Crystal growth and characterization of the ultra-high temperature substrate Ta1-xHfxC0.5Incorporation of AlyGa1-yN (AGN) semiconductors into high power electronics offers efficiency improvements in power transmission, generation, and use, if approaches to eliminate the…Evan N. Crites, Sharad Mahatara, Joshua R. Hummel et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Ultrasonic determination of crystallographic texture by transmitted field fitting regardless of medium dispersivityThe determination of crystallographic texture through elastic wave propagation offers a cost-effective, nondestructive means of obtaining through-thickness information with minimal sample…Diego A. Cowes, Juan I. Mieza, Martín P. Gómez·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Near-degenerate competing magnetic orders in EuAgAs: a tunable route to altermagnetismAltermagnets (AMs) have recently emerged as a distinct magnetic class bridging central features of ferromagnets (FMs) and antiferromagnets (AFMs), offering new opportunities for spin-based…Mohamed El Gazzah, Daniel Kaplan, Zachary Morgan et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Universal Magnetic Structure Prediction from Atomic Coordinates with Near-Experimental AccuracyMagnetic order is a fundamental property of materials, governing collective behavior and enabling a broad range of functionalities. Yet magnetic structure remains difficult to determine: experiments…Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk, Ryotaro Okabe, Eunbi Rha et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Bridging Atomistic Simulation and Experimental Processing Timescales with Goal-Directed Deep Reinforcement LearningAtomic-scale modeling has advanced rapidly through integration of machine learning, yet a key bottleneck remains. Even with an accurate potential energy surface and a clear target material, we still…Wonseok Jeong, Francesca Tavazza, Brian DeCost·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Rapid Atmospheric Vapor Deposition of H:In2O3 Transparent Conducting Oxide Thin FilmsTransparent conducting oxides (TCOs) are essential for the optoelectronics industry, but there is a critical gap in cost-effective methods to rapidly deposit low sheet resistance, high transmittance…Xiaoyu Guo, Hae-Jun Seok, Eilidh L. Quinn et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Thermal conductivity of seifertite and pyrite-type SiO2: A comparative studyThermal conductivity is a fundamental material property that plays a crucial role in understanding the dynamics and evolution of planetary interiors. Despite its importance, the thermal conductivity…Doyoon Park, Yihang Peng, Jie Deng·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Causation-guided mechanism identification and interpretable reduced-order modeling of damage-driving grain-boundary stress in creepGB local stress is central to the initiation and evolution of long-term creep damage in polycrystalline superalloys. Owing to the high-dimensional nonlinear relationships between the GB stress…Weichen Kong, Yanwei Dai, Yinling Zhang et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Long-range magnetic ordering and structural phase transition in disordered high-entropy spinel chromitesHigh-entropy spinel oxides provide an excellent platform for investigating entropy-stabilized correlated systems with strong configurational disorder. In this work, we systematically study the…Sushanta Mandal, Koushik Chakraborty, Isha et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Charge Transfer from Perovskite Quantum Dots to Multifunctional Ligands with Tethered Molecular SpeciesPerovskite quantum dots (pQDs) are promising materials for optoelectronic and photocatalytic applications due to their unique optical properties. To enhance charge carrier extraction or injection…Mariam Kurashvili, Lena S. Stickel, Jordi Llusar et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Fuzzy band structure of quantum dots by Bloch Orbital Expansion, unconventional insights into geometry-electronic structure relationsThe extension of ab-initio methods like density functional theory (DFT) to quantum dot (QD) geometries has enabled researchers to explore relationships between QD surface termination and electronic…Zeger Hens, Jordi Llusar, Ivan Infante·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
