Physical Review Materials - October 2023

Physical Review Materials View Email Online   Volume 7, Issue 10 October 2023   View Issue   Advertisement Upcoming Physical Review Journal Club session November 20 | 10:00 a.m. ET Tristan Clua-Provost, Aurore Finco, and Vincent Jacques (Université de Montpellier and CNRS) on the Physical Review Applied paper: "Magnetic Imaging with Spin Defects in Hexagonal Boron Nitride" Registration is free and a video recording will be provided to all registrants.     Advertisement Make your manuscript publication-ready with Author Services from APS! Do you need language assistance for your next submission? Take advantage of new translation, figure assistance, and text editing services provided by APS and Editage. Experience exceptional support, expertise, and dedication for all your publishing needs. Get a quote.     Advertisement Physical Review B​ is looking for a new part-time (remote) Associate Editor PRB seeks an Associate Editor to manage the peer review process of assigned manuscripts by determining whether to send a manuscript out for external review, choosing appropriate reviewers, and making decisions on rejection or acceptance. More information.     Not an APS member? Join today to start connecting with a community of more than 50,000 physicists.   HIGHLIGHTED ARTICLES Editors' Suggestion Tuning the Curie temperature of a two-dimensional magnet/topological insulator heterostructure to above room temperature by epitaxial growth Wenyi Zhou, Alexander J. Bishop, Xiyue S. Zhang, Katherine Robinson, Igor Lyalin, Ziling Li, Ryan Bailey-Crandell, Thow Min Jerald Cham, Shuyu Cheng, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Daniel C. Ralph, David A. Muller, and Roland K. Kawakami Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104004 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 The heterostructures of 2D magnets and topological insulators are attractive candidates for quantum anomalous hall effect and highly-efficient spin-orbit torque switching. To better study these phenomena, it will be crucial to synthesize epitaxial heterostructures for scalability while maintaining high-quality interfaces to preserve the topological surface states and having the Curie temperature (TC) above room temperature. Here, the authors utilize molecular beam epitaxy to tune the TC in heterostructures of van der Waals (vdW) magnet Fe3GeTe2 and topological insulator Bi2Te3 to above room temperature by varying growth conditions. Electron microscopy reveals the existence of thicker vdW compounds in the FemGenTe2 family, as well as some intercalants in between vdW gaps, which are possible origins for the enhanced TC.     Editors' Suggestion Testing the topological insulator behavior of half-Heusler PdYBi and PtYBi (111) epitaxial thin films V. Palin, A. Anadón, S. Andrieu, Y. Fagot-Revurat, C. de Melo, J. Ghanbaja, O. Kurnosikov, S. Petit-Watelot, F. Bertran, and J.-C. Rojas-Sánchez Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104203 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023 Materials with high spin-to-charge interconversion efficiency are of high interest for advanced spintronic applications. Previous work has suggested that topological insulators may exhibit higher efficiency than traditionally-used heavy metals. Here, the authors explore the half-Heusler compounds PdYBi and PtYBi and their potential use for spin-to-charge interconversion. Epitaxial thin films of PdYBi and PtYBi are successfully prepared and demonstrated to exhibit nontrivial topology. Characterization of the magnetotransport in a model device shows that these half-Heusler films can outperform platinum in spin-to-charge interconversion.     Editors' Suggestion Canted antiferromagnetism in polar MnSiN2 with high Néel temperature Linus Kautzsch, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Danilo Puggioni, Greggory Kent, Keith M. Taddei, Aiden Reilly, Ram Seshadri, James M. Rondinelli, and Stephen D. Wilson Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104406 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 Ternary nitrides are a burgeoning materials class hosting diverse structures, compositions, and properties that make them appealing for various applications. Magnetic nitrogen-rich compounds generally remain underexplored, despite the unique chemical bonding afforded by the N3− ion with open d-shell transition metals. Here, the authors explore the compound MnSiN2 where Mn2+ ions reside on a 3D diamond-like covalent network with strong magnetic superexchange pathways. The compound exhibits a high Néel ordering temperature of TN = 443 K and the precise canted ground state magnetic structure is resolved using a combination of DFT modeling and powder neutron diffraction.     