Scientific Achievement: Identified mesoscale phase separation and a corresponding variation of magnetic anisotropy driving the formation of spin textures in high-ordering temperature ferromagnet Fe5-xGeTe2 (FGT).
Scientific Achievement: Understanding how Bi2Se3 bonds to 1D atomic scale steps enables growth of single-domain topological insulator films without twin defects.
Scientific Achievement: Ab initio diffusion quantum Monte Carlo (DMC) calculations reveal that the fundamental gap of the ferromagnetic insulator CrI3 is primarily controlled by electron correlation rather than spin-orbit cou
Scientific Achievement: Advanced simulations reveal that superconductivity in bilayer nickelates is driven by interlayer electron pairing mediated by interlayer spin fluctuations.
Scientific Achievement: Inelastic neutron scattering reveals a large electric-field-driven increase in thermal conductivity controlled by increased phonon lifetimes in a relaxor-based ferroelectric.
Scientific Achievement: The electron-transverse acoustic (TA) phonon coupling is found to create a chiral charge density wave (CDW) in the topological magnet EuAl4.
Scientific Achievement: Ion flux diagnostics combined with in-situ Raman spectroscopy revealed that damage to monolayer (ML) graphene during pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of a protective layer is primarily driven by fast ions, and that
Scientific Achievement: Method developed for solids matches accuracy of quantum chemistry approaches with a 1000 times smaller basis allowing calculations of larger systems.
Scientific Achievement: Neutron and X-ray scattering show that bulk RuO₂ exhibits a highly correlated ground state without magnetic moments, despite prior claims of altermagnetism.
Scientific Achievement: Atomic-scale simulations and experiments revealed the acidity of MgO surface sites and suggested their hydroxylation as the mechanism for Mg(OH)2 conversion.