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2023

“Adaptive Magnetoactive Soft Composites for Modular and Reconfigurable Actuators“

Zenghao Zhang, John T. Heron & Abdon Pena-Francesch. Adaptive Magnetoactive Soft Composites for Modular and Reconfigurable Actuators. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2023, 2215248. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202215248

2022

“Geometric defects induced by strain relaxation in thin film oxide superlattices“

Matthew Webb, Tao Ma, Allen H. Hunter, Sean McSherry, Jonathan Kaufman, Zihao Deng, William B. Carter, Emmanouil Kioupakis, Keivan Esfarjani,  Andrej Lenert & John T. Heron. Journal of Applied Physics 132, 185307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0120176

“Nanophotonic control of thermal emission under extreme temperatures in air“

Sean McSherry†, Matthew Webb†, Jonathan Kaufman, Zihao Deng, Ali Davoodabadi, Tao Ma, Emmanouil Kioupakis, Keivan Esfarjani, John T. Heron & Andrej Lenert. Nat. Nanotechnol. (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-022-01205-1

“Germanium dioxide: A new rutile substrate for epitaxial film growth“

Sieun Chae, Lucas A. Pressley, Hanjong Paik, Jiseok Gim, Don Werder, Berit H. Goodge, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Robert Hovden, Tyrel M. McQueen, Emmanouil Kioupakis, and John T. Heron. Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A40, 050401 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0002011

“Effects of local compositional and structural disorder on vacancy formation in entropy-stabilized oxides from first-principles“

Sieun Chae, Logan Williams, Jihang Lee, John T. Heron and Emmanouil Kioupakis. npj Comput Mater 8, 95 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-022-00780-0

“Scalable Synthesis of Monolayer Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Graphene with Giant Bandgap Renormalization“

Ping Wang, Woncheol Lee, Joseph P. Corbett, William H. Koll, Nguyen M. Vu, David Arto Laleyan, Qiannan Wen, Yuanpeng Wu, Ayush Pandey, Jiseok Gim, Ding Wang, Diana Y. Qiu, Robert Hovden, Mackillo Kira, John T. Heron, Jay A. Gupta, Emmanouil Kioupakis, Zetian Mi.  Advanced Materials (2022). https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202201387

“Two-dimensional charge order stabilized in clean polytype heterostructures“

Suk Hyun Sung, Noah Schnitzer, Steve Novakov, Ismail El Baggari, Xiangpeng Luo, Jiseok Gim, Nguyen M. Vu, Zidong Li, Todd H. Brintlinger, Yu Liu, Wenjian Lu, Yuping Sun, Parag B. Deotare, Kai Sun, Liuyan Zhao, Lena F. Kourkoutis, John T. Heron & Robert Hovden. Nat Commun 13, 413 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27947-5

2021

“Superconductivity in a quintuple-layer square-planar nickelate“

Grace A. Pan, Dan Ferenc Segedin, Harrison LaBollita, Qi Song, Emilian M. Nica, Berit H. Goodge, Andrew T. Pierce, Spencer Doyle, Steve Novakov, Denisse Córdova Carrizales, Alpha T. N’Diaye, Padraic Shafer, Hanjong Paik, John T. Heron, Jarad A. Mason, Amir Yacoby, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Onur Erten, Charles M. Brooks, Antia S. Botana & Julia A. Mundy. Nat. Mater. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-021-01142-9

“Magnetoelectrics and multiferroics: Materials and opportunities for energy-efficient spin-based memory and logic“

Heron, J.T., Chiang, T. MRS Bulletin (2021).https://doi.org/10.1557/s43577-021-00193-2

“A Narrowband Spintronic Terahertz Emitter Based on Magnetoelastic Heterostructures“

Shihao Zhuang, Peter B. Meisenheimer, John Heron, and Jia-Mian Hu. ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 2021. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c13461

“Switching with ions“

Morgan Trassin & John T. Heron. Nat. Nanotechnol. (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41565-021-00938-9

“Memristors Based on (Zr, Hf, Nb, Ta, Mo, W) High-Entropy Oxides”

Minhyung Ahn, Yongmo Park, Seung Hwan Lee, Sieun Chae, Jihang Lee, John T. Heron, Emmanouil Kioupakis, Wei D. Lu, Jamie D. Phillips. Adv. Electron. Mater.2021, 7, 2001258. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/aelm.202001258

“Toward the predictive discovery of ambipolarly dopable ultra-wide-band-gap semiconductors: The case of rutile GeO2“

Sieun Chae, Kelsey Mengle, Kyle Bushick, Jihang Lee, Nocona Sanders, Zihao Deng, Zetian Mi, Pierre F. P. Poudeu, Hanjong Paik, John T. Heron, and Emmanouil Kioupakis. Applied Physics Letters118, 260501 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0056674

