pancharatnam Berry phase principle, the un...
2203.02222v1
2022-03-06
Scaled indium oxide transistors fabricated using atomic layer deposition
In order to continue to improve integrated circuit performance and functionality, scaled transistors with short channel lengths and low thickness are needed. But the further scaling of silicon-based devices and the development of alternative semiconductor channel materials that are compatible with current fabrication p...
2203.02869v1
2022-10-18
Nanoscale friction controlled by top layer thickness in [LaMnO$_{3}$]$_{m}$/[SrMnO$_{3}$]$_{n}$ superlattices
We conducted lateral force microscopy measurements on seven [LaMnO$_{3}$]$_{m}$/[SrMnO$_{3}$]$_{n}$ superlattices with varied layer thicknesses. We observe that the friction forces and the friction coefficients initially increase with increasing LaMnO3 top layer thickness, followed by saturation when the top layer thic...
2210.09677v1
2023-05-15
Superconductivity at epitaxial LaTiO3-KTaO3 interfaces
Design of epitaxial interfaces is a pivotal way to engineer artificial structures where new electronic phases can emerge. Here we report a systematic emergence of interfacial superconducting state in epitaxial heterostructures of LaTiO3 and KTaO3. The superconductivity transition temperature increases with decreasing t...
2305.08304v1
2024-02-16
Erosion Study of Tungsten Carbide films under 100 keV Kr+ ion irradiation
Tungsten carbide (WC) stands out as a crucial material for exploration in extreme environments due to its resistance to radiation and impressive mechanical strength. Widely utilized in cutting tools, high-wear components, and as a potential contender for plasma-facing material in nuclear reactors, WC's erosion behavior...
2402.10461v1
2001-05-22
Infrared optical properties of Pr2CuO4
The ab-plane reflectance of a Pr2CuO4 single crystal has been measured over a wide frequency range at a variety of temperatures, and the optical properties determined from a Kramers-Kronig analysis. Above ~ 250 K, the low frequency conductivity increases quickly with temperature; the resistivity follows the form e^(E_a...
0105445v2
2006-11-29
What is the valence of a correlated solid? The double life of delta-plutonium
Plutonium displays phase transitions with enormous volume differences among its phases and both its Pauli like magnetic susceptibility and resistivity are an order of magnitude larger than those of simple metals. Curium is also highly resistive but its susceptibility is Curie-like at high temperatures and orders antife...
0611760v1
2009-05-08
Magnetotransport in polycrystalline La$_{2/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$ thin films of controlled granularity
Polycrystalline La$_{2/3}$Sr$_{1/3}$MnO$_{3}$ (LSMO) thin films were synthesized by pulsed laser ablation on single crystal (100) yttria-stabilized zirconia (YSZ) substrates to investigate the mechanism of magneto-transport in a granular manganite. Different degrees of granularity is achieved by using the deposition te...
0905.1306v1
2009-12-27
Topological Insulator Nanowires and Nanoribbons
Recent theoretical calculations and photoemission spectroscopy measurements on the bulk Bi2Se3 material show that it is a three-dimensional topological insulator possessing conductive surface states with nondegenerate spins, attractive for dissipationless electronics and spintronics applications. Nanoscale topological ...
0912.5045v1
2010-06-02
Antiferromagnetic Mott insulating state in single crystals of the hexagonal lattice material Na2IrO3
We have synthesized single crystals of Na_2IrO_3 and studied their structure, transport, magnetic, and thermal properties using powder x-ray diffraction (PXRD), electrical resistivity, isothermal magnetization M versus magnetic field H, magnetic susceptibility \chi versus temperature T, and heat capacity C versus T mea...
1006.0437v1
2010-11-02
Graphene: from materials science to particle physics
Since its discovery in 2004, graphene, a two-dimensional hexagonal carbon allotrope, has generated great interest and spurred research activity from materials science to particle physics and vice versa. In particular, graphene has been found to exhibit outstanding electronic and mechanical properties, as well as an unu...
