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2018-06-26
Ultrahigh Magnetic Fields Produced by Shearing Carbon Nanotubes
In laboratories, ultrahigh magnetic fields are usually produced with very large currents through superconducting, resistive or hybrid magnets, which require extreme conditions, such as low temperature, huge cooling water or tens of megawatts of power. In this work we report that when single walled carbon nanotubes (SWN...
1806.09891v1
2018-06-27
Slip Detection: Analysis and Calibration of Univariate Tactile Signals
The existence of tactile afferents sensitive to slip-related mechanical transients in the human hand augments the robustness of grasping through secondary force modulation protocols. Despite this knowledge and the fact that tactile-based slip detection has been researched for decades, robust slip detection is still not...
1806.10451v1
2018-06-27
Electron-hole tunneling revealed by quantum oscillations in the nodal-line semimetal HfSiS
We report a study of quantum oscillations in the high-field magneto-resistance of the nodal-line semimetal HfSiS. In the presence of a magnetic field up to 31 T parallel to the c-axis, we observe quantum oscillations originating both from orbits of individual electron and hole pockets, and from magnetic breakdown betwe...
1806.10592v1
2018-06-28
Bloch surface waves at the telecommunication wavelength with Lithium Niobate as top layer for integrated optics
Lithium niobate (LN) based devices are widely used in integrated and nonlinear optics. This material is robust and resistive to high temperatures, which makes the LN-based devices table, but challenging to fabricate. In this work we report on the design, manufacturing and characterization of engineered dielectric media...
1806.11142v1
2018-11-06
Low-dispersion low-loss dielectric gratings for efficient ultrafast laser pulse compression at high average powers
We have developed low-dispersion (1480 l/mm), resonance-free, diffraction gratings made of dielectric materials resistant to femtosecond laser damage $(SiO_{2}/HfO_{2})$. A 14 cm diameter sample was fabricated resulting in a mean diffraction efficiency of 99.1% at {\lambda} = 810 nm with 0.4% uniformity using equipment...
1811.03091v1
2018-11-13
Fermi- to non-Fermi-liquid crossover and Kondo transition in two-dimensional Cu$_{2/3}$V$_{1/3}$V$_2$S$_4$
By means of a specific heat ($C$) and electrical resistivity ($\varrho$) study, we give evidence of a pronounced Fermi liquid (FL) behavior with sizable mass renormalization, $m^{\ast}/m = 30$, up to unusually high temperatures $\sim$70 K in the layered system Cu$_{2/3}$V$_{1/3}$V$_2$S$_4$. At low temperature, a marked...
1811.05431v1
2019-05-09
A lower bound to the thermal diffusivity of insulators
It has been known for decades that thermal conductivity of insulating crystals becomes proportional to the inverse of temperature when the latter is comparable to or higher than the Debye temperature. This behavior has been understood as resulting from Umklapp scattering among phonons. We put under scrutiny the magnitu...
1905.03551v3
2019-05-19
Unraveling the Effect of Electron-Electron Interaction on Electronic Transport in High-Mobility Stannate Films
Contrary to the common belief that electron-electron interaction (EEI) should be negligible in s-orbital-based conductors, we demonstrated that the EEI effect could play a significant role on electronic transport leading to the misinterpretation of the Hall data. We show that the EEI effect is primarily responsible for...
1905.07810v1
2019-05-30
Molecular Beam Epitaxy Growth of Antiferromagnetic Kagome Metal FeSn
FeSn is a room-temperature antiferromagnet expected to host Dirac fermions in its electronic structure. The interplay of magnetic degree of freedom and the Dirac fermions makes FeSn an attractive platform for spintronics and electronic devices. While stabilization of thin film FeSn is needed for the development of such...
1905.13073v1
2019-09-20
Pressure-tunable large anomalous Hall effect of the ferromagnetic kagome-lattice Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2
We investigate the pressure evolution of the anomalous Hall effect in magnetic topological semimetal Co3Sn2S2 in diamond anvil cells with pressures up to 44.9-50.9 GPa. No evident trace of structural phase transition is detected through synchrotron x-ray diffraction over the measured pressure range of 0.2-50.9 GPa. We ...
1909.09382v1
2019-09-22
Robust pseudogap across the magnetic field driven superconductor to insulator-like transition in strongly disordered NbN films
We investigate the magnetic field evolution of the superconducting state in a strongly disordered NbN thin film which exhibits a magnetic field tuned superconductor to insulator-like transition, employing low temperature scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS). Transport measurements of the sample reveals a characteristi...
1909.10071v1
2020-03-04
High-Performance Atomically-Thin Room-Temperature NO2 Sensor
The development of room-temperature sensing devices for detecting small concentrations of molecular species is imperative for a wide range of low-power sensor applications. We demonstrate a room-temperature, highly sensitive, selective, and reversible chemical sensor based on a monolayer of the transition metal dichalc...
2003.01909v2
2020-03-17
Measurement of the heat flux normalised spin Seebeck coefficient of thin films as a function of temperature
The spin Seebeck effect (SSE) has generated interest in the thermoelectric and magnetic communities for potential high efficiency energy harvesting applications, and spintronic communities as a source of pure spin current. To understand the underlying mechanisms requires characterisation of potential materials across a...
