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  14 November 2014 | Open Access

  Diverse Melting Modes and Structural Collapse of Hollow Bimetallic Core-Shell Nanoparticles: A Perspective from Molecular Dynamics Simulations

  • Rao Huang
  • , Gui-Fang Shao
  •  & Yu-Hua Wen

• Article
  13 November 2014 | Open Access

  Prediction of Giant Thermoelectric Power Factor in Type-VIII Clathrate Si₄₆

  • Payam Norouzzadeh
  • , Charles W. Myles
  •  & Daryoosh Vashaee

• Article
  13 November 2014 | Open Access

  Thermal Expansion Anomaly Regulated by Entropy

  • Zi-Kui Liu
  • , Yi Wang
  •  & ShunLi Shang

• Article
  12 November 2014 | Open Access

  Ferromagnetism of Fe₃Sn and Alloys

  • Brian C. Sales
  • , Bayrammurad Saparov
  •  & David S. Parker

• Article
  12 November 2014 | Open Access

  The stability and electronic properties of novel three-dimensional graphene-MoS₂ hybrid structure

  • Zhen-Kun Tang
  • , Yan-Ning Zhang
  •  & Li-Min Liu

• Article
  12 November 2014 | Open Access

  Self-doping processes between planes and chains in the metal-to-superconductor transition of YBa₂Cu₃O_6.9

  • M. Magnuson
  • , T. Schmitt
  •  & L.-C. Duda

• Article
  12 November 2014 | Open Access

  Magnetic and transport properties of epitaxial thin film MgFe₂O₄ grown on MgO (100) by molecular beam epitaxy

  • Han-Chun Wu
  • , Ozhet Mauit
  •  & Igor V. Shvets

• Article
  11 November 2014 | Open Access

  Mechanism of spin crossover in LaCoO₃ resolved by shape magnetostriction in pulsed magnetic fields

  • M. Rotter
  • , Z.-S. Wang
  •  & M. Doerr

• Article
  11 November 2014 | Open Access

  Electric field manipulation of magnetic and transport properties in SrRuO₃/Pb(Mg_1/3Nb_2/3)O₃-PbTiO₃ heterostructure

  • W. P. Zhou
  • , Q. Li
  •  & Y. W. Du

• Article
  11 November 2014 | Open Access

  Relative Ordering between Bright and Dark Excitons in Single-walled Carbon Nanotubes

  • Weihang Zhou
  • , Daisuke Nakamura
  •  & Shojiro Takeyama

• Article
  11 November 2014 | Open Access

  A Stable Binary BeB₂ phase

  • Changzeng Fan
  • , Ye Jin
  •  & Xu Dong

• Article
  11 November 2014 | Open Access

  Solution-Processed VO₂-SiO₂ Composite Films with Simultaneously Enhanced Luminous Transmittance, Solar Modulation Ability and Anti-Oxidation property

  • Lili Zhao
  • , Lei Miao
  •  & Huirong Su

• Article
  10 November 2014 | Open Access

  Determination of the electrostatic potential distribution in Pt/Fe:SrTiO₃/Nb:SrTiO₃ thin-film structures by electron holography

  • Astrid Marchewka
  • , David Cooper
  •  & Rainer Waser

• Article
  10 November 2014 | Open Access

  Dislocation creation and void nucleation in FCC ductile metals under tensile loading: A general microscopic picture

  • Wei-Wei Pang
  • , Ping Zhang
  •  & Xian-Geng Zhao

• Article
  10 November 2014 | Open Access

  Pressure-induced metallization of dense (H₂S)₂H₂ with high-T_c superconductivity

  • Defang Duan
  • , Yunxian Liu
  •  & Tian Cui

• Article
  07 November 2014 | Open Access

  Physical assembly of Ag nanocrystals on enclosed surfaces in monocrystalline Si

  • Michael S. Martin
  • , N. David Theodore
  •  & Lin Shao

• Article
  07 November 2014 | Open Access

  Heterogeneous Integration of Epitaxial Ge on Si using AlAs/GaAs Buffer Architecture: Suitability for Low-power Fin Field-Effect Transistors

