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Eric L. Shirley, John T. Vinson, Liang Li, Maria K. Chan, Jeffry Greeley, Jeffrey R. Guest, Rui Zhang
Balancing global energy needs against increasing greenhouse gas emissions requires new methods for efficient CO2 reduction. While photoreduction of CO2 is promising, the rational design of photocatalysts hinges on precise characterization of the surface
Optical two-dimensional coherent spectroscopy is an extremely useful tool for examining the structure and dynamics of semiconductors. The appeal of the technique is in its ability to resolve both individual-emitter and ensemble-averaged properties of
E. Svanidze, C. Georgen, Qingzhen Huang, J. M. Santiago, Jeffrey W. Lynn, E. Morosan
The number of paramagnetic materials that undergo a structural phase transition is rather small, which ca perhaps explain the limited understanding of the band Jahn-Teller mechanism responsible for the effect. Here we present a structural phase transition
Lee J. Richter, Hyun W. Ro, Regis J. Kline, Daniel A. Fischer, Dean M. DeLongchamp, Lars Thomsen, Christopher McNeil, Dawei Wu, Maria Kaplan, Eliot H. Gann
Recent demonstration of mobilities in excess of 10 cm2V-1s-1 have energized research in solution deposition of polymers for thin film transistor applications. Due to the lamella motif of most soluble, semiconducting polymers, the local mobility is
Yuriy Suhak, Michal Schulz, Ward L. Johnson, Andrei Sotnikov, Hagen Schmidt, Holger Fritze
Structurally ordered piezoelectric Ca3TaGa3Si2O14 (CTGS) single crystals are studied. The elastic and piezoelectric constants are determined in the temperature range from 20 °C to 900 °C by two independent approaches: resonant and pulse-echo acoustics
Chandra M. Varma, W. J. Gannon, M. C. Aronson, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, Yiming Qiu
An important problem in contemporary physics concerns quantum-critical fluctuations in metals. A scaling function for the momentum, frequency, temperature and magnetic field dependence of the correlation function near a 2D-ferromagnetic quantum-critical
Ryan F. Need, Patrick B. Marshall, Eric Kenney, Andreas Suter, Thomas Prokscha, Zaher Salman, Brian Kirby, Susanne Stemmer, Michael J. Graf, Stephen D. Wilson
The magnetic properties of high-density SrTiO 3 quantum wells embedded within the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator SmTiO 3 are explored via muon spin relaxation and polarized neutron reflectometry measurements. The one electron per wel acquired by the
John H. Lehman, Christopher S. Yung, Nathan A. Tomlin, Davis R. Conklin, Michelle S. Stephens
It has been shown that coatings comprised of carbon nanotubes are very black; that is, characterized by low reflectance over a broad wavelength range from the visible to far infrared. Arguably there is no other material that is comparable. This is
C. Stock, Peter M. Gehring, R. A. Ewings, Guangyong Xu, Jiefang Li, Dwight Viehland, Haosu Luo
We report the spontaneous decay of a soft, optical phonon in a solid. Using neutron spectroscopy, we find that specific phonon lifetimes in the relaxor PbMg 1/3Nb 2/3O 3 are anomalously short within well-defined ranges of energy and momentum. This behavior
Electronic interactions in low-dimensional nanomaterial heterostructures can lead to novel optical response arising from exciton delocalization over the constituent materials. Similar phenomena have been suggested to arise between closely interacting
S. E. Nikitin, P. Y. Portnichenko, A. V. Dukhnenko, N.Yu. Shitsevalova, V. B. Filipov, Yiming Qiu, Jose Rodriguez Rivera, J. Ollivier, D. S. Inosov
We investigate the doping-induced changes in the electronic structure of CeB 6 on a series of substituted Ce 1-xR xB 6 and Ce 1-xNd xB 6 samples (R = La,Nd) using diffuse neutron scattering. We observe a redistribution of magnetic spectral weight across
David P. Pappas, Xian Wu, Nicholas T. Bronn, Salvatore B. Olivadese, Vivekananda P. Adiga, Jerry M. Chow
