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Tuning the two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) interface by metallic contacts: First principles calculations reveal that adding a metallic overlayer on LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) eliminates the electric field within the polar LaAlO3 film and thus suppresses the thickness-dependent insulator-to-metal transi...
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Early stage formation of graphene on the C-face of 6H-SiC: An investigation of the early stage formation of graphene on the C-face of 6H-SiC is presented. We show that the sublimation of few atomic layers of Si out of the SiC substrate is not homogeneous. In good agreement with the results of theoretical calculations i...
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3-omega method for thermal properties of thin film multilayers: Short review on the different models for the electro-thermal 3-omega method. We present the deduction of the fundamental relation between the 3-omega voltage with the temperature rise to determine the thermal conductivity. The usage of the anisotropy of th...
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Efficient Photon Upconverters with Ionic Liquids: This paper presents the development and characterization of photon upconverters fabricated with ionic liquids (ILs), which are novel fluids that are recently drawing attention due to their unique properties, such as negligible vapor pressures and high thermal stabilitie...
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Simulation of XANES spectroscopy and the calculation of total energies for N-heterocyclic carbenes on Au(111): It has recently been demonstrated that N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) form self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) on metal surfaces. Consequently, it is important to both characterize and understand their binding ...
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Numerical Study of Crystal Size Distribution in Polynuclear Growth: The crystal size distribution in polynuclear growth is numerically studied using a coupled map lattice model. The width of the size distribution depends on c/D, where c is the growth rate at interface sites and $D$ is the diffusion constant. When c/D i...
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A survey of energies from pure metals to multi-principal element alloys: In materials science, a wide range of properties of materials are governed by various types of energies, including thermal, physicochemical, structural, and mechanical energies. In 2005, Dr. Frans Spaepen used crystalline face-centered-cubic (fcc)...
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Possible high-temperature superconductors predicted from electronic structure and data-filtering algorithms: We report here the completion of the electronic structure of the majority of the known stoichiometric inorganic compounds, as listed in the International Crystal Structure Data-base (ICSD). We make a detailed ...
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Modeling Heterogeneous Materials via Two-Point Correlation Functions: II. Algorithmic Details and Applications: In the first part of this series of two papers, we proposed a theoretical formalism that enables one to model and categorize heterogeneous materials (media) via two-point correlation functions S2 and introd...
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Thermodynamic properties of a tetramer ferro-ferro-antiferro-antiferromagnetic Ising-Heisenberg bond alternating chain as a model system for Cu(3-Clpy)$_2$(N$_3$)$_2$: Thermodynamic properties of a tetramer ferro-ferro-antiferro-antiferromagnetic Ising-Heisenberg bond alternating chain are investigated by the use o...
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Laplacian-level density functionals for the kinetic energy density and exchange-correlation energy: We construct a Laplacian-level meta-generalized gradient approximation (meta-GGA) for the non-interacting (Kohn-Sham orbital) positive kinetic energy density $\tau$ of an electronic ground state of density $n$. This me...
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Quantitative comparison of the magnetic proximity effect in Pt detected by XRMR and XMCD: X-ray resonant magnetic reflectivity (XRMR) allows for the simultaneous measurement of structural, optical and magnetooptic properties and depth profiles of a variety of thin film samples. However, a same-beamtime same-sample sy...
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Site-Selective Oxygen Vacancy Formation Derived from the Characteristic Crystal Structures of in Sn-Nb complex Oxides: Divalent tin oxides have attracted considerable attention as novel p-type oxide semiconductors, which are essential for realizing future oxide electronic devices. Recently, p-type Sn2Nb2O7 and SnNb2O...
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First-principles prediction of high-entropy-alloy stability: High entropy alloys (HEAs) are multicomponent compounds whose high configurational entropy allows them to solidify into a single phase, with a simple crystal lattice structure. Some HEA's exhibit desirable properties, such as high specific strength, ductility...
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High-temperature cyclic oxidation kinetics and microstructural transition mechanisms of Ti-6Al-4V composites reinforced with hybrid (TiC+TiB) networks: The microstructural features and high-temperature oxidation resistance of hybrid (TiC+TiB) networks reinforced Ti-6Al-4V composites were investigated after fabricat...
