IRG 1
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- S. Cao, X. Zhang, T. Komesu, G. Chen, A. K. Schmid, L. Yue, I. Tanabe, W. Echtenkamp, Y. Wang, C. Binek, and P. A. Dowben, “Low Temperature Growth of Cobalt on Cr2O3(0001)”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 046002 [7 pp] (2016).
- X. Zhang, S. Mu, G. Chastanet, N. Daro, T. Palamarciuc, P. Rosa, J.-F. Létard, J. Liu, G. E. Sterbinsky, D. A. Arena, C. Etrillard, B. Kundys, B. Doudin, and P. A. Dowben, “Complexities in the Molecular Spin Crossover Transition”, J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 16293-16302 (2015).
- A. Mock, R. Korlacki, C. Briley, D. Sekora, T. Hofmann, P. Wilson, A. Sinitskii, E. Schubert, and M. Schubert, “Anisotropy, Band-To-Band Transitions, Phonon Modes, and Oxidation Properties of Cobalt-Oxide Core-Shell Slanted Columnar Thin Films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108 (5), 051905 (2016).
- L. Zhang, X. G. Chen, H. J. Gardner, M. A. Koten, J. E. Shield, and X. Hong, “Effect of Strain on Ferroelectric Field Effect in Strongly Correlated Oxide Sm0.5Nd0.5NiO3”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 152906 [5 pp] (2015).
- P. S. Costa, D. P. Miller, J. D. Teeter, S. Beniwal, E. Zurek, A. Sinitskii, J. Hooper, and A. Enders, “Structure and Proton Transfer Mechanism in One-Dimensional Chains of Benzimidazoles,” J. Phys. Chem. C 120 (10), 5804-5809 (2016).
- J. D. Burton and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Tunneling Anisotropic Magnetoresistance in a Magnetic Tunnel Junction with Half-Metallic Electrodes,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 024419 [5 pp] (2016).
- S. Cao, X. Zhang, T. R. Paudel, K. Sinha, X. Wang, X. Jiang, W. Wang, S. Brutsche, J. Wang, P. J. Ryan, J.-W. Kim, X. Cheng, E. Y. Tsymbal, P. A. Dowben, and X. Xu, “On the Structural Origin of the Single-Ion Magnetic Anisotropy in LuFeO3,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 156001 [10 pp] (2016).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- J. Wang and C. Binek, “Dispersion of Electric-Field-Induced Faraday Effect in Magnetoelectric Cr2O3, Phys. Rev. Appl. 5, 031001 [6 pp] (2016).
- P. A. Dowben, C. Binek, and D. E. Nikonov, “Potential of Nonvolatile Magnetoelectric Devices for Spintronic Applications,” Chapter 11 in Nanoscale Silicon Devices; edited by Shuni Oda and David Ferry; Taylor and Francis (London), 255-278 (2016).
- X. Zhang, T. Scott, T. Socha, D. Nielsen, M. Manno, M. Johnson, Y. Yan, Y. Losovyj, P. A. Dowben, E. S. Aydil, and C. Leighton, “Phase stability and stoichiometry in thin film iron pyrite: Impact on electronic transport properties”, ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 14130-14139 (2015).
- K. Foreman, N. Hong, C. Labedz, M. Shearer, S. Ducharme, and S. Adenwalla, “Ferroelectric Characterization and Growth Optimization of Thermally Evaporated Vinylidene Fluoride Thin Films,” J. Phys. D 49, 015301 [10 pp] (2016).
- J. Hooper, D. A. Kunkel, E. Zurek, and A. Enders, “Interplay between Hydrogen Bonding, Epitaxy, and Charge Transfer in the Self-Assembly of Croconic Acid on Au(111) and Ag(111),” J. Phys. Chem. C 119, 26429-26437 (2015).
- M. Schubert, R. Korlacki, S. Knight, T. Hofmann, S. Schöche, V. Darakchieva, E. Janzén, B. Monemar, D. Gogova, Q.-T. Thieu, R. Togashi, H. Murakami, Y. Kumagai, K. Goto, A. Kuramata, S. Yamakoshi, and M. Higashiwaki, “Anisotropy, Phonon Modes, and Free Charge Carrier Parameters in Monoclinic β-gallium Oxide Single Crystals,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 125209 [18 pp] (2016).
- J. A. Johnson, J. Luo, X. Zhang, Y.-S. Chen, M. D. Morton, E. Echeverría, F. E. Torres, and J. Zhang, “Porphyrin-Metalation-Mediated Tuning of Photoredox Catalytic Properties in Metal–Organic Frameworks,” ACS Catal. 5, 5283-529 (2015).
