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A multi-edge study: investigating Co oxidation states of pristine LiNixMnyCo1-x-yO2 cathode materials by high energy-resolution X-ray spectrometry

March 14, 2024
Author(s)
Karina Bzheumikhova, Claudia Zech, Kai Schuler, John Vinson, Yves Kayser, Burkhard Beckhoff
The investigation of Co oxidation states in pristine LiNixMnyCo1−x−yO2 (NMC) cathodes (NMC111, NMC622, NMC811) has been a subject of ongoing debate, with conflicting findings in the literature. In this study, we present a novel and comprehensive approach

DC to GHz measurements of a near-ideal 2D material: P+ monolayers

March 8, 2024
Author(s)
Neil M. Zimmerman, Antonio Levy, Pradeep Namboodiri, Joshua M. Pomeroy, Xiqiao Wang, Joseph Fox, Richard M. Silver
P+ monolayers in Si are of great scientific and technological interest, both intrinsically as a material in the "ideal vacuum" of crystalline Si, and because they are showing great promise as qubits of electron and nuclear spin. The GHz complex

Isotopic effects on in-plane hyperbolic phonon polaritons in MoO3

March 4, 2024
Author(s)
Jeremy Schultz, Sergiy Krylyuk, Jeffrey Schwartz, Albert Davydov, Andrea Centrone
Hyperbolic phonon polaritons (HPhPs), hybrids of light and lattice vibrations in polar dielectric crystals, empower nano-photonic applications by enabling the confinement and manipulation of light at the nanoscale. Molybdenum trioxide (α-MoO3) is a

Programming Interfacial Porosity and Symmetry with Escherized Colloids

February 22, 2024
Author(s)
Nathan Mahynski, Vincent K. Shen
We simultaneously design the porosity and plane symmetry of self-assembling colloidal films by using isohedral tiles to determine the location and shape of enthalpically interacting surface patches on motifs being functionalized. The symmetries of both the

Breakdown of Sound in Superfluid Helium

February 19, 2024
Author(s)
Marc Nichitiu, Craig Brown, Igor Zaliznyak
As elementary particles carry energy and momentum in the Universe, quasiparticles are the elementary carriers of energy and momentum quanta in condensed matter. And, as elementary particles, under certain conditions quasiparticles can be unstable and decay

Entropy Driven Incommensurate Structures in the Frustrated Kagome Staircase Co3V2O8

February 18, 2024
Author(s)
Joel Helton, Nyrissa Rogado, Robert Cava, Jeffrey Lynn
Co3V2O8 features spin-3/2 moments arrayed on a kagome staircase lattice. A spin density wave with a continuously evolving propagation vector of ⃗k = (0, δ, 0), showing both incommensurate states and multiple commensurate lock-ins, is observed at

First-Order Phase Transition versus Spin-State Quantum-Critical Scenarios in Strain-Tuned Epitaxial Cobaltite Thin Films

February 14, 2024
Author(s)
John Dewey, Vipul Chaturvedi, Tatiana Webb, Prachi Sharma, William Postiglione, P. Quarterman, Purnima Balakrishnan, Brian Kirby, Lucca Figari, Caroline Korostynski, Andrew Jacobson, Turan Birol, Rafael Fernandes, Abhay Pasupathy, Chris Leighton
Pr-containing perovskite cobaltites exhibit unusual valence transitions, coupled to coincident structural, spin-state, and metal-insulator transitions. Heteroepitaxial strain was recently used to control these phenomena in the model (Pr1−yYy )1−xCaxCoO3−δ

Resonant Ultrasound Spectroscopy for Irregularly Shaped Samples and Its Application to Uranium Ditelluride

February 9, 2024
Author(s)
Florian Theuss, Gregorio de la Fuente Simarro, Avi Shragai, Gael Grissonnanche, Ian Hayes, Shanta Saha, Tatsuya Shishidou, Taishi Chen, Satoru Nakatsuji, Sheng Ran, Michael Weinert, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione, B. Ramshaw
Resonant ultrasound spectroscopy (RUS) is a powerful technique for measuring the full elastic tensor of a given material in a single experiment. Previously, this technique was limited to regularly-shaped samples such as rectangular parallelepipeds, spheres

Noncollinear 2k Antiferromagnetism in the Zintl Semiconductor Eu5In2Sb6

January 29, 2024
Author(s)
Vincent Morano, Jonathan N. Gaudet, Nicodemos Varnava, Tanya Berry, Thomas Halloran, Chris Lygouras, Xiaoping Wang, Christina M. Hoffman, Guangyong Xu, Jeffrey Lynn, Tyrel McQueen, David Vanderbilt, Collin L. Broholm
Eu5In2Sb6 is an orthorhombic non-symmorphic small band gap semiconductor with three distinct Eu2+ sites and two low-temperature magnetic phase transitions. The material displays one of the greatest (negative) magnetoresistances of known stoichiometric

