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Pentacene islands grown on ultra-thin SiO2: Ultra-thin oxide (UTO) films were grown on Si(111) in ultrahigh vacuum at room temperature and characterized by scanning tunneling microscopy. The ultra-thin oxide films were then used as substrates for room temperature growth of pentacene. The apparent height of the first la...
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The Structure of Eu-III: Previous x-ray diffraction studies have reported Eu to transform from the hcp structure to a new phase, Eu-III, at 18 GPa. Using x-ray powder diffraction we have determined that Eu remains hcp up to 33 GPa, and that the extra peaks that appear at 18 GPa are from an impurity phase with space gro...
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Nitrogen-vacancy centers created by N$^+$ ion implantation through screening SiO$_2$ layers on diamond: We report on an ion implantation technique utilizing a screening mask made of SiO$_2$ to control both the depth profile and the dose. By appropriately selecting the thickness of the screening layer, this method ful...
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Tunable magnon-magnon coupling in synthetic antiferromagnets: In this work, we study magnon-magnon coupling in synthetic antiferromagnets (SyAFs) using microwave spectroscopy at room temperature. Two distinct spin-wave modes are clearly observed and are hybridised at degeneracy points. We provide a phenomenological mod...
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Transverse circular photogalvanic effect associated with Lorentz-violating Weyl fermions: Nonlinear optical responses of quantum materials have recently undergone dramatic developments to unveil nontrivial geometry and topology. A remarkable example is the quantized longitudinal circular photogalvanic effect (CPGE) a...
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Directional carrier transport in micrometer-thick gallium oxide films for high-performance deep-ultraviolet photodetection: Incorporating emerging ultrawide bandgap semiconductors with a metal-semiconductor-metal (MSM) architecture is highly desired for deep-ultraviolet (DUV) photodetection. However, synthesis-induce...
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Tunable polarization components and electric field induced crystallization in polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF); a piezo polymer: Polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) a semicrystalline pieozoelectric polymer was synthesized with varying process conditions and its ferroelectric domain orientations were studied using piezorespons...
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Understanding and tuning magnetism in layered Ising-type antiferromagnet FePSe3 for potential 2D magnet: Recent development in two-dimensional (2D) magnetic materials have motivated the search for new van der Waals magnetic materials, especially Ising-type magnets with strong magnetic anisotropy. Fe-based MPX3 (M = t...
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Diffraction at GaAs/Fe$_{3}$Si core/shell nanowires: the formation of nanofacets: GaAs/Fe$_{3}$Si core/shell nanowire structures were fabricated by molecular-beam epitaxy on oxidized Si(111) substrates and investigated by synchrotron x-ray diffraction. The surfaces of the Fe$_3$Si shells exhibit nanofacets. These fac...
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Plasmonic electromagnetically-induced transparency in symmetric structures: A broken symmetry is generally believed to be a prerequisite of plasmonic electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT), since the asymmetry renders the excitation of the otherwise forbidden dark mode possible. Nevertheless, according to the...
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Reversible phase transformation and doubly-charged anions at the surface of simple cubic RbC60: The simple cubic phase of a RbC60 thin film has been studied using photoelectron spectroscopy. The simple cubic-to-dimer transition is found to be reversible at the film surface. A sharp Fermi edge is observed and a lower ...
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Quantum anomalous Hall effect in two-dimensional magnetic insulator heterojunctions: Recent years have witnessed tremendous success in the discovery of topological states of matter. Particularly, sophisticated theoretical methods in time-reversal-invariant topological phases have been developed, leading to the compre...
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Dual-band metacomposites containing hybrid Fe and Co-based ferromagnetic microwires: We investigated the microwave properties of polymer based metacomposites containing hybridized parallel Fe- and Co-based microwire arrays. A dual-band left-handed feature was observed in the frequency bands of 1.5 to 5.5 GHz and 9 to...
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Molecular Tuning of the Magnetic Response in Organic Semiconductors: The tunability of high-mobility organic semi-conductors (OSCs) holds great promise for molecular spintronics. In this study, we show this extreme variability - and therefore potential tunability - of the molecular gyromagnetic coupling ("g-") tensor w...