Wedemonstrate a pogo pin package for a superconducting quantum processor specifically designed with a nontrivial layout topology (e.g., a center qubit that cannot be accessed from the sides of the chip). Two experiments on two nominally identical
Lorenzo Fallarino, P. Riego, Brian Kirby, Casey W. Miller
Ferromagnetic alloy materials with designed dopant composition depth profiles provide an efficient route for the control of magnetism at the nanometer length scale. In this regard, cobalt-chromium and cobalt-ruthenium alloys constitute powerful model
Wenjie Xia, Jake Song, Nitin Hansoge, Frederick R. Phelan Jr., Sinan Keten, Jack F. Douglas
Soft condensed matters characteristically exhibit a strong temperature dependence of relaxation properties due to glass formation, but currently no effective temperature transferable coarse- graining method exists that allows for the prediction of their
Ross N. Andrews, Suresh Narayanan, Fan Zhang, Ivan Kuzmenko, Jan Ilavsky
X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy (XPCS) and dynamic light scattering (DLS) reveal dynamics by interference of coherent scattering, but X-rays permit interrogation of dynamics in a much more diverse array of materials. Heterogeneous dynamics occur in
Dmitriy Zusin, Phoebe Tengdin, Maithreyi Gopalakrishnan, Christian Gentry, Adam Blonsky, Michael Gerrity, Justin Shaw, Hans Nembach, Thomas J. Silva, Peter Oppeneer, Henry C. Kapteyn, Margaret M. Murnane
Aruna N. Ramanayaka, Hyun Soo Kim, Ke Tang, Xiqiao Wang, Richard M. Silver, Michael D. Stewart, Joshua M. Pomeroy
Using photolithographically defined implant wires for electrical connections, we demonstrate measurement of a scanning tunneling microscope (STM) patterned nanoscale electronic device on Si(100), eliminating the onerous alignment procedures and electron
Michael L. Schneider, Christine A. Donnelly, Stephen E. Russek, Burm Baek, Matthew R. Pufall, Peter F. Hopkins, Paul D. Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz, William H. Rippard
Neuromorphic computing is a promising avenue to dramatically improve the efficiency of certain computational tasks, such as perception and decision making. Neuromorphic systems are currently being developed for critical applications ranging from self
Xiqiao Wang, Joseph A. Hagmann, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Jonathan E. Wyrick, Kai Li, Roy E. Murray, Frederick Meisenkothen, Alline F. Myers, Michael D. Stewart, Richard M. Silver
Doped semiconductor structures with ultra-sharp dopant confinement, minimal lattice defects, and high carrier concentrations are essential attributes in the development of both ultra- scaled conventional semiconductor devices and emerging all-silicon
W Jaskolski, M. Pelc, Garnett W. Bryant, Leonor Chico, A Ayuela
Experiments in gated bilayer graphene with stacking domain walls present topological gapless states protected by no-valley mixing. Here we research these states under gate voltages using atomistic models, which allow us to elucidate their origin. We find
Joseph A. Hagmann, Xiqiao Wang, Pradeep N. Namboodiri, Jonathan E. Wyrick, Roy E. Murray, Michael D. Stewart, Richard M. Silver
The key building blocks for devices based on the deterministic placement of dopants in silicon are the formation of phosphorus dopant monolayers and the overgrowth of high quality crystalline Si. Lithographically defined dopant delta-layers can be formed
Roy E. Murray, Justin K. Perron, Michael D. Stewart, Neil M. Zimmerman
Pumping single electrons at a set rate is being widely pursued as an electrical current standard. Much work has been done on pumping using a single AC signal, but using multiple coordinated AC signals may help lower error rates. Whether pumping with one or
A. Amon, E. Svanidze, R. Cardoso-Gil, M. N. Wilson, H. Rosner, M. Bobnar, W. Schnelle, Jeffrey W. Lynn, R. Gumeniuk, C. Hennig, G. M. Luke, H. Borrmann, A. Leithe-Jasper, Yu Grin
In noncentrosymmetric superconductors mixed spin-singlet and spin-triplet pairing can occur. In this work, physical properties of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor, BeAu, were investigated. It was established that BeAu undergoes a structural phase