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The Wu-Wentzcovitch semi-analytical method (SAM) is a concise and predictive formalism to calculate the high-pressure and high-temperature (high-PT) thermoelastic tensor (Cij) of crystalline materials. This method has been successfully…
The dynamics of the charge ordered (CO) state under non-equilibrium conditions created by strong dc-electric field (~106 V/cm) and photo-illumination with short (~ 6 ns) laser pulses is investigated in Bi1-xCaxMnO3 (x > 0.5) epitaxial…
Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool in rheology, and we present pyRheo, an open-source package for Python designed to streamline the analysis of creep, stress relaxation, oscillation, and rotation tests. pyRheo contains a comprehensive…
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Metal electrodes are a universal element of all electronic devices. Conducting SrRuO3 (SRO) epitaxial thin films have been extensively used as electrodes in complex-oxide heterostructures due to good lattice mismatches with perovskite…
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A capacitive displacement system was constructed to measure the electric-field-induced piezoelectric strain in the simple form of either a bulk or thin film. The system can determine an AC displacement of 2 pm precisely by using a lock-in…
Over the past two decades, researchers in the field of visual aesthetics have studied numerous quantitative (objective) image properties and how they relate to visual aesthetic appreciation. However, results are difficult to compare between…
Phase reconstruction is important in transmission electron microscopy for structural studies. We describe electron Fourier ptychography and its application to phase reconstruction of both radiation-resistant and beam-sensitive materials. We…
Nickel (II) oxide, NiO, a wide band gap Mott insulator characterized by strong Coulomb repulsion between d-electrons and displaying antiferromagnetic order at room temperature, has gained attention in recent years as a very promising…
We provide a new approach for the efficient matrix-free application of the transpose of the Jacobian for the spectral element method for the adjoint based solution of partial differential equation (PDE) constrained optimization. This…
Cryo-electron tomography (cryo-ET) is an imaging technique that allows three-dimensional visualization of macro-molecular assemblies under near-native conditions. Cryo-ET comes with a number of challenges, mainly low signal-to-noise and…
Transition metal oxide thin films show versatile electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties which can be tailored by deliberately introducing macroscopic grain boundaries via polycrystalline solids. In this study, we focus on the…
This work presents the application of the Complex Orthogonal Decomposition (C.O.D.) to a simple spatio-temporal signal. C.O.D. has been introduced rst in the article of B. Feeny, entitled "A Complex Orthogonal Decomposition for Wave Motion…
Epitaxial strain plays an important role in determining physical properties of perovskite ferroelectric oxide thin films. However, it is very challenging to directly measure properties such as polarization in ultrathin strained films using…
We explore the potential of Time-Of-Flight Medium Energy Ion Scattering (TOFMEIS) for thin film analysis and analyze possible difficulties in evaluation of experimental spectra. Issues regarding different combinations of composition and…
Complex optical design is hindered by conventional piecewise setup, which prevents modularization and therefore abstraction of subsystems at the circuit level. This limits multiple fields that require complex optics systems, including…
Multimodal time series forecasting is foundational in various fields, such as utilizing satellite imagery and numerical data for predicting typhoons in climate science. However, existing multimodal approaches primarily focus on utilizing…
The direct detection and characterization of planetary and substellar companions at small angular separations is a rapidly advancing field. Dedicated high-contrast imaging instruments deliver unprecedented sensitivity, enabling detailed…