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Intrinsic anomalous Hall effect in Ni-substituted magnetic Weyl semimetal Co3Sn2S2: Topological materials have recently attracted considerable attention among materials scientists as their properties are predicted to be protected against perturbations such as lattice distortion and chemical substitution. However, any...
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On the impact of capillarity for strength at the nanoscale: The interior of nanoscale crystals experiences stress that compensates the capillary forces and that can be large, in the order of 1 GPa. Various studies have speculated on whether and how this surface-induced stress affects the stability and plasticity of sma...
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Spin-phonon coupling in BaFe12O19 M-type hexaferrite: The spin-phonon coupling in magnetic materials is due to the modulation of the exchange integral by lattice vibrations. BaFe12O19 M-type hexaferrite, which is the most used magnetic material as permanent magnet, transforms into ferromagnet at high temperatures, but ...
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Multiferroic RMnO3 thin films: Multiferroic materials have received an astonishing attention in the last decades due to expectations that potential coupling between distinct ferroic orders could inspire new applications and new device concepts. As a result, a new knowledge on coupling mechanisms and materials science h...
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Cooling rate dependence of the antiferromagnetic domain structure of a single crystalline charge ordered manganite: The low temperature phase of single crystals of Nd$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ and Gd$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ manganites is investigated by squid magnetometry. Nd$_{0.5}$Ca$_{0.5}$MnO$_3$ undergoes a char...
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Electrodynamics of magnetoelectric media and magnetoelectric fields: The relationship between magnetoelectricity and electromagnetism is a subject of a strong interest and numerous discussions in microwave and optical wave physics and material sciences. The definition of the energy and momentum of the electromagnetic (...
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Strain-induced stabilization of Al functionalization in graphene oxide nanosheet for enhanced NH3 storage: Strain effects on the stabilization of Al ad-atom on graphene oxide(GO)nanosheet as well as its implications for NH3 storage have been investigated using first-principles calculations.The binding energy of Al ad...
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A novel coupled RPL/OSL system to understand the dynamics of the metastable states: Metastable states form by charge (electron and hole) capture in defects in a solid. They play an important role in dosimetry, information storage, and many medical and industrial applications of photonics. Despite many decades of rese...
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The nano-structural inhomogeneity of dynamic hydrogen bond network of water: In the present study, water is considered as a dynamic network between molecules at distances not exceeding 3.2 angstroms. The instantaneous configurations obtained by using the molecular dynamics method have been sequentially analyzed, the ...
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Digital Twins solve the mystery of Raman spectra of parental and reduced graphene oxides: A still amazing identity of the D-G doublet Raman spectra of parental and reduced graphene oxides is considered from the digital twins viewpoint. About thirty DTs, presenting different aspects of the GO structure and properties,...
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Efficient prediction of grain boundary energies from atomistic simulations via sequential design: Data based materials science is the new promise to accelerate materials design. Especially in computational materials science, data generation can easily be automatized. Usually, the focus is on processing and evaluating...
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First-principles Engineering of Charged Defects for Two-dimensional Quantum Technologies: Charged defects in 2D materials have emerging applications in quantum technologies such as quantum emitters and quantum computation. Advancement of these technologies requires rational design of ideal defect centers, demanding r...
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Accurate polarization within a unified Wannier function formalism: We present an alternative formalism for calculating the maximally localized Wannier functions in crystalline solids, obtaining an expression which is extremely simple and general. In particular, our scheme is exactly invariant under Brillouin zone foldi...
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Self-Organized Graphene/Graphite Structures Obtained Directly on Paper: We experimentally investigated the properties of graphite layers produced by an easy and non-conventional method of repeatedly rubbing conventional random stacked graphite bulk against insulating and semiconductor substrates. The patterned structur...
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Very low bias stress in n-type organic single crystal transistors: Bias stress effects in n-channel organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) are investigated using PDIF-CN2 single-crystal devices with Cytop gate dielectric, both under vacuum and in ambient. We find that the amount of bias stress is very small as compar...
