Volume 2, Issue 11

November 2018

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HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES

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RAPID COMMUNICATION

Unexpected termination switching and polarity compensation in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ heterostructures

Guneeta Singh-Bhalla, Pim B. Rossen, Gunnar K. Pálsson, Matthew Mecklenburg, Thomas Orvis, Sujit Das, Yun-Long Tang, Jaganatha S. Suresha, Di Yi, Abhigyan Dasgupta, David Doenning, Victor G. Ruiz, Ajay K. Yadav, Morgan Trassin, John T. Heron, Charles S. Fadley, Rossitza Pentcheva, Jayakanth Ravichandran, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 112001(R) (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

LaAlO $_{3}$ /SrTiO $_{3}$ -based two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) generated great interest in complex oxide-based 2DEGs. Despite intense research, several open questions about the electron gases remain. For example, the LaO-TiO $_{2}$ interface leads to electron doping, whereas the AlO $_{2}$ -SrO interface remains insulating. Using element sensitive surface characterization tools, the authors unveil a previously unobserved switch in the surface termination for the AlO $_{2}$ -SrO interface. Tunneling studies and first-principles calculations show that the surface termination has dramatic impact built-in field of LaAlO $_{3}$ and explain the asymmetry in the electronic properties of different interfaces in this model 2DEG system.

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Energetics and the ground state quest in an artificial triangular colloidal ice

Dong Yun Lee and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 112601(R) (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Colloidal ice systems recently emerge as an alternative to the artificial spin ice for investigating the multidisciplinary Physics of geometric frustration. Here, the authors combine experiments and simulation to investigate the ordering and dynamics in a triangular colloidal ice where interacting particles are confined in gravitational double wells. The collective interactions lead to a unique ground state characterized by vertices with three colloids pointing inward and three outwards, similar to what predicted, but never reported, for artificial spin ice. Phase transition and complete structural ordering via an intermediate bias field are also reported.

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Effect of nanoscale phase separation on the fracture behavior of glasses: Toward tough, yet transparent glasses

Longwen Tang, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Jonathan Berjikian, Jared Rivera, Morten M. Smedskjaer, John C. Mauro, Wei Zhou, and Mathieu Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113602 (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

Despite recent advances, glass still breaks. This remains a major limitation for cover glasses used, for instance, in smartphone screens. Here, the authors explore the possibility of benefiting from nanoscale phase separation to significantly increase the fracture toughness of glass, while retaining its transparency. Based on peridynamic simulations, they investigate the nature of the toughening mechanisms at play and find that nanoscale phase separation can yield up to a 90% increase in fracture energy. This establishes phase separation as a promising route to develop novel tough, yet transparent glasses

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Mobility of two-dimensional materials from first principles in an accurate and automated framework

Thibault Sohier, Davide Campi, Nicola Marzari, and Marco Gibertini

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114010 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Knowing the intrinsic mobility of 2D materials is key to assess their performance in novel electronic devices. First-principles simulations can predict phonon-limited mobilities, but being systemic and accurate is a challenging task. Here, the authors develop fully automated workflows to identify all relevant electron-phonon scattering processes that limit mobility and compute their probability using a recent development in density-functional perturbation theory for gated 2D materials. Then, an exact numerical solution to the Boltzmann transport equation allows to account for the full energy- and momentum-dependency of the scattering processes, leading to the “turnkey” calculation of mobilities on demand.

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Magnetoresistance of semimetals: The case of antimony

Benoît Fauqué, Xiaojun Yang, Wojciech Tabis, Mingsong Shen, Zengwei Zhu, Cyril Proust, Yuki Fuseya, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114201 (2018) - Published 7 November, 2018

Large unsaturated magnetoresistance has been reported in numerous Weyl and Dirac semimetals. This has raised the question of a possible link between nontrivial band topology and large magnetoresistance. The authors find that magnetoresistance in elemental antimony exceeds what has been seen in all other semimetals and remains unsaturated up to 60 T. The amplitude of magnetoresistance and its variation with field orientation can be described by a modified semiclassical framework, which can be employed to any semimetal.

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Topological phonons and thermoelectricity in triple-point metals

Sobhit Singh, QuanSheng Wu, Changming Yue, Aldo H. Romero, and Alexey A. Soluyanov

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114204 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

The current study of topology in materials is, with rare exclusions, concentrated on the study of fermionic quasiparticle excitations. In this report, the authors focus on the physical properties of topological phonons—the simplest bosonic topological phase realized in crystalline materials. They explain how the bosonic topology is computed and how it can be experimentally verified, providing topology-induced quantum transport phenomena that can be observed in the proposed compounds. This study predicts the novel coexistence of topologically protected fermionic and bosonic (phononic) excitations in special triple-point metals, which makes these special topological metals useful for technological applications.