A practical Laser-Heated Diamond Anvil Cell synthesis technique and recovery workflow for metastable MnSb2 and YbZn2 phasesThe creation and exploration of new materials under extreme pressure-temperature conditions has become increasingly reliant on laser-heated diamond anvil cell (LHDAC) techniques, which provide direct…S. Huyan, R. F. S. Penacchio, D. Zhang et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Interfacial Reconstructions and Engineering in III-V@II-VI Core-Shell Quantum DotsIn core/shell quantum dots (QDs), the interface between semiconductors of different chemical character largely determines their optoelectronic properties. In III-V/II-VI systems, this boundary…Jordi Llusar, Abdessamad El Adel, Luca De Trizio et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Benchmarking empirical and machine-learned interatomic potentials using phase diagram predictions for LeadWe compare the predicted phase behaviour of lead (Pb) using three different interatomic potential models, including an embedded atom method (EAM), a modified embedded atom method (MEAM), and a neural…Tom Hellyar, Pascal T. Salzbrenner, Peter I. C. Cooke et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Local distortions as a source of piezoelectric/stiffness decoupling in B-doped AlScNWe present a first-principles analysis of the wurtzite pseudo-ternary (Al,Sc,B)N to elucidate the structural origin of a decoupling between stiffness C33 and piezoelectric response e33 upon…Laszlo Wolf, Geoff L. Brennecka, Vladan Stevanović·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
p-Wave Orbital Angular Momentum Texture in a Chiral CrystalThe spin and orbital angular momentum (SAM and OAM) are conceptually analogous, yet their roles in condensed matter systems have not been often treated on equal footing. While SAM has been…Dongjin Oh, Chiara Pacella, Xiangyu Luo et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
From spin splitting to projected mass in altermagnetic Chern matterAltermagnetic spin splitting alone does not define Chern matter. The relevant object is the exchange mass projected onto Hall-active surface, valley, orbital or interface sectors. We formulate this…Gyanti Prakash Moharana·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Nature of point defects in bulk hexagonal diamondHexagonal diamond (HD), an exotic carbon allotrope recently synthesized in bulk form, exhibits superior mechanical properties compared to cubic diamond (CD) and holds promise for advanced industrial…Ling Zhu, Xuanxuan Zhang, Guliqinayi Alimu et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Comprehensive determination of Burgers vectors of threading dislocations in GaN substrates by combining reflection and transmission synchrotron-radiation x-ray topographyBurgers vectors (b) of threading dislocations (TDs) in an acidic ammonothermal-grown GaN substrate were investigated using synchrotron radiation x-ray topography (SR-XRT) by combining both reflection…Kazuki Ohnishi, Kenji Iso, Hirotaka Ikeda et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Domain-Wall Mediated Polarization Switching in Ferroelectric AlScN: Strain Relief and Field-Dependent DynamicsWhile scandium-doped aluminum nitride (AlScN) exhibits robust ferroelectricity and excellent thermal stability, its utility is limited by an exceptionally high coercive field (Ec) for polarization…Xiangyu Zheng, Charles Paillard, Dawei Wang et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Self-trapped holes and acceptor impurities in orthorhombic Ga2O3The electronic and optical properties of self-trapped holes in kappa-phase orthorhombic Ga2O3 in conjunction with isoelectronic and acceptor dopants were studied using hybrid density functional…Eric Welch, Nathan Rabelo Martins, Luisa Scolfaro et al.·May 15, 2026SaveLearn
Reversible nanoscale patterning of WTe2 with a scanning tunneling microscopeManipulating the lattice structure of ferroelectric quantum materials enables their use in low-power electronic devices, including field-effect transistors. WTe2 is a Weyl-semimetal candidate and…Kevin Hauser, Danyang Liu, Berk Zengin et al.·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Chemical Origins of Non-Bonded Interactions Within and Between SolidsNon-bonded interactions govern structure, stability, and function across a wide range of solid-state materials, yet their chemical origins are often difficult to resolve from total energies alone.…Paul J. Robinson, Adam Rettig, Hieu Q. Dinh et al.·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Limitations of Debye-Waller lattice temperature extraction under electronic excitationUltrafast diffraction is the cutting-edge technique to extract the atomic temperature at femtosecond timescales, and further related quantities - in particular, electron-phonon coupling strength at…N. Medvedev, M. Kopecky, J. Chalupsky et al.·May 14, 2026SaveLearn
Generative reconstruction of 2D and 3D polycrystalline microstructures using symmetrized hyperspherical harmonicsEstablishing structure-property linkages in polycrystalline materials requires representative two- (2D) and three- (3D) dimensional microstructural inputs for full-field simulations. A core objective…Ali R. Safi, Paul Seibert, Santiago Benito et al.·May 14, 2026SaveLearn