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Microstructural Effects of Chemical Island Templating in Patterned Matrix-Pillar Oxide Nanocomposites: The ability to pattern the location of pillars in epitaxial matrix-pillar nanocomposites is a key challenge to develop future technologies using these intriguing materials. One such model system employs a ferrimagne...
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Submolecular resolution by variation of IETS amplitude and its relation to AFM/STM signal: Here we show scanning tunnelling microscopy (STM), non-contact atomic force microscopy (AFM) and inelastic electron tunnelling spectroscopy (IETS) measurements on organic molecule with a CO- terminated tip at 5K. The high-resol...
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Dielectric response of BaTiO3 electronic states under AC fields via microsecond time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy: For the first time, the dielectric response of a BaTiO3 thin film under an AC electric field is investigated using time-resolved X-ray absorption spectroscopy at the Ti K-edge to clarify correl...
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Sliding induced multiple polarization states in two-dimensional ferroelectrics: When the atomic layers in a non-centrosymmetric van der Waals structure slide against each other, the interfacial charge transfer results in a reversal of the structures spontaneous polarization. This phenomenon is known as sliding ferroe...
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Breakdown-limited endurance in HZO FeFETs: mechanism and improvement under bipolar stress: Breakdown is one of main failure mechanisms that limit write endurance of ferroelectric devices using hafnium oxide-based ferroelectric materials. In this study, we investigate the gate current and breakdown characteristics of ...
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Anomalous electronic conductance in quasicrystals: Generic quantum interference effects occuring in 1D-quasicrystals are reviewed with emphasis on the joint effect of phason disorder on electronic localization and propagation modes. In close conjunction with properties of real materials, the contributions of quantum in...
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Van der Waals density functionals applied to solids: The van der Waals density functional (vdW-DF) of Dion et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett. 92, 246401 (2004)] is a promising approach for including dispersion in approximate density functional theory exchange-correlation functionals. Indeed, an improved description of systems he...
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A New Kind of Atlas of Zeolite Building Blocks: We have analysed structural motifs in the Deem database of hypothetical zeolites, to investigate whether the structural diversity found in this database can be well-represented by classical descriptors such as distances, angles, and ring sizes, or whether a more general r...
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Comments on All-electron self-consistent GW in the Matsubara-time domain: Implementation and benchmarks of semiconductors and insulators: Chu et al. recently reported extensive results of local density approximation (LDA) and of four (4) different Green function and dressed Coulomb (GW) approximation calculations of ...
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Two types of magnetic bubbles in MnNiGa observed via Lorentz microscopy: Magnetic bubbles are remarkable spin structures that developed in uniaxial magnets with strong magnetocrystalline anisotropy. Several contradictory reports have been published concerning the magnetic bubble structure in a metallic magnet MnNiGa: B...
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Ultralow Work Function of the Electride Sr$_3$CrN$_3$: Electrides have valence electrons that occupy free space in the crystal structure, making them easier to extract. This feature can be used in catalysis for important reactions that usually requires a high-temperature and high-pressure environments, such as ammonia ...
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Can single crystal X-ray diffraction determine a structure uniquely?: The diffraction technique is widely used in the determination of crystal structures and is one of the bases for the modern science and technology. All related structure determination methods are based on the assumption that perfect single crystal X-r...
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Next-generation non-local van der Waals density functional: The fundamental ideas for a non-local density functional theory -- capable of reliably capturing van der Waals interaction -- were already conceived in the 1990's. In 2004, a seminal paper introduced the first practical non-local exchange-correlation functiona...
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Effect of acetylene links on electronic and optical properties of semiconducting graphynes: The family of graphynes, novel two-dimensional semiconductors with various and fascinating chemical and physical properties, has attracted great interest from both science and industry. Currently, the focus of graphynes is on ...
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Quasi-Two-Dimensional Extraordinary Hall Effect: Quasi-two-dimensional transport is investigated in a system consisting of one ferromagnetic layer placed between two insulating layers. Using the mechanism of skew-scattering to describe the Extraordinary Hall Effect (EHE) and calculating the conductivity tensor, we comp...