IRG 2
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- D. A. Kunkel, J. Hooper, B. Bradley, L. Schlueter, R. Rasmussen, P. Costa, S. Beniwal, S. Ducharme, E. Zurek, and A. Enders, “2D Cocrystallization from H-Bonded Organic Ferroelectrics," J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 435-440 (2016).
- J. Očenášek, H. Lu, C. W. Bark, C. B. Eom, J. Alcalá, G. Catalan, and A. Gruverman, “Nanomechanics of Flexoelectric Switching,” Phys. Rev B 92, 035417 [9 pp] (2015).
- H. Lu, T. Li, S. Poddar, O. Goit, A. Lipatov, A. Sinitskii, S. Ducharme, and A. Gruverman, “Statics and Dynamics of Ferroelectric Domains in Diisopropylammonium Bromide,” Adv. Mater. 27, 7832-7838 (2015).
- X. Huang, T. R. Paudel, S. Dong, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Hexagonal Rare-Earth Manganites as Promising Photovoltaics and Light Polarizers,” Phys. Rev. B 92, 125201 [8 pp] (2015).
- P. Sharma, S. Ryu, Z. Viskadourakis, T. R. Paudel, C. Panagopoulos, E. Y. Tsymbal, C.-B. Eom, and A. Gruverman, “Electro-Mechanics of Ferroelectric-Like Behavior of the LaAlO3 Thin Films,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 25, 6538-6544 (2015).
- P. V. Lukashev, L. Zhao, T. R. Paudel, T. Schiros, N. Hurley, E. Y. Tsymbal, A. Pinczuk, A. Pasupathy, and R. He, “Modification of the G-Phonon Mode of Graphene by Nitrogen Doping,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 041907 [4 pp] (2016).
- M. Li, J. Dai, and X. C. Zeng, “Tuning the Electronic Properties of Transition-Metal Trichalcogenides via Tensile Strain,” Nanoscale 7, 15385-15391 (2015).
- L. Li, P. Li, N. Lu, J. Dai, and X. C. Zeng, “Simulation Evidence of Hexagonal-to-Tetragonal ZnSe Structure Transition: A Monolayer Material with a Wide-Range Tunable Direct Bandgap,” Adv. Sci. 2, 1500290 [8 pp] 2015.
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- A. Lipatov, P. Sharma, A. Gruverman, and A. Sinitskii, “Optoelectrical molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) – ferroelectric memories,” ACS Nano 9, 8089-8098 (2015).
- J. Song, H. Lu, S. Li, L. Tan, A. Gruverman, and S. Ducharme, “Fabrication of Ferroelectric Polymer Nanostructures on Flexible Substrates by Soft-Mold Reverse Nanoimprint Lithography,” Nanotechnology 27, 015302 [9 pp] (2016).
- Y. Yuan, Q. Wang, Y. Shao, H. Lu, T. Li, A. Gruverman, and J. Huang, “Electric-Field-Driven Reversible Conversion between Methylammonium Lead Triiodide Perovskites and Lead Iodide at Elevated Temperatures,” Adv. Energy Mater. 6, 1501803 [7 pp] (2016).
- T. H. Vo, U. G. E. Perera, M. Shekhirev, M. M. Pour, D. A. Kunkel, H. Lu, A. Gruverman, E. Sutter, M. Cotlet, D. Nykypanchuk, P. Zahl, A. Enders, A. Sinitskii, and P. Sutter, “Nitrogen-Doping Induced Self-Assembly of Graphene Nanoribbon-Based Two-Dimensional and Three-Dimensional Metamaterials,” Nano Lett. 15, 5770-5777 (2015).
- X. Hong, “Emerging Ferroelectric Transistors with Nanoscale Channel Materials: The Possibilities, the Limitations (Topical Review),” J. Phys.: Condens. Mat. 28, 103003 [32 pp] (2016).
- Y. Deng, Z. Xiao, and J. Huang, “Light Induced Self-Poling Effect in Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Solar Cells for Increased Device Efficiency and Stability,” Adv. Energy Mater. 5, 1500721 [6 pp] (2015).
- Z. Xiao, Y. Yuan, Q. Wang, Y. Bai, Y. Shao, Y. Deng, Q. Dong, M. Hu, C. Bi, and J. Huang, “Thin-Film Semiconductor Perspective of Organometal Trihalide Perovskite Materials for High Efficiency Solar Cells,” Mat. Sci.&Eng. Reports 101, 1-38 (2016).
