MRSEC-Supported Publications

April 2009 - March 2010

IRG 1
IRG 2
Seeds

publications

 

IRG 1


a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 1

1. A. Enders, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Designed Magnetic Nanostructures,” in Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications, J. P. Liu, E. Fullerton, O. Gutfleisch, D. J. Sellmyer, Eds. (Springer, Berlin, 2009), pp. 67-104.
2. L. Yue, Z. Li, R. Kirby, and D. J. Sellmyer, “MFM Studies of Interlayer Exchange Coupling in Co/Ru/Co Films: Effect of Ru Layer Thickness,” Ultramicroscopy 109, 1040-1043 (2009).
3. X. Z. Li, Z. G. Sun, and D. J. Sellmyer, “IGC Fabrication and TEM Characterization of Mn Nanoparticles,” Micros. Microanal. 15, 1254-1255 (2009).
4. J. P. Liu, E. Fullerton, O. Gutfleisch, and D. J. Sellmyer, Eds., Nanoscale Magnetic Materials and Applications, (Springer, Berlin, 2009).
5. M. Chipara, J. R. Villarreal, M. D. Chipara, K. Lozano, A. C. Chipara, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Spectroscopic Investigations on Polypropylene-Carbon Nanofiber Composites. I. Raman and Electron Spin Resonance Spectroscopy,” J. of Polymer Science: Part B: Polymer Physics 47, 1644-1652 (2009).
6. T. A. George, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Magnetic Correlations in Nanocomposite FePt:Au and FePt:C Films,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07B736 (2009).
7. X.-H. Wei, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Structure and Magnetism of Pure and Co-Doped TiO2 Clusters,” IEEE Trans. Mag. 45, 4089-4091 (2009).
8. X.-H. Wei, R. Skomski, B. Balamurugan, Z. G. Sun, S. Ducharme, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Magnetism of TiO and TiO2 Nanoclusters,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07C517 1-3 (2009).
9. N. Ali, M. Chipara, S. Balascuta, R. Skomski, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Ferromagnetic Resonance Investigations on Styrene-Butadiene-Styrene Barium Ferrite Nanocomposites,” J. Nanosci. Nanotechnol. 9, 4437-4441 (2009).
10. J. Koch and R. Sabirianov, “Finite size effects in shell nanoparticles”, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 321, 1137–1141 (2009).
11. Y. S. Yu, H.-B. Li, W. L. Li, M. Liu, Y.-M. Zhang, W. D. Fei, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Low-Temperature Ordering of FePt Films by In-Situ Heating Deposition Plus Post Deposition Annealing,” Thin Solid Films 518, 2171-2174 (2010).

b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 1

1. J. Honolka, T. Y. Lee, K. Kuhnke, D. Repetto, V. Sessi, P. Wahl, A. Buchsbaum, P. Varga, S. Gardonio, C. Carbone, S. R. Krishnakumar, P. Gambardella, M. Komelj, R. Singer, M. Fähnle, K. Fauth, G. Schütz, A. Enders, and K. Kern, “Complex magnetic phase in submonolayer Fe stripes on Pt(997),” Phys. Rev. B 79, 104430 (2009).
2. S. H. Liou, D. J. Sellmyer, Stephen E. Russek, Ranko Heindl, F. C. S. Da Silva, John Moreland, David P. Pappas, L. Yuan, and J. Shen, “Magnetic Noise in a Low-Power Picotesla Magnetoresistive Sensor”, 8th IEEE Sensors Conference proceedings, 1848-1851 (2009).
3. N. G. Akdogan, G. C. Hadjipanayis, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Anisotropic PrCo5 Nanoparticles by Surfactant-Assisted Ball Milling,” IEEE Trans. Mag. 45, 4417-4419 (2009).
4. N. G. Akdogan, G. C. Hadjipanayis, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Anisotropic Sm2(Co,Fe)17 Nanoparticles Produced by Surfactant Assisted Ball Milling,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A710 (2009).
5. S. Aich, S. Das, I. Al-Omari, P. Alagarsamy, S. G. Chowdhury, M. Chakraborti, J. E. Shield, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Microstructures and Magnetic Properties of Rapidly Solidified Ni54Fe27-xGa19+2x Ferromagnetic Heusler Alloys,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A943 (2009).
6. R. Skomski and D. J. Sellmyer, “Anisotropy of Rare-Earth Magnets,” J. Rare Earths 27, 675-679 (2009).
7. R. Skomski, G. C. Hadjipanayis, and D. J. Sellmyer, “Graded Permanent Magnets,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A733 (2009).
8. R. Skomski, J. Honolka, S. Bornemann, H. Ebert, and A. Enders, “Dzyaloshinski–Moriya micromagnetics of magnetic surface alloys”, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07D533 (2009).
9. X. Wu and X. C. Zeng, “Double Metallocene Nanowires,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 14246–14248 (2009).
10. X. Wu, Y. Pei, and X. C. Zeng, “B2C Graphene, Nanotubes, and Nanoribbons,” Nano Letters 9 (4), 1577-1582 (2009).
11. M. Wu, X. Wu, Y. Gao, and X. C. Zeng, “Materials design of half-metallic graphene and graphene nanoribbons,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 223111 (1-3) (2009).