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Thermal Conductivity and Mechanical Properties of Nitrogenated Holey Graphene: Nitrogenated holey graphene (NHG), a two-dimensional graphene-derived material with a C2N stoichiometry and evenly distributed holes and nitrogen atoms in its basal plane, has recently been synthesized. We performed first principles calcul...
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Complete characterization of the macroscopic deformations of periodic unimode metamaterials of rigid bars and pivots: A complete characterization is given of the possible macroscopic deformations of periodic nonlinear affine unimode metamaterials constructed from rigid bars and pivots. The materials are affine in the...
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The rise of Single-Atom Catalysts: In recent years, single-atom catalysts attracted lots of attention because of their high catalytic activity, selectivity, stability, maximum atom utilization, exceptional performance, and low cost. Single-atom catalyst contains isolated individual atom which are coordinated with the s...
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GPU Acceleration of Large-Scale Full-Frequency GW Calculations: Many-body perturbation theory is a powerful method to simulate electronic excitations in molecules and materials starting from the output of density functional theory calculations. By implementing the theory efficiently so as to run at scale on the latest ...
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Hydrogen trapping and embrittlement in high-strength Al-alloys: Ever more stringent regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from transportation motivate efforts to revisit materials used for vehicles. High-strength Al-alloys often used in aircrafts could help reduce the weight of automobiles, but are susceptible to env...
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Magnetic behavior of a spin-1 dimer: model system for homodinuclear nickel (II) complexes: Magnetic behavior of a spin-1 Heisenberg dimer is analysed in dependence on both uniaxial single-ion anisotropy and XXZ exchange anisotropy in a zero- as well as non-zero longitudinal magnetic field. A complete set of eigenfunc...
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Electronic and energetic properties of Ge(110) pentagons: The electronic and energetic properties of the elementary building block, i.e. a five-membered atom ring (pentagon), of the Ge(110) surface was studied by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy at room temperature. The Ge(110) surface is composed of thre...
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Traversal of pulses through negative ($\varepsilon$, $μ$) materials: We study the traversal times of electromagnetic pulses across dispersive media with negative dielectric permittivity ($\varepsilon$) and magnetic permeability ($\mu$) parameters. First we investigate the transport of optical pulses through an electric...
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Elastic properties and mechanical stability of bilayer graphene: Molecular dynamics simulations: Graphene has become in last decades a paradigmatic example of two-dimensional and so-called van-der-Waals layered materials, showing large anisotropy in their physical properties. Here we study the elastic properties and ...
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New ultrahigh pressure phases of H2O ice predicted using an adaptive genetic algorithm: We propose three new phases of H2O under ultrahigh pressure. Our structural search was performed using an adaptive genetic algorithm which allows an extensive exploration of crystal structure. The new sequence of pressure-induced ...
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Low temperature investigations and surface treatments of colloidal narrowband fluorescent nanodiamonds: We report fluorescence investigations and Raman spectroscopy on colloidal nanodiamonds (NDs) obtained via bead assisted sonic disintegration (BASD) of a polycrystalline chemical vapor deposition film. The BASD NDs ...
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Detecting Chiral Orbital Angular Momentum by Circular Dichroism ARPES: We show, by way of tight-binding and first-principles calculations, that a one-to-one correspondence between electron's crystal momentum k and non-zero orbital angular momentum (OAM) is a generic feature of surface bands. The OAM forms a chiral stru...
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Nano-thermodynamics of chemically induced graphene-diamond transformation: Nearly two-dimensional diamond, or diamane, is coveted as ultrathin $sp^3$-carbon film with unique mechanics and electro-optics. The very thinness ($~h$) makes it possible for the surface chemistry, e.g. adsorbed atoms, to shift the bulk phase...
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Microscopic theory of ionic motion in solid electrolytes: We propose a microscopic, first-principles description of the ionic conduction in crystals. This formalism allows us to gain new insights into the ideal characteristics of general ionic conducting materials and, in particular, solid electrolytes. Using \textit{a...