2003.07925v1
2020-03-25
Dualism of the 4f electrons and high-temperature antiferromagnetism of the heavy-fermion compound YbCoC$_{2}$
We report on the first study of the noncentrosymmetric ternary carbide YbCoC$_{2}$. Our magnetization, specific heat, resistivity and neutron diffraction measurements consistently show that the system behaves as a heavy-fermion compound, displaying an amplitude-modulated magnetic structure below the N\'eel temperature ...
2003.11601v1
2014-08-13
Crossover from charge order to strain glass in phase separated manganite thin films: Impact of thermal cycling and substrate induced strain
The magnetic and magnetotransport properties of single crystalline La1-x-yPryCaxMnO3 (x=0.42, y=0.40) thin films (~140 nm) deposited on (110) oriented LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 substrates exhibit a crossover from the high temperature antiferromagnetic-charge ordered insulator (AFM-COI) phase (T>TN) to strain glass (T<Tg). At i...
1408.2966v1
2014-08-14
Anomalous diffusion and Griffiths effects near the many-body localization transition
We explore the high-temperature dynamics of the disordered, one-dimensional XXZ model near the many-body localization (MBL) transition, focusing on the delocalized (i.e., "metallic") phase. In the vicinity of the transition, we find that this phase has the following properties: (i) Local magnetization fluctuations rela...
1408.3413v2
2014-08-19
Bipolar switching in an orthogonal spin transfer spin valve device
We demonstrate current-induced bipolar switching in in-plane magnetized spin-valve devices that incorporate a perpendicularly magnetized spin polarizing layer. Further, hysteretic transitions into a state with intermediate resistance occur at high currents, again for both current polarities. These transitions are shown...
1408.4494v1
2017-01-19
Comparative study of LaNiO$_3$/LaAlO$_3$ heterostructures grown by pulsed laser deposition and oxide molecular beam epitaxy
Variations in growth conditions associated with different deposition techniques can greatly affect the phase stability and defect structure of complex oxide heterostructures. We synthesized superlattices of the paramagnetic metal LaNiO3 and the large band gap insulator LaAlO3 by atomic layer-by-layer molecular beam epi...
1701.05366v1
2017-01-23
Sonication-assisted synthesis of semiconducting atomic crystals of germanium monoselenide: An isostructural and isoelectronic analog of black phosphorous
Monochalcogenides of germanium (or tin) are considered as stable isoelectronic and isostructural analogue of black phosphorous. Their two-dimensional (2D) forms have been just predicted to shown strong thickness-dependent physical properties, and even indirect to direct band gap crossover at the monolayer limit. Here, ...
1701.06285v2
2017-03-18
Analytical expressions for thermophysical properties of solid and liquid tungsten relevant for fusion applications
The status of the literature is reviewed for several thermophysical properties of pure solid and liquid tungsten which constitute input for the modelling of intense plasma-surface interaction phenomena that are important for fusion applications. Reliable experimental data are analyzed for the latent heat of fusion, the...
1703.06302v4
2017-03-28
Thermoelectric La-doped SrTiO3 epitaxial layers with single-crystal quality: from nanometer to micrometer and mosaicity effects
High-quality thermoelectric LaxSr1-xTiO3 (LSTO) layers (here with x = 0.2), with thicknesses ranging from 20 nm to 700 nm, have been epitaxially grown on SrTiO3(001) substrates by enhanced solid-source oxide molecular-beam epitaxy. All films are atomically flat (with rms roughness < 0.2 nm), with low mosaicity (<0.1{\d...
1703.09451v1
2018-10-01
Evolution of magnetic properties in the vicinity of the Verwey transition in Fe3O4 thin films
We have systematically studied the evolution of magnetic properties, especially the coercivity and the remanence ratio in the vicinity of the Verwey transition temperature (TV ), of high-quality epitaxial Fe3O4 thin films grown on MgO (001), MgAl2O4 (MAO) (001), and SrTiO3 (STO) (001) substrates. We observed rapid chan...
1810.00538v1
2018-10-16
Effect of Graded Bias Voltage on the Microstructure of arc-PVD CrN Films and its Response in Electrochemical & Mechanical Behavior
The effect of graded or constant bias voltages (-40 V, -80 V and -40/60/80 V) on size grain and surface defects of arc PVD deposited CrN films was investigated. Corrosion resistance evaluated using electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and potentiodynamic curves (Tafel) and the mechanical behavior evaluated by m...
1810.07293v1
2018-10-30
Theory of the Strange Metal Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$
The bilayer perovskite Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ has been widely studied as a canonical strange metal. It exhibits $T$-linear resistivity and a $T\log(1/T)$ electronic specific heat in a field-tuned quantum critical fan. Criticality is known to occur in `hot' Fermi pockets with a high density of states close to the Fermi energ...
1810.12945v2
2019-02-08
Magnetic tunnel junctions based on ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 tunnel barriers
A ferroelectric tunnel barrier in between two ferromagnetic electrodes (multiferroic tunnel junction, MFTJ), is one of the most promising concepts for future microelectronic devices. In parallel, Hafnia based ferroelectrics are showing great potential for device miniaturization down to the nanoscale. Here we utilize fe...
