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High precision determination of atomic position is necessary for quantitative electron microscopy so that small width of peaks, which represent atoms in structural images, adequate resolution, and sufficiently strong image contrast are needed. The width of peak is usually determined by the point spread (PS) of instrum…
Breaking space-time symmetries in two-dimensional crystals (2D) can dramatically influence their macroscopic electronic properties. Monolayer transition-metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) are prime examples where the intrinsically broken crystal inversion symmetry permits the generation of valley-selective electron populati…
We report that anisotropic magnetoresistance (AMR) and anomalous Hall conductivity (AHC) in the Pd1−xPtx/Y3Fe5O12 (YIG) bilayers could be tuned by varying the Pt concentration (x) and also temperature (T). In particular, the AHC at low T changes its sign when x increases from 0 to 1, agreeing with the negative and pos…
Schottky junctions (SJ) are considered devices for sensing applications due to their unique properties. Herein, we report on the design, facile fabrication, and outstanding NO2 gas sensing properties of monolayer graphene (GP)/SnO2 nanowire (NW) SJ devices. The devices were prepared by directly growing single crystal…
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) continue to show strong promise as the channel material for an aggressively scaled, high-performance transistor technology. However, there has been concern regarding the contact resistance (Rc) in CNT field-effect transistors (CNTFETs) limiting the ultimate performance, especially at scaled con…
In this paper we propose some kinds of two-dimensional square zigzag lattice structures and study their bandgaps and directional propagation of elastic waves. The band structures and the transmission spectra of the systems are calculated by using the finite element method. The effects of the geometry parameters of the…
In ideal topological insulator (TI) films the bulk state, which is supposed to be insulating, should not provide any electric coupling between the two metallic surfaces. However, transport studies on existing TI films show that the topological states on opposite surfaces are electrically tied to each other at thicknes…
The recent discovery of color centers with optically addressable spin states in 3C silicon carbide (SiC) similar to the negatively charged nitrogen vacancy center in diamond has the potential to enable the integration of defect qubits into established wafer scale device architectures for quantum information and sensin…
The electronic and magnetic properties of the interfaces between the half-metallic Heusler alloys NiMnSb, NiMnSi, and MgO have been investigated using first-principles density-functional calculations with projector augmented wave potentials generated in the generalized gradient approximation. In the case of the NiMnSb…
A recently developed technique known as analogue transformation acoustics has allowed the extension of the transformational paradigm to general spacetime transformations under which the acoustic equations are not form invariant. In this paper, we review the fundamentals of analogue transformation acoustics and show ho…
We present theoretical results on the high-temperature phase stability and phonon spectra of paramagnetic bcc iron which explicitly take into account many-body effects. Several peculiarities, including a pronounced softening of the [110] transverse (T1) mode and a dynamical instability of the bcc lattice in harmonic a…
Frustrated magnets can exhibit many novel forms of order when exposed to high magnetic fields. Much less, however, is known about materials where frustration occurs in the presence of itinerant electrons. Here we report thermodynamic and transport measurements on micron-size single crystals of the triangular-lattice m…
We present microscopic investigations on the two-dimensional arrangement of cobalt phthalocyanine molecules on a graphite (HOPG) substrate in the low coverage regime. The initial growth and ordering of molecular layers is revealed in high resolution scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). On low coverages single molecule…
Pyrochlore $\rm Pr^{3+}_{2+x}Zr^{4+}_{2-x}O_{7-x/2}$ samples in the form of both powders $(-0.02 \le x \le 0.02)$ and bulk single crystals have been studied to elucidate the dependence of their magnetic, compositional and structural properties on synthesis and growth conditions. All samples were characterized using X-…
NMR measurements on a selectively deuteriated liquid crystal dimer CB-C9-CB exhibiting two nematic phases show that the molecules in the lower temperature nematic phase, Nx, experience a chiral environment and are ordered about a unique direction. The results are contrasted with previous reports that proposed a twist-…
Adsorption of benzoic acid on the (110) surface of rutile, both unreconstructed and (1x2)- reconstructed ones, at saturation coverage of one benzoate per two adjacent five-coordinated Ti5c sites has been studied using DFT simulations, as implemented through the Vienna Ab initio Simulations Package (VASP). In order to…
We develop a hyperelastic constitutive model for graphene --- describing in-plane deformations involving both large isotropic and deviatoric strains --- based on the invariant-theoretic approach to representation of anisotropic functions. The strain energy density function $ψ$ is expressed in terms of special scalar-v…
Crystal growth is one of the most fundamental processes in nature. Understanding of crystal growth mechanisms has changed dramatically over the past two decades. One significant advance has been the recognition that growth does not only occur atom by atom, but often proceeds via attachment and fusion of either amorpho…
Glasses and other noncrystalline solids exhibit thermal and acoustic properties at low temperatures anomalously different from those found in crystalline solids, and with a remarkable degree of universality. Below a few kelvin, these universal properties have been successfully interpreted using the tunneling model, wh…
High Mg content mixed-phase Zn0.38Mg0.62O was deposited on a-face sapphire by plasma-assisted molecular beam epitaxy, based on which a metal-semiconductor-metal solar-blind ultraviolet (UV) photodetector was fabricated. The dark current is only 0.25 pA at 5 V, which is much lower than that of the reported mixed-phase…