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The limitation of commercially available single-crystal substrates and the lack of continuous strain tunability preclude the ability to take full advantage of strain engineering for further exploring novel properties and exhaustively…
Engineering van Hove singularities (vHss) near the Fermi level, if feasible, offers a powerful route to control exotic quantum phases in electronic and magnetic behaviors. However, conventional approaches, which rely primarily on chemical…
Realizing correlated topological semimetallic phases in bulk transition-metal oxides remains challenging due to rigid lattice symmetry, correlation-induced gap opening, and limited structural tunability. However, complex-oxide thin films…
Weyl semimetals are a class of topological semimetals defined by a Chern number as their topological invariant. These materials exhibit unique properties, such as transverse topological currents and anomalous magnetoelectric responses,…
Strain engineering offers unique control to manipulate the electronic band structure of two-dimensional materials (2DMs) resulting in an effective and continuous tuning of the physical properties. Ad-hoc straining 2D materials has…
Among the interfacial transport modulations to the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructure, mechanical strain has been proven to be an effective approach by growing the LAO/STO films on different substrates with varying lattice mismatches…
In newly discovered topological crystalline insulators (TCIs), the unique crystalline protection of the surface state (SS) band structure has led to a series of intriguing predictions of strain generated phenomena, from the appearance of…
Topological materials are expected to show distinct transport signatures due to their unique band-inversion character and band-crossing points. However, the intentional modulation of such topological responses by experimentally feasible…
Atomically thin van der Waals materials provide a highly tunable platform for exploring emergent quantum phenomena in solid state systems. Due to their remarkable mechanical strength, one enticing tuning knob is strain. However, the weak…
Using a combined experimental and first-principles theoretical approach, we demonstrate interface engineering of the anomalous Hall effect in Ni-based epitaxial thin-film heterostructures. Ferromagnetic Ni thin films are grown on…
A strong correlation between magnetic interaction and topological symmetries leads to unconventional magneto-transport behavior. Weyl fermions induce topologically protected spin-momentum locking, which is closely related to spin-wave gap…
We present a study of the control of electric field induced strain on the magnetic and electrical transport properties in a magneto-elastically coupled artificial multiferroic Fe3O4/BaTiO3 heterostructure. In this Fe3O4/BaTiO3…
Motivated by the recently observed unconventional Hall effect in ultra-thin films of ferromagnetic SrRuO$_3$ (SRO) we investigate the effect of strain-induced oxygen octahedral distortion in the electronic structure and anomalous Hall…
Epitaxial strain offers an effective route to tune the physical parameters in transition metal oxides. So far, most studies have focused on the effects of strain on the bandwidths and crystal field splitting, but recent experimental and…
The effect of in-plane strain on the nonlinear dielectric properties of SrTiO3 epitaxial thin films is calculated using density-functional theory within the local-density approximation. Motivated by recent experiments, the structure,…
Topological aspects in altermagnets have come into focus recently, and tuning the antiferromagnetic (AFM) state into an altermagnetic phase remains an active frontier. We realize both within a rutile superlattice here in this paper. With…
Strain engineering is a powerful tool for tuning the electronic, magnetic, and topological properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials and thin films - particularly at high values of strain (>3%) where many electronic, magnetic, and…
Fe3GeTe2 (FGT), a ferromagnetic van der Waals topological nodal line semimetal, has recently been studied. Using first-principles calculations and symmetry analysis, we investigate the effect of a uniaxial tensile strain on the nodal line…
Strain engineering is a very effective method to tune electronic, optical, topological and thermoelectric properties of materials. In this work, we systematically study biaxial strain dependence of electronic structures and thermoelectric…
Unlike conventional approaches where topological order is statically fixed post-synthesis, we demonstrate that a single external knob-strain-can independently modulate topological order and functional responses in the Tc-adsorbed penta-hexa…