1902.08021v1
2019-02-27
Tunable light-emission through the range 1.8-3.2 eV and p-type conductivity at room temperature for nitride semiconductors, Ca(Mg1-xZnx)2N2 (x=0-1)
The ternary nitride CaZn2N2, composed only of earth-abundant elements, is a novel semiconductor with a band gap of 1.8 eV. First-principles calculations predict that continuous Mg substitution at the Zn site will change the optical band gap in a wide range from ~3.3 eV to ~1.9 eV for Ca(Mg1-xZnx)2N2 (x = 0-1). In this ...
1902.10495v1
2019-07-09
Modulation of crystal and electronic structures in topological insulators by rare-earth doping
We study magnetotransport in a rare earth doped topological insulator, Sm0.1Sb1.9Te3 single crystals, under magnetic fields up to 14 T. It is found that that the crystals exhibit Shubnikov de Haas oscillations in their magneto-transport behaviour at low temperatures and high magnetic fields. The SdH oscillations result...
1907.03930v2
2019-07-22
Development and characterization of six-gap glass MRPCs and feasibility study of a PET device
The Multigap Resistive Plate Chambers (MRPCs) provide excellent timing as well as position resolutions at relatively low cost. Therefore, they can be used in medical imaging applications such as PET where precise timing is a crucial parameter of measurement. We have designed and fabricated several six-gap glass MRPCs a...
1907.09379v1
2020-02-24
Miniature capacitive Faraday force magnetometer for magnetization measurements at low temperatures and high magnetic fields
A Faraday force magnetometer is presented for measurements of magnetization at temperatures down to 100~mK and in magnetic fields up to 14~T. The specimen is mounted on a flexible cantilever forming a force-sensing capacitor in combination with a fixed back plate. Two different cantilever designs are presented. A torsi...
2002.10168v1
2020-02-24
Silicon Vertex & Tracking Detectors for the Compact Linear Collider
CLIC is a proposed linear $e^+e^-$ collider with center-of-mass energies of up to 3 TeV. Its main objectives are precise top quark, Higgs boson and Beyond Standard Model physics. In addition to spatial resolutions of a few micrometers and a very low material budget, the vertex and tracking detectors also require timing...
2002.10169v1
2020-02-27
Non-trivial quantum magnetotransport oscillations in pure and robust topological $α$-Sn films
We report experimental evidence of topological Dirac fermion charge carriers in pure and robust $\alpha$-Sn films grown on InSb substrates. This evidence was acquired using standard macroscopic four-point contact resistance measurements, conducted on uncapped films with a significantly reduced bulk mobility. We analyze...
2002.12248v2
2020-04-20
Structural and transport properties of La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Co$_{1-y}$Nb$_y$O$_3$ thin films
We present the structural and transport properties of La$_{1-x}$Sr$_x$Co$_{1-y}$Nb$_y$O$_3$ ($y=$ 0.1 and $x=$ 0; $y=$ 0.15 and $x=$ 0.3) thin films grown on (001) orientated single crystalline ceramic substrates to investigate the effect of lattice induced compressive and tensile strain. The high resolution x-ray diff...
2004.09162v1
2020-04-29
Raman spectroscopy of ion irradiated SiC: chemical defects, strain, annealing, and oxidation
Raman spectroscopy has been used to identify defective bonding in neon and silicon ion irradiated single crystals of 6H-SiC. Observable differences exist in the C-C bonding region corresponding to different defect structures for neon and silicon ion implantations. Raman spectra of ion irradiated SiC show less tensile s...
2004.14335v3
2020-09-01
Molecular beam epitaxy of the half-Heusler antiferromagnet CuMnSb
We report growth of CuMnSb thin films by molecular beam epitaxy on InAs(001) substrates. The CuMnSb layers are compressively strained ($0.6~\text{%}$) due to lattice mismatch. The thin films have a $\omega$ full width half max of $7.7^{''}$ according to high resolution X-ray diffraction, and a root mean square roughnes...
2009.00342v1
2020-09-24
Magneto-transport properties of tellurium under extreme conditions
This study investigates the transport properties of a chiral elemental semiconductor tellurium (Te) under magnetic fields and pressure. Application of hydrostatic pressure reduces the resistivity of Te, while its temperature dependence remains semiconducting up to 4 GPa, contrary to recent theoretical and experimental ...
2009.11511v1
2022-02-01
Prominent electron-hole asymmetry in thermoelectric transport of LaCoO$_3$
We have measured the electrical resistivity and the thermopower of the electron-doped perovskite cobaltites LaCo$_{1-y}$Te$_y$O$_3$. In contrast to the hole-doped systems such as metallic ferromagnets La$_{1-x}M_x$CoO$_3$ ($M$ = Ca, Sr, Ba), the electron-doped samples show an insulating behavior even in a heavily doped...
2202.00166v1
2022-02-11
Temperature control of diffusive memristor hysteresis and artificial neuron spiking
Memristive devices are promising elements for energy-efficient neuromorphic computing and future artificial intelligence systems. For diffusive memristors, the device state switching occurs because of the sequential formation and disappearance of conduction pillars between device terminals due to the drift and diffusio...