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Piezo films with adjustable anisotropic strain for bending actuators with tunable bending profiles: We present a method to produce in-plane polarized piezo films with a freely adjustable ratio of the strains in orthogonal in-plane directions. They can be used in piezo bending actuators with a tunable curvature profil...
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Correlating atom probe tomography with X-Ray and electron spectroscopies to understand microstructure-activity relationships in electrocatalysts: The search for a new energy paradigm with net-zero carbon emissions requires new technologies for energy generation and storage that are at the crossroad between engineerin...
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Peierls Distortion in Two-Dimensional Tight-Binding Model: The Peierls distortions in a two-dimensional electron-lattice system described by a Su-Schrieffer-Heeger type model extended to two-dimensions are numerically studied for a square lattice. The electronic band is just half-filled and the nesting vector is ($\pi/...
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Mirror real Chern insulator in two and three dimensions: A real Chern insulator (RCI) featuring a real Chern number and a second-order boundary mode appears in a two-dimensional (2D) system with the space-time inversion symmetry (PT ). Here, we propose a kind of RCI: mirror real Chern insulator (MRCI) which emerges fro...
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Simulations on the elastic response of amorphous and nanocomposite carbon: Theoretical calculations of the elastic response of carbon composites and amorphous carbon are reported. The studied composites consist of crystalline nanoinclusions, either spherical diamonds or carbon nanotubes, embedded in amorphous carbon ...
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Experimental determination and modelling of volume shrinkage in curing thermosets: This work deals with the characterisation and modelling of the curing process and its associated volume changes of an epoxy based thermoset resin. Measurements from differential scanning calorimetry (DSC) define the progress of the che...
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New type of incommensurate magnetic ordering in Mn3TeO6: The complex metal oxide Mn3TeO6 exhibits a corundum related structure and has been prepared both in forms of single crystals by chemical transport reactions and of polycrystalline powders by a solid state reaction route. The crystal structure and magnetic propert...
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Two-dimensional ferroelectrics from high throughput computational screening: We report a high throughput computational search for two-dimensional ferroelectric materials. The starting point is 252 pyroelectric materials from the computational 2D materials database (C2DB) and from these we identify 64 ferroelectric ma...
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Acoustic Cyclotron Resonance and Giant High Frequency Magnetoacoustic Oscillations in Metals with Locally Flattened Fermi Surface: We consider the effect of local flattening on the Fermi surface (FS) of a metal upon geometric oscillations of the velocity and attenuation of ultrasonic waves in the neighborhood of the ...
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Spin-wave-induced spin torque in Rashba spin-orbit coupling system: We study the effects of Rashba spin-orbit coupling on the spin torque induced by spin waves, which are the plane wave dynamics of magnetization. The spin torque is derived from linear response theory, and we calculate the dynamic spin torque by conside...
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Overview of phase-field models for fatigue fracture in a unified framework: In the last ten years, the phase-field method has gained much attention as a novel method to simulate fracture due to its straightforward way allowing to cover crack initiation and propagation without additional conditions. More recently, it ...
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A First Principles Investigation of Native Interstitial Diffusion in Cr2O3: First principles density functional theory (DFT) investigation of native interstitials and the associated self-diffusion mechanisms in {\alpha}-Cr2O3 reveals that interstitials are more mobile than vacancies of corresponding species. Cr inter...
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Study of spin-phonon coupling and magnetic field induced spin reorientation in polycrystalline multiferroic $GdFeO_3$: The present work reports the preparation of polycrystalline multiferroic $GdFeO_3$ (GdFO) and characterization with x-ray diffraction (XRD), magnetization, temperature dependent Raman spectroscopy, t...
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Edge Modes and Asymmetric Wave Transport in Topological Lattices: Experimental Characterization at Finite Frequencies: Although topological mechanical metamaterials have been extensively studied from a theoretical perspective, their experimental characterization has been lagging. To address this shortcoming, we prese...