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Physical properties of the trigonal binary compound ${Nd}_{2} O_{3}$

G. Sala, M. B. Stone, B. K. Rai, A. F. May, C. R. Dela Cruz, H. Suriya Arachchige, G. Ehlers, V. R. Fanelli, V. O. Garlea, M. D. Lumsden, D. Mandrus, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114407 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Exotic magnetic phases often have frustration as a key ingredient. Chemically and structurally simple materials are particularly prized as testbeds for concepts found in more complex ones. Using a combination of neutron diffraction, inelastic neutron scattering, and laboratory-based characterization methods, the authors find long-range antiferromagnetic order in Nd $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ only below 0.55 K, despite indications that the magnetic energy scales are significantly higher. The ground state possesses alternating stripes of local moments in the plane of the triangular lattice and is characterized by strong XY anisotropy that originates from the local crystal field. These results suggest that Nd $_{2}$ O $_{3}$ may be a model system for studying frustration originating from competing interactions between magnetic moments subject to strong spin-orbit coupling on a centrosymmetric lattice.

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Nematicity of correlated systems driven by anisotropic chemical phase separation

Ye Yuan, René Hübner, Magdalena Birowska, Chi Xu, Mao Wang, Slawomir Prucnal, Rafal Jakiela, Kay Potzger, Roman Böttger, Stefan Facsko, Jacek A. Majewski, Manfred Helm, Maciej Sawicki, Shengqiang Zhou, and Tomasz Dietl

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114601 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

The origin of nematicity, i.e., in-plane rotational symmetry breaking, and in particular the relative role played by spontaneous unidirectional ordering of spin, orbital, or charge degrees of freedom, is a challenging issue of magnetism, unconventional superconductivity, and quantum Hall effect systems. In this paper, experimental and theoretical results for In $_{1 - x}$ Fe $_{x}$ As demonstrate that anisotropic distribution of Fe cations at the growth surface (which has a lower symmetry than the bulk) can lead to a quenched nematic order of alloy components, which then governs low-temperature magnetic and magnetotransport properties.

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Routes for increasing endurance and retention in ${HfO}_{2}$ -based resistive switching memories

Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii, Stefan Blügel, and Marjana Ležaić

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115002 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

In redox-based resistive random-access memories, an internal, oxygen deficient filament of nanoscale size is formed in an insulating oxide matrix, acting as a functional unit due to its variable conductivity. On the atomic scale, little is known about the filament. This problem is theoretically tackled here, on the example of hafnia. The results suggest the presence of metastable (nano)phases within the filament, featuring lattices of one-dimensional channels through which oxygen may move easily, with variable conductivity depending on the oxygen content in the channels. Deliberate growth of the metastable phases could lead to the resistive memory cells with high endurance and long retention.

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS

Structural and mechanical properties

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Multistable kirigami for tunable architected materials

Yi Yang, Marcelo A. Dias, and Douglas P. Holmes

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 110601(R) (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Simultaneous metal–half-metal and spin transition in ${SrCoO}_{3}$ under compression

Han Hsu and Sheng-Chieh Huang

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111401(R) (2018) - Published 6 November, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Origin of skyrmion lattice phase splitting in Zn-substituted ${Cu}_{2} {OSeO}_{3}$

A. Štefančič, S. H. Moody, T. J. Hicken, M. T. Birch, G. Balakrishnan, S. A. Barnett, M. Crisanti, J. S. O. Evans, S. J. R. Holt, K. J. A. Franke, P. D. Hatton, B. M. Huddart, M. R. Lees, F. L. Pratt, C. C. Tang, M. N. Wilson, F. Xiao, and T. Lancaster

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111402(R) (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Synergy between phase transformation and domain switching in two morphotropic phase boundary ferroelectrics

Hui Liu, Houbing Huang, Longlong Fan, Yang Ren, Hua Zhou, Long-Qing Chen, Jun Chen, and Xianran Xing

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111403(R) (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Perpendicular magnetic anisotropy via strain-engineered oxygen vacancy ordering in epitaxial $L a_{1 - x} S r_{x} Co O_{3 - δ}$

