IRG 1
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- S. Cao, M. Street, J. L. Wang, J. Wang, X. Zhang, C. Binek, and P. A. Dowben, “Magnetization at the Interface of Cr2O3 and Paramagnets with Large Stoner Susceptibility,” J. Phys. Cond. Matter 29, 10LT01[5pp] (2017).
- S. Cao, X. Zhang, K. Sinha, W. Wang, J. Wang, P. A. Dowben, and X. Xu, “Phase Separation in LuFeO3 Films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 202903 [5pp] (2016).
- S. Beniwal, J. Hooper, D. P. Miller, P. S. Costa, G. Chen, S.-Y. Liu, P. A. Dowben, E. C. H. Sykes, E. Zurek, and A. Enders, “Graphene-like Boron–Carbon–Nitrogen Monolayers,” ACS Nano 11(3), 2486–2493 (2017).
- S. Beniwal, X. Zhang, S. Mu, A. Naim, P. Rosa, G. Chastanet, J.-F. Letard, J. Liu, G. E. Sterbinsky, D. A. Arena, P. A. Dowben, and A. Enders, “Surface-Induced Spin State Locking of the [Fe(H2B(pz)2)2(bipy)] Spin Crossover Complex,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 28, 206002 [8pp] (2016).
- X. Jiang, H. Lu, Y. Yin, X. Zhang, X. Wang, L. Yu, Z. Ahmadi, P. S. Costa, A. D. DiChiara, X. Cheng, A. Gruverman, A. Enders, and X. Xu, “Room Temperature Ferroelectricity in Continuous Croconic Acid Thin Films,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 102902 [4pp] (2016).
- K Foreman, E. Echeverria, M. A. Koten, R. M. Lindsay, N. Hong, J. Shield, and S. Adenwalla, “The Metal/Organic Interface in Cobalt/Vinylidene Fluoride Heterostructures,” Mater. Res. Express 3, 116403 [10pp] (2016). (Selected for Annual Highlight 2016 – Thin Films).
- N. K. Yamoah, M. A. Koten, D. Thompson, C. Nannuri, J. Narayan, J. E. Shield, and D. Kumar, “Dependence of Grain Size And Defect Density on the Magnetic Properties of Mechanically Alloyed Fe90W10 Powder,” J. Appl. Phys. 120, 143903 [5pp] (2016).
- A. Rajapitamahuni, L. Zhang, M. A. Koten, V. R. Singh, J. D. Burton, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. E. Shield, and X. Hong, “Giant Enhancement of Magnetic Anisotropy in Ultrathin Manganite Films via Nanoscale 1D Periodic Depth Modulation,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 187201 [6pp] (2016).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- K. D. Belashchenko, A. A. Kovalev, and M. van Schilfgaarde, “Theory of Spin Loss at Metallic Interfaces,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 207204 [6pp] (2016).
- K. D. Belashchenko, O. Tchernyshyov, A. A. Kovalev, and O. A. Tretiakov, “Magnetoelectric Domain Wall Dynamics and its Implications for Magnetoelectric Memory,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 132403 [5pp] (2016).
- U. Singh, W. Echtenkamp, M. Street, C. Binek, and S. Adenwalla, “Local Writing of Exchange Biased Domains in a Heterostructure of Co/Pd Pinned by Magnetoelectric Chromia,” Adv. Funct. Mater. 26, 7470-7478 (2016).
- M. Yuan, I. Tanabe, J.-M. Bernard-Schaaf, Q.-Y. Shi, V. Schlegel, R. Schurhammer, P. A. Dowben, B. Doudin, L. Routaboul, and P. Braunstein, “Influence of Steric Hindrance on the Anchoring of Quinonoid Zwitterions on Gold Surfaces,” New J. Chem. 40, 5782-5796 (2016).
- S. Simpson, J. Hooper, D. P. Miller, D. A. Kunkel, A. Enders, and E. Zurek, “Modulating Bond Lengths via Backdonation: A First-Principles Investigation of a Quinonoid Zwitterion Adsorbed to Coinage Metal Surfaces,” J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 6633-6641 (2016).
- D. Peev, T. Hofmann, N. Kananizadeh, S. Wimer, B. Rodenhausen, C. M. Herzinger, T. Kasputis, E. Pfaunmiller, A. Nguyen, R. Korlacki, A. Pannier, Y. Li, E. Schubert, D. Hage, and M. Schubert, “Anisotropic Optical Contrast Microscope,” Rev. Sci. Instr. 87, 113701 [17pp] (2016).
