Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
Materials Research Science and Engineering Center: Faculty Publications
310C Jorgensen Hall
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Lincoln, Nebraska 68588-0299 United States
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Email: vskomski@unl.edu
2013
Adherent cells avoid polarization gradients on periodically poled LiTaO3 ferroelectrics, Christof Christophis, Elisabetta Ada Cavalcanti-Adam, Maximilian Hanke, Kenji Kitamura, Alexei Gruverman, Michael Grunze, Peter A. Dowben, and Axel Rosenhahn
HfCo7-Based Rare-Earth-Free Permanent-Magnet Alloys, Bhaskar Das, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Pankaj Kumar, Ralph Skomski, Shah R. Valloppilly, Jeffrey E. Shield, Arti Kashyap, and David J. Sellmyer
Structure and magnetism of dilute Co(Zr) nanoclusters, Bhaskar Das, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, Pinaki Mukherjee, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer
Reversible Mn segregation at the polar surface of lithium tetraborate, Christina Dugan, Robert L. Hengehold, Steve R. McHale, Juan A. Colon Santana, John W. McClory, V T. Adamiv, Ya V. Burak, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
Electric Control of Exchange Bias Training, W. Echtenkamp and Christian Binek
Polarization switching kinetics in ultrathin ferroelectric barium titanate film, R. Gaynutdinov, M. Minnekaev, S. Mitko, A. Tolstikhina, A. Zenkevich, Stephen Ducharme, and V. Fridkin
Scaling of the Coercive Field in Ferroelectrics at the Nanoscale, R. V. Gaynutdinov, M. Minnekaev, S. Mitko, A. L. Tolstikhina, A. Zenkevich, Stephen Ducharme, and Vladimir M. Fridkin
Magnetic and Structural Properties of Rapidly Quenched Tetragonal Mn3-x Ga Nanostructures, Yung Huh, Parashu Kharel, Shah R. Valloppilly, E. Krage, Ralph Skomski, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
Magnetism and electron transport of MnyGa (1 < y < 2) nanostructures, Yung Huh, Parashu Kharel, Shah R. Valloppilly, XINGZHONG LI, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Effects of alloying and strain on the magnetic properties of Fe16N2, Liqin Ke, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Takao Kotani, and Vladimir P. Antropov
EXAFS and EPR analysis of the local structure of Mn-doped Li2B4O7, T D. Kelly, L Kong, D A. Buchanan, A T. Brant, J. C. Petrosky, J W. McClory, V T. Adamiv, Y V. Burak, and Peter A. Dowben
Structural and magnetic properties of Pr-alloyed MnBi nanostructures, Parashu Kharel, Shah R. Valloppilly, Xingzhong Li, Wenyong Zhang, Ralph Skomski, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
Magnetism of MnBi-Based Nanomaterials, Parashu Kharel, Shah R. Valloppilly, Ralph Skomski, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
Adsorption of TCNQH-functionalized quinonoid zwitterions on gold and graphene: evidence for dominant intermolecular interactions+, Lingmei Kong, Lucie Routaboul, Pierre Braunstein, Hong-Gi Park, Jaewu Choi, John P. Colon Cordova, E Vega, Luis G. Rosa, Bernard Doudin, and Peter A. Dowben
Rhodizonic Acid on Noble Metals: Surface Reactivity and Coordination Chemistry, Donna A. Kunkel, James Hooper, Scott Simpson, Sumit Beniwal, Katie L. Morrow, Douglas C. Smith, Kimberly Cousins, Stephen Ducharme, Eva Zurek, and Axel Enders
Proton transfer in surface-stabilized chiral motifs of croconic acid, Donna A. Kunkel, James Hooper, Scott Simpson, Geoffrey Rojas, Stephen Ducharme, Timothy Usher, Eva Zurek, and Axel Enders
Intrinsic Properties of Fe-Substituted L10Magnets, Priyanka Manchanda, Pankaj Kumar, Arti Kashyap, M. J. Lucis, Jeffrey E. Shield, A. Mubarok, J. I. Goldstein, S. Constantinides, K. Barmak, L.H. Lewis, David J. Sellmyer, and Ralph Skomski
Effect of substitutional doping on the Néel temperature of Cr2O3, Sai Mu, Aleksander L. Wysocki, and Kirill D. Belashchenko
Finite-Temperature Micromagnetism, Ralph Skomski, Pankaj Kumar, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer
