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2012-04-24
Microstructural analysis of phase separation in iron chalcogenide superconductors
The interplay between superconductivity, magnetism and crystal structure in iron-based superconductors is a topic of great interest amongst the condensed matter physics community as it is thought to be the key to understanding the mechanisms responsible for high temperature superconductivity. Alkali metal doped iron ch...
1204.5472v4
2017-08-16
Single-nanowire, low-bandgap hot carrier solar cells with tunable open-circuit voltage
Compared to traditional pn-junction photovoltaics, hot carrier solar cells offer potentially higher efficiency by extracting work from the kinetic energy of photogenerated "hot carriers" before they cool to the lattice temperature. Hot carrier solar cells have been demonstrated in high-bandgap ferroelectric insulators ...
1708.04848v1
2019-11-11
Mechanical properties of VMoNO as a function of oxygen concentration: toward development of hard and tough refractory oxynitrides
Improved toughness is a central goal in the development of wear-resistant refractory ceramic coatings. Extensive theoretical and experimental research has revealed that NaCl structure VMoN alloys exhibit surprisingly high ductility combined with high hardness and toughness. However, during operation, protective coating...
1911.04165v1
2020-12-25
Superconductivity to 262 kelvin via catalyzed hydrogenation of yttrium at high pressures
Room temperature superconductivity has been achieved under high pressure in an organically derived carbonaceous sulfur hydride with a critical superconducting transition temperature (Tc) of 288 kelvin. This development is part of a new class of dense, hydrogen rich materials with remarkably high critical temperatures. ...
2012.13627v1
2021-08-25
A Stable High-Capacity Lithium-Ion Battery Using a Biomass-Derived Sulfur-Carbon Cathode and Lithiated Silicon Anode
A full lithium-ion-sulfur cell with a remarkable cycle life was achieved by combining an environmentally sustainable biomass-derived sulfur-carbon cathode and a pre-lithiated silicon oxide anode. X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, energy dispersive spectroscopy, and thermogravimetry of the cathode evidenced the dis...
2108.11284v1
2023-09-07
Enhanced strength-ductility combination by introducing bimodal grains structures in high-density oxide dispersion strengthened FeCrAl alloys fabricated by spark plasma sintering technology
Oxide dispersion strengthened FeCrAl alloys dispersed high-density nano-oxides in the matrix show outstanding corrosion resistance and mechanical properties. However, ODS FeCrAl alloys achieve the high strength generally at the expense of ductility in some way. Here, a method by introducing a bimodal grain structure wa...
2309.03703v1
2017-11-14
The Dominant Role of Critical Valence Fluctuations on High $T_{\rm c}$ Superconductivity in Heavy Fermions
Despite almost 40 years of research, the origin of heavy-fermion superconductivity is still strongly debated. Especially, the pressure-induced enhancement of superconductivity in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ away from the magnetic breakdown is not sufficiently taken into consideration. As recently reported in CeCu$_2$Si$_2$ and seve...
1711.05145v2
2017-05-09
Universal experimental test for the role of free charge carriers in thermal Casimir effect within a micrometer separation range
We propose a universal experiment to measure the differential Casimir force between a Au-coated sphere and two halves of a structured plate covered with a P-doped Si overlayer. The concentration of free charge carriers in the overlayer is chosen slightly below the critical one, f or which the phase transition from diel...
1705.03223v2
2021-03-10
Solid phase epitaxial growth of the correlated-electron transparent conducting oxide SrVO3
SrVO3 thin films with a high figure of merit for applications as transparent conductors were crystallized from amorphous layers using solid phase epitaxy (SPE). Epitaxial SrVO3 films crystallized on SrTiO3 using SPE exhibit a room temperature resistivity of 2.5 x 10-5 Ohms cm, a residual resistivity ratio of 3.8, and v...
2103.05797v2
2023-11-13
Superconductivity in trilayer nickelate La$_4$Ni$_3$O$_{10}$ single crystals
The pursuit of discovering new high-temperature superconductors that diverge from the copper-based paradigm carries profound implications for elucidating mechanisms behind superconductivity and may also enable new applications. Here, our investigation reveals that application of pressure effectively suppresses the spin...
2311.07353v2
2019-02-28
3D quench modeling based on T-A formulation for high temperature superconductor CORC cables
High temperature superconductor (HTS) (RE)Ba2Cu3Ox (REBCO) conductor on round core cable (CORC) has high current carrying capacity for high field magnet and power applications. In REBCO CORC cables, current redistribution occurs among tapes through terminal contact resistances when a local quench occurs. Therefore, the...
1902.11055v1
2001-06-20
Saturation of electrical resistivity in metals at large temperatures
We present a microscopic model for systems showing resistivity saturation. An essentially exact quantum Monte-Carlo calculation demonstrates that the model describes saturation. We give a simple explanation for saturation, using charge conservation and considering the limit where thermally excited phonons have destroye...
