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Journals

Materials discovery in combinatorial and high-throughput synthesis and processing: A new Frontier for SPM

Author(s)
Boris Slautin, Yungtao Liu, Kamyar Barakati, Yu Liu, Reece Emery, Seungbum Hong, Astita Dubey, Vladimir Shvartsman, Doru Lupascu, Sheryl Sanchez, Mahshid Ahmadi, Yunseok Kim, Evgheni Strelcov, Keith Brown, Philip Rack, Sergei Kalinin
For over three decades, scanning probe microscopy (SPM) has been a key method for exploring material structures and functionalities at nanometer and often

GRANAD - Simulating GRAphene nanoflakes with ADatoms

Author(s)
David Dams, Miriam Kosik, Marvin Muller, Abhishek Ghosh, Antton Babaze, Julia Szczuczko, Garnett Bryant, Andres Ayuela, Carsten Rockstuhl, Marta Pelc, Karolina Slowik
GRANAD is a new program based on the tight-binding approximation to simulate optoelectronic properties of graphene nanoflakes and Su–Schrieffer–Heeger (SSH)

Direct detection of the ∼ 8.4 eV internal conversion energy of 229mTh embedded in a superconducting nanowire

Author(s)
Galen O'Neil, Kjeld Beeks, Eric Hudson, David Ray Leibrandt, Marion Mallweger, Sae Woo Nam, Sayan Patra, Gil Porat, Dileep Venkatarama Reddy, Thorsten Schumm, Stephen Schoun, Benedict Seiferle, Christian Schneider, Lars von der Wense, Peter Thirolf, Varun Verma, Jun Ye, Chuankun Zhang
We report on a direct measurement of the ∼ 8.4 eV nuclear excitation energy of the isomeric first excited state 229mTh via the internal conversion (IC) decay

Ion Coulomb crystals: an exotic form of condensed matter

Author(s)
Giovanna Morigi, John Bollinger, Michael Drewsen, Daniel Podolsky, Efrat Shimshoni
Wigner crystals formed by laser-cooled ions in traps are unconventional condensed matter systems, characterized by interparticle distances of several

Kelvin probe force microscopy under ambient conditions

Author(s)
Amirhossein Zahmatkeshsaredorahi, Ruben Millan-Solsona, Devon Jakob, Liam Collins, Xiaoji Xu
Kelvin Probe Force Microscopy (KPFM), a technique derived from Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM), provides nanometer-scale spatial resolution for mapping surface

Quantum Vibro-Polaritonic Sensing

Author(s)
Peng Zheng, Stephen Semancik, Ishan Barman
Vibrational spectroscopies are pivotal in analytical methods and biomedical diagnostics owing to their singular ability to provide molecular specificity. Yet

Interfacial Alloying Contributions to the Magnetic Proximity Effect in Pt/Dysprosium Iron Garnet

Author(s)
Miela J. Gross, Javier Herrero-Martin, Sergio Valencia, Alexander Grutter, Julie Borchers, Yongseong Choi, Gilberto Fabbris, Allison Kaczmarek, Alexander E. Kossak, Jackson Bauer, Subhajit Kundu, Supriya Ghosh, K. A. Mkhoyan, Angela Wittmann, Caroline A. Ross
The magnetic proximity effect (MPE) plays an important role in the behavior of heavy-metal (HM)/ferro- or ferrimagnet thin film heterostructures, but for HM

Fully transparent GaN/InGaN LED as a position sensitive detector

Author(s)
Christine McGinn, Keith Behrman, Emily Bittle, Pragya Shrestha, Qingyuan Zeng, Vikrant Kumar, Christina Hacker, Ioannis Kymissis
Commercial imaging technologies have an increasing need for an accurate, in-situ beam locator to ensure laser alignment during operation. In this work, gallium

Three-dimensional nucleation and growth of deformation twins in magnesium

Author(s)
Sangwon Lee, Michael Pilipchuk, Can Yildirim, Duncan Greeley, Qianying Shi, Tracy Berman, Adam Creuziger, Evan Rust, Carsten Detlefs, Veera Sundararaghavan, John Allison, Ashley Bucsek
At two-thirds the weight of aluminum, magnesium alloys have the potential to significantly reduce the fuel consumption of transportation vehicles. These
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