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Revealing Correlation of Valence State with Nanoporous Structure in Cobalt Catalyst Nanoparticles by in Situ Environmental TEM: Simultaneously probing the electronic structure and morphology of materials at the nanometer or atomic scale while a chemical reaction proceeds is significant for understanding the underlyin...
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First-principles study of PbTiO$_3$ under uniaxial strains and stresses: The behavior of PbTiO$_3$ under uniaxial strains and stresses is investigated from first-principles calculations within density functional theory. We show that irrespectively of the uniaxial mechanical constraint applied, the system keeps a purely...
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Surface-state-dominated transport in crystals of the topological crystalline insulator In-doped Pb$_{1-x}$Sn$_x$Te: Three-dimensional topological insulators and topological crystalline insulators represent new quantum states of matter, which are predicted to have insulating bulk states and spin-momentum-locked gaples...
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Hydrogen Compounds of Group-IV Nanosheets: The structural and electronic properties of the hydrides of silicene and germanene have been studied using ab initio calculations. The trend for the M-H (M=C, Si, Ge) bond lengths, and corresponding bond energies, is consistent with the atomic size trend, and comparable to tho...
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Spin-dependent Transparency of Ferromagnet/Superconductor Interfaces: Because the physical interpretation of the spin-polarization of a ferromagnet determined by point-contact Andreev reflection (PCAR) is non-trivial, we have carried out parameter-free calculations of PCAR spectra based upon a scattering-theory formula...
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Wave mechanics in media pinned at Bravais lattice points: The propagation of waves through microstructured media with periodically arranged inclusions has applications in many areas of physics and engineering, stretching from photonic crystals through to seismic metamaterials. In the high-frequency regime, modelling su...
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Anisotropic magnetoresistance of spin-orbit coupled carriers scattered from polarized magnetic impurities: Anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) is a relativistic magnetotransport phenomenon arising from combined effects of spin-orbit coupling and broken symmetry of a ferromagnetically ordered state of the system. In t...
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Coherent control of spontaneous emission of a three-level atom in a coherent photonic band gap reservoir: By studying the fluorescence and optical properties of a three-level system, we propose a new point of view on the coherent control of these spectra. With the definite phase difference between the fields of the a...
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Strain tunability of perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in van der Waals ferromagnets VI3: Layered ferromagnets with high coercivity have special applications in nanoscale memory elements in electronic circuits, such as data storage. Therefore, searching for new hard ferromagnets and effectively tuning or enhancing th...
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Mode-Dependent Damping in Metallic Antiferromagnets Due to Inter-Sublattice Spin Pumping: Damping in magnetization dynamics characterizes the dissipation of magnetic energy and is essential for improving the performance of spintronics-based devices. While the damping of ferromagnets has been well studied and can be a...
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The mechanical response of a creased sheet: We investigate the mechanics of thin sheets decorated by non-interacting creases. The system considered here consists in parallel folds connected by elastic panels. We show that the mechanical response of the creased structure is twofold, depending both on the bending deforma...
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Multiferroic and magnetoelectric nature of GaFeO3, AlFeO3 and related oxides: GaFeO3, AlFeO3 and related oxides are ferrimagnetic exhibiting magnetodielectric effect. There has been no evidence to date for ferroelectricity and hence multiferroicity in these oxides. We have investigated these oxides as well as oxides ...
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Complete Strain Mapping of Nanosheets of Tantalum Disulfide: Quasi-two-dimensional (quasi-2D) materials hold promise for future electronics because of their unique band structures that result in electronic and mechanical properties sensitive to crystal strains in all three dimensions. Quantifying crystal strain is a pr...
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Highly sensitive NO2 sensors by pulsed laser deposition on graphene: Graphene as a single-atomic-layer material is fully exposed to environment and has therefore a great potential for creating of sensitive gas sensors. However, in order to realize this potential for different polluting gases, graphene has to be functio...
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Impurity-induced transition to a Mott insulator in Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$: The electrical, magnetic, and structural properties of Sr$_3$(Ru$_{1-x}$Mn$_x$)$_2$O$_7$ (0 $\leq x \leq$ 0.2) are investigated. The parent compound Sr$_3$Ru$_2$O$_7$ is a paramagnetic metal, critically close to magnetic order. We have found that, wi...