Controllable Conical Magnetic Structure and Spin-Orbit-Torque Switching in Symmetry-Broken Ferrimagnetic Films

January 23, 2024
Author(s)
Yaqin Guo, Jing Zhang, Purnima Balakrishnan, Alexander Grutter, Baishun Yang, Michael R. Fitzsimmons, Timothy Charlton, Haile Ambaye, Xu Zhang, Hanshen Huang, Zhi Huang, Jinyan Chen, Chenyang Guo, Xiufeng Han, Kang Wang, Hao Wu
Exploring and controlling chiral spin textures has attracted enormous interest from the perspective of fundamental research and spintronic applications. Here, we report the emergence of spiral spin states, bulk spin-orbit torque (SOT), and the

Multi-code Benchmark on Ti K-edge X-ray Absorption Spectra of Ti-O Compounds

January 11, 2024
Author(s)
Fanchen Meng, Benedikt Maurer, Fabian Peschel, Sencer Selcuk, Xiaohui Qu, Mark S Hybertsen, Christian Vorwerk, Claudia Draxl, John Vinson, Deyu Lu
X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) is an element-specific materials characterization technique that is sensitive to structural and electronic properties. First-principles simulated XAS has been widely used as a powerful tool to interpret experimental

Magnetism and Fermiology of Kagome Magnet YMn6Sn4Ge2

January 7, 2024
Author(s)
Hari Bhandari, Rebecca Dally, Peter E. Siegfried, Resham Regmi, Kirrily Rule, Songxue Chi, Jeffrey Lynn, I. Mazin, Nirmal J. Ghimire
Kagome lattice magnets are an interesting class of materials as they can host topological properties in their magnetic and electronic structures. YMn6Sn6 is one such compound in which a series of competing magnetic phases is stabilized by an applied

Visualizing the merger of tunably coupled graphene quantum dots

December 6, 2023
Author(s)
Daniel Walkup, Fereshte Ghahari, Steven R. Blankenship, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Nikolai Zhitenev, Joseph A. Stroscio
Coupled quantum dots have been realized in a wide variety of physical systems and have attracted interest for many different applications. Here, we examine novel graphene quantum dots in backgated devices on hBN, and visualize their merger using scanning

Tracking Active Phase Behavior on Boron Nitride during the Oxidative Dehydrogenation of Propane Using Operando X-Ray Raman Spectroscopy

November 6, 2023
Author(s)
Melissa Cendejas, Oscar Paredes Mellone, Unni Kurumbail, Zisheng Zhang, Jacob Jansen, Faysal Ibrahim, Son Dong, John Vinson, Anastassia Alexandrova, Dimosthenis Sokaras, Simon Bare, Ive Hermans
Hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) is a highly selective catalyst for the oxidative dehydrogenation of propane (ODHP) to propylene. Using a variety of ex situ characterization techniques, the activity of the catalyst has been attributed to the formation of an

Charge Order Evolution of Superconducting BaNi2As2 Under High Pressure

November 2, 2023
Author(s)
John Collini, Daniel Campbell, Daniel Sneed, Prathum Saraf, Christoper Eckberg, Jason Jeffries, Nicholas Butch, Johnpierre Paglione
BaNi2As2, a nonmagnetic superconductor counterpart to BaFe2As2, has been shown to develop nematic order, multiple charge orders, and a dramatic sixfold enhancement of superconductivity via isovalent chemical substitution of Sr for Ba. Here we present high

A Review of UTe2 at High Magnetic Fields

November 1, 2023
Author(s)
Sylvia Lewin, Corey Frank, Sheng Ran, Johnpierre Paglione, Nicholas Butch
ranium ditelluride (UTe2) is recognized as a host material to unconventional spin-triplet superconductivity, but it also exhibits a wealth of additional unusual behavior at high magnetic fields. One of the most prominent signatures of the unconventional

Bootstrapped Dimensional Crossover of a Spin Density Wave

October 27, 2023
Author(s)
Anjana Samarakoon, J. Strempfer, Junjie Zhang, Feng Ye, Yiming Qiu, J.-W. Kim, H. Zheng, S. Rosenkranz, M. Norman, J. Mitchell, D. Phelan
Quantum materials display rich and myriad types of magnetic, electronic, and structural ordering, often with these ordering modes either competing with one another or 'intertwining,' that is, reinforcing one another. Low dimensional quantum materials

A superconducting nanowire single-photon camera with 400,000 pixels

October 25, 2023
Author(s)
Bakhrom Oripov, Dana Rampini, Jason Allmaras, Matt Shaw, Sae Woo Nam, Boris Korzh, Adam McCaughan
For the past 50 years, superconducting detectors have offered exceptional sensitivity and speed for detecting faint electromagnetic signals in a wide range of applications. These detectors operate at very low temperatures and generate a minimum of excess
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