Modern scattering‐type scanning near‐field optical microscopy for advanced material research

X Chen, D Hu, R Mescall, G You, DN Basov… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Infrared and optical spectroscopy represents one of the most informative methods in
advanced materials research. As an important branch of modern optical techniques that has …

Harnessing the Metal–Insulator Transition of VO2 in Neuromorphic Computing

P Schofield, A Bradicich, RM Gurrola… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Future‐generation neuromorphic computing seeks to overcome the limitations of von
Neumann architectures by colocating logic and memory functions, thereby emulating the …

Microscopic theory for the light-induced anomalous Hall effect in graphene

SA Sato, JW McIver, M Nuske, P Tang, G Jotzu… - Physical Review B, 2019 - APS
We employ a quantum Liouville equation with relaxation to model the recently observed
anomalous Hall effect in graphene irradiated by an ultrafast pulse of circularly polarized …

Active optical metasurfaces based on defect-engineered phase-transition materials

J Rensberg, S Zhang, Y Zhou, AS McLeod… - Nano …, 2016 - ACS Publications
Active, widely tunable optical materials have enabled rapid advances in photonics and
optoelectronics, especially in the emerging field of meta-devices. Here, we demonstrate that …

Suppression of Structural Phase Transition in VO2 by Epitaxial Strain in Vicinity of Metal-insulator Transition

M Yang, Y Yang, B Hong, L Wang, K Hu, Y Dong… - Scientific reports, 2016 - nature.com
Mechanism of metal-insulator transition (MIT) in strained VO2 thin films is very complicated
and incompletely understood despite three scenarios with potential explanations including …

Passive radiative “thermostat” enabled by phase-change photonic nanostructures

WJM Kort-Kamp, S Kramadhati, AK Azad… - ACS …, 2018 - ACS Publications
A thermostat senses the temperature of a physical system and switches heating or cooling
devices on or off, regulating the flow of heat to maintain the system's temperature near a …

Infrared nanospectroscopy at the graphene–electrolyte interface

YH Lu, JM Larson, A Baskin, X Zhao, PD Ashby… - Nano …, 2019 - ACS Publications
We present a new methodology that enables studies of the molecular structure of graphene–
liquid interfaces with nanoscale spatial resolution. It is based on Fourier transform infrared …

Multi-messenger nanoprobes of hidden magnetism in a strained manganite

AS Mcleod, J Zhang, MQ Gu, F Jin, G Zhang, KW Post… - Nature materials, 2020 - nature.com
The ground-state properties of correlated electron systems can be extraordinarily sensitive
to external stimuli, offering abundant platforms for functional materials. Using the multi …

Switchable plasmonic–dielectric resonators with metal–insulator transitions

NA Butakov, I Valmianski, T Lewi, C Urban, Z Ren… - Acs …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Nanophotonic resonators offer the ability to design nanoscale optical elements and
engineered materials with unconventional properties. Dielectric-based resonators …

Atomic force microscopy for two-dimensional materials: A tutorial review

H Zhang, J Huang, Y Wang, R Liu, X Huai, J Jiang… - Optics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Low dimensional materials exhibit distinct properties compared to their bulk counterparts. A
plethora of examples have been demonstrated in two-dimensional (2-D) materials, including …