515 papers
This review comprehensively examines the critical role of grain boundaries in ceramic solid-state lithium metal batteries, exploring their influence on transport properties and failure mechanisms while highlighting recent advances in characterization, modeling, and engineering strategies to enhance battery performance and safety.
This paper presents a deep learning framework that corrects optical distortions in electron diffraction patterns without requiring calibration samples or prior knowledge of the reciprocal lattice, achieving superior accuracy over conventional methods for medium and large disk patterns while enhancing experimental ptychographic reconstructions.
This study presents a low-noise, sub-100 nm magnetic tunnel junction vortex sensor with a perpendicularly magnetized reference layer that achieves a wide dynamic range exceeding 200 mT and high sensitivity for out-of-plane magnetic field detection by leveraging vortex core dynamics to minimize defect-induced noise.
This study presents an automated, cost-effective LLM-based agentic workflow that successfully extracts over 27,000 thermoelectric and structural property records from approximately 10,000 scientific articles, creating the largest LLM-curated dataset to date and establishing a scalable foundation for data-driven materials discovery.
This study demonstrates that universal machine-learning interatomic potentials can efficiently and accurately map the energetics and site preferences of light interstitial elements (C, N, O, H) in a complex Ti-23Nb-0.7Ta-2Zr gum metal alloy, revealing that local Ti-rich environments stabilize these defects while Nb proximity destabilizes them, all at a fraction of the computational cost of density functional theory.
This study demonstrates that using carbon-free gallium- and aluminum-brominated precursors in an industrial chemical vapor deposition system significantly reduces carbon-related defects in epitaxial GaN and AlN layers compared to conventional metal-organic methods, thereby enhancing the performance of high-frequency and high-power nitride devices.
This study demonstrates that engineering a hydrogen-concentration gradient in epitaxial SmFeAsO thin films breaks spatial inversion symmetry, inducing nonreciprocal charge transport driven by asymmetric vortex pinning at temperatures exceeding 40 K, thereby establishing concentration-gradient engineering as a versatile platform for realizing odd-parity functionalities in centrosymmetric materials.
This study reports that the distorted triangular-lattice cobalt vanadate NaSrCo(VO) exhibits a low-temperature canted ferromagnetic order, highlighting how the specific tetrahedral anion (O) critically tunes exchange interactions to produce distinct magnetic ground states compared to its trigonal sister compounds.
This study demonstrates that fabricating heterostructures of topological insulators with ultrathin, air-stable TiN films induces interface-enhanced superconductivity through interfacial charge transfer, offering a new strategy for manipulating superconductivity in topological quantum systems.
This study employs advanced GAP interatomic potentials, molecular dynamics, and solid-state nudged elastic band calculations to elucidate the atomic-scale mechanisms and pressure-dependent nucleation barriers driving the phase transformations of silicon, particularly linking simulation results to experimental observations of hexagonal phase formation from BC8/R8 precursors.
This study employs first-principles calculations and tight-binding modeling to demonstrate that freestanding 2D honeycomb Bi, HgTe, and Al2O3-supported HgTe simultaneously exhibit first-order and higher-order topological insulator states, characterized by gapless edge and symmetry-protected corner states, with HgTe/Al2O3(0001) emerging as a particularly promising candidate for experimental realization and device applications.
This paper demonstrates a nanoscale sensing technique that utilizes a single nitrogen-vacancy center in diamond to detect and map boron vacancy defects in hexagonal boron nitride by measuring changes in spin relaxation time () caused by cross-relaxation, thereby enabling optical-free characterization of 2D spin systems beyond the diffraction limit.
Using terahertz emission spectroscopy on wedge-shaped heavy metal|Ni heterostructures, this study provides the first direct experimental evidence that orbital mean free paths in heavy metals are ultrashort (sub-nanometer scale) and shorter than spin counterparts, confirming that bulk inverse orbital Hall effect governs orbital-to-charge conversion.
This study demonstrates that the interplay between magnon-induced Brillouin light scattering and optical spin-orbit coupling enables the nonreciprocal transformation of a Gaussian beam into an optical vortex beam by simultaneously breaking temporal symmetry via magnetic ordering and spatial symmetry via light focusing, thereby revealing that magnons can control the total angular momentum of light.
This study employs first-principles calculations and Monte Carlo simulations to reveal that orthorhombic CrI exhibits a proper-screw helimagnetic ground state with out-of-plane ferroelectricity driven by interlayer sliding, where a strong magnetoelectric coupling allows for the electrical control of spin chirality in both bulk and monolayer forms via exchange-striction and spin-current mechanisms.
This paper proposes the existence of a novel interfacial topological quasiparticle called the "Janus skyrmion," which features coexisting asymmetric helicity structures at magnetic interfaces and exhibits unique one-dimensional dynamics driven by spin currents and thermal fluctuations without the skyrmion Hall effect.
This paper presents a noise-cancellation method that generalizes techniques from piezoelectric coupling to accurately compute finite-temperature elastic constants across diverse crystalline and disordered systems by evaluating stress differences between identically thermostatted strained and unstrained simulations.
This study demonstrates that ultra-small oxygen-deficient HfxZr1-xO2-y nanoparticles synthesized via solid-state organonitrate methods exhibit superparamagnetic and superparaelectric behaviors driven by oxygen vacancy-induced defect centers and flexo-electro-chemical strains, resulting in colossal dielectric permittivity and posistor effects suitable for advanced silicon-compatible electronic applications.
This study reports the successful growth of single-phase B20 MnGe thin films on a nonmagnetic CrSi template via molecular-beam epitaxy, revealing intrinsic magnetic properties including a cone phase and an unexpected low-temperature remanent moment suggestive of a triple-Q topological spin-hedgehog lattice or multidomain helical state.
This study demonstrates that coupling a multi-mode metal-insulator-metal cavity to a two-dimensional electron gas in a magnetic field creates hybrid magnetoplasmon-polariton modes where the inhomogeneous nature of the TM mode activates observable non-local Coulombic effects, offering a new pathway to probe Coulomb interactions in ultrastrongly coupled systems through cavity mode engineering.