Search Results - "Evans, Paul G."
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Direct oriented growth of armchair graphene nanoribbons on germanium
Published in Nature communications (10-08-2015)“…Graphene can be transformed from a semimetal into a semiconductor if it is confined into nanoribbons narrower than 10 nm with controlled crystallographic…”
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Giant electric field-induced second harmonic generation in polar skyrmions
Published in Nature communications (14-02-2024)“…Electric field-induced second harmonic generation allows electrically controlling nonlinear light-matter interactions crucial for emerging integrated photonics…”
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Photoinduced Domain Pattern Transformation in Ferroelectric-Dielectric Superlattices
Published in Physical review letters (31-07-2017)“…The nanodomain pattern in ferroelectric-dielectric superlattices transforms to a uniform polarization state under above-band-gap optical excitation. X-ray…”
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Structural Evidence for Ultrafast Polarization Rotation in Ferroelectric/Dielectric Superlattice Nanodomains
Published in Physical review. X (09-08-2021)“…Weakly coupled ferroelectric/dielectric superlattice thin-film heterostructures exhibit complex nanoscale polarization configurations that arise from a balance…”
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Optical transient grating pumped X-ray diffraction microscopy for studying mesoscale structural dynamics
Published in Scientific reports (29-09-2021)“…A fundamental understanding of materials’ structural dynamics, with fine spatial and temporal control, underpins future developments in electronic and quantum…”
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Giant optical enhancement of strain gradient in ferroelectric BiFeO3 thin films and its physical origin
Published in Scientific reports (20-11-2015)“…Through mapping of the spatiotemporal strain profile in ferroelectric BiFeO 3 epitaxial thin films, we report an optically initiated dynamic enhancement of the…”
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Optically Reconfigurable Monolayer of Azobenzene Donor Molecules on Oxide Surfaces
Published in Langmuir (07-03-2017)“…The structural configuration of molecules assembled at organic–inorganic interfaces within electronic materials strongly influences the functional electronic…”
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Electron mobility enhancement in ZnO thin films via surface modification by carboxylic acids
Published in Applied physics letters (28-01-2013)“…Modifying the surface of polycrystalline ZnO films using a monolayer of organic molecules with carboxylic acid attachment groups increases the field-effect…”
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MOCVD of InGaN on ScAlMgO4 on Al2O3 Substrates with Improved Surface Morphology and Crystallinity
Published in Crystals (Basel) (01-03-2023)“…ScAlMgO4 (SAM) is a promising substrate material for group III-nitride semiconductors. SAM has a lower lattice mismatch with III-nitride materials compared to…”
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Electronic transport in nanometre-scale silicon-on-insulator membranes
Published in Nature (09-02-2006)“…The widely used 'silicon-on-insulator' (SOI) system consists of a layer of single-crystalline silicon supported on a silicon dioxide substrate. When this…”
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Searching for a route to synthesize in situ epitaxial Pr2Ir2O7 thin films with thermodynamic methods
Published in npj computational materials (09-09-2021)“…In situ growth of pyrochlore iridate thin films has been a long-standing challenge due to the low reactivity of Ir at low temperatures and the vaporization of…”
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Ultrafast Bragg coherent diffraction imaging of epitaxial thin films using deep complex-valued neural networks
Published in npj computational materials (29-01-2024)“…Domain wall structures form spontaneously due to epitaxial misfit during thin film growth. Imaging the dynamics of domains and domain walls at ultrafast…”
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Edge-induced flattening in the fabrication of ultrathin freestanding crystalline silicon sheets
Published in Applied physics letters (21-01-2013)“…Silicon nanomembranes are suspended single-crystal sheets of silicon, tens of nanometers thick, with areas in the thousands of square micrometers. Challenges…”
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Low-temperature nanoscale heat transport in a gadolinium iron garnet heterostructure probed by ultrafast x-ray diffraction
Published in Structural dynamics (Melville, N.Y.) (01-07-2022)“…Time-resolved x-ray diffraction has been used to measure the low-temperature thermal transport properties of a Pt/Gd3Fe5O12//Gd3Ga5O12 metal/oxide…”
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Nonlinear piezoelectricity in epitaxial ferroelectrics at high electric fields
Published in Physical review letters (18-01-2008)“…Nonlinear effects in the coupling of polarization with elastic strain have been predicted to occur in ferroelectric materials subjected to high electric…”
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Structural visualization of polarization fatigue in epitaxial ferroelectric oxide devices
Published in Nature materials (01-06-2004)“…Ferroelectric oxides, such as Pb(Zr,Ti)O3, are useful for electronic and photonic devices because of their ability to retain two stable polarization states,…”
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Subterahertz collective dynamics of polar vortices
Published in Nature (London) (15-04-2021)“…The collective dynamics of topological structures 1 – 6 are of interest from both fundamental and applied perspectives. For example, studies of dynamical…”
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Localized excited charge carriers generate ultrafast inhomogeneous strain in the multiferroic BiFeO3
Published in Physical review letters (07-03-2014)“…We apply ultrafast x-ray diffraction with femtosecond temporal resolution to monitor the lattice dynamics in a thin film of multiferroic BiFeO3 after…”
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Evaluation of Volatility and Thermal Stability in Monomeric and Dimeric Lanthanide(III) Complexes Containing Enaminolate Ligands
Published in Organometallics (10-05-2021)“…Treatment of 3 equiv of the potassium salts derived from the β-amino ketones 1-(dimethylamino)-3,3-dimethylbutan-2-one (L1H),…”
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Ultrafast Switching of Interfacial Thermal Conductance
Published in ACS nano (10-10-2023)“…Dynamical control of thermal transport at the nanoscale provides a time-domain strategy for optimizing thermal management in nanoelectronics, magnetic devices,…”
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