LETTERS Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials Letter Emergence of partially disordered antiferromagnetism and isothermal magnetization plateau due to geometrical frustration in a metallic compound, Er2RhSi3 Kartik K. Iyer, Kalobaran Maiti, Sudhindra Rayaprol, Ram Kumar, S. Mattepanavar, S. Dodamani, and E. V. Sampathkumaran Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L101401 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023   Superconducting materials Letter Effect of doping on the phase stability and superconductivity in LaH10 Zepeng Wu, Yang Sun, Artur P. Durajski, Feng Zheng, Vladimir Antropov, Kai-Ming Ho, and Shunqing Wu Phys. Rev. Materials 7, L101801 (2023) – Published 27 October 2023   ARTICLES Crystal growth, crystallization, and kinetics Switching of control mechanisms during the rapid solidification of a melt pool Yijia Gu, Jiandong Yuan, and Lianyi Chen Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 103401 (2023) – Published 3 October 2023   Structural and mechanical properties Descriptor for slip-induced crack blunting in refractory ceramics Davide G. Sangiovanni, Antoine Kraych, Matous Mrovec, Janella Salamania, Magnus Odén, Ferenc Tasnádi, and Igor A. Abrikosov Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 103601 (2023) – Published 6 October 2023   Machine learning moment tensor potential for modeling dislocation and fracture in L10−TiAl and D019−Ti3Al alloys Ji Qi, Z. H. Aitken, Qingxiang Pei, Anne Marie Z. Tan, Yunxing Zuo, M. H. Jhon, S. S. Quek, T. Wen, Zhaoxuan Wu, and Shyue Ping Ong Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 103602 (2023) – Published 13 October 2023   Polymorphic structure of 〈a〉-type screw dislocation cores in α-Ti David Jany, Eric Rothchild, and D. C. Chrzan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 103603 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Development of new methods for materials Monolithic integration of InP nanowires with CMOS fabricated silicon nanotips wafer Anagha Kamath, Oliver Skibitzki, Davide Spirito, Shabnam Dadgostar, Irene Mediavilla Martinez, Martin Schmidbauer, Carsten Richter, Albert Kwasniewski, Jorge Serrano, Juan Jimenez, Christian Golz, Markus Andreas Schubert, Jens W. Tomm, Gang Niu, and Fariba Hatami Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 103801 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023   Two-dimensional materials Transferable screened range-separated hybrid functionals for electronic and optical properties of van der Waals materials María Camarasa-Gómez, Ashwin Ramasubramaniam, Jeffrey B. Neaton, and Leeor Kronik Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104001 (2023) – Published 3 October 2023   Switching of charge-density wave by carrier tuning in monolayer TiTe2 Koki Yanagizawa, Katsuaki Sugawara, Tappei Kawakami, Ryuichi Ando, Ken Yaegashi, Kosuke Nakayama, Seigo Souma, Kiyohisa Tanaka, Miho Kitamura, Koji Horiba, Hiroshi Kumigashira, Takashi Takahashi, and Takafumi Sato Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104002 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   First-principles study of bilayers ZnX and CdX (X=S,Se,Te) direct band-gap semiconductors and their van der Waals heterostructures Gabriel Perin, Danilo Kuritza, Rafael Barbosa, Gustavo Tresco, Renato B. Pontes, Roberto H. Miwa, and José E. Padilha Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104003 (2023) – Published 20 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Tuning the Curie temperature of a two-dimensional magnet/topological insulator heterostructure to above room temperature by epitaxial growth Wenyi Zhou, Alexander J. Bishop, Xiyue S. Zhang, Katherine Robinson, Igor Lyalin, Ziling Li, Ryan Bailey-Crandell, Thow Min Jerald Cham, Shuyu Cheng, Yunqiu Kelly Luo, Daniel C. Ralph, David A. Muller, and Roland K. Kawakami Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104004 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023 The heterostructures of 2D magnets and topological insulators are attractive candidates for quantum anomalous hall effect and highly-efficient spin-orbit torque switching. To better study these phenomena, it will be crucial to synthesize epitaxial heterostructures for scalability while maintaining high-quality interfaces to preserve the topological surface states and having the Curie temperature (TC) above room temperature. Here, the authors utilize molecular beam epitaxy to tune the TC in heterostructures of van der Waals (vdW) magnet Fe3GeTe2 and topological insulator Bi2Te3 to above room temperature by varying growth conditions. Electron microscopy reveals the existence of thicker vdW compounds in the FemGenTe2 family, as well as some intercalants in between vdW gaps, which are possible origins for the enhanced TC.     