  • Mantu K. Hudait
  • , Michael Clavel
  •  & Yan Zhu

• Article
  06 November 2014 | Open Access

  Hot pressing to enhance the transport J_c of Sr_0.6K_0.4Fe₂As₂ superconducting tapes

  • He Lin
  • , Chao Yao
  •  & Jianqi Li

• Article
  06 November 2014 | Open Access

  Hinge-like structure induced unusual properties of black phosphorus and new strategies to improve the thermoelectric performance

  • Guangzhao Qin
  • , Qing-Bo Yan
  •  & Gang Su

• Article
  05 November 2014 | Open Access

  Thermally assisted electric field control of magnetism in flexible multiferroic heterostructures

  • Yiwei Liu
  • , Qingfeng Zhan
  •  & Run-Wei Li

• Article
  05 November 2014 | Open Access

  Quantum magnetic phase transition in square-octagon lattice

  • An Bao
  • , Hong-Shuai Tao
  •  & Wu-Ming Liu

• Article
  05 November 2014 | Open Access

  Controllable Schottky Barriers between MoS₂ and Permalloy

  • Weiyi Wang
  • , Yanwen Liu
  •  & Faxian Xiu

• Article
  04 November 2014 | Open Access

  Spin-helical Dirac states in graphene induced by polar-substrate surfaces with giant spin-orbit interaction: a new platform for spintronics

  • S. V. Eremeev
  • , I. A. Nechaev
  •  & E. V. Chulkov

• Article
  04 November 2014 | Open Access

  Spinmotive force due to motion of magnetic bubble arrays driven by magnetic field gradient

  • Yuta Yamane
  • , Shayan Hemmatiyan
  •  & Jairo Sinova

• Article
  03 November 2014 | Open Access

  Ultra-thin resistive switching oxide layers self-assembled by field-induced oxygen migration (FIOM) technique

  • Sangik Lee
  • , Inrok Hwang
  •  & Bae Ho Park

• Article
  03 November 2014 | Open Access

  The intrinsic disorder related alloy scattering in ZrNiSn half-Heusler thermoelectric materials

  • Hanhui Xie
  • , Heng Wang
  •  & Tiejun Zhu

• Article
  30 October 2014 | Open Access

  State-resolved ultrafast dynamics of impact ionization in InSb

  • H. Tanimura
  • , J. Kanasaki
  •  & K. Tanimura

• Article
  30 October 2014 | Open Access

  Reversible switching of in-plane polarized ferroelectric domains in BaTiO₃(001) with very low energy electrons

  • J. E. Rault
  • , T. O. Menteş
  •  & N. Barrett

• Article
  30 October 2014 | Open Access

  Magnetic thin-film insulator with ultra-low spin wave damping for coherent nanomagnonics

  • Haiming Yu
  • , O. d'Allivy Kelly
  •  & D. Grundler

• Article
  30 October 2014 | Open Access

  Compact Ag@Fe₃O₄ Core-shell Nanoparticles by Means of Single-step Thermal Decomposition Reaction

  • Maria Eugênia F. Brollo
  • , Román López-Ruiz
  •  & Marcelo Knobel

• Article
  29 October 2014 | Open Access

  Spin-orbit coupling induced semi-metallic state in the 1/3 hole-doped hyper-kagome Na₃Ir₃O₈

  • Tomohiro Takayama
  • , Alexander Yaresko
  •  & Hidenori Takagi

• Article
  29 October 2014 | Open Access

  Polarity compensation in ultra-thin films of complex oxides: The case of a perovskite nickelate

  • S. Middey
  • , P. Rivero
  •  & J. Chakhalian

• Article
  29 October 2014 | Open Access

  A strategy for the design of skyrmion racetrack memories

  • R. Tomasello
  • , E. Martinez
  •  & G. Finocchio

• Article
  28 October 2014 | Open Access

  Combined effects of magnetic interaction and domain wall pinning on the coercivity in a bulk Nd₆₀Fe₃₀Al₁₀ ferromagnet

