Condensed matter

News and Updates

This Simple Material Could Scrub Carbon Dioxide From Power Plant Smokestacks

November 2, 2022

An easily synthesized chemical filter could stop the greenhouse gas from reaching the atmosphere.

Scientists Discover Crystal Exhibiting Exotic Spiral Magnetism

August 19, 2021

An exotic form of magnetism has been discovered and linked to an equally exotic type of electrons, according to scientists who analyzed a new crystal in which

Two vertical strings of electrons form magnons. Spin waves passing through the left magnon string are larger than those passing through the right, indicating the difference between an on and off state.

MIT, NIST Create First Room-Temp ‘Magnon Switch’ With Industrially Useful Properties

June 15, 2020

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have demonstrated a potentially new

Projects and Programs

PTIR combines the spatial resolution of AFM with the specificity of absorption spectroscopy

Nano-Chemical Imaging and -Spectroscopy (IR, nIR, VIS)

Ongoing

Conventional techniques for analyzing chemical composition, such as infrared (IR) microscopy often miss critically important nanoscale details. To overcome this

Theory of the optical properties of materials

Ongoing

The overarching objective of this project is reliably calculating the bulk optical properties of materials, such as complex index of refraction, absorption, and

A 3" wafer is seen concentric with the lower plasma electrode.

Precision Materials for Quantum Devices

Ongoing

Tunnel junctions, single electron transistors and superconducting resonators are fabricated using ultra-high vacuum metals’ deposition and in situ low energy

Advanced Materials: X-ray Science for Standards and Analysis

Ongoing

Advanced experimental and theoretical methods are developed to increase the accuracy and precision of X-ray line energies and information derived from X-ray

Publications

Phase-transition-induced Thermal Hysteresis in Type-II Weyl Semimetals MoTe2 and Mo(1-x)W(x)Te2

November 19, 2022

Author(s)

Md Sabbir Akhanda, Sergiy Krylyuk, Diane Dickie, Albert Davydov, Fei Han, Mingda Li, Mona Zebarjadi

The resistivity versus temperature measurement is commonly used for identifying temperature-induced phase change and the resulting hysteresis loop. While the

Structure-terahertz property relationship and femtosecond laser irradiation effects in chalcogenide glasses

November 12, 2022

Author(s)

Nicholas Tostanoski, Edwin J. Heilweil, Peter Wachtel, David Musgraves, S. K. Sundaram

We report structure-terahertz property relationship for various non-oxide chalcogenide glasses including unary (vitreous selenium (Se)), binary (arsenic sulfide

Microstructural evolution at the interface of superconducting thin films and SiC substrate

November 7, 2022

Author(s)

Michael Katz, Albert Rigosi, Chieh-I Liu, Mattias Kruskopf, Heather Hill, Angela R. Hight Walker, Randolph Elmquist, Albert Davydov

Heterojunction tunnel triodes based on two-dimensional metal selenide and three-dimensional silicon

October 27, 2022

Author(s)

Jinshui Miao, Chloe Leblanc, Jinjin Wang, Yue Gu, Xiwen Liu, Baokun Song, Huairuo Zhang, Sergiy Krylyuk, Weida Hu, Albert Davydov, Tyson Back, Nicholas Glavin, Deep Jariwala

Low power consumption in the static and dynamic modes of operation is a key requirement in the development of modern electronics. Tunnel field-effect

Software

HolograFREE

An electron hologram is a fringe modulated image containing the amplitude and phase information of an electron transparent object. The HolograFREE routines

The measured and calculated RIXS maps at the oxygen K edge of lithium peroxide

OCEAN

OCEAN is a versatile package for calculating both optical/UV and core-edge spectroscopy. It is a first-principles code based on both ground-state density

Tools and Instruments

High Throughput (Combinatorial) Screening Tool for Characterization of Thin Film Thermoelectrics as a Function Temperature

High-throughput (combinatorial) metrologies have evolved as a useful approach to rapidly determine the composition-structure-property relationships for novel