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Large Exchange Splitting in Monolayer Graphene Magnetized by an Antiferromagnet

September 30, 2020
Author(s)
Yingying Wu, Gen Yin, Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Quanjun Pan, Albert Lee, Dustin A. Gilbert, Julie A. Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Ang Li, Xiao-dong Han, Kang L. Wang
Spin splitting in graphene has been identified as a key component for unlocking multifunctionality with low dissipation and long-distance spin transport. Magnetic proximity effects are an extremely promising route to realizing exchange splitting in

Quantum Versus Classical Spin Fragmentation in Dipolar Kagome Ice Ho 3 Mg 2 Sb 3 O 14

September 29, 2020
Author(s)
Zhiling Dun, Xiaojian Bai, Jospeh A. Paddison, Emily Hollingworth, Nicholas Butch, Clarina D. Cruz, Matthew Stone, Tao Hong, Franz Demmel, Martin Mourigal, Haidong Zhou
A promising route to realize entangled magnetic states combines geometrical frustration with quantum-tunneling effects. Spin-ice materials are canonical examples of frustration, and Ising spins in a transverse magnetic field are the simplest many-body

Electron-Phonon Coupling and Superconductivity in the Doped Topological Crystalline Insulator (Pb 0.5 Sn 0.5 _) 1-x In x Te

September 23, 2020
Author(s)
A. Sapkota, Y. Li, B. L. Winn, A. Podlesnyak, Guangyong Xu, Zhijun Xu, Kejing Ran, Tong Chen, Jian Sun, Jinsheng Wen, Lihua Wu, Jihui Yang, Qiang Li, G. D. Gu, J. M. Tranquada
We present a neutron scattering study of phonons in single crystals of (Pb 0.5Sn 0.5) 1−xIn xTe with x = 0 (metallic, but nonsuperconducting) and x = 0.2 (nonmetallic normal state, but superconducting). We map the phonon dispersions (more completely for x

Electron and x-ray focused beam-induced cross-linking in liquids: Toward rapid continuous 3D nanoprinting and interfacing using soft materials

September 15, 2020
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Tanya Gupta, Evgheni Strelcov, Glenn Holland, Joshua D. Schumacher, Yang Yang, Mandy Esch, Vladimir Aksyuk, Patrick Zeller, Matteo Amati, Luca Gregoratti, Andrei Kolmakov
Additive fabrication of biocompatible 3D structures out of liquid hydrogel solutions has become pivotal technology for tissue engineering, soft robotics, biosensing, drug delivery etc. Electron and X-ray lithography are well suited to pattern nanoscopic

High-density polyethylene - an inert additive with stabilizing effects on organic field-effect transistors

September 11, 2020
Author(s)
Alberto Scaccabarozzi, James Basham, Liyang Yu, Paul Westcott, Weimin Zhang, Aram Amassian, Iain McCulloch, Mario Caironi, David J. Gundlach, Natalie Stingelin
Organic electronics technologies have attracted considerable interest over the last decades and have become promising alternatives to conventional, inorganic platforms for specific applications. To fully exploit the touted potential of plastic electronics

Observation of Quantum Anomalous Hall Effect and Exchange Interaction in Topological Insulator/Antiferromagnet Heterostructure

August 27, 2020
Author(s)
Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Peng Zhang, Xiaoyu Che, Tomohiro Nozaki, Alex Stern, Mike Street, Bing Zhang, Brian Casas, Qing L. He, Eun S. Choi, Steven M. Disseler, Dustin Gilbert, Gen Yin, Qiming Shao, Peng Deng, Yingying Wu, Xiaoyang Liu, Xufeng Kou, Sahashi Masashi, Xiaodong Han, Christian Binek, Scott Chambers, Jing Xia, Kang L. Wang
Integration of a quantum anomalous Hall insulator with a magnetically ordered material provides an additional degree of freedom through which we may control the resulting exotic quantum states. Here, we report an experimental observation of the quantum

Evolution of the Structural Transition in Mo 1-x W x Te 2

August 24, 2020
Author(s)
John A. Schneeloch, Yu Tao, Chunruo Duan, Masaaki Matsuda, Adam A. Aczel, Jaime A. Fernandez-Baca, Guangyong Xu, Jorg C. Neuefeind, Junjie Yang, Despina Louca
The composition dependence of the structural transition between the monoclinic 1T′ and orthorhombic T d phases in the Mo 1-xW xTe 2 Weyl semimetal was investigated by elastic neutron scattering on single crystals up to x ≅ 0:54. First observed in MoTe 2