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Limitations of ab initio methods to predict the electronic-transport properties of two-dimensional materials: The computational example of 2H-phase transition metal dichalcogenides: Over the last few years, $ab~initio$ methods have become an increasingly popular tool to evaluate intrinsic carrier transport properti...
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Magnetic kagome materials RETi3Bi4 family with weak interlayer interactions: Kagome materials have attracted a surge of research interest recently, especially for the ones combining with magnetism, and the ones with weak interlayer interactions which can fabricate thin devices. However, kagome materials combining bot...
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Electronic Janus lattice and kagome-like bands in coloring-triangular MoTe2 monolayers: Polymorphic structures of transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) host exotic electronic states, like charge density wave and superconductivity. However, the number of these structures is limited by crystal symmetries, which poses...
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Pressure tuning the Fermi-surface topology of the Weyl semimetal NbP: We report on the pressure evolution of the Fermi surface topology of the Weyl semimetal NbP, probed by Shubnikov-de Haas oscillations in the magnetoresistance combined with ab-initio calculations of the band-structure. Although we observe a drastic e...
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Recent advances in the internal functionalization of carbon nanotubes: synthesis, optical, and magnetic resonance studies: The hollow inside of single-wall carbon nanotubes (SWCNT) provides a unique degree of freedom to investigate chemical reactions inside this confined environment and to study the tube properties. ...
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Native point defects in few-layer phosphorene: Using hybrid density functional theory combined with a semiempirical van der Waals dispersion correction, we have investigated the structural and electronic properties of vacancies and self-interstitials in defective few-layer phosphorene. We find that both a vacancy and a...
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${\it Ab\ initio}$ thermodynamic properties of certain compounds in Nd-Fe-B system: In this work, we report the results of \emph{ab initio} calculations of thermochemical properties of several compounds in the Fe-Nd, B-Nd and B-Fe-Nd systems. We have performed DFT+U calculations to compute the enthalpy of formation o...
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Jacutingaite-family: a class of topological materials: Jacutingate, a recently discovered Brazilian naturally occurring mineral, has shown to be the first experimental realization of the Kane-Mele topological model. In this letter we have unveiled a class of materials $M_2NX_3$ ($M$=Ni, Pt, Pd; $N$=Zn, Cd, Hg; and $X$=...
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Challenges for density functional theory in simulating metal-metal singlet bonding: a case study of dimerized VO2: VO2 is renowned for its electric transition from an insulating monoclinic (M1) phase characterized by V-V dimerized structures, to a metallic rutile (R) phase above 340 Kelvin. This transition is accompa...
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An ab-initio study on physical properties of Pd2+ incorporated double perovskites CaPd3B4O12 (B = Ti, V): Numerous physical properties of CaPd3Ti4O12 (CPTO) and CaPd3V4O12 (CPVO) double perovskites have been explored based on density functional theory (DFT). The calculated structural parameters fairly agree with the ...
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Study of anharmonicity in Zirconium Hydrides using inelastic neutron scattering and ab-initio computer modeling: The anharmonic phenomena in Zirconium Hydrides and Deuterides, including {\epsilon}-ZrH2, {\gamma}-ZrH, and {\gamma}-ZrD, have been investigated from aspects of inelastic neutron scattering (INS) and latti...
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Spin wavepackets in the Kagome ferromagnet Fe$_3$Sn$_2$: propagation and precursors: The propagation of spin waves in magnetically ordered systems has emerged as a potential means to shuttle quantum information over large distances. Conventionally, the arrival time of a spin wavepacket at a distance, $d$, is assumed ...
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Controllable thickness inhomogeneity and Berry-curvature-engineering of anomalous Hall effect in SrRuO3 ultrathin films: In quantum matters hosting electron-electron correlation and spin-orbit coupling, spatial inhomogeneities, arising from competing ground states, can be essential for determining and understanding t...