Predicting the Future of Permanent-Magnet Materials, Ralph Skomski, Priyanka Manchanda, Pankaj Kumar, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Arti Kashyap, and David J. Sellmyer
Grand challenges in condensed matter physics: from knowledge to innovation, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal and Peter A. Dowben
Changing molecular band offsets in polymer blends of (P3HT/P(VDF–TrFE)) poly(3-hexylthiophene) and poly(vinylidene fluoride with trifluoroethylene) due to ferroelectric poling, Freddy Wong, Godohaldo Perez, Manuel Bonilla, Juan A. Colon-Santana, Xin Zhang, Pankaj Sharma, Alexei Gruverman, Peter A. Dowben, and Luis G. Rosa
Hydroxyl-decorated graphene systems as candidates for organic metal-free ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and high-performance proton battery cathode materials, Menghao Wu, John D. Burton, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and Purusottam Jena
Domain wall roughness and creep in nanoscale crystalline ferroelectric polymers, Zhengguo Xiao, Shashi Poddar, Stephen Ducharme, and X. Hong
Room-temperature organic ferromagnetism in the crystalline poly(3-hexylthiophene): Phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester blend film, Bin Yang, Zhengguo Xiao, Yongbo Yuan, Tanjore V. Jayaraman, Jeffrey E. Shield, Ralph Skomski, and Jinsong Huang
Low temperature ordering and high (001) orientation of [Fe/Pt/Cu]18 multilayer films, Yongsheng Yu, Xingzhong Li, T A. George, W D. Fei, Haibo Li, and David J. Sellmyer
Susceptibility of Fe atoms in Cu clusters, Rui Zhang, Tom A. George, Parashu Kharel, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
2012
Magnetic Properties of Y3−2xCa2xFe5−xVxO12 Garnets, Imaddin Ali Al-Omari, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Assembly of uniaxially aligned rare-earth-free nanomagnets, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Bhaskar Das, Shah R. Valloppilly, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, and David J. Sellmyer
Prospects for nanoparticle-based permanent magnets, Balamurugan Balamurugan, David J. Sellmyer, George C. Hadjipanayis, and Ralph Skomski
Magnetism of directly ordered Sm-Co clusters, Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, George C. Hadjipanayis, and David J. Sellmyer
Magnetism of dilute Co(Hf) and Co(Pt) nanoclusters, Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, Shah R. V, Priyanka Manchanda, Arti Kashyap, and David J. Sellmyer
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and wide-angle X-ray scattering: Investigations on polypropylene–vapor-grown carbon nanofiber composites, Mircea Chipara, John Hamilton, Alin Cristian Chipara, Tom George, Dorina Magdalena Chipara, Elamin E. Ibrahim, Karen Lozano, and David J. Sellmyer
Effect of gadolinium doping on the electronic band structure of europium oxide, Juan Colon Santana, Joonhee Michael An, Ning Wu, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Xianjie Wang, Pan Liu, Jinke Tang, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, I. N. Yakovkin, and Peter A. Dowben
Magnetism of Less Common Cobalt-Rich Alloys, Bhaskar Das, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Wenyong Zhang, Ralph Skomski, E. Krage, Shah R. Valloppilly, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
Magnetic micro-structural uniformity of die-upset Nd-Fe-B magnets, Yikun Fang, Xiaolu Yin, Rui Zhao, Shah R. Valloppilly, Wei Li, Minggang Zhu, and Sy-Hwang Liou
New view of the occupied band structure of Mo(112), Keisuke Fukutani, Hirokazu Hayashi, I. N. Yakovkin, Tula R. Paudel, Takafumi Habuchi, Daisuke Hirayama, Jian Jiang, Hideaki Iwasawa, Kenya Shimada, Ning Wu, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
First-principles study of spin-disorder resistivity of heavy rare-earth metals: Gd–Tm series, James K. Glasbrenner, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Josef Kudrnovsky, V. Drchal, Sergii Khmelevskyi, and Iljan Turek