- C. Bouhafs, V. Stanishev, A. A. Zakharov, T. Hofmann, P. Kühne, T. Iakimov, R. Yakimova, M. Schubert, and V. Darakchieva, “Decoupling and ordering of multilayer graphene on C-face 3C-SiC(111), “ Appl. Phys. Lett. 109, 203102 [4pp] (2016).
- C. Bouhafs, A. A. Zakharov, I. G. Ivanov, F. Giannazzo, J. Eriksson, V. Stanishev, P. Kühne, T. Iakimov, T. Hofmann, M. Schubert, F. Roccaforte, R. Yakimova, and V. Darakchieva, “Multi-scale Investigation of Interface Properties, Stacking Order and Decoupling of Few Layer Graphene on C-Face 4H-SiC,” Carbon 116, 722-732 (2017).
- E. Echeverria, B. Dong, G. Peterson, J. P. Silva, E. R. Wilson, M. S. Driver, Y.-S. Jun, G. D. Stucky, S. Knight, T. Hofmann, Z.-K. Han, N. Shao, Y. Gao, W.-N. Mei, M. Nastasi, P. A. Dowben, and J. A. Kelber, “Semiconducting Boron Carbides with Better Charge Extraction through the Addition of Pyridine Moieties,” J. Phys. D.: Applied Physics 49, 355302 [11pp] (2016).
- M. Schubert, “Coordinate-Invariant Lyddane-Sachs-Teller Relationship for Polar Vibrations in Materials with Monoclinic and Triclinic Crystal Systems,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 117, 215502 [6pp] (2016).
- M. Schubert, P. Kühne, V. Darakchieva, and T. Hofmann, “Optical Hall Effect—Model Description: Tutorial,” J. Opt. Soc. Am. A 33, 1553-1568 (2016).
IRG 2
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- X. Huang, T. R. Paudel, P. A. Dowben, S. Dong, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Electronic Structure and Stability of the CH3NH3PbBr3(001) Surface,” Phys. Rev. B 94, 195309 [8pp] (2016).
- T. Li, P. Sharma, A. Lipatov, H. Lee, J.-W. Lee, M. Y. Zhuravlev, T. R. Paudel, Y. Genenko, C.-B. Eom, E. Y. Tsymbal, A. Sinitskii, and A. Gruverman, “Polarization-Mediated Modulation of Electronic and Transport Properties of Hybrid MoS2/BaTiO3 Tunnel Junctions,” Nano Lett. 17, 922 -927 (2017).
- H. Lu, B. Wang, T. Li, A. Lipatov, H. Lee, A. Rajapitamahuni, R. Xu, X. Hong, S. Farokhipoor, L. W. Martin, C.-B. Eom, L.-Q. Chen, A. Sinitskii, and A. Gruverman, “Nanodomain Engineering in Ferroelectric Capacitors with Graphene Electrodes,” Nano Lett. 16, 6460-6466 (2016).
- H.-J. Feng, J. Huang, and X. C. Zeng, “Photovoltaic Diode Effect Induced by Positive Bias Poling of Organic Layer-Mediated Interface in Perovskite Heterostructure α-HC(NH2)2PbI3/TiO2,” Adv. Mater. Interfaces 3, 1600267 [9pp] (2016).
- P. M. Wilson, A. Zobel, A. J. Zaitouna, A. Lipatov, E. Schubert, T. Hofmann, M. Schubert, R. Lai, and A. Sinitskii, “Solution-Stable Anisotropic Carbon Nanotube/Graphene Hybrids Based on Slanted Columnar Thin Films for Chemical Sensing,” RSC Adv. 6, 63235-63240 (2016).
- I. Tutic, J. Herran, B. Staten, P. Gray, T. R. Paudel, A. Sokolov, E. Y. Tsymbal, and P. V. Lukashev, “Effects of Pressure and Strain on Spin Polarization of IrMnSb,” J. Phys. Cond. Matter 29, 075801 [9pp] (2017).
- X. Liu, J. D. Burton, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Enhanced Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions due to Reversible Metallization of Barrier,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 116, 197602 [5pp] (2016). Featured on the cover page of Physical Review Letters.
- T. Komesu, X. Huang, T. R. Paudel, Y. B. Losovyj, X. Zhang, E. F. Schwier, Y. Kojima, M. Zheng, H. Iwasawa, K. Shimada, M. Saidaminov, D. Shi, A. L. Abdelhady, O. M. Bakr, S. Dong, E. Y. Tsymbal, and P. A. Dowben, “Surface Electronic Structure of Hybrid Organo Lead Bromide Perovskite Single Crystals,” J. Phys. Chem. C 120, 21710-21715 (2016).