2202.05571v1
2007-10-07
Mapping the Spatial Distribution of Charge Carriers in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures
At the interface between complex insulating oxides, novel phases with interesting properties may occur, such as the metallic state reported in the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 system. While this state has been predicted and reported to be confined at the interface, some works indicate a much broader spatial extension, thereby questio...
0710.1395v2
2014-01-05
Electron-hole pairing in graphene-GaAs heterostructures
Vertical heterostructures combining different layered materials offer novel opportunities for applications and fundamental studies of collective behavior driven by inter-layer Coulomb coupling. Here we report heterostructures comprising a single-layer (or bilayer) graphene carrying a fluid of massless (massive) chiral ...
1401.0902v1
2017-04-17
Mesoscopic quantum effects in a bad metal, hydrogen-doped vanadium dioxide
The standard treatment of quantum corrections to semiclassical electronic conduction assumes that charge carriers propagate many wavelengths between scattering events, and succeeds in explaining multiple phenomena (weak localization magnetoresistance (WLMR), universal conductance fluctuations, Aharonov-Bohm oscillation...
1704.05080v1
2017-04-19
Epitaxy and Structural Properties of (V,Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ Layers Exhibiting the Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect
The influence of Sb content, substrate type and cap layers on the quantum anomalous Hall effect observed in V-doped (Bi,Sb)$_2$Te$_3$ magnetic topological insulators is investigated. Thin layers showing excellent quantization are reproducibly deposited by molecular beam epitaxy at growth conditions effecting a compromi...
1704.05677v2
2017-04-24
Electronic properties and the nature of metal-insulator transition in NdNiO3 prepared at ambient oxygen pressure
We report the electronic properties of the NdNiO3, prepared at the ambient oxygen pressure condition. The metal-insulator transition temperature is observed at 192 K, but the low temperature state is found to be less insulating compared to the NdNiO3 prepared at high oxygen pressure. The electric resistivity, Seebeck c...
1704.07143v1
2017-05-15
The role of the coherence length for the establishment of global phase coherence in three-dimensional arrays of ultra-thin quasi-one-dimensional superconducting Pb and NbN nanowires
We have fabricated 5 nm ultra-thin NbN nanowires that form a dense and regular array in the linear channels of mesoporous SBA-15 silica substrates. Bulk NbN is a well-known classical superconductor with Tc of 16 K. We show that, by being incorporated into this nanostructure, the composite material exhibits typical quas...
1705.05097v1
2017-05-30
High-pressure structural, elastic, and thermodynamic properties of zircon-type HoPO4 and TmPO4
Zircon-type HoPO4 and TmPO4 have been studied by single-crystal x-ray diffraction and ab initio calculations. We report information on the influence of pressure on the crystal structure, and on the elastic and thermodynamic properties. The equation of state for both compounds is accurately determined. We have also obta...
1705.10721v1
2017-07-06
RF-quantum capacitance of the topological insulator Bi2Se3 in the bulk depleted regime for field-effect transistors
A Metal-dielectric-topological insulator capacitor device based on hBN-encapsulated CVD grown Bi2Se3 is realized and investigated in the radio frequency regime. The RF quantum capacitance and device resistance are extracted for frequencies as a high as 10 GHz, and studied as a function of the applied gate voltage. The ...
1707.01657v2
2017-07-29
Experimental study of extrinsic spin Hall effect in CuPt alloy
We have experimentally studied the effects on the spin Hall angle due to systematic addition of Pt into the light metal Cu. We perform spin torque ferromagnetic resonance measurements on Py/CuPt bilayer and find that as the Pt concentration increases, the spin Hall angle of CuPt alloy increases. Moreover, only 28% Pt i...
1707.09525v1
2017-08-17
Enhanced superconductivity and anisotropy of FeTe0.6Se0.4 single crystals with Li-NH3 intercalation
We report a systematic study of anisotropy resistivity, magnetoresistance and Hall effect of Li0.32(NH3)yFe2Te1.2Se0.8 single crystals. When compared to the parent compound FeTe0.6Se0.4, the Li-NH3 intercalation not only increases the superconducting transition temperature, but also enhances the electronic anisotropy i...
1708.05310v2
2017-08-30
Large enhancement of the spin Hall effect in Au by scattering with side-jump on Ta impurities
We present measurements of the Spin Hall Effect (SHE) in AuW and AuTa alloys for a large range of W or Ta concentrations by combining experiments on lateral spin valves and Ferromagnetic-Resonance/spin pumping technique. The main result is the identification of a large enhancement of the Spin Hall Angle (SHA) by the si...
1708.09214v1
2018-08-17
Magnetic and structural properties of Co$_2$MnSi based Heusler compound
The influence of antisite disorder occupancies on the magnetic properties of the half-metallic Co$_2$MnSi compound was studied by experimental techniques and first-principles calculations. The neutron diffraction studies show almost identical amount of Mn and Co disorders of 6.5\% and 7.6\%, which was found to be in go...