Synthesis and Characterization of Bulk Nd 1-x Sr x NiO 2 and Nd 1-x Sr x NiO 3

August 21, 2020
Author(s)
Bi-Xia Wang, Hong Zheng, E. Krivyakina, Omar Chmaissem, Pietro Papa Lopes, Jeffrey W. Lynn, Leighanne C. Gallington, Y. Ren, S. Rosenkranz, J. F. Mitchell, D. Phelan
The recent reports of superconductivity in Nd 1-xSr xNiO 2/SrTiO 3 heterostructures have reinvigorated interest in potential superconductivity of low-valence nickelates. Synthesis of Ni 1+ -containing compounds is notoriously difficult. In the current work

Feshbach resonances in p-wave three-body recombination within Fermi-Fermimixtures of open-shell 6-Li and closed-shell 173-Yb atoms

August 14, 2020
Author(s)
Aliana Green, Hui Li, Jun Hui See Toh, Xinxin Tang, Katherine McCormick, Ming Li, Eite Tiesinga, Svetlana Kotochigova, Subhadeep Gupta
We report on observations and modeling of interspecies magnetic Feshbach resonances in dilute ultracold mixtures of open-shell alkali-metal 6 Li and closed-shell 173 Yb atoms with temperatures just above quantum degeneracy for both fermionic species

Termination Switching of Antiferromagnetic Proximity Effect in Topological Insulator

August 12, 2020
Author(s)
Chao-Yao Yang, Lei Pan, Alexander Grutter, Haiying Wang, Xiaoyu Che, Qing L. He, Yingying Wu, Dustin A. Gilbert, Padraic Shafer, Elke Arenholz, Hao Wu, Gen Yin, Peng Deng, Julie Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Kang L. Wang
The magnetic proximity effect (MPE) allows exchange-coupling of topological insulators (TIs) with magnetically ordered materials to break time-reversal-symmetry and open a gap in the Dirac-cone surface state, with the goal of realizing quantum anomalous

Towards fast screening of organic solar cell blends

August 5, 2020
Author(s)
Lee Richter, Artem Levistsky, Giovanni M. Matrone, Aditi Khirbat, Ilaria Bargigia, Xiaolei Chu, Oded Nahor, Tamar Segal-Perez, Adam Moule, Carlos Silva, Natalie Stingelin, Gitti L. Frey
The ever increasing library of materials systems developed for organic solar-cells, including highly promising non-fullerene acceptors and new, high-efficiency donor polymers, demands the development of methodologies that (i) allow fast screening of a

Antichiral Spin Order, its Soft Modes, and their Hybridization with Phonons in the Topological Semimetal Mn 3 Ge

August 3, 2020
Author(s)
Y. Chen, Jonathan Gaudet, S. Dasgupta, G. G. Marcus, J. Lin, T. Chen, T. Tomita, M. Ikhlas, Yang Zhao, Wangchun Chen, Matthew B. Stone, O. Tchernyshyov, S. Nakatsuji, Collin L. Broholm
Quantum materials with strong transport responses to disparate physical quantities are of great fundamental significance and may hold technological potentials. The interplay between interactions and topology drive such responses through the effects of

Distinct magneto-Raman signatures of spin-flip phase transitions in CrI3

August 3, 2020
Author(s)
Amber D. McCreary, Thuc T. Mai, Franz Utermohlen, Jeffrey R. Simpson, Kevin F. Garrity, Xiaozhou Feng, Dmitry Shcherbakov, Yanglin Zhu, Jin Hu, Daniel Weber, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Joshua Goldberger, Zhiqiang Mao, Chun Ning Lau, Yuanming Lu, Nandini Trivedi, Rolando Valdes Aguilar, Angela R. Hight Walker
The discovery of 2-dimensional (2D) materials, such as CrI3, that retain magnetic ordering down to monolayer thickness, and even more have layer-dependent magnetic properties has led to a plethora of research in 2D magnetism. Here, we report a magneto

Understanding Photovoltaic Energy Losses under Indoor Lighting Conditions

July 28, 2020
Author(s)
Behrang H. Hamadani
The external luminescence quantum yield as a function of the solar cell current density when exposed to low indoor light was estimated based on absolute electroluminescence measurements and a self-consistent use of the electro-optical reciprocity

The effect of strain on tunnel barrier height in silicon quantum devices

July 13, 2020
Author(s)
Ryan Stein, Michael Stewart
Semiconductor quantum dot (QD) devices experience a modulation of the band structure at the edge of lithographically defined gates due to mechanical strain. This modulation can play a prominent role in the device behavior at low temperatures, where QD
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