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Directional Anisotropy of Crack Propagation Along $Σ$3 Grain Boundary in BCC Fe: Crack growth behaviour along the coherent twin boundary (CTB), i.e., $\Sigma$3{112} of BCC Fe is investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The growth of an atomistically sharp crack with {112}$<$110$>$ orientation has been ...
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Refined Geometry and Frozen Phonons in KNbO3: In order to arrive at ultimately accurate results available with the LMTO method in the local density approximation, the stability of full-potential LMTO predictions for off-center displacements in KNbO3, as depending on the choice of basis and expansion cutoffs, has been t...
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Anomalous resistivity upturn in the van der Waals ferromagnet Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$: Fe$_5$GeTe$_2$ (n = 3, 4, 5) have recently attracted increasing attention due to their two-dimensional van der Waals characteristic and high temperature ferromagnetism, which make promises for spintronic devices. The Fe(1) split site is one...
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Magnetic force microscopy investigation of arrays of nickel nanowires and nanotubes: The magnetic properties of arrays of nanowires (NWs) and nanotubes (NTs), 150 nm in diameter, electrodeposited inside nanoporous polycarbonate membranes are investigated. The comparison of the nanoscopic magnetic force microscopy (MF...
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First principles prediction of structural and electronic properties of TlxIn(1-x)N alloy: Structural and electronic properties of zinc blende TlxIn(1-x)N alloy have been evaluated from first principles. The band structures have been obtained within the density functional theory (DFT), the modified Becke-Johnson (MBJL...
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Observation of sharp metamagnetic transition, Griffiths like phase and glassy nature in double perovskite Eu2CoMnO6: In the present investigation, some novel magnetic behaviors exhibited by double perovskite (DP) Eu2CoMnO6(ECMO) has been reported. XRD analysis of ECMO showed that it has a monoclinic crystal structure...
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Uncooled bolometer response of a low noise La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 thin film: We report measurements of the optical responses of a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 (LSMO) sample at a wavelength of 533 nm in the 300-400 K range. The 200 nm thick film was grown by pulsed laser deposition on (100) SrTiO3 substrate and showed remarkably low noise. A...
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On the mechanism behind the inverse melting in systems with competing interactions: Here we present a fundamental comprehension of the microscopic mechanisms leading to the emergence of inverse melting transitions by considering a thorough mean-field analysis of a variety of minimal models with different competing in...
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A Predictive Multiphase Model of Silica Aerogels for Building Envelope Insulations: This work develops a multiphase thermomechanical model of porous silica aerogel and implements an uncertainty analysis framework consisting of the Sobol methods for global sensitivity analyses and Bayesian inference using a set of exp...
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Effect of strain on electronic and thermoelectric properties of few layers to bulk MoS$_{2}$: The sensitive dependence of electronic and thermoelectric properties of MoS$_2$ on the applied strain opens up a variety of applications in the emerging area of straintronics. Using first principles based density functional ...
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Plethora of tunable Weyl fermions in kagome magnet Fe3Sn2 thin films: Interplay of magnetism and electronic band topology in unconventional magnets enables the creation and fine control of novel electronic phenomena. In this work, we use scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy to study thin films of a prototypic...
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Formation of Core-Shell Precipitates in off-stochiometric Ni-Mn-Sn Heusler alloys probed through the induced Sn-moment: The Shell-ferromagnetic effect originates from the segregation process in off-stochiometric Ni-Mn-based Heusler. In this work, we investigate the precipitation process of L2$_1$-ordered Ni$_2$MnSn a...
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A systematic study of four series of electron-doped rare earth manganates, LnxCa1-xMnO3 (Ln=La, Nd, Gd and Y) over the x=0.02-0.25 composition range: Electrical and magnetic properties of four series of manganates LnxCa1-xMnO3 (Ln=La, Nd, Gd and Y) have been studied in the electron doped regime (x=0.02-0.25) in ord...