1808.05743v3
2018-08-21
Superconductivity at 215 K in lanthanum hydride at high pressures
We synthesized lanthanum hydride (LaHx) by laser heating of lanthanum in hydrogen atmosphere at pressure P = 170 GPa. The sample shows a superconducting step at 209 K and 170 GPa and temperature dependence of resistance. By releasing the pressure to 150 GPa, the superconducting transition temperature Tc increases to 21...
1808.07039v1
2019-03-25
Simulations of CMOS pixel sensors with a small collection electrode, improved for a faster charge collection and increased radiation tolerance
CMOS pixel sensors with a small collection electrode combine the advantages of a small sensor capacitance with the advantages of a fully monolithic design. The small sensor capacitance results in a large ratio of signal-to-noise and a low analogue power consumption, while the monolithic design reduces the material budg...
1903.10190v2
2019-03-28
PtSe2 grown directly on polymer foil for use as a robust piezoresistive sensor
Robust strain gauges are fabricated by growing PtSe2 layers directly on top of flexible polyimide foils. These PtSe2 layers are grown by low-temperature, thermally-assisted conversion of predeposited Pt layers. Under applied flexure the PtSe2 layers show a decrease in electrical resistance signifying a negative gauge f...
1903.11894v1
2019-08-09
Doping-dependent competition between superconductivity and polycrystalline charge density waves
From systematic analysis of the high pulsed magnetic field resistance data of La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_{4}$ thin films, we extract an experimental phase diagram for several doping values ranging from the very underdoped to the very overdoped regimes. Our analysis highlights a competition between charge density waves and su...
1908.03408v3
2019-08-12
Exchange Bias and Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect in the MnBi2Te4-CrI3 Heterostructure
The layered antiferromagnetic MnBi2Te4 films have been proposed to be an intrinsic quantum anomalous Hall (QAH) insulator with a large gap. To realize this proposal, it is crucial to open a magnetic gap of surface states. However, recent experiments have observed gapless surface states, indicating the absence of out-of...
1908.04322v2
2019-08-13
Evolution of structure and magnetism across the metal-insulator transition in the pyrochlore iridate $($Nd$_{1-x}$Ca$_x)_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$
We report on the evolution of the thermal metal-insulator transition in polycrystalline samples of Nd$_2$Ir$_2$O$_7$ upon hole-doping via substitution of Ca$^{2+}$ for Nd$^{3+}$. Ca substitution mediates a filling-controlled Mott-like transition with minimal resolvable structural changes and without altering site symme...
1908.04874v1
2019-12-11
Non-quadratic transverse magnetoresistance of the nodal line Dirac semimetal InBi
The transverse magnetoresistance of a nodal line Dirac semi-metal InBi has been studied. It is found that the magnetoresistance is not quadratic. In the region of small magnetic fields $ B\lesssim 0.1$~T, it is characterized by high curvature, in the region of medium magnetic fields it is described by the sum of linear...
1912.05321v1
2021-01-14
Superconducting critical temperature in the extended diffusive SYK model
Models for strongly interacting fermions in disordered clusters forming an array, with electron hopping between sites, reproduce the linear dependence on temperature of the resistivity, typical of the strange metal phase of High Temperature Superconducting materials (Extended Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) models). Our hydrod...
2101.05627v4
2021-01-22
A Robust Coherent Single-Photon Interface for Moderate- NA Optics Based on SiV Center in Nanodiamonds and a Plasmonic Bullseye Antenna
Coherent exchange of single photons is at the heart of applied Quantum Optics. The negatively-charged silicon vacancy center in diamond is among most promising sources for coherent single photons. Its large Debye-Waller factor, short lifetime and extraordinary spectral stability is unique in the field of solid-state si...
2101.09223v2
2011-04-06
Improved tunneling magnetoresistance at low temperature in manganite junctions grown by molecular beam epitaxy
We report resistance versus magnetic field measurements for a La0.65Sr0.35MnO3/SrTiO3/La0.65Sr0.35MnO3 tunnel junction grown by molecular-beam epitaxy, that show a large field window of extremely high tunneling magnetoresistance (TMR) at low temperature. Scanning the in-plane applied field orientation through 360^/circ...
1104.1072v1
2011-04-07
Electrostatic Control of the Evolution from Superconductor to Insulator in Ultrathin Films of Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide
The electrical transport properties of ultrathin YBCO films have been modified using an electric double layer transistor configuration employing an ionic liquid. The films were grown on SrTiO3 substrates using high pressure oxygen sputtering. A clear evolution from superconductor to insulator was observed in nominally ...
1104.1357v1
2011-04-07
Interference effects in phtalocyanine controlled by H-H tautomerization: a potential two-terminal unimolecular electronic switch
We investigate the electrical transport properties of two hydrogen tautomer configurations of phthalocyanine (H2Pc) connected to cumulene and gold leads. Hydrogen tautomerization affects the electronic state of H2Pc by switching the character of molecular orbitals with the same symmetry close to the Fermi level. The ne...
1104.1441v2
2012-03-07
Hall helps Ohm: some corrections to negative-U centers approach to transport properties of YBa$_2$Cu$_3$O$_x$ and La$_{2-x}$Sr$_x$CuO$_4$
For broad oxygen and strontium doping ranges, temperature dependences (T-dependences) of the normal state resistivity \rho(T) of YBa_2Cu_3O_x (YBCO) and La_(2-x)Sr_xCuO_4 (LSCO) are calculated and compared to experiments. Holes transport was taken in the \tau-approximation, where \tau(T,\epsilon) is due to acoustic pho...