- D. Lee, H. Lu, Y. Gu, S.-Y. Choi, S. Li, S. Ryu, T. R. Paudel, K. Song, E. Mikheev, S. Lee, S. Stemmer, D. A. Tenne, S. H. Oh, E. Y. Tsymbal, X. Wu, L.-Q. Chen, A. Gruverman, and C. B. Eom, “Emergence of Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity at Reduced Dimensions,” Science 349, 1314-317 (2015).
- X. R. Wang, C. J. Li, W. M. Lu, T. R. Paudel, D. P. Leusink, M. Hoek, N. Poccia, A. Vailionis, T. Venkatesan, J. M. D. Coey, E. Y. Tsymbal, Ariando, and H. Hilgenkamp, “Imaging and Control of Ferromagnetism in LaMnO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures,” Science 349, 716-719 (2015).
Seeds
a. Primary MRSEC Support—Seeds
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b. Partial MRSEC Support—Seeds
- U. Güngördü, R. Nepal, O. Tretiakov, K. D. Belashchenko, and A. A. Kovalev, “Stability of Skyrmion Lattices and Symmetries of Quasi-Two-Dimensional Chiral Magnets,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 064428 [13 pp] (2016).
Shared Facilities
- S. Poddar, K. Foreman, S. Adenwalla, and S. Ducharme, “Finite-Size Scaling of Flexoelectricity in Langmuir-Blodgett Polymer Thin Films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 012908 [5 pp] (2016).
- P. M. Wilson, F. Orange, M. J. F. Guinel, M. Shekhirev, Y.Gao, J. A. Colon Santana, A. A. Gusev, P. A. Dowben, Y. Lu, and A. Sinitskii, “Oxidative Peeling of Carbon Black Nanoparticles,” RSC Advances 5, 92539-92544 (2015).
- Q. Dong, J. Song, Y. Fang, Y. Shao, S. Ducharme, and J. Huang, “Lateral-Structure Single-Crystal Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells via Piezoelectric Poling,” Adv. Mater. 28, 2816-2821 (2016).
- C. J. Murphy, D. P. Miller, S. Simpson, A. Baggett, A. Pronschinske, M. L. Liriano, A. Therrien, A. Enders, S.-Y. Liu, E. Zurek, and E. C. H. Sykes, “Charge Transfer Induced Magic Cluster Formation of Azaborine Heterocycles on Noble Metal Surfaces,” J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 6020-6030 (2016).
- M. Abuwasib, H. Lee, A. Gruverman, C. B. Eom, and U. Singisetti, “Contact Resistance to SrRuO3 and La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 Epitaxial Films”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 242905 [5 pp] (2015).
- Y. Yuan and J. Huang, “Ion Migration in Organometal Trihalide Perovskite and Its Impact on Photovoltaic Efficiency and Stability,” Acc. Chem. Res. 49, 286-293 (2016).
- Z. Xiao, Q. Dong, Q. Wang, W. Tian, H. Huang, and J. Huang, “Efficiency Enhancement in Polymer Solar Cells with a Polar Small Molecule at Both Interface and in the Bulk Heterojunction Layer,” IEEE J. Photovoltaics 5, 1408-1413 (2015).
- A. Lipatov, B. B. Wymore, A. Fursina, T. H. Vo, A. Sinitskii, and J. G Redepenning, “Electropolymerization of Poly(phenylene oxide) on Graphene as a Top-Gate Dielectric,” Chem. Mater. 27, 157-165 (2015).
- J. S. Lee, A. Lipatov, L. Ha, M. Shekhirev, M. N. Andalib, A. Sinitskii, and J. Y. Lim, “Graphene Substrate for Inducing Neurite Outgrowth,” Biochem. & Biophys. Res. Comm. 460, 267-273 (2015).
- S. Roy, A. Solmaz, J. D. Burton, M. Huijben, G. Rijnders, E. Y. Tsymbal, and T. Banerjee, “Engineering Interfacial Energy Profile by Changing the Substrate Terminating Plane in Perovskite Heterointerfaces,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 115101 [6 pp] (2016).
- J. Dai and X. C. Zeng, “Covalent Nitrophenyl Diazonium Functionalized Silicene for Spintronics: A First-Principles Study,” Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 17, 17957-17961 (2015).
- L. Ma, X. C. Zeng, and J. Wang, “Oxygen Intercalation of Graphene on Transition Metal Substrate: An Edge-Limited Mechanism,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 6, 4099-4105 (2015).
- Y. Xu, J. Dai, and X. C. Zeng, “Al2C Monolayer Sheet and Nanoribbons with Unique Direction-Dependent Acoustic-Phonon-Limited Carrier Mobility and Carrier Polarity,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 7, 302-307 (2016).