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A data processing pipeline for serial femtosecond crystallography at SACLA was developed, based on Cheetah [Barty et al. (2014). J. Appl. Cryst. 47 , 1118–1131] and CrystFEL [White et al. (2016). J. Appl. Cryst. 49 , 680–689]. The original programs were adapted for data acquisition through the SACLA API, thread and in…
It has been known for decades that bone exhibits piezoelectric behavior. In recent years, it was directly proved that this effect stems from a polymeric matrix in bone, i.e., collagen fibrils. This effect in collagen is distinctly different from organic piezoelectric crystals, given the semicrystalline molecular struc…
Two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide (TMDs) MoTe2 has attracted much attention due to its predicted Weyl semimetal state and a quantum spin Hall insulator in bulk and monolayer form, respectively. We find that the superconductivity in MoTe2 single crystal can be greatly enhanced by the partial substitution…
2D materials with heterolayered structures beyond graphene are explored. A theoretically predicted superconductor-topological insulator-normal metal heterolayered structure is realized experimentally. The generated hybrid structure HfTe3 /HfTe5 /Hf has potential applications in both quantum-spin Hall effect-based and…
The quaternion Bingham distribution has been used to model preferred crystallographic orientation, or crystallographic texture, in polycrystalline materials in the materials science and geological communities. A primary difficulty in applying the Bingham distribution has been the lack of an efficient method for fittin…
Single crystals of undoped CaFe2As2 were grown by a FeAs self-flux method, and the crystals were quenched in ice-water rapidly after high temperature growth. The quenched crystal undergoes a collapsed tetragonal structural phase transition around 80 K revealed by the temperature dependent X-ray diffraction measurement…
We predict the occurrence of metastable skyrmionic spin structures such as antiskyrmions and higher-order skyrmions in ultra-thin transition-metal films at surfaces using Monte Carlo simulations based on a spin Hamiltonian parametrized from density functional theory calculations. We show that such spin structures will…
The results of combined experimental and theoretical study of substitutional and clustering effects in Bi-doped TiO2 hosts (bulk and thin-film morphologies) are presented. Bi-doping of the bulk and thin-film titanium dioxide was made with help of pulsed ion-implantation (E(Bi+) = 30 keV, D = 1 * 1017 cm-2) without pos…
A single-wall carbon nanotube possesses two different types of plasmons specified by the wavenumbers in the azimuthal and axial directions. The azimuthal plasmon that is caused by interband transitions has been studied, while the effect of charge doping is unknown. In this paper, we show that when nanotubes are heavil…
We report measurement of temperature dependence of phonon spectra in quasi-one-dimensional metal cyanides $M\mathrm{CN}$ ($M=\mathrm{Cu}$, Ag, Au). Ab initio lattice dynamics calculations have been performed to interpret the phonon spectra as well as to understand the anomalous anisotropic thermal expansion behavior i…
Topological Weyl semimetals can host Weyl nodes with monopole charges in momentum space. How to detect the signature of the monopole charges in quantum transport remains a challenging topic. Here, we reveal the connection between the parity of monopole charge in topological semimetals and the quantum interference corr…
We investigated the structural phase transition of ${\mathrm{BaAl}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$, which has a network structure with corner-sharing ${\mathrm{AlO}}_{4}$ tetrahedra, via synchrotron x-ray thermal diffuse scattering measurements and first-principles calculations. ${\mathrm{BaAl}}_{2}{\mathrm{O}}_{4}$ shows the s…
By means of circularly polarized x rays at the Dy ${L}_{3}$ and Fe $K$ absorption edges, the chiral structure of the electric quadrupole was investigated for a single crystal of ${\mathrm{DyFe}}_{3}$(${\mathrm{BO}}_{3}$)${}_{4}$, in which both Dy and Fe ions exhibit a spiral arrangement. The integrated intensity of th…
We propose a torsional response raised by a lattice dislocation in Weyl semimetals akin to a chiral magnetic effect; i.e., a fictitious magnetic field arising from a screw or edge dislocation induces a charge current. We demonstrate that, in sharp contrast to the usual chiral magnetic effect that vanishes in real soli…
We present a selection of stack designs for MOVPE grown InxGa1-xAs metamorphic buffer layers following various convex-down compositional continuous gradients of the In content, showing that defect generation and strain can be managed in a variety of ways, some rather unexpected (and unreported). Indeed, we observe tha…
We manipulate the transient terahertz (THz) waves emitted from metal-graphite interfaces, where potential barriers were formed because of work function differences. To flip the phase of the THz waves, two distinct groups of metals were evaporated on n-type doped highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG): group A, whic…
Topological insulators combine aspects of metals, semiconductors, and insulators and also show unusual electric properties. A theoretical study reveals that they also exhibit unconventional magnetism as a result of electron transitions normally forbidden by energy conservation.
A major challenge in the field of nanosciences is the assembly of anisotropic nano objects into aligned structures. The way the objects are aligned determines the physical properties of the final material. In this work, we take a closer look at the shapes of orientation distributions of aligned anisotropic nano and ma…
We report electrical and thermal transport properties of Mn-based material BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$ with ThCr$_2$Si$_2$ structure. The resistivity of the antiferromagnetic BaMn$_2$Bi$_2$ shows a metal-semiconductor transition at $\sim 80$ K with decreasing temperature. Correspondingly, the thermopower $S$ shows a peak at the sa…
In the close vicinity of a chiral nanostructure, the circular dichroism of a biomolecule could be greatly enhanced, due to the interaction with the local superchiral fields. Modest enhancement of optical activity using a planar metamaterial, with some chiral properties, and achiral nanoparticles has been previously re…