This study reports first synthesis of MXene-derived co-existing magnetic phases. New family of twodimensional (2D) materials such as Ti3C2 namely MXene, having transition metal forming hexagonal structure with carbon atoms have attracted tremendous interest now a days. We have reported structural...

A hydrogen storage material can also be used as a potential and effective solid reducing agent in addition to its applications as an important energy carrier. The density function theory has been used to find the structural and optoelectronic properties of the Li2NH compound. ...

Over the past few decades, detonation nanodiamonds (NDs) have gained increased attention due to their unique physicochemical properties. Various methods for preparation of ND suspensions have been introduced. This paper presents thermally annealed nanodiamonds dispersed via sonication and separated by...

The dosing of layered materials with alkali metals has become a commonly used strategy in ARPES experiments. However, precisely what occurs under such conditions, both structurally and electronically, has remained a matter of debate. Here we perform a systematic study of 1T-HfTe2, a...

Various technical developments have extended the potential of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) tremendously over the last 20 years. In particular improved momentum, energy, and spin resolution as well as the use of photon energies from a few eV up to several keV make&#x...

Previous studies on the anomalous Hall effect in coplanar noncollinear antiferromagnets are revisited and extended to magneto-optic properties, namely magneto-optic Kerr effect (MOKE) and x-ray magnetic dichroism (XMCD). Starting from group-theoretical considerations the shape of the frequency-dependent conduct...

First-principles electronic structure calculations are now accessible to a very large community of users across many disciplines, thanks to many successful software packages, some of which are described in this special issue. The traditional coding paradigm for such packages is monolithic, i...

Europium doped NiO thin films were grown onto glass substrates via sol-gel spin coating. The evolution of crystal structure, surface topography, and optical properties of NiO was investigated as a function of Eu doping concentration. AFM observations and XRD analysis revealed that NiO:E...

Grimm-Sommerfeld analogous II-IV-N-2 nitrides such as ZnSiN2, ZnGeN2, and MgGeN2 are promising semiconductor materials for substitution of commonly used (Al,Ga,In)N. Herein, the ammonothermal synthesis of solid solutions of II-IV-N-2 compounds (II=Mg, Mn, Zn; IV=Si, Ge) having the general formula ((II...

Germanium telluride features special spin-electric effects originating from spin-orbit coupling and symmetry breaking by the ferroelectric lattice polarization, which opens up many prospectives for electrically tunable and switchable spin electronic devices. By Mn doping of the alpha-GeTe host lattice,...

The goal of the present review is to cross-compare theoretical predictions with selected experimental results on bismuth thin films exhibiting topological properties and a strong Rashba effect. The theoretical prediction that a single free-standing Bi(1 1 1) bilayer is a topological insulato...

Recently, a number of different structurally related nitrides characterized by pairs of edge-sharing Si-N tetrahedra forming [Si2N6](10-) units have emerged via different synthesis methods. Concurrently, upon doping with rare earth elements (e.g. Eu2+ and Ce3+), numerous applications in the field ...

The subvalent nitridometalate Ba-6[(Mo1-xTax)N-4]N-0.86 was prepared from mixtures of Mo powder with Ba, Na, and Ba2N at 600 degrees C in Ta ampoules. It crystallizes in space group Cmcm with a = 11.672(3), b = 10.177(2) and c = 10.8729(19) angstrom. Its crystal structure exhi...

Heusler compounds are promising materials for spintronics with adjustable electronic properties including 100% spin polarization at the Fermi energy. We investigate the electronic states of AlOx capped epitaxial thin films of the ferromagnetic half-metal Co2MnSi ex situ by soft x-ray angular ...

Artificial complex-oxide heterostructures containing ultrathin buried layers grown along the pseudocubic [111] direction have been predicted to host a plethora of exotic quantum states arising from the graphene-like lattice geometry and the interplay between strong electronic correlations and band top...

Magnetically doped topological insulators enable the quantum anomalous Hall efect (QAHE), which provides quantized edge states for lossless charge-transport applications. The edge states are hosted by a magnetic energy gap at the Dirac point, but hitherto all attempts to observe this gap...

We are attempting to study the properties of new materials based on Diamond-like semiconductors (DLS). Due to broad collection of useful properties, DLS are exciting materials to study. The novel substances Li2MnGeS4 and Li2CoSnS4 result from using a rational and guileless design approa...

The electronic, optical, thermoelectric, and dynamic properties of Pb7Bi4Se13 have been investigated using first principles calculations. The existence of heavy elements, bismuth and lead, has required to consider the spin–orbit coupling as implemented in the second variational procedure. It was ...

To apprehend the electronic structures and related physical quantities such as Fermi surface, and optical properties of the perovskite LaPdO3 system, we employed the full potential linearized augmented plane wave method. The existence of rare-earth (La) and the actinide element (Pd) has ...

We reported first principles calculations of electronic and related optical and thermoelectric properties of two metal-rich palladium–indium selenides Pd5InSe and Pd8In2Se. Both selenides are found to be metallic and their densities of states at the Fermi energy, N (EF), showed an overlap&#x...