Fe/GeTe(111) heterostructures as an avenue towards spintronics based on ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors (open access)

Fe/GeTe(111) heterostructures as an avenue towards spintronics based on ferroelectric Rashba semiconductors

Article investigating the electronic structure of Fe/GeTe(111), a prototypical ferromagnetic/Rashba-ferroelectric interface, by performing density functional theory and Green's functions calculations complemented by x-ray photoemission spectroscopy.
Date: February 19, 2019
Creator: Sławińska, Jagoda; Di Sante, Domenico; Varotto, Sara; Rinaldi, Christian & Picozzi, Silvia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Persistent spin helix in Rashba-Dresselhaus ferroelectric CsBiNb2O7 (open access)

Persistent spin helix in Rashba-Dresselhaus ferroelectric CsBiNb2O7

Article reporting that CsBiNb₂O₇, a layered perovskite of Dion-Jacobson type, is a robust ferroelectric with sufficiently strong spin-orbit coupling and spin texture reversible by electric field. The study reveals that its topmost valence band's spin texture is quasi-independent from the momentum, as a result of the low symmetry of its ferroelectric phase. The peculiar spin-polarization pattern in the momentum space may yield the so-called “persistent spin helix,” a specific spin-wave mode which protects the spin from decoherence in the diffusive transport regime, potentially ensuring a very long spin lifetime in this material.
Date: August 19, 2019
Creator: Sławińska, Jagoda; Autieri, Carmine; Barone, Paolo & Picozzi, Silvia
System: The UNT Digital Library
Absorption and emission modulation in a MoS2–GaN (0001) heterostructure by interface phonon–exciton coupling (open access)

Absorption and emission modulation in a MoS2–GaN (0001) heterostructure by interface phonon–exciton coupling

Article reporting the change in the transient absorption characteristics of monolayer MoS2 and the modified PL emission characteristics in a monolayer MoS2–GaN (0001) heterostructure due to the coupling of carriers with the phonon modes and the energy exchange at the interface. The results demonstrate the relevance of interface coupling between the semiconductors for the development of optical and electronic applications.
Date: September 26, 2019
Creator: Poudel, Yuba; Sławińska, Jagoda; Gopal, Priya; Seetharaman, Sairaman; Hennighausen, Zachariah; Kar, Swastik et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models (open access)

Grand canonical simulations of electrochemical interfaces in implicit solvation models

Article discussing grand canonical simulations based on density-functional theory to study the thermodynamic properties of electrochemical interfaces of metallic electrodes in aqueous environments.
Date: August 31, 2018
Creator: Hörmann, Nicolas; Andreussi, Oliviero & Marzari, Nicola
System: The UNT Digital Library
Lattice quantum magnetometry (open access)

Lattice quantum magnetometry

Article presenting the idea of lattice quantum magnetometry, i.e., quantum sensing of magnetic fields by a charged (spinless) particle placed on a finite two-dimensional lattice.
Date: June 24, 2019
Creator: Razzoli, Luca; Ghirardi, Luca; Siloi, Ilaria; Bordone, Paolo & Paris, Matteo G. A.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Edge-plasmon assisted electro-optical modulator (open access)

Edge-plasmon assisted electro-optical modulator

Article demonstrates an efficient electro-optical modulation by using an edge-plasmon mode specific for the hybrid plasmonic waveguide.
Date: November 26, 2019
Creator: Drachev, Vladimir P.; Pshenichnyuk, Ivan A.; Nazarikov, Gleb I.; Kosolobov, Sergey S. & Maimistov, Andrei I.
System: The UNT Digital Library
AFLOW-QHA3P: Robust and automated method to compute thermodynamic properties of solids (open access)

AFLOW-QHA3P: Robust and automated method to compute thermodynamic properties of solids

Article introducing the quasiharmonic approximation three-phonon method to calculate the thermodynamic properties of both nonmetallic and metallic compounds. This study demonstrates that QHA3P is an ideal framework for the high-throughput prediction of finite-temperature material properties, combining the accuracy of QHA with the computational efficiency of SC-QHA.
Date: July 8, 2019
Creator: Nath, Pinku; Usanmaz, Demet; Hicks, David; Oses, Corey; Fornari, Marco; Buongiorno Nardelli, Marco et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library