MRSEC-Supported Publications
April 2014 - March 2015

IRG 1
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- P. Manchanda, U. Singh, S. Adenwalla, A. Kashyap, and R. Skomski, “Strain and stress in magnetoelastic Co-Pt multilayers,” IEEE Trans. Magn. 50 (11), 2504804 [4 pages] (2014).
- R. Choudhary, P. Manchanda, A. Enders, B. Balamurugan, A. Kashyap, D. J. Sellmyer, E. C. H. Sykes, and R. Skomski, “Spin-modified catalysis,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 17D720 [4 pages] (2015).
- N. Al-Aqtash and R. F. Sabirianov, “Photo-switching of magnetization in iron nanoparticles,” J. Mater. Chem. C 2, 6873-6878 (2014).
- Y. Tian, P. Mukherjee, T. V. Jayaraman, Z. Xu, Y. Yu, L. Tan, D. J. Sellmyer, and J. E. Shield, “Ultrahigh-density sub-10 nm nanowire array formation via surface-controlled phase separation,” Nano Letters 14, 4328-4333 (2014).
- A. Nelson, Y. Huh, P. Kharel, V. R. Shah, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Structural, magnetic and electron transport properties of Mn3-xPtxSn (x = 0, 0.5, 1) nanomaterials,” J. Appl. Phys. 115, 17A923 [3 pages] (2014).
- Y. Huh, P. Kharel, A. Nelson, V. R. Shah, J. Pereiro, P. Manchanda, A. Kashyap, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Effect of Co substitution on the magnetic and electron-transport properties of Mn2PtSn,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 27, 076002 [7 pages] (2015).
- S. Chen and X. C. Zeng, “Design of ferroelectric organic molecular crystals with ultrahigh polarization,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 6428-6436 (2014).
- S. Beniwal, S. Chen, D. A. Kunkel, J. Hooper, S. Simpson, E. Zurek, X. C. Zeng, and A. Enders, “Kagome-like lattice of π–π stacked 3-hydroxyphenalenone on Cu (111),” Chem. Commun. 50, 8659-8662 (2014).
- W. Y. Zhang, P. Kharel, S. Valloppilly, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Synthesis and magnetism of single-phase Mn-Ga films,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 17E306 [4 pages] (2015).
- C. Briley, D. Schmidt, T. Hofmann, E. Schubert, and M. Schubert, “Anisotropic magneto-optical hysteresis of permalloy slanted columnar thin films determined by vector magneto-optical generalized ellipsometry,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 106, 133104 [5 pages] (2015).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 1
- J. Hooper, D. A. Kunkel, S. Simpson, S. Beniwal, A. Enders, and E. Zurek, “Chiral surface networks of 3-HPLN—A molecular analog of rounded triangle assembly," Surface Science 629, 65-74 (2014).
- T. H. Vo, M. Shekhirev, D. A. Kunkel, F. Orange, M. J.-F. Guinel, A. Enders, and A. Sinitskii, “Bottom-up solution synthesis of narrow nitrogen-doped graphene nanoribbons," Chem. Commun. 50, 4172-4174, 2014.
- K. Du, K. Zhang, S. Dong, W. Wei, J. Shao, J. Niu, J. Chen, Y. Zhu, H. Lin, X. Yin, S.-H. Liou, L. Yin, and J. Shen, “Visualization of a ferromagnetic metallic edge state in manganite strips,” Nature Comm. 6, 6179 [5 pages] (2015).
- K. Tarawneh, N. Al-Aqtash, and R. F. Sabirianov, “Large magnetoresistance of MnBi/Bi/MnBi spin valve,” J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 363, 43-48 (2014).
- P. Kharel, Y. Huh, N. Al-Aqtash, V. R. Shah, R. F. Sabirianov, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Structural and magnetic transitions in cubic Mn3Ga,” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26 126001 [8 pages] (2014).