Evidence for Spin-Flip Scattering and Local Moments in Dilute Fluorinated Graphene, Xia Hong, K. Zou, B. Wang, S.-H. Cheng, and J. Zhu
Structural and magnetic properties of Mn2 +δTiSn, Parashu Kharel, Yung Huh, Shah R. Valloppilly, Xingzhong Li, N. Al-Agtash, K. Tarawneh, E. S. Krage, Renat F. Sabirianov, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Structural, magnetic, and electron transport properties of MnBi:Fe thin films, Parashu Kharel, Xingzhong Li, Shah R. Valloppilly, Nabil M. Al-Aqtash, K. Tarawneh, Renat F. Sabirianov, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Spin-disorder resistivity of ferromagnetic metals from first principles: The disordered-local-moment approach, Josef Kudrnovsky, V. Drchal, Ilja Turek, Sergii Khmelevskyi, James K. Glasbrenner, and Kirill D. Belashchenko
Mechanical Writing of Ferroelectric Polarization, Haidong Lu, C.-W. Bark, D. Esque de los Ojos, J. Alcala, Chang-Beom Eom, G. Catalan, and Alexei Gruverman
Electric modulation of magnetization at the BaTiO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 interfaces, H. Lu, Thomas A. George, Yong Wang, Ihor Ketsman, John D. Burton, C.-W. Bark, Sangjin Ryu, Dong Jik Kim, J. Wang, Christian Binek, Peter A. Dowben, Andrei Sokolov, C. B. Eom, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, and Alexei Gruverman
Spin filtering with EuO: Insight from the complex band structure, Pavel Lukashev, Aleksander L. Wysocki, Julian P. Velev, Mark van Schilfgaarde, Sitaram Jaswal, Kirill D. Belashchenko, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
The sweep rate dependence of the electrical control of magnetic coercivity, Abhijit Mardana, Stephen Ducharme, and Shireen Adenwalla
Tunnel electroresistance in junctions with ultrathin ferroelectric Pb(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3 barriers, Daniel Pantel, Haidong Lu, Silvana Goetze, Peter Werner, Dong Jik Kim, Alexei Gruverman, Dietrich Hesse, and Marin Alexe
Surface state engineering of molecule–molecule interactions, Geoffrey Rojas, Scott Simpson, Xumin Chen, Donna A. Kunkel, Justin Nitz, Jie Xiao, Peter A. Dowben, Eva Zurek, and Axel Enders
Ultrahard magnetic nanostructures, P. K. Sahota, Yi Liu, Ralph Skomski, Priyanka Manchanda, R. Zhang, M. Franchin, H. Fangohr, George C. Hadjipanayis, Arti Kashyap, and David J. Sellmyer
Interatomic exchange in Mn-doped III–V semiconductors, Vinit Sharma, Priyanka Manchanda, Pankaj Sahota, Ralph Skomski, and Arti Kashyap
Accessibility and Selective Stabilization of the Principal Spin States of Iron by Pyridyl versus Phenolic Ketimines: Modulation of the 6A1 ↔ 2T2 Ground-State Transformation of the [FeN4O2]+ Chromophore, Musa S. Shongwe, Usama A. Al-Zaabi, Faizah Al-Mjeni, Carla S. Eribal, Imaddin A. Al-Omari, Hussein H. Hamdeh, Dariusz Matoga, Harry Adams, Michael J. Morris, Arnold L. Rheingold, Eckhard Bill, and David J. Sellmyer
Berry phase from a randomly fluctuating magnetic field, Ralph Skomski
Hysteresis and relaxation in granular permanent magnets, Ralph Skomski, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Thomas A. George, Mircea Chipara, Xiao-Hui Wei, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
A quantum-mechanical relaxation model, Ralph Skomski, Arti Kashyap, and David J. Sellmyer
Nanomagnetic skyrmions, Ralph Skomski, Zhen Li, Rui Zhang, Roger D. Kirby, Axel Enders, Daniel Schmidt, Tino Hofmann, Eva Schubert, and David J. Sellmyer
Ferroelectric and multiferroic tunnel junctions, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Alexei Gruverman, Vincent Garcia, Manuel Bibes, and A. Barthélémy
Multiferroic tunnel junctions with poly(vinylidene fluoride), Julian P. Velev, Juan M. López-Encarnación, John D. Burton, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Ferroelectric Instability Under Screened Coulomb Interactions, Yong Wang, Xiaohui Liu, John D. Burton, Sitaram S. Jaswal, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Experimental and theoretical studies of hydroxyl-induced magnetism in TiO nanoclusters, Xiao-Hui Wei, Rulong Zhou, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Ralph Skomski, Xiao Cheng Zeng, and David J. Sellmyer
