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Domain walls in ferroelectrics exhibit a plethora of phases and functionalities not found in the bulk. The interplay of electrostatic, chemical, topological, and distortive inhomogeneities at the walls can be so complex, however, that this…
There is immense scientific interest in the properties of resonant thin films embroidered with periodic nanoscale features. This device class possesses considerable innovation potential. Accordingly, we report unpolarized broadband…
30-80 nm thick yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films are grown by pulsed laser deposition on a 5 nm thick sputtered Pt atop gadolinium gallium garnet substrate (GGG) (110). Upon post-growth rapid thermal annealing, single crystal YIG(110) emerges…
Thin films of PbTiO3, a classical ferroelectric, have been grown under tensile strain on single-crystal substrates of DyScO3. The films, of only 5nm thickness, grow fully coherent with the substrate and show no crystallographic twin…
Using liquid phase epitaxy (LPE) technique (111) yttrium iron garnet (YIG) films with thicknesses of ~100 nm and surface roughnesses as low as 0.3 nm have been grown as a basic material for spin-wave propagation experiments in…
SnTe belongs to the recently discovered class of topological crystalline insulators. Here we study the formation of line defects which break crystalline symmetry by strain in thin SnTe films. Strained SnTe(111) films are grown by molecular…
Ultrarelativistic charged particles are predicted to emit hard electromagnetic radiation of undulator type while being channeled in a crystal with periodically bent crystallographic planes. The recently proposed crystalline undulator with…
Thin-film based phase plates are meanwhile a widespread tool to enhance the contrast of weak-phase objects in transmission electron microscopy (TEM). The thin film usually consists of amorphous carbon, which suffers from quick degeneration…
MgB2 thin films were cold-grown on sapphire substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD), followed by post-annealing in mixed, reducing gas, Mg-rich, Zr gettered, environments. The films had Tcs in the range 29 K to 34 K, Jcs (20K, H=0) in…
Zinc telluride (ZnTe) thin films have special semiconducting characteristics that make them very promising for a broad range of optoelectronic applications. In this work, a novel approach for synthesizing ZnTe thin films by spin coating…
Al2O3 thin films have been deposited at substrate temperatures between 500{\deg}C to 600{\deg}C by reactive magnetron sputtering using an additional arbitrary substrate bias to tailor the energy distribution of the incident ions. The films…
X-ray diffraction was demonstrated from shock-compressed polycrystalline metal on nanosecond time scales. Laser ablation was used to induce shock waves in polycrystalline foils of Be, 25 to 125 microns thick. A second laser pulse was used…
Lead based relaxor ferroelectric thin films have been of technological importance due to excellent properties for several commercial applications. However subtleness and high cost of fabrication have plagued of these materials. In this work…
In present study, Tetragonal Mn$_3$O$_4$ thin films of different coating layers of 2, 4, 6, 8, and 10 were prepared on the microscopic glass slides by the spin-coating method. X-ray diffraction, Raman spectroscopy, and ultra-violet visible…
Low-dimensional plasmonic materials can function as high quality terahertz and infrared antennas at deep subwavelength scales. Despite these antennas' strong coupling to electromagnetic fields, there is a pressing need to further strengthen…
Epitaxial titanium diboride thin films have been deposited on sapphire substrates by Pulsed Laser Ablation technique. Structural properties of the films have been studied during the growth by Reflection High Energy Electron Diffraction…
Large-area gratings play a crucial role in various engineering fields. However, traditional interference lithography is limited by the size of optical component apertures, making large-area fabrication a challenging task. Here, a method for…
Liquid crystal films have recently been demonstrated as variable thickness, planar targets for ultra-intense laser matter experiments and applications such as ion acceleration. By controlling the parameters of film formation, including…
We report the synthesis and characterization of thin films of the Weyl semimetal NbAs grown on GaAs (100) and GaAs (111)B substrates. By choosing the appropriate substrate, we can stabilize the growth of NbAs in the (001) and (100)…
We have investigated properties of superconducting titanium nitride (TiN) films that were sputtered over a large range of RF-induced DC bias voltage applied to the substrate. Films grown with the largest bias voltages contained cubic TiN…