Defect-free three-dimensional (3D)-printed ceramics, such as alumina, zirconia, and titania, have been successfully fabricated by controlling the initial defect formation using a non-reactive diluent, namely, polyprop...
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ABSTRACTABSTRACTTo study the structural, electronic, and optical properties of lead-free Barium titanate BaTiO3(BT) ferroelectric material in its tetragonal structure, a combination of experimental and theoretical stu...
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ABSTRACTABSTRACTTo study the structural, electronic, and optical properties of lead-free Barium titanate BaTiO3(BT) ferroelectric material in its tetragonal structure, a combination of experimental and theoretical studies has been used and the obtained results were discussed. The studied BT compound was prepared via the sol–gel technique. The calculated bandgap energy (Eg) and structural parameters of BT are determined using four types of exchange–correlation functionals (PBE, PBEsol, LDA, and PW91) in the perspective of the density functional theory (DFT). XRD and Raman analysis have shown that BT ceramic exhibits a tetragonal phase structure without any trace of impurity phases. The UV–vis investigation showed that BT has a bandgap energy of 3.19 eV, which is larger than the theoretically calculated values. The computed lattice parameter c is overestimated (as large as ~1% deviation) when using the LDA approximation. In contrast, PBEsol proved that those lattice constants were close to the experimental values (a deviation of less than 1%).
In situ composite manufacturing techniques can improve the bond between the matrix and reinforcements in a composite material. This is achieved by creating the reinforcements within the matrix through the reaction of ...
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Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) is a strongly correlated electronic material that famously undergoes a triple coupled first-order transition where it transitions from a paramagnetic metal with a rhombohedral structure at ...
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Vanadium sesquioxide (V2O3) is a strongly correlated electronic material that famously undergoes a triple coupled first-order transition where it transitions from a paramagnetic metal with a rhombohedral structure at high temperature to an antiferromagnetic insulator with a monoclinic structure. While several studies have used one of both electronic and structural transitions to control the properties of a heterostructure, evidence of magnetic coupling has notoriously yet to be found. In this paper, we report on a robust magnetic coupling between the antiferromagnetic (AFM) V2O3 and ferromagnetic (FM) Permalloy (Py) layers that results in a significant exchange bias and strain-induced coercivity enhancement. We provide a temperature and angle-dependent study of magnetic properties, which clearly indicates exchange bias at the AFM/FM interface that appears at the onset of the metal-insulator transition. The magnitude of the exchange bias is strongest when the field is applied along the [001] V2O3 crystallographic orientation which corresponds to an AFM spin configuration on the [110] surface. This opens the door to designing and implementing novel functionalities in transition metal oxide-based computing using the connection between magnetism and the metal-insulator transition.
Magnetic monopoles, despite their ongoing experimental search as elementary particles, have inspired the discovery of analogous excitations in condensed matter systems. In chiral condensed matter systems, emergent mon...
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The Co-Fe-Nb materials system is a crucial material for magnetic applications. Despite its importance, the phase equilibria and thermodynamic characteristics of this ternary system have not been explored in detail. Th...
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Chiral nematic or cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) are fluid mesophases with long-ranged orientational order featuring a quasilayered periodicity imparted by a helical director configuration but lacking long-range po...
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Chiral nematic or cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) are fluid mesophases with long-ranged orientational order featuring a quasilayered periodicity imparted by a helical director configuration but lacking long-range positional order. Doping molecular cholesteric LCs with strongly anisotropic uniaxial colloidal particles adds another level of complexity because of the interplay between weak surface-anchoring boundary conditions and bulk-based elastic distortions near the particle-LC interface. Using cylindrical colloidal disks and rods with different geometric shapes and surface conditions, we demonstrate that these colloidal inclusions generically exhibit biaxial orientational probability distributions which may impart anomalously strong local biaxiality onto the hybrid cholesteric LC structure. Unlike nonchiral hybrid molecular-colloidal LCs, where biaxial order emerges only at critical colloid volume fractions exceeding some uniaxial-biaxial transition value, the orientational probability of the colloidal inclusions immersed in chiral nematic hosts is unambiguously biaxial even at infinite dilution. We demonstrate that the colloids induce local biaxial perturbations within the molecular orientational order of the LC host medium which strongly enhances the weak but native biaxial order of chiral nematic LC induced by the chiral symmetry breaking of the director field. With the help of analytical modeling and computer simulations based on the Landau–de Gennes free energy of the host LC around the colloids, we rationalize the observed multilevel biaxial order and conclude that it is not only unavoidable but also strongly enhanced compared to both achiral hybrid LCs and purely molecular cholesteric LCs.
Silicon anodes offer high energy densities for next-generation lithium-ion batteries;however, their application is limited by severe volume expansion during cycling. Making silicon porous or nanostructured mitigates t...
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The ZrSiS-type materials have attracted intensive attention due to the existence of various topological fermions. The magnetic version of the ZrSiS-type materials, LnSbTe (Ln=lanthanides), is an ideal candidate to exp...
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The ZrSiS-type materials have attracted intensive attention due to the existence of various topological fermions. The magnetic version of the ZrSiS-type materials, LnSbTe (Ln=lanthanides), is an ideal candidate to explore novel exotic states due to the interaction between magnetism and topology. In this work, we report the experimental study on structural, magnetic, thermodynamic, and electronic properties for SmSbxTe2−x with various Sb content. The revealed evolutions of these properties with tuning the compositions would provide useful insights for the fundamental topological physics and the future applications.
Al-Si alloys processed by laser rapid solidification yield eutectic microstructures with ultrafine and interconnected fibers. Such fibrous structures have long been thought to bear resemblance to those formed in impur...
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