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Condensed matter physics and materials science form a dynamic partnership, exploring how the collective behavior of atoms gives rise to the unique properties of solids and liquids. This field bridges the gap between fundamental quantum mechanics and the practical engineering of everything from flexible electronics to superconductors, turning abstract theories into tangible innovations that shape our daily lives.
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Below are the latest papers in condensed matter and materials science, organized by their most recent publication dates.
This paper introduces a frequency-tunable periodic waveform analysis TDTR technique to non-destructively characterize buried thermal interfaces in multilayer WBG/UWBG semiconductor heterostructures, revealing distinct phonon transport mechanisms and identifying specific thermal bottlenecks in Ga2O3/SiC, GaN/Si, and GaN/diamond systems.
This first-principles study proposes two newly synthesized gold monolayer phases, goldene-I and goldene-II, as promising anode materials for lithium-ion batteries, demonstrating their metallic nature, structural stability, and high volumetric capacities with goldene-II reaching 0.783 Ah/cm³ and goldene-I exhibiting ultra-low diffusion barriers for rapid ion transport.
This paper revisits the structural relaxation and optical transitions of native defects and carbon impurities in LiGaO, specifically employing symmetry-breaking distortions to resolve previous contradictions and revise the transition levels of the lithium vacancy to better explain the material's p-type conductivity.
This study demonstrates that high-temperature (1350 K) self-ion irradiation of tungsten creates nm-sized voids that serve as unique deuterium trapping sites, leading to a distinct damage dose dependence where deuterium retention surpasses that observed at lower temperatures and reaches 1.7 at.% at 2.3 dpa without saturation, a behavior explained by reaction-diffusion simulations involving both molecular gas and atomic trapping within the voids.
This study demonstrates that in large-angle helical twisted trilayer graphene, a moiré potential generated at the hBN-aligned top layer can electrostatically modulate a spatially decoupled, structurally unmoiréd twisted bilayer subsystem, revealing that moiré effects can extend beyond their structural interfaces through remote coupling.
This study reveals that thickness-dependent, angle-anisotropic hysteretic magnetoresistance in MnBi2Te4 nanoflakes arises from domain wall pinning and de-pinning within a spatially non-uniform magnetic landscape, highlighting reduced dimensionality as a key driver of magnetic irreversibility.
This paper presents an automated design framework for tubular origami that leverages generalized degree- vertices and polygonal cross-sections to systematically optimize and significantly enhance anisotropic stiffness across multiple deformation modes, achieving over 50 times higher constrained rotational stiffness than benchmark designs.
This study establishes that ultrathin MnSi films on silicon retain robust ferromagnetism down to a single monolayer, exhibiting a distinct 2D magnetic character and potential for silicon-based spintronics applications despite a thickness-dependent metal-to-insulator transition.
This paper proposes a piezomagnetic writing scheme utilizing Mn3Ir-based memory cells and interfacial Dzyaloshinskii-Moriya interaction to achieve deterministic, nonvolatile, and ultrafast switching of antiferromagnetic states, thereby overcoming the speed limitations of conventional isothermal methods for advanced spintronic applications.
This study utilizes synchrotron X-ray diffraction and calorimetry to demonstrate that the NASICON-type NaFeCr(PO) undergoes a temperature-driven order-disorder transition where Na-ion redistribution within the [FeCr(PO)] framework drives a symmetry-lowering structural change from a monoclinic ordered phase to a rhombohedral disordered phase.