0106397v2
2002-05-13
Pseudogap effects on the charge dynamics in the underdoped copper oxide materials
Within the t-J model, the charge dynamics of copper oxide materials in the underdoped regime is studied based on the fermion-spin theory. It is shown that both in-plane charge dynamics and c-axis charge dynamics are mainly governed by the scattering from the in-plane fluctuation, which would be suppressed when the holo...
0205248v1
2004-05-26
An Inhomogeneous Josephson Phase Near the (Super) Conductor-Insulator Transition
In many cases inhomogeneities are known to exist near the metal (or superconductor)- insulator transition, as follows from well-known domain-wall arguments. If the conducting regions are large enough, and if they have superconducting correlations, it becomes energetically favorable for the system to go into a Josephson...
0405625v1
2005-08-15
Electronic structure and anisotropic transport properties in hexagonal YPtIn and LuAgGe ternary compounds
We present anisotropic, zero applied magnetic field, temperature dependent resistivity measurements on hexagonal, non-magnetic, YPtIn and LuAgGe single crystals. For these materials the in-plane resistivity, $\rho_{ab}$, is significantly higher than the $c$ - axis one, $\rho_c$, with $\rho_{ab}/\rho_c \approx 1.4$ for ...
0508346v1
2010-11-12
Microwave inductance of thin metal strips
We have measured the frequency-dependent, complex impedance of thin metal strips in a broad range of microwave frequencies (45~MHz to 20~GHz). The spectra are in good agreement with theoretical predictions of an RCL model. The resistance, inductance, and capacitance, which govern the microwave response, depend on the s...
1011.2913v1
2011-01-24
Graded anharmonic crystals as genuine thermal diodes: Analytical description of rectification and negative differential thermal resistance
We address the heat flow study starting from microscopic models of matter: we develop an approach and investigate some anharmonic graded mass crystals, with weak interparticle interactions. We calculate the thermal conductivity, and show the existence of rectification and negative differential thermal resistance. Our f...
1101.4589v1
2011-07-15
Enhanced Gas-Flow-Induced Voltage in Graphene
We show by systemically experimental investigation that gas-flow-induced voltage in monolayer graphene is more than twenty times of that in bulk graphite. Examination over samples with sheet resistances ranging from 307 to 1600 {\Omega}/sq shows that the induced voltage increase with the resistance and can be further i...
1107.3049v1
2016-02-17
On the analysis of stage I in the resistivity recovery of electron irradiated iron
The experimental results of Takaki et al. [1] on the stage I resistivity recovery of electron irradiated iron are analyzed using the analytical theory of diffusion annealing formulated by Simpson & Sossin [2] and Schroeder [3] taking into account the recent first-principles calculations of Fu et al. [4] regarding the m...
1602.05449v2
2016-04-18
Large thermopower in the antiferromagnetic semiconductor BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$
We report electrical and thermal transport properties of Mn-based material BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$ with ThCr$_2$Si$_2$ structure. The resistivity of the antiferromagnetic BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$ shows a metal-semiconductor transition at $\sim 80$ K with decreasing temperature. Correspondingly, the thermopower $S$ shows a peak at the sam...
1604.05296v1
2016-06-20
Resistivity scaling in metallic thin films and nanowires due to grain boundary and surface roughness scattering
A modeling approach, based on an analytical solution of the semiclassical multi-subband Boltzmann transport equation, is presented to study resistivity scaling in metallic thin films and nanowires due to grain boundary and surface roughness scattering. While taking into account the detailed statistical properties of gr...
1606.05972v2
2016-07-27
Alloy-like behaviour of the thermal conductivity of non-symmetric superlattices
In this work, we show a phenomenological alloy-like fit of the thermal conductivity of (A)d1:(B)d2 superlattices with d1 /= d2, i.e. non-symmetric structure. The presented method is a generalization of the Norbury rule of the summation of thermal resistivities in alloy compounds. Namely, we show that this approach can ...
1607.08017v2
2018-03-30
Nanostructured Ceramic Oxides with a Slow Crack Growth Resistance Close to Covalent Materials
Oxide ceramics are sensitive to slow crack growth because adsorption of water can take place at the crack tip, leading to a strong decrease of the surface energy in humid (or air) conditions. This is a major drawback concerning demanding, long-term applications such as orthopaedic implants. Here we show that a specific...
1804.01393v1
2018-05-30
Interface thermal behavior in nanomaterials by thermal grating relaxation
We study the relaxation of a thermal grating in multilayer materials with interface thermal resistances. The analytical development allows for the nu- merical determination of this thermal property in Approach to Equilibrium Molecular Dynamics and suggests an experimental setup for its measurement. Possible non-diffusi...
1805.12086v1
2019-07-04
Pressure-induced superconductivity in SnSb2Te4
We report the discovery of a new superconductor from phase change materials SnSb2Te4. Single crystals of SnSb2Te4 were grown using a conventional melting-growth method. The sample resistance under pressure was measured using an originally designed diamond anvil cell with boron-doped diamond electrodes. The pressure dep...