c. Shared Facilities—IRG1

1. R. S. K. Valiveti, A. Ingmire, and J. E. Shield, “Rapidly solidified Sm-Co-V nanocomposite permanent magnets,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A727 (2009).
2. Y. Pei, Y. Gao, N. Shao, and X. C. Zeng, “Thiolate-Protected Au20(SR)16 Cluster: Prolate Au8 Core with New [Au3(SR)4] Staple Motif,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 13619–13621 (2009).
3. X. Zhang, J. Wang, Y. Gao, and X. C. Zeng, “Ab Initio Study of Structural and Magnetic Properties of TMn(ferrocene)n+1 (TM = Sc, Ti, V, Mn) Sandwich Clusters and Nanowires (n = ∞),” ACS Nano 3 (3), 537-545 (2009).
4. W. Huang, S. Bulusu, R. Pal, X. C. Zeng, and L.-S. Wang, “Structural Transition of Gold Nanoclusters: From the Golden Cage to the Golden Pyramid,” ACS Nano 3 (5), 1225–1230 (2009).
5. Y. Gao, W. Huang, J. Woodford, L.-S. Wang, and X. C. Zeng, “Detecting Weak Interactions between Au- and Gas Molecules: A Photoelectron Spectroscopic and Ab Initio Study,” J. Am. Chem. Soc. 131, 9484–9485 (2009).

 

IRG 2


a. Primary MRSEC Support—IRG 2

1. A. Baruth and S. Adenwalla, “Temperature and set field dependence of exchange bias training effects in Co/NiO/[Co/Pt] heterostructures with orthogonal easy axes”, J. Magn. Magn. Mater. 322 (14), 2051-2057 (2010).
2. S. Ducharme and A. Gruverman, “Start the Presses,” Nature Materials 8, 9-10 (2009). Invited "News and Views" article. DOI:10.1038/nmat2348.
3. P. Sharma, T. J. Reece, D. Wu, V. M. Fridkin, S. Ducharme, and A. Gruverman, “Nanoscale Domain Patterns in Ultrathin Polymer Ferroelectric Films,” J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21, 485902 (2009).
4. A. Gruverman, “Nanoscale insight into the statics and dynamics of polarization behavior in thin film ferroelectric capacitors”, Special Issue of J. Mat. Sci. 44, No 19, 5182 (2009).
5. A. Gruverman, D. Wu, H. Lu, Y. Wang, H. W. Jang, C. M. Folkman, M. Ye. Zhuravlev, D. Felker, M. Rzchowski, C.-B. Eom, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Tunneling electroresistance effect in ferroelectric tunnel junctions at the nanoscale”, Nano Letters 9, 3539 – 3543 (2009).
6. Ning Wu, R. F. Sabirianov, W. N. Mei, Ya. B. Losovyj, N. Lozova, M. Manno, C. Leighton, and P. A. Dowben, “The Minority Spin Surface Bands of CoS2(001)”, J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21 295501(1-6) (2009).
7. Ning Wu, Ya. B. Losovyj, Zhaoxian Yu, R. F. Sabirianov, W. N. Mei, N. Lozova, J. A. Colón Santana, and P. A. Dowben, “The Surface Relaxation and Band Structure of Mo(112)”, J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21, 474222 1-9 (2009).
8. D. Schmidt, B. Booso, T. Hofmann, E. Schubert, A. Sarangan, and M. Schubert, “Generalized ellipsometry for monoclinic absorbing materials: determination of optical constants of Cr columnar thin films,” Opt. Lett. 34, 992 (2009).
9. V. M. Voora, T. Hofmann, M. Brandt, M. Lorenz, M. Grundmann, and M. Schubert, “Interface-charge-coupled polarization response of Pt-ZnO-BaTiO3-ZnO-Pt heterostructures: Three-layer model expansion,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1110, 1110-C06-14 (2009).
10. V. M. Voora, T. Hofmann, M. Brandt, M. Lorenz, M. Grundmann, N. Ashkenov, and M. Schubert, “Resistive hysteresis and interface charge coupling in BaTiO3-ZnO heterostructures,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 94, 142904 (2009).
11. V. M. Voora, T. Hofmann, M. Brandt, M. Lorenz, M. Grundmann, N. Ashkenov, and M. Schubert, “Electrical properties of ZnO-BaTiO3-ZnO heterostructures with asymmetric interface charge distribution,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 082902 (2009).
12. A. Sokolov, R. Sabirianov, I. Sabirianov, and B. Doudin “Voltage-induced switching with magnetoresistance signature in magnetic nano-filaments”, J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 21, 485303, (2009).
13. J. D. Burton and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Prediction of Electrically-Induced Magnetic Reconstruction at the Manganite/Ferroelectric Interface”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 174406 (1-6) (2009).
14. J. D. Burton, J. P. Velev and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Oxide tunnel junctions supporting a two-dimensional electron gas”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 115408 (1-8) (2009).
15. M. Ye. Zhuravlev, Y. Wang, S. Maekawa, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Tunneling Electroresistance in Ferroelectric Tunnel Junctions with a Composite Barrier”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 052902 (1-3) (2009).
16. M. K. Niranjan, J. D. Burton, J. P. Velev, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Magnetoelectric effect at the SrRuO3/BaTiO3 (001) interface: An ab initio study”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 052501 (1-3) (2009).