Microscopic origin of the structural phase transitions at the Cr2O3 (0001) surface, Aleksander L. Wysocki, Siqi Shi, and Kirill D. Belashchenko
Understanding the effect of ferroelectric polarization on power conversion efficiency of organic photovoltaic devices, Yongbo Yuan, Pankaj Sharma, Zhengguo Xiao, Shashi Poddar, Alexei Gruverman, Stephen Ducharme, and Jinsong Huang
Effects of deposition temperature and in-situ annealing time on structure and magnetic properties of (001) orientation FePt films, Yongsheng Yu, T A. George, Haibo Li, Daqian Sun, Zhenan Ren, and David J. Sellmyer
L10 CrPt phase formation and magnetic properties, Rui Zhang, Ralph Skomski, Xingzhong Li, Zhen Li, Priyanka Manchanda, Arti Kashyap, Roger D. Kirby, Sy-Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer
Coherent potential approximation as a voltage probe, Mikhail Ye Zhuravlev, A. V. Vedyayev, Kirill D. Belashchenko, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
2011
Cluster synthesis of monodisperse rutile-TiO2 nanoparticles and dielectric TiO2–vinylidene fluoride oligomer nanocomposites, Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Kristin L. Kraemer, Shah R. Valloppilly, Stephen Ducharme, and David J. Sellmyer
Tailoring a two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3 ∕ SrTiO3 (001) interface by epitaxial strain, C. W. Bark, D. A. Felker, Yong Wang, H. W. Jang, C. M. Folkman, J. W. Park, S. H. Baek, H. Zhou, D. D. Fong, X. Q. Pan, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, M. S. Rzchowski, and C. B. Eom
A giant tunneling electroresistance effect driven by electrically controlled spin valve at a complex oxide interface, John D. Burton and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Highly Spin-Polarized Conducting State at the Interface between Nonmagnetic Band Insulators: LaAlO3/FeS2 (001), John D. Burton and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Self-Assembled Nanometer-Scale Magnetic Networks on Surfaces: Fundamental Interactions and Functional Properties, Carlo Carbone, Sandra Gardonio, Paolo Moras, Samir Lounis, Marcus Heide, Gustav Bihlmayer, Nicolae Atodiresei, Peter Heinz Dederichs, Stefan Blügel, Sergio Vlaic, Anne Lehnert, Safia Ouazi, Stefano Rusponi, Harald Brune, Jan Honolka, Axel Enders, Klaus Kern, Sebastian Stepanow, Cornelius Krull, Timofey Balashov, Aitor Mugarza, and Pietro Gambardella
Ultrathin BaTiO3 templates for multiferroic nanostructures, Xumen Chen, Seolun Yang, Ji-Hyun Kim, Hyung-Do Kim, Jae-Sung Kim, Geoffrey Rojas, Ralph Skomski, Haidong Lu, Anand Bhattacharya, Tiffany Santos, Nathan Guisinger, Matthias Bode, Alexei Gruverman, and Axel Enders
Ferromagnetic resonance on Ni nanowire arrays, Mircea Chipara, Ralph A. Skomski, Roger D. Kirby, and David J. Sellmyer
When measured spin polarization is not spin polarization, Peter A. Dowben, Ning Wu, and Christian Binek
THz dielectric anisotropy of metal slanted columnar thin films, Tino Hofmann, D. Schmidt, A. Boosalis, P. Kuhne, Ralph Skomski, C. M. Herzinger, John A. Woollam, Mathias Schubert, and Eva Schubert
Metallic and Insulating Oxide Interfaces Controlled by Electronic Correlations, H. W. Jang, D. A. Felker, C. W. Bark, Y. Wang, Manish K. Niranjan, C. T. Nelson, Y. Zhang, D. Su, C. M. Folkman, S. H. Baek, S. Lee, K. Janicka, Y. Zhu, X. Q. Pan, D. D. Fong, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, M. S. Rzchowski, and Chang-Beom Eom
Anisotropy of W in Fe and Co, Arti Kashyap, Priyanka Manchanda, P. K. Sahota, Ralph Skomski, Jeffrey E. Shield, and David J. Sellmyer
Spin correlations and Kondo effect in a strong ferromagnet, Parashu Kharel, Ralph Skomski, Pavel Lukashev, Renat F. Sabirianov, and David J. Sellmyer