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Electronic stopping for protons and α particles from first-principles electron dynamics: The case of silicon carbide: We present the first-principles determination of electronic stopping power for protons and {\alpha} particles in a semiconductor material of great technological interest: silicon carbide. The calculat...
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Two and one-dimensional honeycomb structures of silicon and germanium: Based on first-principles calculations of structure optimization, phonon modes and finite temperature molecular dynamics, we predict that silicon and germanium have stable, two-dimensional, low-buckled, honeycomb structures. Similar to graphene, the...
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Total energy calculation for the metallic hcp phase of Zn in the bulk, layered, and quantum dot limits: The structural and electronic properties of the metallic hcp phase of Zn in the bulk, monolayer, bilayer, and quantum dot limits have been studied by using total energy calculations. From our calculated density of ...
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Possible structural and bond reconstruction in 2D ferromagnetic semiconductor VSe2 under uniaxial stress: 2D semiconducting transition metal dichalcogenides have been used to make high-performance electronic, spintronic, and optoelectronic devices. Recently, room-temperature ferromagnetism and semiconducting property...
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Thermoelectric figure of merit of tau-type conductors of several donors: Dimensionless thermoelectric figure of merit $ZT$ is investigated for two-dimensional organic conductors $\tau-(EDO-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$, $\tau$-(EDT-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$ and $\tau$-(P-S,S-DMEDT-TTF)_2(AuI_2)_{1+y}$ ($y \le 0.8...
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Broken translational and rotational symmetries in LiMn1.5Ni0.5O4 spinel: In condensed matter physics broken symmetries and emergence of quasi-particles are intimately linked to each other. Whenever a symmetry is broken, it leaves its fingerprints, and that may be observed indirectly via its influence on the other quasi...
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Demystifying magnetic resonance measurements of the true diffusion propagator: In a recent work, a method for the magnetic resonance (MR) measurement of the true diffusion propagator was introduced, which was subsequently implemented and validated for free diffusion on a benchtop MR scanner. Here, we provide a brief ...
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Intraband divergences in third order optical response of 2D systems: The existence of large nonlinear optical coefficients is one of the preconditions for using nonlinear optical materials in nonlinear optical devices. For a crystal, such large coefficients can be achieved by matching photon energies with resonant ener...
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GaAs(111)A and B in hydrazine sulfide solutions : extreme polarity dependence of surface adsorption processes: Chemical bonds formed by hydrazine-sulfide treatment of GaAs(111) were studied by synchrotron photoemission spectroscopy. At the B surface, the top arsenic atoms are replaced by nitrogen atoms, while GaAs(11...
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Symmetric Versus Nonsymmetric Structure of the Phosphorus Vacancy on InP(110): The atomic and electronic structure of positively charged P vacancies on InP(110) surfaces is determined by combining scanning tunneling microscopy, photoelectron spectroscopy, and density-functional theory calculations. The vacancy exhibi...
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Discovery of stable surfaces with extreme work functions by high-throughput density functional theory and machine learning: The work function is the key surface property that determines how much energy is required for an electron to escape the surface of a material. This property is crucial for thermionic energy conv...
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PhySRNet: Physics informed super-resolution network for application in computational solid mechanics: Traditional approaches based on finite element analyses have been successfully used to predict the macro-scale behavior of heterogeneous materials (composites, multicomponent alloys, and polycrystals) widely used in ...
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Direct Measurement of the Electronic Structure and band gap nature of atomic-layer-thick 2H-MoTe2: The millimeter sized monolayer and bilayer 2H-MoTe2 single crystal samples are prepared by a new mechanical exfoliation method. Based on such high-quality samples, we report the first direct electronic structure study o...
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Magnetoelectric coupling in polycrystalline FeVO4: We report coupling between magnetic and electric orders for antiferromagnetic polycrystalline FeVO4 in which magnetism-induced polarization has been recently found in noncollinear antiferromagnetic state below the second antiferromagnetic phase transition at TN2=15.7K....