b. Partial MRSEC Support—IRG 2

1. Y. Wang, M. K. Niranjan, J. D. Burton, J. M. An, K. D. Belashchenko, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Prediction of a spin-polarized two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/EuO(001) interface”, Phys. Rev. B 79, 212408 [4 pages] (2009).
2. N. Wu, Ya. B. Losovyj, M. Manno, C. Leighton, and P. A. Dowben, “The Surface Electronic Band Structure of CoS2(001)”, New Materials with High Spin Polarization and Their Applications, edited by C. Felser, A. Gupta, B. Hillebrands, and S. Wurmehl, MRS Symposium Proceedings 1119E, L03-03 (2009).
3. L. G. Rosa, J. Jiang, O. V. Lima, J. Xiao, E. Utreras, P. A. Dowben, and Li Tan, “Selective Nanoshaving of Self-Assembled Monolayers of 2-(4-Pyridylethyl)triethoxysilane”, Materials Letters 63, 961-964 (2009).
4. D. S. Wisbey, N. Wu, D. Feng, A. N. Caruso, J. Belot, Ya. B. Losovyj, E. Vescovo, P. A. Dowben, “Induced Spin Polarization of Copper Spin ½ Molecular Layers”, Phys. Lett. A 373, 484-488 (2009).
5. T. J. Reece and S. Ducharme, “Modeling of metal-ferroelectric-insulator-semiconductor structures based on Langmuir-Blodgett copolymer films,” J. Appl. Phys. 106, 124505 (2009).
6. R. V. Gaynutdinov, O. A. Lysova, S. G. Yudin, A. L. Tolstikhina, A. L. Kholkin, V. M. Fridkin, S. Ducharme, “Polarization switching kinetics of ferroelectric nanomesas of vinylidene fluoride-trifluoroethylene copolymer,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 023303 (2009); Virtual Journal of Nanoscale Science and Technology 20 (4), 27 July 2009.
7. A. L. Wysocki, R. F. Sabirianov, M. van Schilfgaarde, and K. D. Belashchenko, “First-principles analysis of spin-disorder resistivity of Fe and Ni,” Phys. Rev. B 80, 224423 (2009).
8. V. Darakchieva, M. Schubert, T. Hofmann, B. Monemar, C.-L. Hsiao, T.-W. Liu, L.-C. Chen, W. J. Schaff, Y. Takagi, and Y. Nanishi, “Electron accumulation at nonpolar and semi-polar surfaces of wurtzite InN from generalized infrared ellipsometry,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 202103 (2009).
9. T. Hofmann, C. M. Herzinger, T. E. Tiwald, J. A. Woollam, and M. Schubert, “Hole diffusion profile in a p-p+ Silicon homojunction determined by terahertz and mid-infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 95, 032102 (2009).
10. V. Darakchieva, E. Alves, M.-Y. Xie, N. P. Barradas, K. Lorenz, M. Schubert, P. O. Å. Persson, F. Giuliani, F. Munnik, C.-L. Hsiao, L.-C. Chen, and W. J. Schaff, “Role of impurities and dislocations for the unintentional n-type conductivity in InN,” Physica B 404, 4476 (2009).
11. T. Hofmann, C. M. Herzinger, A. Boosalis, T. E. Tiwald, J. A. Woollam, and M. Schubert, “Variable-wavelength frequency-domain THz ellipsometry,” Rev. Sci. Instrum. 81, 023101 (1-7) (2010).
12. C. Scarlat, K. M. Mok, S. Zhou, M. Vinnichenko, M. Lorenz, M. Grundmann, M. Helm, M. Schubert, and H. Schmidt, “Voigt effect measurement on PLD grown NiO thin films,” phys. stat. sol. 7(2), 334-337(2010).
13. J. A. Colón Santana, R. Skomski, V. Singh, V. Palshin, A. Petukhov, Ya. B. Losovyj, A. Sokolov, P. A. Dowben, and I. Ketsman, “Magnetism of Cr-Doped Diamond-like Carbon”, J. Appl. Phys. 105, 07A930 (2009).
14. I. Ketsman, D. Wooten, Jie Xiao, Ya. B. Losovyj, Ya. V. Burak, V. T. Adamiv, A. Sokolov, J. Petrosky, J. McClory, and P. A. Dowben, “The off-axis pyroelectric effect observed for lithium tetraborate”, Phys. Lett. A 374, 891-895 (2010).
15. C.-G. Duan, Ce-Wen Nan, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Universality of the Surface Magnetoelectric Effect in Half-Metals”, Phys. Rev. B 79, R140403 (1-4) (2009).
16. M. K. Niranjan, Y. Wang, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “Prediction of a switchable two-dimensional electron gas at ferroelectric oxide interfaces”, Phys. Rev. Lett. 103, 016804 (1-4) (2009).
17. Y. Wang, M. K. Niranjan, S. S. Jaswal, and E. Y. Tsymbal, “First-Principles Studies of a Two-Dimensional Electron Gas at the Interface in Ferroelectric Oxide Heterostructures”, Phys. Rev. B 80, 165130 (1-4) (2009).