- P. Manchanda, P. Kumar, H. Fangohr, D. J. Sellmyer, A. Kashyap, and R. Skomski, “Magnetoelectric Control of Surface Anisotropy and nucleation modes in L10-CoPt thin films,” IEEE Magn. Lett. 5, 2500104 [4 pages] (2014).
- S. Kment, Z. Hubicka, J. Krysa, D. Sekora, M. Zlamal, J. Olejnicek, M. Cada, P. Ksirova, Z. Remes, P. Schmuki, E. Schubert, and R. Zboril, “On the improvement of PEC activity of hematite thin films deposited by high-power pulsed magnetron sputtering method,” Applied Catalysis B:Environmental 165, 344-350 (2015).
- R. Skomski, P. Manchanda, I. Takeuchi, and J. Cui, “Geometry dependence of magnetization reversal in nanocomposite alloys,” Journal of Metals 66, 1144-1150 (2014).
- R. Skomski, E. Schubert, A. Enders, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Kondorski reversal in magnetic nanowires, J. Appl. Phys. 115, 17D137 [3 pages] 2014.
- X. Yin, R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer, S.-H. Liou, S. E. Russek, Eric R. Evarts, J. Moreland, A. S. Edelstein, L. Yuan, M. Yan, and J. Shen, “Adjusting magnetic nanostructures for high-performance magnetic sensors,” J. Appl. Phys. 115, 17E528 [3 pages] (2014).
- P. Kumar, R. Skomski, and A. Kashyap, “Magnetism and magnetocrystalline anisotropy in low-dimensional Rh and Ir,” IEEE Trans. Magn. 50 (11), 1100204 [4 pages] (2014).
- M. Gong, A. Kirkeminde, R. Skomski, J. Cui, and S. Ren, “Template‐directed FeCo nanoshells on AuCu,” Small 10 (20), 4118-4122 (2014).
- P. Manchanda, P. Kumar, B. Balamurugan, P. Mukherjee, A. Kashyap, D. J. Sellmyer, and R. Skomski, “Magnetic silicon nanoparticles,” IEEE Trans. Magn. 50 (11), 2303604 [4 pages] (2014)
- N. Lu, H. Guo, L. Li, J. Dai, L. Wang, Wai-Ning Mei, X. Wu, and X. C. Zeng, “MoS2/MX2 heterobilayers: bandgap engineering via tensile strain or external electrical field,” Nanoscale 6, 2879-2886 (2014).
- R. Zhou, B. Qu, J. Dai, and X. C. Zeng, “Unraveling crystalline structure of high-pressure phase of silicon carbonate,” Phys. Rev. X 4, 011030 [11 pages] (2014).
- H. Guo, N. Lu, L. Wang, X. Wu, and X. C. Zeng, “Tuning electronic and magnetic properties of early transition-metal dichalcogenides via tensile strain,” J. Phys. Chem. C, 118, 7242-7249 (2014).
- N. Lu, H. Guo, L. Wang, X. Wu, and X. C. Zeng, “van der Waals trilayers and superlattices: modification of electronic structures of MoS2 by intercalation,” Nanoscale 6, 4566-4571 (2014).
- M. A. Koten, P. Mukherjee, and J. E. Shield, “Core-shell nanoparticles driven by surface energy differences in the Co-Ag, W-Fe and Mo-Co systems,” Part. & Part. Syst. Charact., published online doi: 10.1002/ppsc.201500019 (2015).
- R. Fuglsby, P. Kharel, W. Zhang, S. Valloppilly, Y. Huh, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Magnetism of hexagonal Mn1.5X0.5Sn (X = Cr, Mn, Fe, Co) nanomaterials,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 17D115 [4 pages] (2015).
- M. A. Koten, P. Manchanda, B. Balamurugan, R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer, and J. E. Shield, “Ferromagnetism in Laves-phase WFe2 nanoparticles,” APL Mater. 3, 076101 [6 pages] (2015).
c. Publications resulting from research, but do not acknowledge the MRSEC award—IRG1
- P. Manchanda, R. Skomski, and A. Kashyap, “Supercell calculations of magnetization, exchange, and anisotropy” (invited), Proc. REPM'14, Annapolis 2014, p. 285-288.