- J. Dai, M. Li, and X. C. Zeng, “Group IVB Transition Metaltrichalcogenides: A New Class of 2D Layered Materials Beyond Graphene,” WIREs Comp. Mol. Sci. 6, 211-222 (2016).
- Y. Lin, L. Shen, J. Dai, Y. Deng, Y. Wu, Y. Bai, X. Zheng, J. Wang, Y. Fang, H. Wei, W. Ma, X. C. Zeng, X. Zhan, and J. Huang, “π-Conjugated Lewis Base: Efficient Trap-Passivation and Charge-Extraction for Hybrid Perovskite Solar Cells,” Adv. Mater. 29, 1604545 [6pp] (2017).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- J. Song, H. Lu, K. Foreman, S. Li, L. Tan, S. Adenwalla, A. Gruverman, and S. Ducharme, “Ferroelectric Polymer Nanopillar Arrays on Flexible Substrates by Reverse Nanoimprint Lithography,” J. Mater. Chem. C 4, 5914-5921 (2016).
- S. Ducharme, “Organic Ferroelectrics,” Chapter 6 in Electrically Active Materials for Medical Devices, edited by Sayed A. M. Tofail and Joanna Bauer (World Scientific, Singapore, 2016).
- D. J. Kim, J. G Connell, S. S. A. Seo, and A. Gruverman, “Domain Wall Conductivity in Semiconducting Hexagonal Ferroelectric TbMnO3 Thin Films,” Nanotechnology 27, 155705 [6pp] (2016).
- Q. Wang, Q. Dong, T. Li, A. Gruverman, and J. Huang, “Thin Insulating Tunneling Contacts for Efficient and Water-Resistant Perovskite Solar Cells,” Adv. Mater. 28, 6734-6739 (2016).
- S. Poddar, H. Lu, J. Song, O. Goit, S. Valloppilly, A. Gruverman, and S. Ducharme, “Fabrication of Diisopropylammonium Bromide Aligned Microcrystals with In-Plane Uniaxial Polarization,” J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 49, 505305 [9pp] (2016).
- B. Chen, Y. Bai, Z. Yu, T. Li, X. Zheng, Q. Dong, L. Shen, M. Boccard, A. Gruverman, Z. Holman, and J. Huang, “Efficient Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells for 23.0%-Efficiency Perovskite/Silicon Four-Terminal Tandem Cells,” Adv. Energy Mater. 6, 1601128 [7pp] (2016).
- Y. Shao, Y. Fang, T. Li, Q. Wang, Q. Dong, Y. Deng, Y. Yuan, H. Wei, M. Wang, A. Gruverman, J. Shield, and J. Huang, “Grain Boundary Dominated Ion Migration in Polycrystalline Organic–Inorganic Halide Perovskite Films,” Energy Environ. Sci. 9, 1752-1759 (2016).
- A. Chernikova, M. Kozodaev, A. Markeev, D. Negrov, M. Spiridonov, S. Zarubin, O. Bak, P. Buragohain, H. Lu, E. Suvorova, A. Gruverman, and A. Zenkevich, “Ultrathin Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Ferroelectric Films on Si,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces, 8, 7232-7237 (2016).
- Z. Xiao and J. Huang, “Energy-Efficient Hybrid Perovskite Memristors and Synaptic Devices.” Adv. Electron. Mater. 2, 1600100 [8pp] (2016].
- H.-J. Feng, W. Deng, K. Yang, J. Huang, and X. C. Zeng, “Double Perovskite Cs2BBiX6 (B = Ag, Cu; X = Br, Cl)/TiO2 Heterojunction: An Efficient Pb-Free Perovskite Interface for Charge Extraction,” J. Phys. Chem. C 121, 4471-4480 (2017).
- A. Yulaev, A. Lipatov, A. X. Lu, A. Sinitskii, M. S. Leite, and A. Kolmakov, “Imaging and Analysis of Encapsulated Objects through Self-Assembled Electron and Optically Transparent Graphene Oxide Membranes,” Adv. Mater. Interfaces 4, 1600734 [11pp] (2017). Featured on the cover page of Advanced Materials Interfaces.
- A. Zobel, A. Boson, P. M. Wilson, D. S. Muratov, D. V. Kuznetsov, and A. Sinitskii, “Chemical Vapour Deposition and Characterization of Uniform Bilayer and Trilayer MoS2 Crystals,” J. Mater. Chem. C 4, 11081-11087 (2016).