1011.0643v1
2013-03-04
Statistical Study of Deep Sub-Micron Dual-Gated Field-Effect Transistors on Monolayer CVD Molybdenum Disulfide Films
Monolayer Molybdenum Disulfide (MoS2) with a direct band gap of 1.8 eV is a promising two-dimensional material with a potential to surpass graphene in next generation nanoelectronic applications. In this letter, we synthesize monolayer MoS2 on Si/SiO2 substrate via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method and comprehensi...
1303.0776v1
2014-10-17
Anisotropic strain in SmSe and SmTe: implications for electronic transport
Mixed valence rare-earth samarium compounds SmX (X=Se,Te) have been recently proposed as candidate materials for use in high-speed, low-power digital switches driven by stress induced changes of resistivity. At room temperature these materials exhibit a pressure driven insulator-to-metal transition with resistivity dec...
1410.4740v1
2015-08-19
Independent tuning of electronic properties and induced ferromagnetism in topological insulators with heterostructure approach
The quantum anomalous Hall effect (QAHE) has been recently demonstrated in Cr- and V-doped three-dimensional topological insulators (TIs) at temperatures below 100 mK. In those materials, the spins of unfilled d-electrons in the transition metal dopants are exchange coupled to develop a long-range ferromagnetic order, ...
1508.04719v1
2016-11-08
Superconductivity Induced by High Pressure in Weyl Semimetal TaP
Weyl semimetal defines a material with three dimensional Dirac cones which appear in pair due to the breaking of spatial inversion or time reversal symmetry. Superconductivity is the state of quantum condensation of paired electrons. Turning a Weyl semimetal into superconducting state is very important in having some u...
1611.02548v1
2017-02-15
On Ni-Sb-Sn based skutterudites
Novel filled skutterudites EpyNi4Sb12-xSnx (Ep = Ba and La) have been prepared by arc melting followed by annealing at 250C, 350C and 450C up to 30 days in sealed quartz vials. A maximum filling level of y = 0.93 and y = 0.65 was achieved for the Ba and La filled skutterudite, respectively. Single-phase samples with th...
1702.04654v1
2018-04-13
Tuning spin one channel to exotic orbital two-channel Kondo effect in ferrimagnetic composites of LaNiO3 and CoFe2O4
We report the tuning from spin one channel (1CK) to orbital two-channel Kondo (2CK) effect by varying CoFe2O4 (CFO) content in the composites with LaNiO3 (LNO) along with the presence of ferrimagnetism. Although there is no signature of resistivity upturn in case of pure LNO, all the composites exhibit a distinct uptur...
1804.04796v1
2018-06-20
Tunable disorder and localization in the rare-earth nickelates
The rare-earth nickelates are a rich playground for transport properties, known to host non-Fermi liquid character, resistance saturation and metal-insulator transitions. We report a study of transport in LaNiO3 in the presence of tunable disorder induced by irradiation. While pristine LaNiO3 samples are metallic, high...
1806.07986v1
2019-09-04
Exploring Disorder in the Spin Gapless Semiconductor Mn$_2$CoAl
Since the prediction of spin-gapless semiconducting behaviour in the Heusler compound Mn$_2$CoAl, evidence of spin-gapless behaviour in thin films has typically been inferred from magnetotransport measurements. The spin gapless state is however fragile, and further, band structure calculations indicate that even a smal...
1909.02153v1
2019-07-10
Electronic Transport Evidence for Topological Nodal-Line Semimetals of ZrGeSe single crystals
Although the band topology of ZrGeSe has been studied via magnetic torque technique, the electronic transport behaviors related to the relativistic Fermions in ZrGeSe are still unknown. Here, we first report systematic electronic transport properties of high-quality ZrGeSe single crystals under magnetic fields up to 14...
1907.04762v1
2019-12-06
Correlated Insulating States and Transport Signature of Superconductivity in Twisted Trilayer Graphene Moiré of Moiré Superlattices
Layers of two-dimensional materials stacked with a small twist-angle give rise to beating periodic patterns on a scale much larger than the original lattice, referred to as a moir\'e superlattice. When the stacking involves more than two layers with independent twist angles between adjacent layers, it generates moir\'e...