IRG 2
a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- S. Davis, J. A. Borchers, B. B. Maranville, and S. Adenwalla, “Fast strain wave induced magnetization changes in long cobalt bars: Domain motion versus coherent rotation,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 063904 (2015).
- S. Mu, A. L. Wysocki, and K. D. Belashchenko, “First-principles microscopic model of exchange-driven magnetoelectric response with application to Cr2O3,” Phys. Rev. B 89, 174413 [7 pages] (2014).
- P. Sharma, S. Poddar, R. Korlacki, S. Ducharme, and A. Gruverman, “Investigation of ferroelectric domains in thin films of vinylidene fluoride oligomers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 022906 [4 pages] (2014).
- S. Cao, X. Zhang, N. Wu, A. T. N’Diaye, G. Chen, A. K. Schmid, X. Chen, W. Echtenkamp, A. Enders, C. Binek, and P. A. Dowben, “Spin polarization asymmetry at the surface of chromia," New J. Phys. 16, 073021 [9 pages] (2014).
- A. Lipatov, B. B. Wymore, A. Fursina, T. H. Vo, A. Sinitskii, and J. Redepenning, “Electropolymerization of Poly(phenylene oxide) on graphene as a top-gate dieclectric,” Chem. Mater. 27, 157-165 (2015).
- Z. Gai, W. Lin, J. D. Burton, K. Fuchigami, P. C. Snijders, T. Z. Ward, E. Y. Tsymbal, J. Shen, S. Jesse, S. V. Kalinin, and A. P. Baddorf, “Chemically-induced Jahn-Teller ordering on manganite surfaces,” Nature Comm. 5, 4528 [6 pages] (2014).
- K. D. Belashchenko, J. Weerasinghe, S. Mu, and B. S. Pujari, “Spectral signatures of thermal spin disorder and excess Mn in half-metallic NiMnSb,” Phys. Rev. B 91, 180408 [5 pages] (2015).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 2
- K. Foreman, C. Labedz, M. Shearer, and S. Adenwalla, “Organic ferroelectric evaporator with substrate cooling and in situ transport capabilities,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 043902 [7 pages] (2014).
- J. K. Glasbrenner, B. S. Pujari, and K. D. Belashchenko, “Deviations from Matthiessen rule and resistivity saturation effects in Gd and Fe,” Phys. Rev. B 89, 174408 [10 pages] (2014).
- X. Chen, H. Kazi, Y. Cao, B. Dong, F. L. Pasquale, J. A. Colón Santana, S. Cao, M. Street, R. Welch, C. Binek, A. Enders, J. A. Kelber and P. A. Dowben, “Ultrathin chromia films grown with preferential texture on metallic, semimetallic and insulating substrates,” Mater. Chem. and Phys. 149-150, 113-123 (2015).
- M. Street, W. Echtenkamp, T. Komesu, S. Cao, P. A. Dowben, and C. Binek, “Increasing the Néel temperature of magnetoelectric chromia for voltage-controlled spintronics,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 222402 [4 pages] (2014).
- T. D. Kelly, J. C. Petrosky, D. Turner, J. W. McClory, J. M. Mann, J. W. Kolis, X. Zhang, and P. A. Dowben, “The unoccupied electronic structure characterization of hydrothermally grown ThO2 single crystals,” Phys. Stat. Sol. RRL 8, 283-286 (2014).
- T. Komesu, D. Le, X. Zhang, Q. Ma, E. F. Schwier, Y. Kojima, M. Zheng, H. Iwasawa, K. Shimada, M. Taniguchi, L. Bartels, T. S. Rahman, and P. A. Dowben, “Occupied and unoccupied electronic structure of Na doped MoS2(0001),” Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 241602 [4 pages] (2014).