1907.02381v1
2019-04-13
Giant Interfacial Thermal Resistance Arising From Materials With Mismatched Phonon Structures
Previous researches only reported very small interfacial thermal resistances at room temperature due to limitations in sample combinations and methods. Taking cognizance of the importance of mismatched phonon structures, we report values up to $2*10^{-4}W^{-1}m^{2}K$, thousand times larger than highest values reported ...
1904.06540v2
2020-01-26
Pulse percolation conduction and multi-value memory
We develop a theory of pulse conduction in percolation type of materials such as noncrystalline semiconductors and nano-metal compounds. For short voltage pulses, the corresponding electric currents are inversely proportional to the pulse length and exhibit significant nonohmicity due to strong local fields in resistiv...
2001.09512v3
2020-08-27
Nitrobenzene as Additive to Improve Reproducibility and Degradation Resistance of Highly Efficient Methylammonium-Free Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells
We show that the addition of 1 % (v/v) nitrobenzene within the perovskite formulation can be used as a method to improve the power conversion efficiency and reliability performance of methylammonium-free (CsFA) inverted perovskite solar cells. Addition of nitrobenzene increased PCE due to defect passivation and provide...
2008.12041v1
2021-10-27
Planar Hall effect in Cu intercalated PdTe$_2$
We present the Planar Hall effect studies on the Cu intercalated type-II Dirac semimetal PdTe$_{2}$. The electrical resistivity exhibits a positive field dependence both in perpendicular and parallel field directions, causing non-zero anisotropy. The longitudinal magnetoresistance shows almost linear field dependence a...
2110.14251v1
2023-10-04
Anisotropic transport and Negative Resistance in a polycrystalline metal-semiconductor (Ni-TiO2) hybrid
We investigate anomalous electrical transport properties of a Ni-TiO2 hybrid system displaying a unique nanostructured morphology. The system undergoes an insulator to metal transition below 150 K with a low temperature metallic phase that shows negative resistance in a four-probe configuration. Temperature dependent t...
2310.02976v1
2024-02-21
Nonlinear longitudinal current of band-geometric origin in wires of finite thickness
The miniaturization of integrated circuits is facing an obstruction due to the escalating electrical resistivity of conventional copper interconnects. The underlying reason for this problem was unveiled by Fuchs and Sondheimer, who showed that thinner wires are more resistive because current-carrying electrons encounte...
2402.14112v1
2007-09-25
Quantum to Classical Transition of the Charge Relaxation Resistance of a Mesoscopic Capacitor
We present an analysis of the effect of dephasing on the single channel charge relaxation resistance of a mesoscopic capacitor in the linear low frequency regime. The capacitor consists of a cavity which is via a quantum point contact connected to an electron reservoir and Coulomb coupled to a gate. The capacitor is in...
0709.3956v1
2007-01-23
Silicon Sensors implemented on p-type substrates for high radiation resistance applications
Silicon based micropattern detectors are essential elements of modern high energy physics experiments. Cost effectiveness and high radiation resistance are two important requirements for technologies to be used in inner tracking devices. Processes based on p-type substrates have very strong appeal for these application...
0701270v1
2021-05-01
Ultra-stable shear jammed granular material
Dry granular materials such as sand, gravel, pills, or agricultural grains, can become rigid when compressed or sheared. At low density, one can distort the shape of a container of granular material without encountering any resistance. Under isotropic compression, the material will reach a certain {\it jamming} density...
2105.00313v3
2014-09-05
Thermalization and possible quantum relaxation times in "classical" fluids: theory and experiment
Quantum effects in material systems are often pronounced at low energies and become insignificant at high temperatures. We find that, perhaps counterintuitively, certain quantum effects may follow the opposite route and become sharp when extrapolated to high temperature within a "classical" liquid phase. In the current...
1409.1915v14
2002-02-15
Resistance and Resistance Fluctuations in Random Resistor Networks Under Biased Percolation
We consider a two-dimensional random resistor network (RRN) in the presence of two competing biased percolations consisting of the breaking and recovering of elementary resistors. These two processes are driven by the joint effects of an electrical bias and of the heat exchange with a thermal bath. The electrical bias ...
0202268v1
2007-03-29
Magnetic-field cycling induced anomalous irreversibility in resistivity of charge-ordered manganites
The rare-earth ions (RE = Eu, Dy Ho, Tm, Y) substituted charge-ordered antiferromagnetic manganites, Pr0.45RE0.05Ca0.5MnO3, were studied for the magnetic and the transport properties in the presence of external magnetic-fields of up to 14 Tesla. Regardless of the intrinsic magnetic property of RE ions, all the compound...