Transport Spin Polarization of High-Curie Temperature MnBi Films, Parashu Kharel, P. Thapa, Pavel V. Lukashev, Renat F. Sabirianov, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, D. J. Sellmyer, and Boris Nadgorny
High-sensitivity detector for molecular sensing using magnetic particles, Damien Le Roy, W. Yang, X. Yin, R. Y. Lai, Sy_Hwang Liou, and David J. Sellmyer
Picotesla Magnetic Sensors for Low-Frequency Applications, Sy-Hwang Liou, Xiaolu Yin, Stephen Russek, Ranko Heindl, F. C. S. Da Silva, J. Moreland, David P. Pappas, L. Yuan, and J. Shen
Ce-doped EuO: Magnetic properties and the indirect band gap, Pan Liu, Jinke Tang, Juan A. Colon Santana, Kirill D. Belashchenko, and Peter A. Dowben
Aligned and exchange-coupled FePt-based films, Yi Liu, Thomas A. George, Ralph Skomski, and David J. Sellmyer
Synthesis and characterization of highly textured Pt–Bi thin films, Xingzhong Li, Parashu Kharel, Shah R. Valloppilly, and David J. Sellmyer
Large magnetoelectric effect in ferroelectric/piezomagnetic heterostructures, Pavel Lukashev, Kirill D. Belashchenko, and Renat F. Sabirianov
Ferroelectric Control of Magnetic Anisotropy, Abhijit Mardana, Stephen Ducharme, and Shireen Adenwalla
Resonant photoemission of rare earth doped GaN thin films, S. R. McHale, J. W. McClory, J. C. Petrosky, J. Wu, R. Palai, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
Schottky barrier formation at the Au to rare earth doped GaN thin film interface, S. R. McHale, J. W. McClory, J. C. Petrosky, J. Wu, R. Palai, Yaroslav B. Losovyj, and Peter A. Dowben
Magnetic entropy changes in nanogranular Fe:Ni61Cu39, Steven A. Michalski, Ralph A. Skomski, Tathagata Mukherjee, Xingzhong Li, Christian Binek, and David J. Sellmyer
Anisotropy of zigzag chains of palladium, P. K. Sahota, Ralph A. Skomski, Axel Enders, David J. Sellmyer, and Arti Kashyap
Magnetic nanoparticles: recent advances in synthesis, self-assembly and applications, Srikanth Singamaneni, V. Bliznyuk, Christian Binek, and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Are there superspin glasses?, Ralph Skomski
Length scales of interactions in magnetic, dielectric, and mechanical nanocomposites, Ralph Skomski, Balamurugan Balamurugan, Eva Schubert, Axel Enders, and David J. Sellmyer
Is the magnetic anisotropy proportional to the orbital moment?, Ralph Skomski, Arti Kashyap, and Axel Enders
Magnetometry and transport data complement polarized neutron reflectometry in magnetic depth profiling, Yi Wang, Xi He, Tathagata Mukherjee, Mary Lee Fitzsimmons, Sarbeswar Sahoo, and Christian Binek
Imaging and Control of Surface Magnetization Domains in a Magnetoelectric Antiferromagnet, Ning Wu, Xi He, Aleksander L. Wysocki, Uday Lanke, Takashi Komesu, Kirill D. Belashchenko, Christian Binek, and Peter A. Dowben
Efficiency enhancement in organic solar cells with ferroelectric polymers, Yongbo Yuan, Timothy J. Reece, Pankaj Sharma, Shashi Poddar, Stephen Ducharme, Alexei Gruverman, Yang Yang, and Jinsong Huang
2010
Suppression of Octahedral Tilts and Associated Changes in Electronic Properties at Epitaxial Oxide Heterostructure Interfaces, A. Y. Borisevich, H. Y. Chang, Mark Huijben, M. P. Oxley, S. Okamoto, Manish K. Niranjan, John D. Burton, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, Y. H. Chu, P. Yu, R. Ramesh, Sergei V. Kalinin, and S. J. Pennycook
Evolution of the band alignment at polar oxide interfaces, John D. Burton and Evgeny Y. Tsymbal
Magnetic surface nanostructures, Axel Enders, Ralph A. Skomski, and Jan Honolka
Ferroelectric field effect transistors using very thin ferroelectric polyvinylidene fluoride copolymer films as gate dielectrics, A. Gerber; Center of Nanoelectronic Systems for Information Technology (CNI), Research Center Jülich, Germany; R. Waser; Timothy J. Reece; E. Rije; Stephen Ducharme; and Hermann Kohlstedt
Permittivity and permeability of Fe(Tb) nanoparticles and their microwave absorption in the 2–18 GHz range, Z. Han, D. Li, M. Tong, X. Wei, Ralph Skomski, W. Liu, Z. D. Zhang, and David J. Sellmyer