“Fully epitaxial ferroelectric ScAlN grown by molecular beam epitaxy“

Ping Wang, Ding Wang, Nguyen M. Vu, Tony Chiang, John T. Heron, and Zetian Mi. Applied Physics Letters 118, 223504 (2021). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0054539

“Engineering new limits to magnetostriction through metastability in iron-gallium alloys“

P. B. Meisenheimer, R. A. Steinhardt, S. H. Sung, L. D. Williams, S. Zhuang, M. E. Nowakowski, S. Novakov, M. M. Torunbalci, B. Prasad, C. J. Zollner, Z. Wang, N. M. Dawley, J. Schubert , A. H. Hunter, S. Manipatruni, D. E. Nikonov , I. A. Young, L. Q. Chen, J. Bokor, S. A. Bhave, R. Ramesh, J.-M. Hu, E. Kioupakis, R. Hovden , D. G. Schlom & J. T. Heron. Nat Commun 12, 2757 (2021). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-22793-x

“Interface Transparency and Rashba Spin Torque Enhancement in WSe2 Heterostructures“

Steve Novakov, Bhakti Jariwala, Nguyen M. Vu, Azimkhan Kozhakhmetov, Joshua A. Robinson, and John T. Heron ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.0c19266(2021)

2020

“Multiferroic heterostructures for spintronics“

E. Gradauskaite,P. B. Meisenheimer, M. Muller, J. T. Heron, and M. Trassin. Phys. Sci. Rev. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1515/psr-2019-0072 (2020)

“Exploring the intrinsic limit of the charge-carrier-induced increase of the Curie temperature of Lu- and La-doped EuO thin films“

R. Held, T. Mairoser, A. Melville, J. A. Mundy, M. E. Holtz, D. Hodash, Z. Wang, J. T. Heron, S. T. Dacek, B. Holländer, D. A. Muller, and D. G. Schlom Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 100412 (2020)

“Property and cation valence engineering in entropy-stabilized oxide thin films“

G. N. Kotsonis, P. B. Meisenheimer, L. Miao, J. Roth, B. Wang, P. Shafer, R. Engel-Herbert, N. Alem, J. T. Heron, C. M. Rost, and J.P. Maria. Phys. Rev. Materials 4, 100401 (2020)

“Thermal conductivity of rutile germanium dioxide“

S. Chae, K. Mengle, R. Lu, A. Olvera, N. Sanders, J. Lee, P.F.P. Poudeu, J.T. Heron, E. Kioupakis. App. Phys. Lett. 117, 102106 (2020)

“Bulk-like dielectric and magnetic properties of sub 100 nm thick single crystal Cr2O3 films on an epitaxial oxide electrode“

N. M. Vu, X. Luo, S. Novakov, W. Jin, J. Nordlander, P. B. Meisenheimer, M. Trassin, L. Zhao, and J. T. Heron. Scientific Reports. 10, 14721 (2020)

“Epitaxial stabilization of rutile germanium oxide thin film by molecular beam epitaxy”

S. Chae, H. Paik, N.M Vu, E. Kioupakis, and J. T. Heron. App. Phys. Lett. 117, 072105 (2020)

“Oxides and the high entropy regime: A new mix for engineering physical properties” (2020)

P. B. Meisenheimer, and J. T. Heron. MRS Advances 1-18. doi:10.1557/adv.2020.295 (2020)

“Tunable magnetoelastic anisotropy in epitaxial (111) Tm3Fe5O12 thin films” (2020)

N. Vu, P. B. Meisenheimer, and J. T. Heron. J. App. Phys. 127, 153905 (2020)

“Boron arsenide heterostructures: lattice-matched heterointerfaces and strain effects on band alignments and mobility” (2020)

K. Bushick, S. Chae, Z. Deng, J. T. Heron, and E. Kioupakis. Nature Comp. Mater. 6, 3 (2020)

2019

“Imaging uncompensated moments and exchange-biased emergent ferromagnetism in FeRh thin films” (2019)

I. Gray, G. M. Stiehl, J. T. Heron, A. B. Mei, D. G. Schlom, R. Ramesh, D. C. Ralph, and G. D. Fuchs. Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 124407 (2019)

“Magnetic frustration control through tunable stereochemically driven disorder in entropy-stabilized oxides” (2019)

P. B. Meisenheimer, L. D. Williams, S. H. Sung, J. Gim, P. Shafer, G. Kotsonis, J.-P. Maria, M. Trassin, R. Hovden, E. Kioupakis, & J. T. Heron. Phys. Rev. Materials 3, 104420 (2019)