1203.1579v1
2012-03-29
Fermi level tuning and a large activation gap achieved in the topological insulator Bi_{2}Te_{2}Se by Sn doping
We report the effect of Sn doping on the transport properties of the topological insulator Bi_{2}Te_{2}Se studied in a series of Bi_{2-x}Sn_{x}Te_{2}Se crystals with 0 \leq x \leq 0.02. The undoped stoichiometric compound (x = 0) shows an n-type metallic behavior with its Fermi level pinned to the conduction band. In t...
1203.6411v1
2015-04-14
Pressure Induced Enhancement of Superconductivity in LaRu2P2
To explore new superconductors beyond the copper-based and iron-based systems is very important. The Ru element locates just below the Fe in the periodic table and behaves like the Fe in many ways. One of the common thread to induce high temperature superconductivity is to introduce moderate correlation into the system...
1504.03652v1
2015-04-16
Electron mobility in InxGa1-xN channel HEMTs
In this letter, we report on the theoretical investigations of electron mobility in practically viable designs of InxGa1-xN channel high electron mobility transistors (HEMT). Carriers in such devices are expected to exhibit a higher velocity and hence higher cut-off frequencies (fT) for highly scaled architectures. We ...
1504.04336v1
2015-06-01
Topological stability versus thermal agitation in a metastable magnetic skyrmion lattice
Topologically stable matters can have a long lifetime, even if thermodynamically costly, when the thermal agitation is sufficiently low. A magnetic skyrmion lattice (SkL) represents a unique form of long-range magnetic order that is topologically stable, and therefore, a long-lived, metastable SkL can form. Experimenta...
1506.00363v2
2015-07-02
Wavelength tuning and stabilization of microring-based filters using silicon in-resonator photoconductive heaters
We demonstrate that n-doped resistive heaters in silicon waveguides show photoconductive effects with high responsivities. These photoconductive heaters, integrated into microring resonator (MRR)-based filters, were used to automatically tune and stabilize the filter's resonance wavelength to the input laser's waveleng...
1507.00686v2
2015-07-18
Addressing the Challenges of Using Ferromagnetic Electrodes in the Molecular Spintronics Devices
Ferromagnetic electrodes chemically bonded with thiol functionalized molecules can produce novel molecular spintronics devices. However, major challenges lie in developing Ferromagnetic electrodes based commercially viable device fabrication scheme that consider the susceptibility of ferromagnetic electrodes to oxidati...
1507.05146v1
2015-07-26
Topological Phase Transition in Single Crystals of $(Cd_{1-x} Zn_x)_3 As_2$
Single crystals of $(Cd_{1-x} Zn_x)_3 As_2$ were synthesized from high-temperature solutions and characterized in terms of their structural and electrical properties. Based on the measurements of resistivity and Hall signals, we revealed a chemical-doping-controlled transition from a three dimensional Dirac semimetal t...
1507.07169v1
2016-09-08
Collective Dynamics and Strong Pinning near the Onset of Charge Order in La$_{1.48}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_{0.12}$CuO$_{4}$
The dynamics of charge-ordered states is one of the key issues in underdoped cuprate high-temperature superconductors, but static short-range charge-order (CO) domains have been detected in almost all cuprates. We probe the dynamics across the CO (and structural) transition in La$_{1.48}$Nd$_{0.4}$Sr$_{0.12}$CuO$_{4}$ ...
1609.02591v3
2016-09-21
Change-over of carrier type and magneto-transport property in Cu doped Bi2Te3 Topological Insulators
Structural, resistivity, thermoelectric power and magneto-transport properties of Cu doped Bi2Te3 topological insulators have been investigated. The occurrence of the tuning of charge carriers from n type to p type by Cu doping at Te sites of Bi2Te3 is observed both from Hall effect and thermoelectric power measurement...
1609.06542v1
2016-09-26
Anisotropic heat conduction in silicon nanowire network revealed by Raman scattering
Anisotropic nanomaterials possess interesting thermal transport properties because they allow orientation of heat fluxes along preferential directions due to a high ratio (up to three orders of magnitude) between their in-plane and cross-plane thermal conductivities. Among different techniques allowing thermal conducti...
1609.08133v3
2016-09-27
Lifshitz Transitions in the Ferromagnetic Superconductor UCoGe
We present high field magnetoresistance, Hall effect and thermopower measurements in the Ising-type ferromagnetic superconductor UCoGe. Magnetic field is applied along the easy magnetization $c$ axis of the orthorhombic crystal. In the different experimental probes we observed five successive anomalies at $H \approx 4$...
1609.08466v1
2018-07-07
Oxygen Potential Transition in Mixed Conducting Oxide Electrolyte
It is generally assumed that oxygen potential in a thin oxide electrolyte follows a linear distribution between electrodes. Jacobsen and Mogensen have shown, however, that this is not the case for thin zirconia membranes in solid oxide electrochemical cells. Here we demonstrate that there is a ubiquitous oxygen potenti...