- P. Sharma, A. Fursina, S. Poddar, S. Ducharme, and A. Gruverman, “Coplanar switching of polarization in thin films of vinylidene fluoride oligomers,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 105, 182903 [4 pages] (2014).
- Z. Xiao, J. Hamblin, S. Poddar, S. Ducharme, P. Paruch, and X. Hong, “Effect of thermal annealing on ferroelectric domain structures in poly(vinylidene-fluoride-trifluorethylene) Langmuir-Blodgett thin films,” J. Appl. Phys. 116, 066819 [5 pages] (2014).
- L. Kong, A. Enders, T. S. Rahman, and P. A. Dowben, “Molecular adsorption on graphene," J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 26, 443001 [27 pages] (2014).
- T. D. Kelly, E. Echeverria, S. Beniwal, V. T. Adamiv, Y. V. Burak, A. Enders, J. C. Petrosky, J. W. McClory, and P. A. Dowben, “The chromium site in doped glassy lithium tetraborate," Materials Chemistry and Physics 147, 492-495 (2014).
- R. G. P. McQuaid, A. Gruverman, J. F. Scott, and J. M. Gregg, “Exploring vertex interactions in ferroelectric flux-closure domains,” Nano Lett. 14, 4230-4237 (2014).
- Y. W. Yin, M. Raju, W. J. Hu, J. D. Burton, Y.-M. Kim, A. Y. Borisevich, S. J. Pennycook, S. M. Yang, T. W. Noh, A. Gruverman, X. G. Li, Z. D. Zhang, E. Y. Tsymbal, and Qi Li, “Multiferroic tunnel junctions and ferroelectric control of magnetic state at interface,” J. Appl. Phys. 117, 172601 [7 pages] (2015).
- T. D. Kelly, J. C. Petrosky, J. W. McClory, V. T. Adamiv, Ya. V. Burak, B. V. Padlyak, I. M. Teslyuk, N. Lu, L. Wang, W.-N. Mei, and P. A. Dowben, “The local structure of rare earth (Nd, Gd, Dy, and Er) dopants in lithium tetraborate glasses,” Frontiers in Physics 2, 31 [10 pages] (2014).
- M.-Y. Xie, M. Schubert, J. Lu, P. O. A. Persson, V. Stanishev, C. L. Hsiao, L. C. Chen, W. J. Schaff, and V. Darakchieva, “Assessing structural, free-charge carrier, and phonon properties of mixed-phase epitaxial films: The case of InN,” Phys. Rev. B 90, 195306 [14 pages] (2014).
- P. Kühne, C. M. Herzinger, M. Schubert, J. A. Woollam, and T. Hofmann, “Invited Article: An integrated mid-infrared, far-infrared, and terahertz optical Hall effect instrument,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 85, 071301 [19 pages] (2014).
- R. Skomski, P. A. Dowben, M. Sky Driver, and J. A. Kelber, “Sublattice-induced symmetry breaking and band-gap formation in graphene,” Mater. Horiz. 1, 563-571 (2014).
- D. Barrionuevo, Le Zhang, N. Ortega, A. Sokolov, A. Kumar, Pankaj Misra, J. F. Scott, and R. S. Katiyar, “Tunneling electroresistance in multiferroic heterostructures,” Nanotechnology 25, 495203 [9 pages] (2014).
- X. Dang, J. D. Burton, A. Kalitsov, J. P. Velev, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Complex band structure of topologically protected edge states, Phys. Rev. B 90, 155307 [7 pages] (2014).
- D. J. Kim, T. R. Paudel, H. Lu, J. D. Burton, J. G. Connell, E. Y. Tsymbal, S. S. A. Seo, and A. Gruverman, “"Room-temperature ferroelectricity in hexagonal TbMnO3 thin films,” Adv. Mater. 26, 7660-7665 (2014).
