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Spontaneous Excitonic Mass Generation in Graphene Monolayers

By decorating graphene with nanoscale metals to screen long-range Coulomb interactions and suppress velocity renormalization, researchers observed a hard spectral gap at the Dirac point with signatures of a Berezinskii--Kosterlitz--Thouless transition, providing the first experimental evidence for spontaneous excitonic mass generation in graphene.

Bent Weber, Yande Que, Amit Kumar, Harley Scammell, Zheng Tong, Zihao Huang, Gagandeep Singh, Michael Fuhrer, Oleg Sushk (…)2026-10-22
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Thermally reconfigurable Rubik’s-cube-inspired V–VO₂ hyperbolic metamaterial absorber for dual-band absorption and spectral coding

This paper presents a thermally reconfigurable V–VO₂ hyperbolic metamaterial absorber featuring a Rubik's-Cube-inspired symmetric design that achieves stable dual-band broadband absorption across 16–40 GHz and enables 2-bit spectral coding through independent thermal switching of K- and Ka-band units.

Mengxuan Wu, Xuefeng Wang, Shuai Guo, Pengfei Li2026-10-22
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Tuning the Electromagnetic Response of Co₂Y Hexaferrites through Ni–Zn Substitution and Graphite Addition

This study demonstrates that simultaneous Ni–Zn substitution and controlled graphite addition in Ba₂Co₂₋ₓNiₓ/₂Znₓ/₂Fe₁₂O₂₂ hexaferrites effectively tune magnetic resonance and impedance matching, significantly enhancing microwave absorption performance with a broad effective bandwidth of 4.0 GHz at a reduced thickness of 3.0 mm.

Esmail Kiani, Mohammad Hosein Shams, Elham Samadpour2026-10-22
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Contact resistance and wave damping limit thermal-wave impedance matching in layered Maxwell–Cattaneo–Vernotte conductors

This paper presents a closed-form Laplace-domain solution for thermal-wave propagation in layered Maxwell–Cattaneo–Vernotte conductors, demonstrating that while thermal-wave impedance matching can eliminate front reflections at interfaces, high contact resistance and wave damping significantly limit this effect, often causing the Fourier model to predict reflections of the opposite sign.

Seyed Mohammad Amin Hosseini, Alireza Mashayekh2026-10-22
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Quantification of sidewall defects and surface passivation strategies in blue InGaN/GaN micro light emitting diodes

This study quantifies the impact of plasma-induced sidewall defects on blue InGaN/GaN micro-LED efficiency by combining spatially resolved micro-cathodoluminescence and electrical characterization to reveal a ~1 µm damaged region with significantly elevated non-radiative recombination, while demonstrating that KOH wet etching and SiO₂ passivation effectively mitigate the resulting size-dependent efficiency droop.

Lee-Woon Jang, Sang-Ik Lee, Andrej Kuznetsov, A.L. Zakgeim, E.B. Yakimov, Pil-Kyu Jang, Anton E. Chernyakov, Luiza A. Al (…)2026-10-22
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Asymptotic Mode-I crack-tip fields in an incompressible finite-strain viscoelastic solid

This paper analyzes the asymptotic Mode-I crack-tip fields in an incompressible finite-strain viscoelastic solid, revealing that while the vertical opening retains a square-root dependence governed by the equilibrium modulus, the horizontal field exhibits a distinct order-selection problem with non-universal angular behavior that relaxes at a different rate than the opening amplitude.

Yuan Li, Brian Moran2026-10-22
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Multi-Wavelength Speckle Illumination Digital Holography for Parasitic-Reflection Suppression and Macroscopic Topography Reconstruction

This paper presents a multi-wavelength digital holography technique utilizing spatially diverse speckle illumination to effectively suppress parasitic reflections and reconstruct macroscopic topography with high precision over extended unambiguous height ranges without mechanical scanning.

Antonius Schiebelbein, Tobias Schmitt-Manderbach, Daniel Bublitz, Dirk Seidel, Giancarlo Pedrini, Stephan Reichelt2026-10-22
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Effect of Mn²⁺ Substitution on the Structural, Magnetic, and Electrical Properties of Nanocrystalline Mg₀.₂MnₓCo₀.₈₋ₓFe₂O₄ Ferrites

This study demonstrates that Mn²⁺ substitution in nanocrystalline Mg₀.₂MnₓCo₀.₈₋ₓFe₂O₄ ferrites, synthesized via sol–gel auto-combustion, systematically tunes structural, magnetic, and electrical properties by refining crystallite size and altering cation distribution, thereby enhancing multifunctional characteristics suitable for advanced magnetic and high-frequency applications.

P. M. Saini, M Muskan, C Cheshta, N. S. Leel, Yogesh Kumar Yadav, Rajan Mishra, Saurabh Dalela, P. A. Alvi, B. L. Choudh (…)2026-10-22