Jeff Walter, Shameek Bose, Mariona Cabero, Guichuan Yu, Martin Greven, Maria Varela, and Chris Leighton

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111404(R) (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Nuclear and magnetic structures of the frustrated quantum antiferromagnet barlowite, ${Cu}_{4} {(OH)}_{6} FBr$

K. Tustain, G. J. Nilsen, C. Ritter, I. da Silva, and L. Clark

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111405(R) (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Giant electrostatic modification of magnetism via electrolyte-gate-induced cluster percolation in $L a_{1 - x} S r_{x} Co O_{3 - δ}$

Jeff Walter, T. Charlton, H. Ambaye, M. R. Fitzsimmons, Peter P. Orth, R. M. Fernandes, and Chris Leighton

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 111406(R) (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Other electronic materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Unexpected termination switching and polarity compensation in ${LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ heterostructures

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 112001(R) (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Energetics and the ground state quest in an artificial triangular colloidal ice

Dong Yun Lee and Pietro Tierno

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 112601(R) (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Nanomaterials

RAPID COMMUNICATION

Interface-driven thermal rectification in nanoscale systems

Miquel López-Suárez, Miquel Royo, and Riccardo Rurali

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113001(R) (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

ARTICLES

Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics

Solid-state dewetting on curved substrates

Wei Jiang, Yan Wang, David J. Srolovitz, and Weizhu Bao

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113401 (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

Metalorganic vapor phase epitaxy of large size CdTe grains on mica through chemical and van der Waals interactions

Dibyajyoti Mohanty, Zonghuan Lu, Xin Sun, Yu Xiang, Yiping Wang, Debjit Ghoshal, Jian Shi, Lei Gao, Sufei Shi, Morris Washington, Gwo-Ching Wang, Toh-Ming Lu, and Ishwara Bhat

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113402 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Role of disconnections in mobility of the austenite-ferrite interphase boundary in Fe

Pawan Kumar Tripathi, Sumit Kumar Maurya, and Somnath Bhowmick

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113403 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

Magneto-optical imaging of stepwise magnetic domain disintegration at characteristic temperatures in $Eu B_{6}$

Dibya J. Sivananda, Ankit Kumar, Md. Arif Ali, S. S. Banerjee, Pintu Das, Jens Müller, and Zachary Fisk

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113404 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Roughening and strain-field evolution at a grain boundary in $α − A l_{2} O_{3}$

Sung Bo Lee, Seung-Yong Lee, Seung Jo Yoo, Yoonkoo Kim, Jin-Gyu Kim, Miyoung Kim, and Heung Nam Han

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113405 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Structural and mechanical properties

First-principles study of phase stability of bcc $X Zn$ ( $X = Cu$ , Ag, and Au) alloys

O. Alsalmi, M. Sanati, R. C. Albers, T. Lookman, and A. Saxena

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113601 (2018) - Published 5 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Effect of nanoscale phase separation on the fracture behavior of glasses: Toward tough, yet transparent glasses

Longwen Tang, N. M. Anoop Krishnan, Jonathan Berjikian, Jared Rivera, Morten M. Smedskjaer, John C. Mauro, Wei Zhou, and Mathieu Bauchy

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113602 (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

Temperature and loading rate dependent rupture forces from universal paths in mechanochemistry

Oliver Brügner and Michael Walter

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113603 (2018) - Published 16 November, 2018

Does sink efficiency unequivocally characterize how grain boundaries impact radiation damage?

O. El-Atwani, E. Martinez, E. Esquivel, M. Efe, C. Taylor, Y. Q. Wang, B. P. Uberuaga, and S. A. Maloy

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113604 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Geometries of edge and mixed dislocations in bcc Fe from first-principles calculations

Michael R. Fellinger, Anne Marie Z. Tan, Louis G. Hector, Jr., and Dallas R. Trinkle

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113605 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Unusual electronic properties of a low-temperature phase of ${Ag}_{4} SSe$

Shidaling Matteppanavar, Nguyen Hai An Bui, Srinivasan Ramakrishnan, Megha Vagadia, Arumugam Thamizhavel, Arpita Paul, Umesh V. Waghmare, Andreas Schönleber, and Sander van Smaalen

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113606 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Development of new methods for materials

Simple method for optimization of classical electron magnetic circular dichroism measurements: The role of structure factor and extinction distances

Sebastian Schneider, Devendra Negi, Matthew J. Stolt, Song Jin, Jakob Spiegelberg, Darius Pohl, Bernd Rellinghaus, Sebastian T. B. Goennenwein, Kornelius Nielsch, and Ján Rusz