  • X. H. Tan
  • , S. F. Chan
  •  & H. Xu

• Article
  27 October 2014 | Open Access

  Limit of the electrostatic doping in two-dimensional electron gases of LaXO₃(X = Al, Ti)/SrTiO₃

  • J. Biscaras
  • , S. Hurand
  •  & N. Bergeal

• Article
  27 October 2014 | Open Access

  Non-monotonic dependence of the friction coefficient on heterogeneous stiffness

  • F. Giacco
  • , M. Pica Ciamarra
  •  & E. Lippiello

• Article
  23 October 2014 | Open Access

  Strain-induced photoconductivity in thin films of Co doped amorphous carbon

  • Y. C. Jiang
  •  & J. Gao

• Article
  23 October 2014 | Open Access

  Indium segregation measured in InGaN quantum well layer

  • Zhen Deng
  • , Yang Jiang
  •  & Hong Chen

• Article
  23 October 2014 | Open Access

  Reducing Mg Acceptor Activation-Energy in Al_0.83Ga_0.17N Disorder Alloy Substituted by Nanoscale (AlN)₅/(GaN)₁ Superlattice Using Mg_Ga δ-Doping: Mg Local-Structure Effect

  • Hong-xia Zhong
  • , Jun-jie Shi
  •  & Yi-min Ding

• Article
  22 October 2014 | Open Access

  Spatially-resolved mapping of history-dependent coupled electrochemical and electronical behaviors of electroresistive NiO

  • Issei Sugiyama
  • , Yunseok Kim
  •  & Sergei V. Kalinin

• Article
  20 October 2014 | Open Access

  Superconductivity in Strong Spin Orbital Coupling Compound Sb₂Se₃

  • P. P. Kong
  • , F. Sun
  •  & C. Q. Jin

• Article
  20 October 2014 | Open Access

  Identifying tips for intramolecular NC-AFM imaging via in situ fingerprinting

  • Hongqian Sang
  • , Samuel P. Jarvis
  •  & Lev Kantorovich

• Article
  17 October 2014 | Open Access

  Cooling a Band Insulator with a Metal: Fermionic Superfluid in a Dimerized Holographic Lattice

  • Arijit Haldar
  •  & Vijay B. Shenoy

• Article
  16 October 2014 | Open Access

  Electrostatic field-exposed water in nanotube at constant axial pressure

  • Yuchi He
  • , Gang Sun
  •  & Limei Xu

• Article
  16 October 2014 | Open Access

  Probing excitonic states in suspended two-dimensional semiconductors by photocurrent spectroscopy

  • A. R. Klots
  • , A. K. M. Newaz
  •  & K. I. Bolotin

• Article
  13 October 2014 | Open Access

  Tuning the metal-insulator crossover and magnetism in SrRuO₃ by ionic gating

  • Hee Taek Yi
  • , Bin Gao
  •  & Vitaly Podzorov

• Article
  10 October 2014 | Open Access

  Nanosecond light induced, thermally tunable transient dual absorption bands in a-Ge₅As₃₀Se₆₅ thin film

  • Pritam Khan
  • , Tarun Saxena
  •  & K. V. Adarsh

• Article
  10 October 2014 | Open Access

  Atomic-scale control of TiO₆ octahedra through solution chemistry towards giant dielectric response

  • Wanbiao Hu
  • , Liping Li
  •  & Ray L. Withers

• Article
  09 October 2014 | Open Access

  Fracture-induced amorphization of polycrystalline SiO₂ stishovite: a potential platform for toughening in ceramics

  • Norimasa Nishiyama
  • , Fumihiro Wakai
  •  & Tetsuo Irifune

• Article
  08 October 2014 | Open Access

  Site specific spin dynamics in BaFe₂As₂: tuning the ground state by orbital differentiation

  • P. F. S. Rosa
  • , C. Adriano
  •  & P. G. Pagliuso