1807.02704v1
2018-07-31
Visible absorbing TiO2 thin films by physical deposition methods
Titanium dioxide is one of the most widely used wide bandgap materials. However, the TiO2 deposited on a substrate is not always transparent leading to a loss in efficiency of the device, especially, the photo response. Herein, we show that atomic layer deposition (ALD) and sputtered TiO2 thin films can be highly absor...
1807.11748v1
2018-12-03
Anomalous scalings of the cuprate strange metals from nonlinear electrodynamics
We examine transport in a holographic model which describes, through a nonlinear gauge field sector, generic nonlinear interactions between the charge carriers. Scaling exponents are introduced by using geometries which are nonrelativistic and hyperscaling-violating in the infrared. In the dilute charge limit in which ...
1812.01040v2
2018-12-17
PNADIS: An automated Peierls-Nabarro Analyzer for DISlocation core structure and slip resistance
Dislocation is one of the most critical and fundamental crystal defects that dominate the mechanical behavior of crystalline solids, however, a quantitative determination of its character and property in experiments is quite challenging and limited so far. In this paper, a fully automated Peierls-Nabarro (P-N) analyzer...
1812.06630v1
2019-01-23
Stacking of nanocrystalline graphene for Nano-Electro-Mechanical (NEM) actuator applications
Graphene nano-electro-mechanical switches are promising components due to their excellent switching performance such as low pull-in voltage and low contact resistance. Mass fabrication with an appropriate counter electrode remains challenging. In this work, we report the stacking of nanocrystalline graphene (NCG) with ...
1901.07754v1
2019-06-10
Successive Symmetry Breaking in a Jeff = 3/2 Quartet in the Spin-Orbit Coupled Insulator Ba2MgReO6
We report on the cubic double perovskite Ba2MgReO6 containing Re6+ ions with the 5d1 electron configuration. Resistivity, magnetization, and heat capacity measurements using single crystals show that the compound is a Mott insulator with a magnetic transition at Tm = 18 K, which is accompanied by a weak ferromagnetic m...
1906.03802v1
2019-10-07
Ultrasound homogenises suspensions of hydrophobic particles
Hydrophobic particles inherently resist being suspended. Hydrophobic particles might be regarded as tiny solid particles surrounded by a thin gaseous shell. It has been hypothesised that hydrophobic particles act as cavitation nuclei. This cavitation behaviour would explain the translation speeds observed when hydropho...
1910.02714v2
2019-10-19
Wafer-size VO2 film prepared by water-vapor oxidant
The growth of wafer-scale and uniform monoclinic VO2 film was a challenge if considering the multivalent vanadium atom and the various phase structures of VO2 compound. Directly oxidizing metallic vanadium film in oxygen gas seemed to be an easy way, while the oxidation parameters were extremely sensitive due to the cr...
1910.08776v3
2019-10-28
Hikami-Larkin-Nagaoka (HLN) Fitting of Magneto Transport of Bi2Se3 Single Crystal in Different Magnetic Field Ranges
We report the detailed study of structural micro-structuraland high magnetic field magneto transport propertiesof Bi2Se3single crystal. Bi2Se3 single crystal is grown through conventional solid-state reaction route via the self-flux method. Rietveld analysis on Powder X-ray Diffraction showed that the studied Bi2Se3 cr...
1910.12438v1
2019-11-06
Microscopic charging and in-gap states in superconducting granular aluminum
Following the emergence of superconducting granular aluminum (grAl) as a material for high-impedance quantum circuits, future development hinges on a microscopic understanding of its phase diagram, and whether the superconductor-to-insulator transition (SIT) is driven by disorder or charging effects. Beyond fundamental...
1911.02312v2
2019-11-14
GFET Asymmetric Transfer Response Analysis through Access Region Resistances
Graphene-based devices are planned to augment the functionality of Si and III-V based technology in radio-frequency (RF) electronics. The expectations in designing graphene {field-effect} transistors (GFETs) with enhanced RF performance have attracted significant experimental efforts, mainly concentrated on achieving h...
1911.06360v1
2020-01-30
Extreme Fermi surface smearing in a maximally disordered concentrated solid solution
We show that the Fermi surface can survive the presence of extreme compositional disorder in the equiatomic alloy Ni$_{0.25}$Fe$_{0.25}$Co$_{0.25}$Cr$_{0.25}$. Our high-resolution Compton scattering experiments reveal a Fermi surface which is smeared across a significant fraction of the Brillouin zone (up to 40\% of $\...
2001.11416v1
2020-05-12
Superconductivity in Hydrogenated Graphites
We report transport and magnetization measurements on graphitic materials that have been hydrogenated after being treated with octane. The temperature-dependent electrical resistivity shows anomalies manifested as re-entrant insulator-metal transitions. Below 50 K, the magnetoresistance data shows both antiferromagneti...
2005.05876v1
2020-07-02
Drone swarms in fire suppression activities
Recent huge technological development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can provide breakthrough means of fighting wildland fires. We propose an innovative forest firefighting system based on the use of a swarm of hundreds of UAVs able to generate a continuous flow of extinguishing liquid on the fire front, simulating...