Anisotropic Rashba splitting dominated by out-of-plane spin polarization in two-dimensional Janus XA2Y (A=Si,Sn,Ge; X,Y=Sb,Bi) with surface imperfection Arif Lukmantoro and Moh. Adhib Ulil Absor Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104005 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Enhanced spin-polarization via partial Ge-dimerization as the driving force of the charge density wave in FeGe Yilin Wang Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104006 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Topological and Dirac materials Frustrated charge order and cooperative distortions in ScV6Sn6 Ganesh Pokharel, Brenden R. Ortiz, Linus Kautzsch, S. J. Alvarado Gomez, Krishnanand Mallayya, Guang Wu, Eun-Ah Kim, Jacob P. C. Ruff, Suchismita Sarker, and Stephen D. Wilson Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104201 (2023) – Published 3 October 2023   Molecular beam epitaxy growth of axion insulator candidate EuIn2As2 Muhsin Abdul Karim, Jiashu Wang, David Graf, Kota Yoshimura, Sara Bey, Tatyana Orlova, Maksym Zhukovskyi, Xinyu Liu, and Badih A. Assaf Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104202 (2023) – Published 9 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Testing the topological insulator behavior of half-Heusler PdYBi and PtYBi (111) epitaxial thin films V. Palin, A. Anadón, S. Andrieu, Y. Fagot-Revurat, C. de Melo, J. Ghanbaja, O. Kurnosikov, S. Petit-Watelot, F. Bertran, and J.-C. Rojas-Sánchez Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104203 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023 Materials with high spin-to-charge interconversion efficiency are of high interest for advanced spintronic applications. Previous work has suggested that topological insulators may exhibit higher efficiency than traditionally-used heavy metals. Here, the authors explore the half-Heusler compounds PdYBi and PtYBi and their potential use for spin-to-charge interconversion. Epitaxial thin films of PdYBi and PtYBi are successfully prepared and demonstrated to exhibit nontrivial topology. Characterization of the magnetotransport in a model device shows that these half-Heusler films can outperform platinum in spin-to-charge interconversion.     Prediction of strong topological insulator phase in kagome metal RV6Ge6 Taosif Ahsan, Chia-Hsiu Hsu, Md. Shafayat Hossain, and M. Zahid Hasan Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104204 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023   Anomalous Hall effect and magnetoresistance in microribbons of the magnetic Weyl semimetal candidate PrRhC2 Mickey Martini, Helena Reichlova, Laura T. Corredor, Dominik Kriegner, Yejin Lee, Luca Tomarchio, Kornelius Nielsch, Ali G. Moghaddam, Jeroen van den Brink, Bernd Büchner, Sabine Wurmehl, Vitaliy Romaka, and Andy Thomas Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104205 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Magnetic, ferroelectric, and multiferroic materials Exotic surface magnetotransport phenomena in the antiferromagnetic Mott insulator NiS2 Sami El-Khatib, Faisal Mustafa, Mehmet Egilmez, Bhaskar Das, Yu Tao, Moumita Maiti, Yeon Lee, and Chris Leighton Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104401 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023   Optical signatures of defects in BiFeO3 Sabine Körbel Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104402 (2023) – Published 10 October 2023   Quantum gapped state in a spin-1/2 distorted honeycomb-based lattice with frustration Hironori Yamaguchi, Satoshi Morota, Takanori Kida, Seiya Shimono, Koji Araki, Yoshiki Iwasaki, Yuko Hosokoshi, and Masayuki Hagiwara Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104403 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Breathing pyrochlore magnet CuGaCr4S8: Magnetic, thermodynamic, and dielectric properties Masaki Gen, Hajime Ishikawa, Atsushi Miyake, Takeshi Yajima, Harald O. Jeschke, Hajime Sagayama, Akihiko Ikeda, Yasuhiro H. Matsuda, Koichi Kindo, Masashi Tokunaga, Yoshimitsu