- A. Lipatov, M. Alhabeb, M. R. Lukatskaya, A. Boson, Y. Gogotsi, and A. Sinitskii, “Effect of Synthesis on Quality, Electronic Properties and Environmental Stability of Individual Monolayer Ti3C2 MXene Flakes,” Adv. Electr. Mater. 2, 1600255 [9pp] (2016). Featured on the cover page of Advanced Electronic Materials.
- H. Lee, T. H. Kim, J. R. Patzner, H. Lu, J. Lee, H. Zhou, W. Chang, M. Mahanthappa, E. Y. Tsymbal, A. Gruverman, and C.-B. Eom, “Imprint Control of BaTiO3 Thin Films via Chemically-Induced Surface Polarization Pinning,” Nano Lett. 16, 2400-2406 (2016).
- M. Wu and X. C. Zeng, “Intrinsic Ferroelasticity and/or Multiferroicity in Two-Dimensional Phosphorene and Phosphorene Analogues,” Nano Lett. 16, 3236-3241 (2016).
- Z. Tu, M. Wu, and X. C. Zeng, “Two-Dimensional Metal-Free Organic Multiferroic Material for Design of Multifunctional Integrated Circuits,” J. Phys. Chem. Lett. 8, 1973-1978 (2017).
- L. Ma, J. Dai, and X. C. Zeng, “Two-Dimensional Single-Layer Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Perovskite Semiconductors,” Adv. Energy Mater. 7, 1601731 [5pp] (2017). Featured on the cover page of Advanced Energy Materials.
- F. Ceballos, M.-G. Ju, S. D. Lane, X. C. Zeng, and H. Zhao, "Highly Efficient and Anomalous Charge Transfer in van der Waals Trilayer Semiconductors,” Nano Lett. 17, 1623−1628 (2017).
- M. Wu, S. Dong, K. Yao, J. Liu, and X. C. Zeng, “Ferroelectricity in Covalently functionalized Two-dimensional Materials: Integration of High-mobility Semiconductors and Nonvolatile Memory,” Nano Lett. 16, 7309-7315 (2016).
- Q. Cui, A. Lipatov, J. S. Wilt, M. Z. Bellus, X. C. Zeng, J. Wu, A. Sinitskii, and H. Zhao, “Time-Resolved Measurements of Photocarrier Dynamics in TiS3 Nanoribbons,” ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 8, 18334-18338 (2016).
- M. Z. Bellus, M. Li, S. D. Lane, F. Ceballos, Q. Cui, X. C. Zeng, and H. Zhao, “Type-I van der Waals Heterostructure Formed by MoS2 and ReS2 Monolayers,” Nanoscale Horiz. 2, 31-36 (2017). Featured on the cover page of Nanoscale Horizon.
- N. Wang, Y. Zhou, M.-G. Ju, H. F. Garces, T. Ding, S. Pang, X. C. Zeng, N. P. Padture, and X. W. Sun, “Heterojunction-Depleted Lead-Free Perovskite Solar Cells with Coarse-Grained B-γ-CsSnI3 Thin Films,” Adv. Energy Mater. 6, 1601130 [10pp] (2016). Featured on the cover page of Advanced Energy Materials.
Seeds
a. Primary MRSEC Support—Seeds
- K. Klyukin and V. Alexandrov, “Effect of Intrinsic Point Defects on Ferroelectric Polarization Behavior of SrTiO3,” Phys. Rev. B 95, 035301 [8pp] (2017).
- Y. Li and C. Argyropoulos, “Controlling Collective Spontaneous Emission with Plasmonic Waveguides,” Optics Express 24, 26696-26708 (2016).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—Seeds
- A. A. Kovalev and V. Zyuzin, “Spin Torque and Nernst Effects in Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya Ferromagnets,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 161106 [5pp] (2016).
- U. Güngördü and A. A. Kovalev, “Theory of Magnon Motive Force in Chiral Ferromagnets,” Phys. Rev. B 94, 020405 [5pp] (2016).
- M. Elzouka and S. Ndao, “High Temperature Near-Field NanoThermoMechanical Rectification,” Scientific Reports 7, 44901 [8pp] (2017).
Shared Facilities
- H. Taz, T. Sakthivel, N. K.Yamoah, C. Carr, D. Kumar, S. Seal and R. Kalyanaraman, “Transparent Ferromagnetic and Semiconducting Behavior in FeDy-Tb Based Amorphous Oxide Films,” Scientific Reports 6, 27869 [8pp] (2016).