2007.00883v2
2020-07-29
Energy Transfer to a Stable Donor Suppresses Degradation in Organic Solar Cells
Despite many advances towards improving the stability of organic photovoltaic devices, environmental degradation under ambient conditions remains a challenging obstacle for future application. Particularly conventional systems employing fullerene derivatives are prone to oxidise under illumination, limiting their appli...
2007.14651v1
2020-10-13
Strong anisotropy of electron-phonon interaction in NbP probed by magnetoacoustic quantum oscillations
In this study, we report on the observation of de Haas-van Alphen-type quantum oscillations (QO) in the ultrasound velocity of NbP as well as `giant QO' in the ultrasound attenuation in pulsed magnetic fields. The difference of the QO amplitude for different acoustic modes reveals a strong anisotropy of the effective d...
2010.06530v2
2020-10-13
Stacking-engineered ferroelectricity in bilayer boron nitride
2D ferroelectrics with robust polarization down to atomic thicknesses provide novel building blocks for functional heterostructures. Experimental reports, however, remain scarce because of the requirement of a layered polar crystal. Here, we demonstrate a rational design approach to engineering 2D ferroelectrics from a...
2010.06600v2
2020-10-16
Visualizing half-metallic bulk band structure with multiple Weyl cones of the Heusler ferromagnet
Using a well-focused soft X-ray synchrotron radiation beam, angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy was applied to a full-Heusler-type Co$_2$MnGe alloy to elucidate its bulk band structure. A large parabolic band at the Brillouin zone center and several bands that cross the Fermi level near the Brillouin zone boundar...
2010.08415v1
2020-10-27
Superconductivity and Fermi Surface Nesting in the Candidate Dirac Semimetal NbC
We report the synthesis of single-crystal NbC, a transition metal carbide with various unusual properties. Transport, magnetic susceptibility, and specific heat measurements demonstrate that NbC is a conventional superconductor with a superconducting transition temperature ($T_c$) of 11.5 K. Our theoretical calculation...
2010.14259v2
2020-11-02
Phase field predictions of microscopic fracture and R-curve behaviour of fibre-reinforced composites
We present a computational framework to explore the effect of microstructure and constituent properties upon the fracture toughness of fibre-reinforced polymer composites. To capture microscopic matrix cracking and fibre-matrix debonding, the framework couples the phase field fracture method and a cohesive zone model i...
2011.00779v1
2020-11-10
Rebound suppression of a droplet impact on a supersolvophobic surface by a small amount of polymer additives
A small amount of polymer dissolved in a droplet suppresses droplet rebound when it impinges on a supersolvophobic surface. This work investigates impacting dynamics of a droplet of dilute polymer solution depending on the molecular weight and the concentration of the polymer by using multi-body dissipative particle dy...
2011.05086v1
2020-12-03
Optical and Hidden Transport Properties of BaFe$_{1.91}$Ni$_{0.09}$As$_{2}$ Film
Optical spectroscopy was used to study the electrodynamics and hidden transport properties of a BaFe$_{1.91}$Ni$_{0.09}$As$_{2}$ thin superconducting film. We analyzed the normal state data using a Drude-Lorentz model with two Drude components: one narrow ($D_1$) and another broad one ($D_2$). In the superconducting st...
2012.01962v1
2020-12-08
Phonon modes contribution in thermal rectification in graphene-C3B junction: A molecular dynamics study
In this work using non-equilibrium molecular dynamics simulation we implement a series of simulation under positive and negative temperature gradient in order to investigate the thermal rectification in the graphene C3B junction GCB. The dependence of thermal rectification on temperature difference between the hot and ...
2012.04363v1
2021-04-14
Lack of Fusion in Additive Manufacturing: Defect or Asset?
Rapid cooling rates and stochastic interactions between the heat source and feedstock in additive manufacturing (AM) result in strong anisotropy and process-induced defects deteriorating the tensile ductility and fatigue resistance of printed parts. We show that by deliberately introducing a high density of lack of fus...
2104.07014v1
2021-04-21
Electrically detected paramagnetic resonance in Ag-paint coated DPPH
We describe a simple experimental method to detect electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) in polycrystalline 2,2-diphenyl-1-picrylhydrazyl (DPPH) sample, the standard g-marker for EPR spectroscopy, without using a cavity resonator or a prefabricated waveguide. It is shown that microwave(MW) current injected into a layer...
2104.10794v1
2021-05-26
Theoretical study for 3D quantum Hall effect in a periodic electron system
The exsitance of three-dimensional Hall effect (3DQHE) due to spontaneous Fermi surface instabilities in strong magnetic field was proposed decades ago, and has stimulated recent progress in experiments. The reports in recent experiments show that the Hall plateaus and vanishing transverse magneto-resistivities (TMRs) ...
2105.12461v2
2021-06-09
The extended diffusive Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev model as a sort of "strange metal"
The 0+1-d Sachdev-Ye-Kitaev (SYK) fermionic model attracts nowadays a wide spread interest of the Condensed Matter community, as a benchmark toy model for strong electron correlation and non Fermi Liquid behavior. It is exactly solvable in the infrared limit and reproduces the linear dependence of the resistivity on te...
2106.05383v2