0703771v1
2011-06-02
Anisotropic resistivity in underdoped single crystals (Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$)Fe$_2$As$_2$, $0 \leq x<0.35$
Temperature-dependent in-plane, $\rho_a(T)$, and inter-plane, $\rho_c(T)$, resistivities were measured for the iron-arsenide superconductor (Ba$_{1-x}$K$_x$)Fe $_2$As$_2$ over a broad doping range from parent compound to optimal doping $T_c\approx 38 K$, $0\leq x \leq 0.35$. The coupled magnetic/structural transition a...
1106.0533v1
2012-02-15
Noise studies of magnetization dynamics in dilute magnetic semiconductor heterostructures
We study theoretically and experimentally the frequency and temperature dependence of resistivity noise in semiconductor heterostructures delta-doped by Mn. The resistivity noise is observed to be non-monotonous as a function of frequency. As a function of temperature, the noise increases by two orders of magnitude for...
1202.3207v2
2016-12-02
Structural, Morphological and Electrical Properties of Porous Silicon Prepared Under Laser Illumination
Porous silicon (PSi) layers has been prepared in this work via photoelectrochemical (PEC) etching process of an n type silicon wafers of two resistivities (3.5 ohm.cm and 0.02 ohm.cm) in hydrofluoric (HF) acid of 24.5 precent concentration at different etching times (5 to 25 min). The irradiation has been achieved us...
1612.04865v1
2017-11-20
Anomalous transport properties in Nb/Bi1.95Sb0.05Se3 hybrid structure
We report the proximity induced anomalous transport behavior in a Nb Bi1.95Sb0.05Se3 heterostructure. Mechanically Exfoliated single crystal of Bi1.95Sb0.05Se3 topological insulator (TI) is partially covered with a 100 nm thick Niobium superconductor using DC magnetron sputtering by shadow masking technique. The magnet...
1711.07147v1
2017-03-02
Nature of carrier injection in metal/2D semiconductor interface and its implications to the limits of contact resistance
Monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDCs) exhibit excellent electronic and optical properties. However, the performance of these two-dimensional (2D) devices are often limited by the large resistance offered by the metal contact interface. Till date, the carrier injection mechanism from metal to 2D TMDC la...
1703.00671v2
2017-05-08
The influence of magnetic order on the magnetoresistance anisotropy of Fe$_{1+δ-x}$Cu$_{x}$Te
We performed resistance measurements on Fe$_{1+\delta-x}$Cu$_{x}$Te with $x_{EDX}\leq 0.06$ in the presence of in-plane applied magnetic fields, revealing a resistance anisotropy that can be induced at a temperature far below the structural and magnetic zero-field transition temperatures. The observed resistance anisot...
1705.02849v1
2019-06-21
A Two Dimensional Tunneling Resistance Transmission Line Model for Nanoscale Parallel Electrical Contacts
Contact resistance and current crowding are important to nanoscale electrical contacts. In this paper, we present a self-consistent model to characterize partially overlapped parallel contacts with varying specific contact resistivity along the contact length. For parallel tunneling contacts formed between contacting m...
1906.09188v2
2020-11-25
Linear-in temperature resistivity from an isotropic Planckian scattering rate
A variety of "strange metals" exhibit resistivity that decreases linearly with temperature as $T\rightarrow 0$, in contrast with conventional metals where resistivity decreases as $T^2$. This $T$-linear resistivity has been attributed to charge carriers scattering at a rate given by $\hbar/\tau=\alpha k_{\rm B} T$, whe...
2011.13054v2
2023-05-10
Voltage-tunable giant nonvolatile multiple-state resistance in sliding-interlayer ferroelectric h-BN van der Waals multiferroic tunnel junction
Multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) based on two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals heterostructures with sharp and clean interfaces at the atomic scale are crucial for applications in nanoscale multi-resistive logic memory devices. The recently discovered sliding ferroelectricity in 2D van der Waals materials has opened...
2305.06126v2
1999-08-17
Experiments on Ladders Reveal a Complex Interplay between a Spin-Gapped Normal State and Superconductivity
In recent years, the study of ladder materials has developed into a well-established area of research within the general context of Strongly Correlated Electrons. This effort has been triggered by an unusual cross-fertilization between theory and experiments. In this paper, the main experimental results obtained in the...
9908250v1
2001-03-03
Magnetic properties of magnetically textured Bi-2212 ceramics
This paper aims at reporting magnetic properties of bulk polycrystalline Bi2Sr2Ca0.8Dy0.2Cu2O8-y samples textured under a magnetic field. The microstructure of these materials is highly anisotropic and exhibits particular features needed to be taken into account in order to interpret their magnetic and electrical prope...
0103081v2
2005-02-16
Abrupt metal-insulator transition observed in VO2 thin films induced by a switching voltage pulse
An abrupt metal-insulator transition (MIT) was observed in VO2 thin films during the application of a switching voltage pulse to two-terminal devices. Any switching pulse over a threshold voltage for the MIT of 7.1 V enabled the device material to transform efficiently from an insulator to a metal. The characteristics ...