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113801 (2018) - Published 9 November, 2018

Knowledge-transfer-based cost-effective search for interface structures: A case study on fcc-Al [110] tilt grain boundary

Tomohiro Yonezu, Tomoyuki Tamura, Ichiro Takeuchi, and Masayuki Karasuyama

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113802 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Autonomous efficient experiment design for materials discovery with Bayesian model averaging

Anjana Talapatra, S. Boluki, T. Duong, X. Qian, E. Dougherty, and R. Arróyave

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 113803 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Two-dimensional materials

Tunable half-metallicity and edge magnetism of H-saturated InSe nanoribbons

Weiqing Zhou, Guodong Yu, A. N. Rudenko, and Shengjun Yuan

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114001 (2018) - Published 1 November, 2018

Domain morphology and mechanics of the ${H / T}^{'}$ transition metal dichalcogenide monolayers

Joel Berry, Songsong Zhou, Jian Han, David J. Srolovitz, and Mikko P. Haataja

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114002 (2018) - Published 5 November, 2018

${PtP}_{2}$ : An example of exploring the hidden Cairo tessellation in the pyrite structure for discovering novel two-dimensional materials

Lei Liu and Houlong L. Zhuang

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114003 (2018) - Published 6 November, 2018

Refrigeration in 2D: Electrostaticaloric effect in monolayer materials

Daniel A. Rehn, Yao Li, and Evan J. Reed

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114004 (2018) - Published 12 November, 2018

Evolution of electronic structure and electron-phonon coupling in ultrathin tetragonal CoSe films

L. Shen, C. Liu, F. W. Zheng, X. Xu, Y. J. Chen, S. C. Sun, L. Kang, Z. K. Liu, Q. K. Xue, L. L. Wang, Y. L. Chen, and L. X. Yang

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114005 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Understanding trends in lithium binding at two-dimensional materials

Srdjan Stavrić, Zoran S. Popović, and Željko Šljivančanin

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114007 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Transient thermal characterization of suspended monolayer ${MoS}_{2}$

Robin J. Dolleman, David Lloyd, Martin Lee, J. Scott Bunch, Herre S. J. van der Zant, and Peter G. Steeneken

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114008 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Influence of ${SrTiO}_{3}$ capping layer on the charge transport at the interfaces of ${SrTiO}_{3} / {LaAlO}_{3} / {SrTiO}_{3}$ (100) heterostructure

Akhilesh Kr. Singh, Tsung-Chi Wu, Ming-Chin Chen, Ming-Yuan Song, Wei-Li Lee, Chia-Ping Su, and M.-W Chu

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114009 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Mobility of two-dimensional materials from first principles in an accurate and automated framework

Thibault Sohier, Davide Campi, Nicola Marzari, and Marco Gibertini

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114010 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Electronic structure of monolayer antimonene nanoribbons under out-of-plane and transverse bias

Edo van Veen, Jin Yu, Mikhail I. Katsnelson, Rafael Roldán, and Shengjun Yuan

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114011 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Topological and Dirac materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Magnetoresistance of semimetals: The case of antimony

Benoît Fauqué, Xiaojun Yang, Wojciech Tabis, Mingsong Shen, Zengwei Zhu, Cyril Proust, Yuki Fuseya, and Kamran Behnia

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114201 (2018) - Published 7 November, 2018

Type-II Dirac semimetal candidates $A {Te}_{2}$ ( $A =$ Pt, Pd): A de Haas-van Alphen study

Amit, R. K. Singh, Neha Wadehra, S. Chakraverty, and Yogesh Singh

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114202 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Universal superconductivity phase diagram for pressurized tetradymite topological insulators

Shu Cai, S. K. Kushwaha, Jing Guo, Vladimir A. Sidorov, Congcong Le, Yazhou Zhou, Honghong Wang, Gongchang Lin, Xiaodong Li, Yanchuan Li, Ke Yang, Aiguo Li, Qi Wu, Jiangping Hu, Robert J. Cava, and Liling Sun

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114203 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Topological phonons and thermoelectricity in triple-point metals

Sobhit Singh, QuanSheng Wu, Changming Yue, Aldo H. Romero, and Alexey A. Soluyanov

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114204 (2018) - Published 15 November, 2018

Suppression of the spectral weight of topological surface states on the nanoscale via local symmetry breaking