- H. Lu, A. Lipatov, S. Ryu, D. J. Kim, M. Y .Zhuravlev, C. B. Eom, E. Y. Tsymbal, A. Sinitskii, and A. Gruverman, “Ferroelectric tunnel junctions with graphene electrodes,” Nature Comm. 5, 5518 (2014).
- A. P. Petrovic, A. Pare, T. R. Paudel, K. Lee, S. Holmes, C. H. W. Barnes, A. David, T. Wu, E. Y. Tsymbal, and C. Panagopoulos, “Long-range electronic reconstruction to a dxz,yz-dominated Fermi surface below the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface,” Scientific Reports 4, 5338 [7 pages] (2014).
- A. P. Petrovic, A. Pare, T. R. Paudel, K. Lee, S. Holmes, C. H. W. Barnes, A. David, T. Wu, E. Y. Tsymbal, and C. Panagopoulos, “Emergent vortices at a ferromagnetic superconducting oxide interface,” New J. Phys. 16, 103012 [19 pages] (2014).
c. Publications resulting from research, but do not acknowledge the MRSEC award—IRG2
- V. Burobina and C. Binek, “Spin relaxation time dependence on optical pumping intensity in GaAs:Mn,” J. Appl. Phys.115, 163909 [4 pages] (2014).
- P. Kumar, R. Skomski, P. Manchanda, A. Kashyap, and P. A. Dowben “Effective mass and band gap of strained graphene,” Curr. Appl. Phys. 14, S136-S139 (2014).
Seeds
a. Primary MRSEC Support—Seeds
- J. A. Johnson, X. Zhang, X. Zhang, and J. Zhang, “Recent Advances in Ionic Metal-Organic Frameworks: Design, Synthesis, and Application,” Curr. Org. Chem. 18, 1973-2001 (2014).
- J. A. Johnson, X. Zhang, T. C. Reeson, Y.-S. Chen, and J. Zhang, “Facile Control of the Charge Density and Photocatalytic Activity of an Anionic Indium Porphyrin Framework via in Situ Metalation,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 136, 15881-15884 (2014).
b. Partial MRSEC Support—Seeds
- V. R. Singh, L. Zhang, A. K. Rajapitamahuni, N. Devries, and X. Hong, “Nonlinear transport in nanoscale phase separated colossal magnetoresistive oxide thin films,” J. Appl. Phys. 116, 033914 [5 pages] (2014).
- A. McQuistan, A. J. Zaitouna, E. Echeverria, and R. Y. Lai, “Use of thiolated oligonucleotides as anti-fouling diluents in electrochemical peptide-based sensors,” Chem. Commun. 50, 4690-4692 (2014).
- A. Sinitskii, K. J. Erickson, W. Lu, A. L. Gibb, C. Y. Zhi, Y. Bando, D. Golberg, A. Zettl, and J. M. Tour. “High-yield synthesis of boron nitride nanoribbons via longitudinal splitting of boron nitride nanotubes by potassium vapor,” ACS Nano 8, 9867-9873 (2014).
- T. H. Vo, M. Shekhirev, A. Lipatov, R. A. Korlacki, and A. Sinitskii, “Bulk properties of solution-synthesized chevron-like graphene nanoribbons,” Faraday Discussions 173, 105-113 (2014).
- A. Lipatov, A. Varezhnikov, M. Augustin, M. Bruns, M. Sommer, V. Sysoev, A. Kolmakov, and A. Sinitskii, “Intrinsic device-to-device variation in graphene field-effect transistors on a Si/SiO2 substrate as a platform for discriminative gas sensing,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 104, 013114 [5 pages] (2014).
- A. Lipatov, A. Varezhnikov, P. Wilson, V. Sysoev, A. Kolmakov, and A. Sinitskii, “Highly selective gas sensor arrays based on thermally reduced graphene oxide,” Nanoscale 5, 5426-5434 (2013).
c. Publications resulting from research, but do not acknowledge the MRSEC award—Seeds
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