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Magnetism of two-dimensional defects in Pd: stacking faults, twin boundaries and surfaces: Careful first-principles density functional calculations reveal the importance of hexagonal versus cubic stacking of closed packed planes of Pd as far as local magnetic properties are concerned. We find that, contrary to the st...
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Detecting and Directing Single Molecule Binding Events on H-Si(100) with Application to Ultra-dense Data Storage: Many new material systems are being explored to enable smaller, more capable and energy efficient devices. These bottom up approaches for atomic and molecular electronics, quantum computation, and data st...
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Theory of magnetic domains in uniaxial thin films: For uniaxial easy axis films, properties of magnetic domains are usually described within the Kittel model, which assumes that domain walls are much thinner than the domains. In this work we present a simple model that includes a proper description of the magnetostatic...
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Current correlation functions for chemical sensors based on DNA decorated carbon nanotube: The current characteristics of DNA decorated carbon nanotubes for different gas odors are studied. A simple model of charge transfer between the Gas-DNA-base complex and single wall carbon nanotube (SWCN) is proposed to explain...
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Measuring Dislocation Density in Aluminum with Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy: Dislocations in a material will, when present in enough numbers, change the speed of propagation of elastic waves. Consequently, two material samples, differing only in dislocation density, will have different elastic constants, a quanti...
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Novel Cyano-Bridged 4f-3d Coordination Polymers with a Unique 2D Topological Architecture and Unusual Magnetic Behavior: Cyano-bridged bimetallic hybrid Prussian Blue one- to three-dimensional (1D-3D) coordination polymers based on [M(CN)6]3- (M = Fe, Cr, Mn) have attracted great attention because of their rich and i...
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Trends in Ferromagnetism in Mn doped dilute III-V alloys from a density functional perspective: Mn doping in dilute III-V alloys has been examined as a route to enhance ferromagnetic stability. Strong valence band bowing is expected at the dilute limit, implying a strong modification of the ferromagnetic stability up...
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Magnetism, spin-wave relaxation and spiral exchange in a trilayer magnetic junction: We study the non-collinear exchange coupling across a trilayer magnetic junction consisting of two ferromagnets separated by a thin dilute magnetic semiconductor containing itinerant carriers with finite spin relaxation. It is remark...
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Observation of magnetocapacitance in ferromagnetic nanowires: The authors have investigated magnetic domain wall induced capacitance variation as a tool for the detection of magnetic reversal in magnetic nanowires for in-plane (NiFe) and out-of-plane (Co/Pd) magnetization configurations. The switching fields in the cap...
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The First Synchrotron Infrared Beamlines at the ALS: Spectromicroscopy and Fast Timing: Two recently commissioned infrared beamlines on the 1.4 bending magnet port at the Advanced Light Source, LBNL, are described. Using a synchrotron as an IR source provides three primary advantages: increased brightness, very fast ...
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SLKMC-II study of self-diffusion of small Ni clusters on Ni (111) surface: We studied self-diffusion of small 2D Ni islands (consisting of up to 10 atoms) on Ni (111) surface using a self-learning kinetic Monte Carlo (SLKMC-II) method with an improved pattern-recognition scheme that allows inclusion of both fcc and h...
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Spin-filtering and Disorder Induced Giant Magnetoresistance in Carbon Nanotubes: Ab Initio Calculations: Nitrogen-doped carbon nanotubes can provide reactive sites on the porphyrin-like defects. It's well known that many porphyrins have transition metal atoms, and we have explored transition metal atoms bonded to tho...
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Ab initio DFT+U study of He atom incorporation into UO2 crystals: We present and discuss results of a density functional theory (DFT) study of a perfect UO2 crystals and He atoms in octahedral interstitial positions. We have calculated basic bulk crystal properties and He incorporation energies into the low temperature...
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Magnetic nanographite: Hydrogenated nanographite can display spontaneous magnetism. Recently we proposed that hydrogenation of nanographite is able to induce finite magnetization. We have performed theoretical investigation of a graphene ribbon in which each carbon is bonded to two hydrogen atoms at one edge and to a s...