0502375v4
2006-05-19
Magnetic unipolar features in con- ductivity of point contacts between normal and ferromagnetic d-metals (Co, Ni, Fe)
In nanocontacts between normal and ferromagnetic metals (N--F) abrupt changes of the order of 1% are detected in differential resistance, dV/dI(V), versus bias voltage, V, on achieving of high current densities, ~10^9 A/cm^2. These features in dV/dI(V) are observed when the electron flow is directed from the nonmagneti...
0605485v1
2007-08-14
Landscape phage, phage display, stripped phage, biosensors, detection, affinity reagent, nanotechnology, Salmonella typhimurium, Bacillus anthracis
Filamentous phage, such as fd used in this study, are thread-shaped bacterial viruses. Their outer coat is a tube formed by thousands equal copies of the major coat protein pVIII. We constructed libraries of random peptides fused to all pVIII domains and selected phages that act as probes specific for a panel of test a...
0708.1823v1
2010-01-28
A simple kinetic sensor to structural transitions
Driven non-equilibrium structural phase transformation has been probed using time varying resistance fluctuations or noise. We demonstrate that the non-Gaussian component (NGC) of noise obtained by evaluating the higher order statistics of fluctuations, serves as a simple kinetic detector of these phase transitions. Us...
1001.5137v1
2010-03-04
Spin glass like behavior in the novel layered material Na_2IrO_3
We have synthesized the novel material Na_2IrO_3 and studied its structure, transport, magnetic, and thermal properties using powder x-ray diffraction (PXRD), electrical resistivity, isothermal magnetization M versus magnetic field H, static \chi and dynamic \chi_ac magnetic susceptibility versus temperature T, and hea...
1003.0973v2
2013-01-10
Micro-branching in mode-I fracture in a randomly perturbed lattice
We study mode-I fracture in lattices with noisy bonds. In contrast to previous attempts, by using a small parameter that perturbs the force-law between the atoms in perfect lattices and using a 3-body force law, simulations reproduce the qualitative behavior of the beyond steady-state cracks in the high velocity regime...
1301.2143v1
2013-04-24
Supramolecular Spin Valves
Magnetic molecules possess a high potential as building blocks for the design of spintronic devices. Moreover, the use of molecular materials opens the way for the controlled use of bottom-up, e.g. supramolecular, processing techniques combining massively parallel self-fabrication with conventional top-down nanostructu...
1304.6543v1
2014-09-10
Controlling and distinguishing electronic transport of topological and trivial surface states in a topological insulator
Topological insulators (TI), with characteristic Dirac-fermion topological surface states (TSS), have emerged as a new class of electronic materials with rich potentials for both novel physics and device applications. However, a major challenge with realistic TI materials is to access, distinguish and manipulate the el...
1409.3217v1
2014-09-12
Fast non-thermal switching between macroscopic charge-ordered quantum states induced by charge injection
The functionality of logic and memory elements in current electronics is based on multi-stability, driven either by manipulating local concentrations of electrons in transistors, or by switching between equivalent states of a material with a degener- ate ground state in magnetic or ferroelectric materials. Another poss...
1409.3794v1
2014-10-19
Enabling microstructural changes of FCC/BCC alloys in 2D dislocation dynamics
Dimension reduction procedure is the recipe to represent defects in two dimensional dislocation dynamics according to the changes in the geometrical properties of the defects triggered by different conditions such as radiation, high temperature, or pressure. In the present study, this procedure is extended to incorpora...
1410.5094v2
2015-10-22
Thermal conductivity of III-V semiconductor superlattices
This paper presents a semiclassical model for the anisotropic thermal transport in III-V semiconductor superlattices (SLs). An effective interface rms roughness is the only adjustable parameter. Thermal transport inside a layer is described by the Boltzmann transport equation in the relaxation time approximation and is...
1510.06725v1
2016-08-22
Superconducting Order from Disorder in 2H-TaSe$_{2-x}$S$_{x}$ (0$\leq$x$\leq$2)
We report on the emergence of robust superconducting order in single crystal alloys of 2H-TaSe$_{2-x}$S$_{x}$ (0$\leq$x$\leq$2) . The critical temperature of the alloy is surprisingly higher than that of the two end compounds TaSe$_{2}$ and TaS$_{2}$. The evolution of superconducting critical temperature T$_{c} (x)$ co...
1608.06275v2
2017-02-07
Quantitative Nanoscale Mapping of Three-Phase Thermal Conductivities in Filled Skutterudites via Scanning Thermal Microscopy
In the last two decades, a nanostructuring paradigm has been successfully applied in a wide range of thermoelectric materials, resulting in significant reduction in thermal conductivity and superior thermoelectric performance. These advances, however, have been accomplished without directly investigating the local ther...
1702.01895v3
2017-06-24
Probing nanocrystalline grain dynamics in nanodevices
Dynamical structural defects exist naturally in a wide variety of solids. They fluctuate temporally, and hence can deteriorate the performance of many electronic devices. Thus far, the entities of such dynamic objects have been identified to be individual atoms. On the other hand, it is a long-standing question whether...
