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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 study demonstrates that plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition of hafnium-zirconium oxide on tungsten bottom electrodes uniquely enables wake-up-free, high-temperature reliable ferroelectric capacitors by leveraging an oxidized tungsten interfacial layer, whereas similar improvements are not achieved on titanium nitride electrodes.
This study reports the successful molecular-beam epitaxy growth of LaAgGe thin films and characterizes their magnetotransport properties, revealing a positive magnetoresistance explained by a two-carrier model and a distinct angle-dependent anisotropy with reproducible dip/peak features.
This study reports the successful epitaxial growth of Te-deficient DyTe thin films on MgO (001), where Te vacancies induce a superlattice structure driven by Fermi surface nesting that opens a band gap, establishing a platform for strain-tuning the electronic phases of square-net tellurides.
This study demonstrates that magnetic fields can effectively control room-temperature thermal conductivity in gadolinium by suppressing phonon-magnon scattering, thereby enabling a novel mechanism for magnetic thermal switching.
This paper reports the discovery of a new YbSb-type monoclinic polymorph of LaSb stabilized in thin films via molecular beam epitaxy, which exhibits superconductivity at 2 K with an enhanced transition temperature and a long coherence length of 140 nm.
Fe-V-W-Al thin films deposited at higher base pressures on n-Si substrates exhibit an anomalous amorphous structure that yields exceptionally high thermoelectric performance, including a Seebeck coefficient of ~1098 μV/K and a figure of merit of ~3.9 near 320 K, significantly surpassing previously reported values for thin films.
This paper demonstrates that fine-tuned LLaMA 3 models, using only composition-based input strings, can effectively predict molecular and material properties with accuracy rivaling standard machine learning models on the QM9 dataset and outperforming GPT-3.5 and GPT-4o, thereby showcasing the potential of large language models to transcend their traditional applications and tackle complex physical phenomena in materials science.
This study reports the synthesis of high-quality, ambient-pressure flux-grown bilayer nickelate single crystals that exhibit bulk superconductivity with a transition temperature reaching up to 96 K under high pressure, establishing a correlation between in-plane lattice distortion and enhanced superconductivity.
This study demonstrates that the long-term wetting behavior of copper is primarily governed by adsorbed hydrocarbon layers rather than oxide states, while its static contact angle, anisotropy, and adhesion can be precisely engineered through tailored laser-induced topography that controls air inclusion and surface roughness.
This paper proposes that the magnetic monopoles in dipolar and octupolar spin ices can be distinguished by their finite versus zero magnetic charges in the classical regime due to long-range dipole-dipole interactions, offering a potential resolution to the nature of CeSnO and guiding future research on various symmetry-enriched topological phases.