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Static corrections versus dynamic correlation effects in the valence band Compton profile spectra of Ni: We compute the Compton profile of Ni using the Local Density Approximation of Density Functional Theory supplemented with electronic correlations treated at different levels. The total/magnetic Compton profiles sh...
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Temperature and bias voltage dependence of Co/Pd multilayer-based magnetic tunnel junctions with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy: Temperature- and bias voltage-dependent transport measurements of magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) with perpendicularly magnetized Co/Pd electrodes are presented. Magnetization measureme...
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Low-Energy Electron Diffraction With Energy Invariant Carrier Wave Wavenumber Modulated by Exchange-Correlation Interaction: We present low-energy electron diffraction (LEED) as elastic electron-atom scattering (EEAS) operating in a target crystal waveguide where a Coulombic carrier wave is wavenumber modulated by ex...
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Tunability of the optical absorption in small silver cluster-polymer hybrid systems: We have calculated the absorption characteristics of different hybrid systems consisting of Ag, Ag2 or Ag3 atomic clusters and poly(methacrylic acid) (PMAA) using the time-dependent density-functional theory. The polymer is found to ...
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Effect of Gd/Nd doping on the magnetic properties of PrMnO3: A study on temperature dependent magnetic properties of single phase orthorhombic perovskites system associated with space group Pbnm compounds Pr1-x(Gd/Nd)xMnO3 (x=0.3, 0.5, 0.7) was carried out. A magnetization reversal is observed below the Neel temperatur...
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Silicon nanowire band gap modification: Band gap modification for small-diameter (1 nm) silicon nanowires resulting from the use of different species for surface termination is investigated by density functional theory calculations. Because of quantum confinement, small-diameter wires exhibit a direct band gap that inc...
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The quantum spin Hall effect and topological insulators: In topological insulators, spin-orbit coupling and time-reversal symmetry combine to form a novel state of matter predicted to have exotic physical properties.
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Ten-million-atom electronic structure calculations on the K computer with a massively parallel order-N theory: A massively parallel order-N electronic structure theory was constructed by an interdisciplinary research between physics, applied mathematics and computer science. (1) A high parallel efficiency with ten-mi...
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Charged surfaces and slabs in periodic boundary conditions: Plane wave density functional theory codes generally assume periodicity in all three dimensions. This causes difficulties when studying charged systems, for instance energies per unit cell become infinite, and, even after being renormalised by the introduction...
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Dislocations and cracks in generalized continua: Dislocations play a key role in the understanding of many phenomena in solid state physics, materials science, crystallography and engineering. Dislocations are line defects producing distortions and self-stresses in an otherwise perfect crystal lattice. In particular, d...
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Is there something of the MCT in orientationally disordered crystals ?: Molecular Dynamics simulations have been performed on the orientationally disordered crystal chloroadamantane: a model system where dynamics are almost completely controlled by rotations. A critical temperature T_c = 225 K as predicted by the Mode ...
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Dependence of Magnetic Anisotropy and Magnetoresistance of Ni81Fe19-Films on Annealing: Permalloy (Py:Ni81Fe19) exhibits an anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) which is very often used to read magnetic signals from storage devices. Py-films of thickness 20nm were prepared by dc-magnetron sputtering in a magnetic fiel...
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Spin Dependent Lifetimes and Spin-orbit Hybridization Points in Heusler Compounds: We present an ab initio calculation of the k and spin-resolved electronic lifetimes in the half-metallic Heusler compounds Co(2)MnSi and Co(2)FeSi. We determine the spin-flip and spin-conserving contributions to the lifetimes and study...
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Spontaneous anomalous Hall effect arising from an unconventional compensated magnetic phase in a semiconductor: The anomalous Hall effect, commonly observed in metallic magnets, has been established to originate from the time-reversal symmetry breaking by an internal macroscopic magnetization in ferromagnets or by a ...
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Giant interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in MgO/CoFe/capping layer structures: Magnetic tunnel junction (MTJ) based on CoFeB/MgO/CoFeB structures is of great interest due to its application in the spin-transfer-torque magnetic random access memory (STT-MRAM). Large interfacial perpendicular magnetic anisot...
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