1706.07887v1
2017-12-27
Controlled synthesis of the antiperovskite oxide superconductor Sr$_{3-x}$SnO
A large variety of perovskite oxide superconductors are known, including some of the most prominent high-temperature and unconventional superconductors. However, superconductivity among the oxidation state inverted material class, the antiperovskite oxides, was reported just recently for the first time. In this superco...
1712.09484v1
2018-04-11
NMR and the antiferromagnetic crystal phase regions in rapidly quenched ribbons and in alloys of the type $Cu-Mn-Al$
It was shown that anomalous resistivity behavior of the $Cu-Mn-Al$ ribbons is explained by the s-d interaction between conduction electrons and the clustered Mn atoms. While nuclear magnetic resonance measurements show the antiferromagnetic and ferromagnetic clusters of Mn atom coexisting without long-range order, it i...
1804.04196v1
2020-03-25
Magnetic-field-induced FM-AFM metamagnetic transition and strong negative magnetoresistance in Mn$_{1/4}$NbS$_2$ under pressure
Transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDC) stand out with their high chemical stability and the possibility to incorporate a wide range of magnetic species between the layers. The behavior of conduction electrons in such materials intercalated by 3d-elements is closely related to their magnetic properties and can be sensi...
2003.11678v1
2017-03-16
Elemental Phosphorus: structural and superconducting phase diagram under pressure
Pressure-induced superconductivity and structural phase transitions in phosphorous (P) are studied by resistivity measurements under pressures up to 170 GPa and fully $ab-initio$ crystal structure and superconductivity calculations up to 350 GPa. Two distinct superconducting transition temperature (T$_{c}$) vs. pressur...
1703.05694v1
2018-10-08
Monte Carlo phonon transport simulations in hierarchically disordered silicon nanostructures
Hierarchical material nanostructuring is considered to be a very promising direction for high performance thermoelectric materials. In this work we investigate thermal transport in hierarchically nanostructured silicon. We consider the combined presence of nanocrystallinity and nanopores, arranged under both ordered an...
1810.03334v1
2020-09-22
A cracking oxygen story: a new view of stress corrosion cracking in titanium alloys
Titanium alloys can suffer from halide-associated stress corrosion cracking at elevated temperatures e.g., in jet engines, where chlorides and Ti-oxide promote the cracking of water vapour in the gas stream, depositing embrittling species at the crack tip. Here we report, using isotopically-labelled experiments, that c...
2009.10567v2
2017-05-08
Casimir free energy of dielectric films: Classical limit, low-temperature behavior and control
The Casimir free energy of dielectric films, both free-standing in vacuum and deposited on metallic or dielectric plates, is investigated. It is shown that the values of the free energy depend considerably on whether the calculation approach used neglects or takes into account the dc conductivity of film material. We d...
1705.02897v1
2017-07-17
Realizing Thermoelectric and Thermistor Bi-functionalities via Triggering Electron Correlations with Lattice-dipole
Establishing strong electron-correlations not only shed lights on overcoming the trade-off limitations for optimizing thermoelectric materials, but can also introduce new functionalities that extend the vision of conventional thermoelectric applications. Here, we demonstrate that the high thermoelectric and thermistor ...
1707.04988v2
2017-08-17
Tailoring tricolor structure of magnetic topological insulator for robust axion insulator
Exploration of novel electromagnetic phenomena is a subject of great interest in topological quantum materials. One of the unprecedented effects to be experimentally verified is topological magnetoelectric (TME) effect originating from an unusual coupling of electric and magnetic fields in materials. A magnetic heteros...
1708.05387v1
2019-03-02
AC Elastocaloric effect as a probe for thermodynamic signatures of continuous phase transitions
Studying the response of materials to strain can elucidate subtle properties of electronic structure in strongly correlated materials. So far, mostly the relation between strain and resistivity, the so called elastoresistivity, has been investigated. The elastocaloric effect is a second rank tensor quantity describing ...
1903.00791v1
2019-03-27
Investigation of Room Temperature Ferroelectricity and Ferrimagnetism in Multiferroic AlxFe2-xO3 Epitaxial Thin Films
Multiferroic materials open up the possibility to design novel functionality in electronic devices, with low energy consumption. However, there are very few materials that show multiferroicity at room temperature, which is essential to be practically useful. AlxFe2-xO3 (x-AFO) thin films, belonging to the k-Al2O3 famil...
1903.11422v1
2016-09-09
Extremely large magnetoresistance in a topological semimetal candidate pyrite PtBi2
While pyrite-type PtBi2 with face-centered cubic structure has been predicted to be a three-dimensional (3D) Dirac semimetal, experimental study on its physical properties remains absent. Here we report the angular-dependent magnetoresistance (MR) measurements of PtBi2 single-crystal under high magnetic fields. We obse...