1912.03375v2
2020-01-14
Heavy non-degenerate electrons in doped strontium titanate
Room-temperature metallicity of lightly doped SrTiO$_3$ is puzzling, because the combination of mobility and the effective mass would imply a mean-free-path (mfp) below the Mott Ioffe Regel (MIR) limit and a scattering time shorter than the Planckian time ($\tau_P=\hbar/k_BT$). We present a study of electric resistivit...
2001.04668v4
2021-06-21
Three-dimensional quasi-quantized Hall insulator phase in SrSi2
In insulators, the longitudinal resistivity becomes infinitely large at zero temperature. For classic insulators, the Hall conductivity becomes zero at the same time. However, there are special systems, such as two-dimensional quantum Hall isolators, in which a more complex scenario is observed at high magnetic fields....
2106.11329v1
2021-07-05
Quantum anomalous Hall effect from intertwined moiré bands
Electron correlation and topology are two central threads of modern condensed matter physics. Semiconductor moir\'e materials provide a highly tunable platform for studies of electron correlation. Correlation-driven phenomena, including the Mott insulator, generalized Wigner crystals, stripe phases and continuous Mott ...
2107.01796v1
2021-10-01
Gate-tunable Intrinsic Anomalous Hall Effect in Epitaxial MnBi2Te4 Films
Anomalous Hall effect (AHE) is an important transport signature revealing topological properties of magnetic materials and their spin textures. Recently, antiferromagnetic MnBi2Te4 has been demonstrated to be an intrinsic magnetic topological insulator that exhibits quantum AHE in exfoliated nanoflakes. However, its co...
2110.00540v1
2021-12-23
Impact of the superconductors properties on the measurement sensitivity of resonant-based axion detectors
Axions, hypothetical particles theorized to solve the strong CP-problem, are presently being considered as strong candidates as cold dark matter constituents. The signal power of resonant-based axion detectors, known as haloscopes, is directly proportional to their quality factor $Q$. In this paper, the impact of the u...
2112.12775v1
2022-01-28
Substitutional Doped GeSe: Tunable Oxidative States with Strain Engineering
Layered chalcogenide materials have a wealth of nanoelectronics applications like resistive switching and energy-harvesting such as photocatalyst owing to rich electronic, orbital, and lattice excitations. In this work, we explore monochalcogenide germanium selenide GeSe with respect to substitutional doping with 13 me...
2201.11890v1
2022-05-24
Quantum hybridization negative differential resistance from non-toxic halide perovskite nanowire heterojunctions and its strain control
While low-dimensional organometal halide perovskites are expected to open up new opportunities for a diverse range of device applications, like in their bulk counterparts, the toxicity of Pb-based halide perovskite materials is a significant concern that hinders their practical use. We recently predicted that lead trii...
2205.11689v1
2022-06-06
Anisotropic magnetic property of single crystals $R$V$_6$Sn$_6$ ($R$ = Y, Gd - Tm, Lu)
$R$V${_6}$Sn${_6}$ ($R$ = Y, Gd - Tm, Lu) single crystals are synthesized by Sn-flux method and their physical properties are characterized by magnetization, resistivity, and specific heat measurements. Powder X-ray diffraction patterns of all samples can be well indexed with the hexagonal HfFe$_6$Ge$_6$-type structure...
2206.02924v1
2022-09-21
Optical properties and carrier localization in the layered phosphide EuCd$_\mathbf{2}$P$_\mathbf{2}$
The temperature dependence of the complex optical properties of the layered phosphide material EuCd$_2$P$_2$ have been measured over a wide frequency range above and below $T_{\rm N} \simeq 11.5$ K for light polarized in the $a-b$ planes. At room temperature, the optical conductivity is well described by a weak free-ca...
2209.10606v2
2022-10-14
Anti-site disorder and Berry curvature driven anomalous Hall effect in spin gapless semiconducting Mn2CoAl Heusler compound
Spin gapless semiconductors exhibit a finite band gap for one spin channel and closed gap for other spin channel, emerged as a new state of magnetic materials with a great potential for spintronic applications. The first experimental evidence for the spin gapless semiconducting behavior was observed in an inverse Heusl...