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Simple prediction of immiscible metal alloying based on metastability analysis: It has been known that even though two elemental metals, $X$ and $Y$, are immiscible, they can form alloys on surfaces of other metal $Z$. In order to understand such surface alloying of immiscible metals, we study the energetic stability...
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Melting of graphene: from two to one dimension: The high temperature behaviour of graphene is studied by atomistic simulations based on an accurate interatomic potential for carbon. We find that clustering of Stone-Wales defects and formation of octagons are the first steps in the process of melting which proceeds via ...
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Exploring conformational energy landscape of glassy disaccharides by CPMAS 13C NMR and DFT/GIAO simulations. II. Enhanced molecular flexibility in amorphous trehalose: This paper deals with the comparative use of the chemical shift surfaces to simulate experimental 13C CPMAS data on amorphous solid state disacchari...
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Topological Crystalline Insulator Nanostructures: Topological crystalline insulators are topological insulators whose surface states are protected by the crystalline symmetry, instead of the time reversal symmetry. Similar to the first generation of three-dimensional topological insulators such as Bi2Se3 and Bi2Te3, to...
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Phase locking of vortex based spin transfer oscillators to a microwave current: Phase locking experiments on vortex based spin transfer oscillators with an external microwave current are performed. We present clear evidence of phase locking, frequency pulling, as well as fractional synchronization in this system, wit...
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Quasi-equilibrium optical nonlinearities in spin-polarized GaAs: Semiconductor Bloch equations, which microscopically describe the dynamics of a Coulomb interacting, spin-unpolarized electron-hole plasma, can be solved in two limits: the coherent and the quasi-equilibrium regime. These equations have been recently exte...
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Second-phase nucleation on an edge dislocation: A model for nucleation of second phase at or around dislocation in a crystalline solid is considered. The model employs the Ginzburg-Landau theory of phase transition comprising the sextic term in order parameter in the Landau free energy. The ground state solution of the...
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Giant thermoelectric figure of merit in multivalley high-complexity-factor LaSO: We report a giant thermoelectric figure of merit $ZT$ (up to 6 at 1100 K) in $n$-doped lanthanum oxysulphate LaSO. Thermoelectric coefficients are computed from ab initio bands within Bloch-Boltzmann theory in an energy-, chemical potent...
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Static Hopf Solitons and Knotted Emergent Fields in Solid-State Noncentrosymmetric Magnetic Nanostructures: Two-dimensional topological solitons, commonly called Skyrmions, are extensively studied in solid-state magnetic nanostructures and promise many spintronics applications. However, three-dimensional topological ...
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Creating and modulating electronic states on noble metal surfaces: ultrathin Ag islands on Si(111)-7$\times$7 as a prototype: Various-thickness Ag islands were prepared on Si(111)-7$\times$7 using the one-step deposition at a high substrate temperature. An electronic state centered at -0.40$\sim$-0.15eV versus E$_{Fe...
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Ground-state polariton condensation in 2D-GaAs semiconductor microcavities: We observe ground-state polariton condensation in a two dimensional GaAs/AlAs semiconductor microcavity under non resonant pulsed optical excitation. We resolve the formation of a polariton condensate by studying the spatial, angular, coheren...
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Optical Rotatory Dispersion of $α$-quartz: It is shown that some formulae describing optical rotatory dispersion of $\alpha$-quartz with the aid of two Drude's terms reduce to the combined formula containing one Drude's and one Chandrasekhar's term. Comparison of various formulae describing the experimental data of $\a...
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Theory of volumetric capacitance of an electric double-layer supercapacitor: Electric double layer supercapacitors are a fast-rising class of high-power energy storage devices based on porous electrodes immersed in a concentrated electrolyte or ionic liquid. As of yet there is no microscopic theory to describe their ...
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A comparison of Monte-Carlo simulations using RESTRAX and McSTAS with experiment on IN14: Monte-Carlo simulations of a focusing supermirror guide after the monochromator on the IN14 cold neutron three-axis spectrometer, I.L.L. were carried out using the instrument simulation programs RESTRAX and McSTAS. The simulatio...