1609.02626v2
2019-06-19
Apparatus for Seebeck coefficient measurement of wire, thin film and bulk materials in the wide temperature range (80-650K)
A Seebeck coefficient measurement apparatus has been designed and developed, which is very effective for accurate characterization of different type of samples in a wide temperature range (80 - 650K) simultaneously covering low as well as the high-temperature regime. Reducing the complexity of the technical design of s...
1906.08023v2
2019-11-20
Piezoelectricity in monolayer hexagonal boron nitride
Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a wide-bandgap van der Waals crystal with a unique combination of properties, including exceptional strength, large oxidation resistance at high temperatures and optical functionalities. Furthermore, in recent years hBN crystals have become the material of choice fo...
1911.09134v1
2020-07-16
The influence of material properties and process parameters on the spreading process in additive manufacturing
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is an additive manufacturing (AM) technology. To achieve high product quality, the powder is best spread as a uniform, dense layer. The challenge for LPBF manufacturers is to develop a spreading process that can produce a consistent layer quality for the many powders used, which show cons...
2007.10125v1
2021-03-12
Nanodevices engineering and spin transport properties of MnBi2Te4 monolayer
Two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials are essential for the development of the next-generation spintronic technologies. Recently, layered van der Waals (vdW) compound MnBi2Te4 (MBT) has attracted great interest, and its 2D structure has been reported to host coexisting magnetism and topology. Here, we design several ...
2103.07025v1
2021-04-12
Fiber Packing and Morphology Driven Moisture Diffusion Mechanics in Reinforced Composites
Fiber reinforced polymer composite (FRPC) materials are extensively used in lightweight applications due to their high specific strength and other favorable properties including enhanced endurance and corrosion resistance. However, these materials are inevitably exposed to moisture, which is known to drastically reduce...
2104.05180v2
2021-05-01
Anisotropy and Current Control of Magnetization in SrRuO$_3$ SrTiO$_3$ Heterostructures for Spin-Memristors
Spintronics-based nonvolatile components in neuromorphic circuits offer the possibility of realizing novel functionalities at low power. Current-controlled electrical switching of magnetization is actively researched in this context. Complex oxide heterostructures with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA), consistin...
2105.00269v1
2021-05-05
Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ Nanotubes with Optimized Spintronic Functionalities Prepared by Atomic Layer Deposition
Permalloy Ni$_{80}$Fe$_{20}$ is one of the key magnetic materials in the field of magnonics. Its potential would be further unveiled if it could be deposited in three dimensional (3D) architectures of sizes down to the nanometer. Atomic Layer Deposition, ALD, is the technique of choice for covering arbitrary shapes wit...
2105.01969v1
2021-09-17
Towards replacing physical testing of granular materials with a Topology-based Model
In the study of packed granular materials, the performance of a sample (e.g., the detonation of a high-energy explosive) often correlates to measurements of a fluid flowing through it. The "effective surface area," the surface area accessible to the airflow, is typically measured using a permeametry apparatus that rela...
2109.08777v1
2021-11-11
Tuning the Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Fe5GeTe2 by Arsenic Substitution
In order to tune the magnetic properties of the cleavable high-Curie temperature ferromagnet Fe$_{5-x}$GeTe$_2$, the effect of increasing the electron count through arsenic substitution has been investigated. Small additions of arsenic (2.5 and 5%) seemingly enhance ferromagnetic order in polycrystalline samples by que...
2111.06439v1
2022-01-11
Antiferromagnetic Excitonic Insulator State in Sr3Ir2O7
Excitonic insulators are usually considered to form via the condensation of a soft charge mode of bound electron-hole pairs. This, however, presumes that the soft exciton is of spin-singlet character. Early theoretical considerations have also predicted a very distinct scenario, in which the condensation of magnetic ex...
2201.04030v1
2022-03-18
Surface temperature and emissivity measurement for materials exposed to a flame through two-color IR-thermography
Two-color (2C) pyrometry has long been used for flame temperature and soot concentration studies and is now becoming more widely used to measure surface temperatures of burning materials. With the obvious advantage of being a contact-free method that requires only minimal optical access, 2C pyrometry combined with high...
2203.09689v1
2022-04-11
A-type antiferromagnetic order in semiconducting EuMg$_2$Sb$_2$ single crystals
Eu-based Zintl-phase materials EuA$_2$Pn$_2$ (A = Mg, In, Cd, Zn; Pn = Bi, Sb, As, P) have generated significant recent interest owing to the complex interplay of magnetism and band topology. Here, we investigated the electronic, magnetic, and electronic properties of the layered Zintl-phase single crystals of EuMg$_2$...
2204.05261v1
2022-05-11
Tunable photochemical deposition of silver nanostructures on layered ferroelectric CuInP$_2$S6
2D layered ferroelectric materials such as CuInP$_2$S6 (CIPS) are promising candidates for novel and high-performance photocatalysts, owning to their ultrathin layer thickness, strong interlayer coupling, and intrinsic spontaneous polarization, while how to control the photocatalytic activity in layered CIPS remains un...
