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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have emerged as promising materials for carbon capture applications due to their high CO2 capacities and tunable properties. Amongst the many possible MOFs, metal-substituted compounds based on M-DOBDC and…
Time-Domain Thermoreflectance (TDTR) characterization of FeRh throughout its first-order antiferromagnetic (AF) to ferromagnetic (FM) transition shows that the transient reflectance, $\Delta$R(t)/R, strongly depends on the magnetic order of…
Two-dimensional van der Waals (2D vdW) materials that display ferromagnetism and piezoelectricity have received increased attention. Despite numerous 2D materials have so far been reported as ferromagnetic, developing an air stable and…
Thermal batteries based on a reversible adsorption-desorption of a working fluid rather than the conventional vapor compression is a promising alternative to exploit waste thermal energy for heat reallocation. In this context, there is an…
Composite oxides have been indeed proved to be valuable materials in optoelectronic applications. The combination of indium oxide and gallium oxide and other materials can lead to enhanced optical and electronic properties, making them…
Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can provide exceptional porosity for molecular guest encapsulation useful for emergent applications in sensing, gas storage, drug delivery and optoelectronics. Central to the realisation of such applications…
We report on the optical characterization of non-magnetic metal/ferromagnetic (Co$_{20}$Fe$_{60}$B$_{20}$)/MgO heterostructures and interfaces by using mid infrared spectroscopic ellipsometry at room temperature. We extracted for the…
Metamaterials are artificial periodic structures which represent effective homogeneous medium for electromagnetic fields. Here I show that there exists an important class of such composite systems, metaferroelectrics. They are properly…
Massless Dirac fermions occur as low-energy modes in several quasi-two-dimensional condensed matter systems such as graphene, the surface of bulk topological insulators, and in layered organic semiconductors. When the rotational symmetry in…
In the framework of real-time time-dependent density functional theory (RT-TDDFT) we unravel the layer-resolved dynamics of the electronic structure of a (Fe)$_1$/(MgO)$_3$(001) multilayer system after an optical excitation with a frequency…
The fabrication of terahertz (THz) optics with arbitrary shapes via poly-methacrylate-based stereolithography is very attractive as it may offer a rapid, low-cost avenue towards optimized THz imaging applications. In order to design such…
The electronic and the optical properties of metallic nitride (MN) monolayers are studied using a DFT formalism. In most of these monolayers, the electron density of the metallic atoms is much higher than that of the nitride atoms, and…
The discovery of Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) with application-specific properties remains a central challenge in materials chemistry, owing to the immense size and complexity of their structural design space. Conventional computational…
This research was focused on the efficient collection of experimental Metal-Organic Framework (MOF) data from scientific literature to address the challenges of accessing hard-to-find data and improving the quality of information available…
Most periodic terahertz (THz) structures need a substrate to support; thus, additional absorption occurs, resulting in a low quality (Q) factor. Free-standing structures that do not require any holder or substrate show high levels of…
Layered metal-dielectric metamaterials have filtering properties both in the frequency domain and in the spatial frequency domain. Engineering their spatial filtering response is a way of designing structures with specific diffraction…
Zn(imidazolate)$_2$ metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) exhibit a remarkable degree of polymorphism. Because of their promising industrial applications, many research groups have investigated phase transitions, phase diagram and relative…
Terahertz spectral range (frequencies of 0.1-1 THz) has recently emerged as the next frontier for non-destructive imaging, industrial sensing and ultra-fast wireless communications. Here, we review several classes of materials such as…
Organic molecular crystals are ideally placed to become next-generation piezoelectric materials due to their diverse chemistries that can be used to engineer tailor-made solid-state assemblies. Using crystal engineering principles, and…
We present an effective model for a subwavelength periodically patterned metallic layer, its cavities being filled with a nonlinear dielectric material, which accounts for both the linear and second order behavior. The effective non linear…