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Molecular Beam Epitaxy of a Half-Heusler Topological Superconductor Candidate YPtBi: The search for topological superconductivity has motivated investigations into materials that combine topological and superconducting properties. The half-Heusler compound YPtBi appears to be such a material, however experiments have...
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Sn delta-doping in GaAs: We have prepared a number of GaAs structures delta-doped by Sn using the well-known molecular beam epitaxy growth technique. The samples obtained for a wide range of Sn doping densities were characterised by magnetotransport experiments at low temperatures and in high magnetic fields up to 38 T...
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Low-temperature Raman scaterring of PMN-PT close to the morphotropic phase boundary: This paper has been withdrawn by the author due to a crucial sign error in equation.
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Energy landscape of relaxed amorphous silicon: We analyze the structure of the energy landscape of a well-relaxed 1000-atom model of amorphous silicon using the activation-relaxation technique (ART nouveau). Generating more than 40,000 events starting from a single minimum, we find that activated mechanisms are local i...
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Effects of the Position Reversal of Friction Pairs on the Strength of Tribocharging and Tribodischarging: The friction-induced charging (i.e., tribocharging) and the following discharging (referred here as tribodischarging) are always believed to have negative effects on the daily life and on the industrial productio...
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Influence of surface anisotropy on the hysteresis of magnetic nanoparticles: We present the results of Monte Carlo simulations of the magnetic properties of individual spherical nanoparticles with the aim to explain the role played by surface anisotropy on their low temperature magnetization processes. Phase diagrams...
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A One-Dimensional Coordination Polymer, BBDTA-InCl4; Possible Spin-Peierls Transition with High Critical Temperature of 108 K: We have studied the crystal structure and magnetic properties of the organic radical cation salt, BBDTA-InCl4. This material formed a one-dimensional coordination polymer, whose structure was...
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Twin interaction with $Σ$11 tilt grain boundaries in BCC Fe : Formation of new grain boundaries: It is well known that the twinning is an important mode of plastic deformation in nanocrystalline materials. As a result, it is expected that the twin can interact with different grain boundaries (GBs) during the plastic ...
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Simulation of stress-impedance effects in low magnetostrictive films: A theoretical study of stress-impedance effect based on the solution of Landau-Lifsitz-Gilbert equation has been carried out. The results show that stress impedance effects depend largely on several extrinsic (external bias field, external frequency)...
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Patterns and driving forces of dimensionality-dependent charge density waves in 2H-type transition metal dichalcogenides: Two-dimensional (2D) materials have become a fertile playground for the exploration and manipulation of novel collective electronic states. Recent experiments have unveiled a variety of robust 2D ...
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Phonon-mediated sticking of electrons at dielectric surfaces: We study phonon-mediated temporary trapping of an electron in polarization-induced external surface states (image states) of a dielectric surface. Our approach is based on a quantum-kinetic equation for the occupancy of the image states. It allows us to dist...
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The effect of intrinsic point defects on ferroelectric polarization behavior of SrTiO$_3$: The effect of a variety of intrinsic defects and defect clusters in bulk and thin films of SrTiO$_3$ on ferroelectric polarization and switching mechanism is investigated by means of density-functional-theory (DFT) based calcul...
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Time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy with a 1-MHz 10.7-eV pulse laser: We describe a setup of time-, spin-, and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (tr-SARPES) employing a 10.7-eV ($\lambda$=115.6 nm) pulse laser at 1-MHz repetition rate as a probe photon source. This equipment effectivel...
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Understanding correlations in BaZrO3:Structure and dynamics on the nano-scale: Barium zirconate BaZrO3 is one of few perovskites that is claimed to retain an average cubic structure down to 0K at ambient pressure, while being energetically very close to a tetragonal phase obtained by condensation of a soft phonon mod...
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First principles calculations of steady-state voltage-controlled magnetism: application to x-ray absorption spectroscopy experiment: Recent x-ray absorption experiments have demonstrated the possibility to accurately monitor the magnetism of metallic hetero-structures controlled via a time-independent perturbation ca...
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