Kohama, Takashi Kurumaji, Yusuke Tokunaga, and Taka-hisa Arima Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104404 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Zero-field magnetic structure and metamagnetic phase transitions of the cobalt chain compound Li2CoCl4 Zachary W. Riedel, Zhihao Jiang, Maxim Avdeev, André Schleife, and Daniel P. Shoemaker Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104405 (2023) – Published 16 October 2023   Editors' Suggestion Canted antiferromagnetism in polar MnSiN2 with high Néel temperature Linus Kautzsch, Alexandru B. Georgescu, Danilo Puggioni, Greggory Kent, Keith M. Taddei, Aiden Reilly, Ram Seshadri, James M. Rondinelli, and Stephen D. Wilson Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104406 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 Ternary nitrides are a burgeoning materials class hosting diverse structures, compositions, and properties that make them appealing for various applications. Magnetic nitrogen-rich compounds generally remain underexplored, despite the unique chemical bonding afforded by the N3− ion with open d-shell transition metals. Here, the authors explore the compound MnSiN2 where Mn2+ ions reside on a 3D diamond-like covalent network with strong magnetic superexchange pathways. The compound exhibits a high Néel ordering temperature of TN = 443 K and the precise canted ground state magnetic structure is resolved using a combination of DFT modeling and powder neutron diffraction.     Paramagnetic Nd sublattice and thickness-dependent ferromagnetism in Nd2NiMnO6 double perovskite thin films Jonathan Spring, Gabriele De Luca, Simon Jöhr, Javier Herrero-Martín, Charles Guillemard, Cinthia Piamonteze, Carlos M. M. Rosário, Hans Hilgenkamp, and Marta Gibert Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104407 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Nonlocal spin transport based on a half-metallic ferromagnet Yao Junxiang, Prateek Kumar, Mariona Cabero-Piris, and Jan Aarts Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104408 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Processing effect on spin-orbit torque switching and efficiency characterization in perpendicularly magnetized pillar devices Wei-Bang Liao, Chun-Yi Lin, Tung-Yue Cheng, Chao-Chung Huang, Tian-Yue Chen, and Chi-Feng Pai Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104409 (2023) – Published 24 October 2023   Ballistic spin-transport properties of magnetic tunnel junctions with MnCr-based ferrimagnetic quaternary Heusler alloys Tufan Roy, Masahito Tsujikawa, and Masafumi Shirai Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104410 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Magnetism-correlated high-temperature martensitic phase transition in ductile Co2NiT (T=Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Y, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, and W) all-d-metal Heusler compounds Guijiang Li, Lei Xu, and Zhenhua Cao Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104411 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Semiconducting materials Quantifying doping-dependent electron-phonon scattering rates in silicon by inelastic x-ray scattering and first-principles lattice dynamics Hiroshi Uchiyama, Te-Huan Liu, Toshiaki Ono, Jun Fujise, Bolin Liao, Shenghong Ju, Gang Chen, and Junichiro Shiomi Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104601 (2023) – Published 13 October 2023   Role of volume change on the physics of thermoelectric half-Heusler compounds M. Yazdani-Kachoei, S. Li, W. Sun, S. Mehdi Vaez Allaei, and I. Di Marco Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104602 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Superconducting materials Superconductivity induced by doping holes in the nodal-line semimetal NaAlGe Toshiya Ikenobe, Takahiro Yamada, Daigorou Hirai, Hisanori Yamane, and Zenji Hiroi Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104801 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Superconductivity in HfS2 at ultrahigh pressure Shihui Zhang, Hailun Wang, Hao Liu, Jiapeng Zhen, Shun Wan, Wen Deng, Yonghao Han, Bin Chen, and Chunxiao Gao Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 104802 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023   Other electronic materials Crystal structure and f-orbital hybridization in the filled skutterudite PrRu4P12 Jonathan Buhot, Marie-Bernadette Lepetit, Hitoshi Sugawara, and Marie-Aude Méasson Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105001 (2023) – Published 20 October 2023   Metamaterials, optical, photonic, and plasmonic materials Emission enhancement in nanoassemblies with extremely small metal nanoparticles: Nonmonotonic effect of temperature and the non-Markovian interactions Riya Dutta, Kritika Jain, Komal Sharma, Murugesan Venkatapathi, and J. K. Basu Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105201 (2023) – Published 30 October 2023   Materials for energy harvesting, storage, and generation Tailoring negative pressure by crystal defects: Microcrack induced hydride formation in Al alloys Ali Tehranchi, Poulami Chakraborty, Martí López Freixes, Eunan J. McEniry, Baptiste Gault, Tilmann Hickel, and Jörg Neugebauer Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105401 (2023) – Published 17 October 2023   Explainable machine learning for hydrogen diffusion in metals and random binary alloys Grace M. Lu, Matthew Witman, Sapan Agarwal, Vitalie Stavila, and Dallas R. Trinkle Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105402 (2023) – Published 26 October 2023   Soft, molecular, and amorphous materials Single gyroid in H-shaped block copolymers So Jung Park, Frank S. Bates, and Kevin D. Dorfman Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105601 (2023) – Published 19 October 2023 The beautiful colors we observe in nature, such as butterfly wing scales, reveal how nature precisely controls the propagation of light by creating photonic crystals, such as the single gyroid network. Recreating these chiral networks in synthetic materials, especially self-assembled block polymers, offers great potential applications as next-generation optical devices. However, single gyroid is thermodynamically unfavorable in linear diblock copolymers owing to the molecular packing mechanisms. This study uses self-consistent field theory to elucidate the design principles for stabilizing single gyroid in a synthetically tractable block copolymer architecture.     Shock compression of semicrystalline polymers Pedro S. Lance, Daniel A. Vega, and Leopoldo R. Gómez Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105602 (2023) – Published 23 October 2023   Temperature dependence of fast relaxation processes in amorphous materials Gieberth Rodriguez-Lopez, Kirsten Martens, and Ezequiel E. Ferrero Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105603 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   General framework for the mechanical response of metallic glasses during strain-rate-dependent uniaxial compression Weiwei Jin, Amit Datye, Udo D. Schwarz, Mark D. Shattuck, and Corey S. O'Hern Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105604 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023   Fluctuation stabilization of the Fddd network phase in diblock, triblock, and starblock copolymer melts Mark W. Matsen, Thomas M. Beardsley, and James D. Willis Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 105605 (2023) – Published 31 October 2023 The latest complex network phase to be discovered in diblock copolymer melts is the orthorhombic Fddd phase. Mean-field theory predicts it to be stable, but only at weak segregations where ordered phases are typically destroyed by thermal fluctuations. Indeed, Landau-Brazovskii theory confirmed this expectation, raising the question of how Fddd survives in experiments. However, this problem was recently resolved by accurate field-theoretic simulations, which found that Fddd is simply more resilient to fluctuations than other ordered phases. Here, the authors find that this is also true for the family of (AB)M starblock copolymer architectures. This resilience may very well extend to numerous other architectures, and thus it would be prudent to keep our eyes open for Fddd.     Nanomaterials The origin of room-temperature self-trapped-exciton emission in LiF nanoparticles Camilla L. Nielsen, Pavao Andričević, Brian Julsgaard, Mayank Jain, Peter Balling, and Rosana M. Turtos Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 106001 (2023) – Published 18 October 2023   Biexcitons are bound in CsPbBr3 perovskite nanocrystals Yoonjae Park and David T. Limmer Phys. Rev. Materials 7, 106002 (2023) – Published 25 October 2023     American Physical Society: 1 Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740 ©2023 American Physical Society | All rights reserved   You are receiving this email because you are subscribed to Table of Content alerts. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, please update your preferences.