Omur E. Dagdeviren, Subhasish Mandal, Ke Zou, Chao Zhou, Georg H. Simon, Frederick J. Walker, Charles H. Ahn, Udo D. Schwarz, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, and Eric I. Altman

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114205 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Stoichiometry control and electronic and transport properties of pyrochlore $B i_{2} I r_{2} O_{7}$ thin films

W. C. Yang, Y. T. Xie, X. Sun, X. H. Zhang, K. Park, S. C. Xue, Y. L. Li, C. G. Tao, Q. X. Jia, Y. Losovyj, H. Wang, J. J. Heremans, and S. X. Zhang

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114206 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Topological Rashba-like edge states in large-gap quantum spin Hall insulators

Yuanjun Jin, Li-Yong Gan, Rui Wang, Jinzhu Zhao, Yueyue Shan, Junfeng Liu, and Hu Xu

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114207 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials

Rare-earth (RE) nanolaminates ${Mo}_{4} {RE}_{4} {Al}_{7} C_{3}$ featuring ferromagnetism and mixed-valence states

Q. Tao, T. Ouisse, D. Pinek, O. Chaix-Pluchery, F. Wilhelm, A. Rogalev, C. Opagiste, L. Jouffret, A. Champagne, J.-C. Charlier, J. Lu, L. Hultman, M. W. Barsoum, and J. Rosen

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114401 (2018) - Published 5 November, 2018

Giant magnetocaloric effect driven by indirect exchange in magnetic multilayers

D. M. Polishchuk, Yu. O. Tykhonenko-Polishchuk, E. Holmgren, A. F. Kravets, A. I. Tovstolytkin, and V. Korenivski

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114402 (2018) - Published 12 November, 2018

Design of a polar half-metallic ferromagnet with accessible and enhanced electric polarization

Danilo Puggioni, Alessandro Stroppa, and James M. Rondinelli

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114403 (2018) - Published 12 November, 2018

Influence of chemical composition and crystallographic orientation on the interfacial magnetism in $BiFe O_{3}$ / $L a_{1 − x} S r_{x} Mn O_{3}$ superlattices

Er-Jia Guo, Manuel A. Roldan, Xiahan Sang, Satoshi Okamoto, Timothy Charlton, Haile Ambaye, Ho Nyung Lee, and Michael R. Fitzsimmons

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114404 (2018) - Published 13 November, 2018

Charged domain walls in improper ferroelectric hexagonal manganites and gallates

Didrik R. Småbråten, Quintin N. Meier, Sandra H. Skjærvø, Katherine Inzani, Dennis Meier, and Sverre M. Selbach

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114405 (2018) - Published 14 November, 2018

Ferromagnetic composite with stress-insensitive magnetic permeability: Compensation of stress-induced anisotropies

Junming Gou, Xiaolian Liu, Changsheng Zhang, Guangai Sun, Yinuo Shi, Jie Wang, Huaxiong Chen, Tianyu Ma, and Xiaobing Ren

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114406 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Physical properties of the trigonal binary compound ${Nd}_{2} O_{3}$

G. Sala, M. B. Stone, B. K. Rai, A. F. May, C. R. Dela Cruz, H. Suriya Arachchige, G. Ehlers, V. R. Fanelli, V. O. Garlea, M. D. Lumsden, D. Mandrus, and A. D. Christianson

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114407 (2018) - Published 21 November, 2018

Quantum transport properties in single crystals of $α − {Bi}_{4} I_{4}$

Dong-Yun Chen, Da-Shuai Ma, Yongkai Li, Z. Z. Du, Xiaolu Xiong, Yuan He, JunXi Duan, Junfeng Han, Dong Chen, Wende Xiao, and Yugui Yao

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114408 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Role of interstitial hydrogen in ${SrCoO}_{2.5}$ antiferromagnetic insulator

Li Liang, Shuang Qiao, Shiqiao Du, Shunhong Zhang, Jian Wu, and Zheng Liu

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114409 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Semiconducting materials

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Nematicity of correlated systems driven by anisotropic chemical phase separation

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114601 (2018) - Published 2 November, 2018

Ordering in the mixed ${ZnGeN}_{2}$ -GaN alloy system: Crystal structures and band structures of ${ZnGeGa}_{2} N_{4}$ from first principles

Benthara Hewage Dinushi Jayatunga, Sai Lyu, Santosh Kumar Radha, Kathleen Kash, and Walter R. L. Lambrecht

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114602 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Origin of deep localization in $GaA s_{1 - x} B i_{x}$ and its consequences for alloy properties