2210.07668v1
2022-12-02
FeRhCrSi: A new spin semimetal with room temperature spin-valve behavior
Spin semimetals are a recently discovered new class of spintronic materials, which exhibit a band gap in one spin channel while a semimetallic feature in the other and thus allows for tunable spin transport. Here, we present experimental verification of spin semimetallic behavior in FeRhCrSi, a quaternary Heusler alloy...
2212.00924v2
2023-01-11
Domain Wall-Magnetic Tunnel Junction Analog Content Addressable Memory Using Current and Projected Data
With the rise in in-memory computing architectures to reduce the compute-memory bottleneck, a new bottleneck is present between analog and digital conversion. Analog content-addressable memories (ACAM) are being recently studied for in-memory computing to efficiently convert between analog and digital signals. Magnetic...
2301.04598v1
2023-04-26
Microbial Corrosion Prevention by Citrobacter sp. Biofilms
Microbiologically influenced corrosion (MIC) compromises the integrity of many technologically relevant metals. Protective coatings based on synthetic materials pose potential environmental impacts. Here, we report a MIC resistant coating based on a biofilm matrix of Citrobacter sp. strain MIC21 on underlying copper (C...
2304.13862v1
2023-06-01
Bulk conducting states of intrinsically doped Bi$_2$Se$_3$
With a large band gap and a single Dirac cone responsible for the topological surface states, Bi2Se3 is widely regarded as a prototypical 3D topological insulator. Further applications of the bulk material has, however, been hindered by inherent structural defects that donate electrons and make the bulk conductive. Con...
2306.00827v1
2023-07-06
Tunable magnetism and electron correlation in Titanium-based Kagome metals RETi3Bi4 (RE = Yb, Pr, and Nd) by rare-earth engineering
Rare-earth engineering is an effective way to introduce and tune the magnetism in topological Kagome magnets, which has been acting as a fertile platform to investigate the quantum interactions between geometry, topology, spin, and correlation. Here we report the structure and properties of three newly discovered Titan...
2307.02942v1
2023-09-23
Three-dimensional graphene on a nano-porous 4H-SiC backbone: a novel material for food sensing applications
Sensors which are sensitive to volatile organic compounds and thus able to monitor the conservation state of food, are precious because they work non-destructively and allow to avoid direct contact with the food, ensuring hygienic conditions. In particular, the monitoring of rancidity would solve a widespread issue in ...
2309.13431v1
2023-09-26
On Hyperelastic Crease
We present analyses of crease-formation and stability criteria for incompressible hyperelastic solids. A generic singular perturbation over a laterally compressed half-space creates a far-field eigenmode of three energy-release angular sectors separated by two energy-elevating sectors of incremental deformation. The fa...
2309.14626v1
2024-02-15
Quantum Linear Magnetoresistance and Fermi Liquid Behavior in Kagome Metal Ni3In2S2
Kagome metals gain attention as they manifest a spectrum of quantum phenomena, including superconductivity, charge order, frustrated magnetism, and intertwined correlated states of condensed matter. With regard to electronic band structure, several of the them exhibit non-trivial topological characteristics. Here, we p...
2402.10096v1
2022-11-28
On the energy conversion efficiency of the bulk photovoltaic effect
The bulk photovoltaic effect (BPVE) leads to directed photo-currents and photo-voltages in bulk materials. Unlike photo-voltages in p-n junction solar cells that are limited by carrier recombination to values below the bandgap energy of the absorbing material, the BPVE photo-voltages have been shown to greatly exceed t...
2211.15124v2
2016-07-06
Thermal Resistances of Thin-Films of Small Molecule Organic Semiconductors
We have measured the thermal resistances of thin films of the small molecule organic semiconductors bis(triisopropylsilylethynyl) pentacene (TIPS-pn), bis(triethylsilylethynyl) anthradithiophene (TES-ADT) and difluoro bis(triethylsilylethynyl) anthradithiophene (diF-TES-ADT). For each material, several films of differe...
1607.01712v2