Scientific Achievement: Accurate many-body calculations predict a disorder transition in MnBi₂Te₄ involving Bi(Mn) antisites well below its synthesis temperature.
Scientific Achievement: Discovered nanoscale exciton confinement in a monolayer 2D semiconductor induced by electron-beam patterning via an unconventional electrostatic gating effect.
Scientific Achievement: Mo isotope labeling and molecular dynamics (MD) calculations revealed how vdW interactions with the substrate control the synthesis pathway of bilayer MoS2 – driving underlayer growth on SiO2
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
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