K. Alberi, B. Fluegel, D. A. Beaton, M. Steger, S. A. Crooker, and A. Mascarenhas

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114603 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Structural dynamics in hybrid halide perovskites: Bulk Rashba splitting, spin texture, and carrier localization

Chao Zheng, Shidong Yu, and Oleg Rubel

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114604 (2018) - Published 28 November, 2018

Accurate band alignment at the amorphous ${Al}_{2} O_{3}$ /p-Ge(100) interface determined by hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and density functional theory

Nicholas F. Quackenbush, Eric Cockayne, James M. Ablett, D. Peter Siddons, Joseph C. Woicik, and Abdul K. Rumaiz

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114605 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Superconducting materials

Intermolecular coupling and superconductivity in ${PbMo}_{6} S_{8}$ and other Chevrel phase compounds

Jia Chen, Andrew J. Millis, and David R. Reichman

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114801 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Nematicity and superconductivity in orthorhombic superconductor $N a_{0.35} {(C_{3} N_{2} H_{10})}_{0.426} F e_{2} S e_{2}$

Xiao Fan, Jun Deng, Hongxiang Chen, Linlin Zhao, Ruijin Sun, Shifeng Jin, and Xiaolong Chen

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 114802 (2018) - Published 30 November, 2018

Other electronic materials

Two-dimensional electron gas oxide remote doping of Si(001)

Eric N. Jin, Arvin Kakekhani, Sohrab Ismail-Beigi, Charles H. Ahn, and Frederick J. Walker

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115001 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

EDITORS' SUGGESTION

Routes for increasing endurance and retention in ${HfO}_{2}$ -based resistive switching memories

Konstantin Z. Rushchanskii, Stefan Blügel, and Marjana Ležaić

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115002 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Electronic properties across metal-insulator transition in $β$ -pyrochlore-type ${CsW}_{2} O_{6}$ epitaxial films

Takuto Soma, Kohei Yoshimatsu, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, and Akira Ohtomo

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115003 (2018) - Published 27 November, 2018

Metamaterials, optical, photonic, and plasmonic materials

Exploring the behavior of electron-hole pairs in working organic light emitting diodes

Shuto Hatanaka, Keigo Kimura, Takayuki Suzuki, and Katsuichi Kanemoto

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115201 (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

First-principles study of the linear electro-optical response in strained $SrTi O_{3}$

Ali K. Hamze and Alexander A. Demkov

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115202 (2018) - Published 19 November, 2018

Yttrium oxyhydrides for photochromic applications: Correlating composition and optical response

Dmitrii Moldarev, Marcos V. Moro, Chang C. You, Elbruz M. Baba, Smagul Zh. Karazhanov, Max Wolff, and Daniel Primetzhofer

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115203 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation

Optimization of the figure of merit in ${Bi}_{100 − x} {Sb}_{x} / {Al}_{2} O_{3}$ nanocomposites

Hyungyu Jin and Joseph P. Heremans

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115401 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials

Surface rippling of silica glass surfaces scraped by a diamond indenter

Enrico Gnecco, Jana Hennig, Elham Moayedi, and Lothar Wondraczek

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115601 (2018) - Published 5 November, 2018

Information-driven inverse approach to disordered solids: Applications to amorphous silicon

Dil K. Limbu, Raymond Atta-Fynn, David A. Drabold, Stephen R. Elliott, and Parthapratim Biswas

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115602 (2018) - Published 8 November, 2018

Charging at a distance

Troy Shinbrot, Brandon Jones, and Pranav Saba

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115603 (2018) - Published 20 November, 2018

Quasidiscontinuous change of the density correlation length at the fragile-to-strong transition in a bulk-metallic-glass forming melt

Sergey V. Sukhomlinov and Martin H. Müser

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115604 (2018) - Published 26 November, 2018

Structure and dynamics of water confined in nanoporous carbon

Yuzi He, Ken-ichi Nomura, Rajiv K. Kalia, Aiichiro Nakano, and Priya Vashishta

Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115605 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Origin of glass forming ability of Cu-Zr alloys: A link between compositional variation and stability of liquid and glass

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Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 115606 (2018) - Published 29 November, 2018

Materials for catalysis and electrochemistry

Quantum-mechanical process of carbonate complex formation and large-scale anisotropy in the adsorption energy of $C O_{2}$ on anatase $Ti O_{2}$ (001) surface

Shashi B. Mishra, Aditya Choudhary, Somnath C. Roy, and B. R. K. Nanda

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