c. Shared Facilities—IRG2

1. N. Hong, M. A. Langell, J. Liu, O. Kezilkaya, and S. Adenwalla, “Ni doping of semiconducting boron carbide,” J. Appl. Phys. 107, 024513 (1-7) (2010).
2. Ya. B. Losovyj, D. Wooten, J. C. Santana, J. Michael An, K. D. Belashchenko, N. Lozova, J. Petrosky, A. Sokolov, J. Tang, W. Wang, N. Arulsamy, and P. A. Dowben, “Comparison of n-type Gd2O3 and Gd-doped HfO2”, J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21, 045602 (2009).
3. T. Mukherjee, S. Sahoo, R. Skomski, D. J. Sellmyer, and Ch. Binek, “Magnetocaloric Properties of Co/Cr Superlattices,” Phys. Rev. B 79, 144406 (1-9) (2009).
4. P. A. Dowben, O. Kizilkaya, J. Liu, B. Montag, K. Nelson, I. Sabirianov, and J. I. Brand, “3d Transition Metal Doping of Semiconducting Boron Carbides”, Materials Letters 63, 72-74 (2009).
5. P. A. Dowben, L. G. Rosa, C. C. Ilie, and J. Xiao, “Adsorbate/Absorbate interactions with organic ferroelectric polymers”, J. Electron Spectroscopy and Related Phenomena 174, 10-21(2009).
6. J. Xiao and P. A. Dowben, “Changes in the adsorbate dipole layer with changing d-filling of the metal (II) (Co, Ni, Cu) phthalocyanines on Au(111)”, J. Phys. Cond. Matter 21, 052001 (2009).
7. K. Fukutani, N. Wu, and P. A. Dowben, “Isomeric Effects with Di-iodobenzene (C6H4I2) on Adsorption on Graphite”, Surface Science 603, 2964-2971 (2009).
8. C. C. Ilie, J. Xiao, and P. A. Dowben, “Molecular Adsorption and Fragmentation of Bromoform on Polyvinylidene Fluoride with Trifluoroethylene”, Polymer-Based Smart Materials-Process, Properties and Applications, edited by Zhongyang Cheng, Qiming Zhang, Siegfried Bauer, Debra A. Wrobleski, MRS Symposium Proceedings 1134, BB01-06 (2009).
9. J. Xiao, X. Zhou, Q. M. Zhang, and P. A. Dowben, “The effect of defects on the electronic structure of long chain ferroelectric polymers”, J. Appl. Phys. 106, 044105 (2009).
10. J. Xiao, C. Ilie, N. Wu, K. Fukutani, and P. A. Dowben, “Haloform adsorption on crystalline copolymer films of vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene”, Surface Science 603, 513-517 (2009).
11. D. Wooten, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. Petrosky, J. McClory, J. Tang, W. Wang, and P. A. Dowben, “Surface charging of n-type Gd2O3 and HfO2 thin films”, Rare-Earth Doping of Advanced Materials for Photonic Applications, edited by Volkmar Dierolf, Yasufumi Fujiwara, Uwe Hommerich, Pierre Ruterana, John Zavada, MRS Symposium Proceedings 1111, D07-16 (2009).
12. D. Wooten, I. Ketsman, Jie Xiao, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. Petrosky, J. McClory, Ya. V. Burak, V. T. Adamiv, and P. A. Dowben, “The Surface Core Level Shift for Lithium at the Surface of Lithium Borate”, Physica B 405, 461-464 (2010).
