Search Results - "Ward, T. Z"
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Elastically driven anisotropic percolation in electronic phase-separated manganites
Published in Nature physics (01-12-2009)“…The presence of electronic phase separation in complex materials has been linked to many types of exotic behaviour, such as colossal magnetoresistance, the…”
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Full Electroresistance Modulation in a Mixed-Phase Metallic Alloy
Published in Physical review letters (04-03-2016)“…We report a giant, ∼22%, electroresistance modulation for a metallic alloy above room temperature. It is achieved by a small electric field of 2 kV/cm via…”
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Electrically reversible cracks in an intermetallic film controlled by an electric field
Published in Nature communications (03-01-2018)“…Cracks in solid-state materials are typically irreversible. Here we report electrically reversible opening and closing of nanoscale cracks in an intermetallic…”
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Active control of magnetoresistance of organic spin valves using ferroelectricity
Published in Nature communications (10-07-2014)“…Organic spintronic devices have been appealing because of the long spin lifetime of the charge carriers in the organic materials and their low cost,…”
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High entropy ceramics for applications in extreme environments
Published in JPhys materials (01-04-2024)“…Compositionally complex materials have demonstrated extraordinary promise for structural robustness in extreme environments. Of these, the most commonly…”
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Dimensionality Effects in FeGe2 Nanowires: Enhanced Anisotropic Magnetization and Anomalous Electrical Transport
Published in Scientific reports (02-08-2017)“…We report the synthesis of single-crystal iron germanium nanowires via chemical vapor deposition without the assistance of any catalysts. The assembly of…”
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Chemically induced Jahn–Teller ordering on manganite surfaces
Published in Nature communications (24-07-2014)“…Physical and electrochemical phenomena at the surfaces of transition metal oxides and their coupling to local functionality remains one of the enigmas of…”
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Stoichiometry control of complex oxides by sequential pulsed-laser deposition from binary-oxide targets
Published in Applied physics letters (30-03-2015)“…To have precise atomic layer control over interfaces, we examine the growth of complex oxides through the sequential deposition from binary targets by pulsed…”
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Giant discrete steps in metal-insulator transition in perovskite manganite wires
Published in Physical review letters (20-10-2006)“…Optical lithography is used to fabricate LPCMO wires starting from a single (La(5/8-0.3)Pr(0.3))Ca3/8MnO3 (LPCMO) film epitaxially grown on a LaAlO3(100)…”
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Nonequilibrium Synthesis of Highly Porous Single‐Crystalline Oxide Nanostructures
Published in Advanced materials interfaces (08-02-2017)“…A novel synthesis route to the formation of vertically aligned single‐crystalline oxide nanostructures is found by precisely controlling the nonequilibrium…”
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Giant magnetoresistance in organic spin valves
Published in Physical review letters (11-06-2010)“…Interfacial diffusion between magnetic electrodes and organic spacer layers is a serious problem in the organic spintronics which complicates attempts to…”
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Controlling Octahedral Rotations in a Perovskite via Strain Doping
Published in Scientific reports (24-05-2016)“…The perovskite unit cell is the fundamental building block of many functional materials. The manipulation of this crystal structure is known to be of central…”
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Embracing disorder in quantum materials design
Published in Applied physics letters (03-06-2024)“…Many of the most exciting materials discoveries in fundamental condensed matter physics are made in systems hosting some degree of intrinsic disorder. While…”
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Strain-induced optical band gap variation of SnO2 films
Published in Thin solid films (30-09-2016)“…Thickness dependent strain relaxation effects are utilized to study the impact of crystal anisotropy on the optical band gap of epitaxial SnO2 films grown by…”
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Observing a previously hidden structural-phase transition onset through heteroepitaxial cap response
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-03-2019)“…Characterization of the onset of a phase transition is often challenging due to the fluctuations of the correlation length scales of the order parameters. This…”
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Phase Transitions, Phase Coexistence, and Piezoelectric Switching Behavior in Highly Strained BiFeO3 Films
Published in Advanced materials (Weinheim) (18-10-2013)“…Highly strained BiFeO3 films transition into a true tetragonal state at 430 °C but remain polar to much higher temperatures (∼800 °C). Piezoelectric switching…”
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Giant Controllable Magnetization Changes Induced by Structural Phase Transitions in a Metamagnetic Artificial Multiferroic
Published in Scientific reports (04-03-2016)“…The realization of a controllable metamagnetic transition from AFM to FM ordering would open the door to a plethora of new spintronics based devices that,…”
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Optimisation of photorefractive multiple quantum wells for biomedical imaging
Published in Synthetic metals (15-11-2005)“…A novel method has been proposed and tested to optimize the photorefractive multiple quantum wells device for biomedical imaging. The device acts as a dynamic…”
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Strain driven anisotropic magnetoresistance in antiferromagnetic La0.4Sr0.6MnO3
Published in Applied physics letters (04-08-2014)“…We investigate the effects of strain on antiferromagnetic (AFM) single crystal thin films of La1−xSrxMnO3 (x = 0.6). Nominally unstrained samples have strong…”
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Reemergent metal-insulator transitions in manganites exposed with spatial confinement
Published in Physical review letters (20-06-2008)“…The metal-insulator transition is characterized as a single peak in the temperature-dependent resistivity measurements; exceptions to this have never been seen…”
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