2205.05385v2
2022-06-23
Superconductivity in the crystallogenide LaFeSiO$_{1-δ}$ with squeezed FeSi layers
Pnictogens and chalcogens are both viable anions for promoting Fe-based superconductivity and intense research activity in the related families has established systematic correlation between the Fe-anion height and the superconducting critical temperature $T_c$, with an optimum Fe-anion height of $\sim$ 1.38 \r{A}. Her...
2206.11690v1
2022-10-18
All-electrical spin-to-charge conversion in sputtered Bi$_x$Se$_{1-x}$
One of the major obstacles to realizing spintronic devices such as MESO logic devices is the small signal magnitude used for magnetization readout, making it important to find materials with high spin-to-charge conversion efficiency. Although intermixing at the junction of two materials is a widely occurring phenomenon...
2210.09792v1
2023-09-09
Intrinsic magnetic properties of the layered antiferromagnet CrSBr
Van der Waals magnetic materials are an ideal platform to study low-dimensional magnetism. Opposed to other members of this family, the magnetic semiconductor CrSBr is highly resistant to degradation in air, which, besides its exceptional optical, electronic, and magnetic properties, is the reason the compound is recei...
2309.04778v1
2024-01-25
Threshold displacement energy map of Frenkel pair generation in $\rm Ga_2O_3$ from machine-learning-driven molecular dynamics simulations
$\beta$ phase gallium oxide ($\beta$-$\rm Ga_2O_3$) demonstrates tremendous potential for electronics applications and offers promising prospects for integration into future space systems with the necessity of high radiation resistance. Therefore, a comprehensive understanding of the threshold displacement energy (TDE)...
2401.14039v2
2024-03-06
Collision Cascade-Driven Evolution of Vacancy Defects in Ni-Based Concentrated Solid-Solution Alloys
Concentrated solid--solution alloys (CSAs) in single--phase form have recently garnered considerable attention owing to their potential for exceptional irradiation resistance. This computational study delves into the intricate interplay of alloying elements on the generation, recombination, and evolution of irradiation...
2403.03922v1
2024-05-08
Pressure induced metallization and loss of surface magnetism in FeSi
Single crystalline FeSi samples with a conducting surface state (CSS) were studied under high pressure ($\textit{P}$) and magnetic field ($\textit{B}$) by means of electrical resistance ($\textit{R}$) measurements to explore how the bulk semiconducting state and the surface state are tuned by the application of pressur...
2405.04739v1
2024-05-09
Controlled Fabrication of Native Ultra-Thin Amorphous Gallium Oxide from 2D Gallium Sulfide for Emerging Electronic Applications
Oxidation of two-dimensional (2D) layered materials has proven advantageous in creating oxide/2D material heterostructures, opening the door for a new paradigm of low-power electronic devices. Gallium (II) sulfide ($\beta$-GaS), a hexagonal phase group III monochalcogenide, is a wide bandgap semiconductor with a bandga...
2405.05632v1
2013-06-04
Constitutive Model for Material Comminuting at High Shear Rate
The modeling of high velocity impact into brittle or quasibrittle solids is hampered by the unavailability of a constitutive model capturing the effects of material comminution into very fine particles. The present objective is to develop such a model, usable in finite element programs. The comminution at very high str...
1306.1120v1
2005-10-03
A Study of Apparent Symmetry Breakdown in Perovskite Oxide-based Symmetric RRAM Devices
A new model of a symmetric two-terminal non-volatile RRAM device based on Perovskite oxide thin film materials, specifically Pr1-xCaxMnO3 (PCMO), is proposed and analyzed. The model consists of two identical half-parts, which are completely characterized by the same resistance verses pulse voltage hysteresis loop, conn...
0510059v1
2009-02-20
Lattice Resistance to Dislocation Motion : Singularity Distribution Approach
This paper has been withdrawn.
0902.3505v3
2015-03-03
Negative differential resistance and characteristic nonlinear electromagnetic response of a Topological Insulator
Materials exhibiting negative differential resistance have important applications in technologies involving microwave generation, which range from motion sensing to radio astronomy. Despite their usefulness, there has been few physical mechanisms giving rise to materials with such properties, i.e. GaAs employed in the ...
1503.01097v4
2016-01-09
Flux trapping in superconducting accelerating cavities during cooling down with a spatial temperature gradient
During the cool-down of a superconducting accelerating cavity, a magnetic flux is trapped as quantized vortices, which yield additional dissipation and contribute to the residual resistance. Recently, cooling down with a large spatial temperature gradient attracts much attention for successful reductions of trapped vor...
1601.02118v2
2018-01-08
Magnetoresistance when Spin Effects on Conduction are Weak
This paper considers certain materials, including topological insulators, where spin rotation symmetry is broken much more strongly than time reversal symmetry. When these materials are in the diffusive regime, i.e. when they have disorder that is strong enough to cause an electron to scatter many times while crossing ...
1801.02663v6