13. D. Wooten, I. Ketsman, Jie Xiao, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. Petrosky, J. McClory, Ya. V. Burak, V. T. Adamiv, and P. A. Dowben, “Differences in the Surface Charging at the (100) and (110) Surfaces of Li2B4O7”, Nuclear Radiation Detection Materials, D. L. Perry, A. Burger, L. Franks, K. Yasuda, M. Fiederle editors, Mater. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1164, L04-04 (2009).
14. T. Komesu, H. K. Jeong, D. Wooten, Ya. B. Losovyj, J. N. Crain, M. Bissen, F. J. Himpsel, J. Petrosky, J. Tang, W. Wang, I. N. Yakovkin, and P. A. Dowben, “4f hybridization and band dispersion in gadolinium thin films, and compounds”, Physica Status Solidi B 246, 975-980 (2009).
15. R. B. Billa, T. Hofmann, M. Schubert, and B. W. Robertson, “Annealing effects on the optical properties of semiconducting boron carbide,” J. Appl. Phys. 106, 033515 (2009).
16. T. Hofmann, C. M. Herzinger, J. A. Woollam, and M. Schubert, “Materials Characterization using THz Ellipsometry,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1163E, 1163-K08-04 (2009).
17. M. F. Saenger, J. Sun, M. Schädel, J. Hilfiker, M. Schubert, and J. A. Woollam, “Spectroscopic ellipsometry characterization of SiNx antireflection films on textured multicrystalline and monocrystalline silicon solar cells,” Thin Solid Films 518, 1830 (2010).
18. M. F. Saenger, M. Schädel, T. Hofmann, J. Hilfiker, J. Sun, T. Tiwald, M. Schubert, and J. A. Woollam, “Infrared ellipsometric characterization of silicon nitride films on textured Si photovoltaic cells,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 1123, P02-02 (2009).
19. A. Sarkar, T. Viitala, T. Hofmann, T. E. Tiwald, J. A. Woollam, A. Kjerstad, B. Laderian, and M. Schubert, “Monitoring Organic Thin Film Growth in Aqueous Solution In-situ with a Combined Quartz Crystal Microbalance and Ellipsometry,” Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. 1146E, 1146-NN09-02 (2009).

Seeds


a. Primary MRSEC Support—Seeds

1. S. J. P. Cañete, W. Yang, and R. Y. Lai, “Folding-based Electrochemical DNA Sensor Fabricated by Click Chemistry,” Chem. Commun., 4835-4837 (2009).
2. D. Schmidt, A. C. Kjerstad, T. Hofmann, R. Skomski, E. Schubert, and M. Schubert, “Optical, structural, and magnetic properties of cobalt nanostructure thin films,” J. Appl. Phys. 105, 113508 (2009).

b. Partial MRSEC SupportSeeds
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c. Shared FacilitiesSeeds
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