“Spin Seebeck Imaging of Spin-Torque Switching in Antiferromagnetic Pt/NiO Heterostructures” (2019)

I. Gray, T. Moriyama, N. Sivadas, G. M. Stiehl, J. T. Heron, R. Need, B. J. Kirby, D. H. Low, K. C. Nowack, D. G. Schlom, D. C. Ralph, T. Ono, and G. D. Fuchs. Phys. Rev. X 9, 041016 (2019)

“Rutile GeO2: An ultrawide-band-gap semiconductor with ambipolar doping” (2019)

S. Chae, J. Lee, K. A. Mengle, J. T. Heron, & E. Kioupakis Appl. Phys. Lett. 114, 102104 (2019)

2018

“Unexpected termination switching and polarity compensation in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures” (2018)

G. Singh-Bhalla, P. B. Rossen, G. K. Pálsson, M. Mecklenburg, T. Orvis, S. Das, Y.-L. Tang, J. S. Suresha, D. Yi, A. Dasgupta, D. Doenning, V. G. Ruiz, A. K. Yadav, M. Trassin, J. T. Heron, C. S. Fadley, R. Pentcheva, J. Ravichandran, and R. Ramesh. Phys. Rev. Materials 2, 112001(R) (2018)

“Point defects and dopants of boron arsenide from first-principles calculations: Donor compensation and doping asymmetry” (2018)

S. Chae, K. Mengle, J. T. Heron & E. Kioupakis Appl. Phys. Lett. 113, 212101 (2018)

“Electric and magnetic domains inverted by a magnetic field” (2018)

J. T. Heron & J. A. Mundy Nature 560, 435-436 (2018)

“Perspective: Magnetoelectric Switching in Thin Film Multiferroic Heterostructures” (2018)

P. B. Meisenheimer, S. Novakov, N. M. Vu, & J. T. Heron J. App. Phys  123, 240901 (2018).

“Bulk and Thin Film Synthesis of Compositionally Variant Entropy-stabilized Oxides” (2018)

S. Sivakumar*, E. Zwier*, P. B. Meisenheimer*, & J. T. Heron J. Vis. Exp. (135), e57746, (2018).

“Sustainable p-type copper selenide solar material with ultra-large absorption coefficient” (2018)

E. M. Chen, L. Williams, A. Olvera, C. Zhang, M. Zhang, G. Shi, J. T. Heron, L. Qi, L. J. Guo, E. Kioupakis, and P. F. P. Poudeu Chem. Sci. 65, 5(2018).

“Clocked Magnetostriction-Assisted Spintronic Device Design and Simulation” (2018)

R. Iraei, N. Kani, S. Dutta, D. E. Nikonov, S. Manipatruni, I. A. Young, J. T. Heron, and A. Naeemi IEEE Trans. Electronic Devices 65, 5(2018).

2017

“Hidden Magnetic States Emergent Under Electric Field, In A Room Temperature Composite Magnetoelectric Multiferroic” (2017)

J. D. Clarkson, I. Fina, Z. Q. Liu, Y. Lee, J. Kim, C. Frontera, K. Cordero, S. Wisotzki, F. Sanchez, J. Sort, S. L. Hsu, C. Ko, L. Aballe, M. Foerster, J. Wu, H. M. Christen, J. T. Heron, D. G. Schlom, S. Salahuddin, N. Kioussis, J. Fontcuberta, X. Marti & R. Ramesh Sci. Rep. 7, 15460(2017).

“Giant Enhancement of Exchange Coupling in Entropy-Stabilized Oxide Heterostructures” (2017)

P. B. Meisenheimer, T. J. Kratofil, J. T. Heron Sci. Rep. 7, 13344 (2017).

“Strain-Mediated Magnetization Reversal Through Spin-Transfer Torque” (2017)

N. Kani, J. T. Heron, A. Naeemi, IEEE Trans. Mag. 53, 11 (2017).

“Spin-Hall Torques Generated by Rare-Earth (Lanthanide) Thin Films” (2017)

N. Reynolds, P. Jadaun, J. T. Heron, Colin L. Jermain, Jonathan Gibbons, R. Collette, R. A. Buhrman, D. G. Schlom and D. C. Ralph, Phys. Rev. B. 95, 064412 (2017).

Earlier

“Atomically engineered ferroic layers yield a room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic” (2016)

Julia A. Mundy, Charles M. Brooks, Megan E. Holtz, Jarrett A. Moyer, Hena Das, Alejandro F. Rébola, John T. Heron, James D. Clarkson, Steven M. Disseler, Rainer Held, Robert Hovden, Elliot Padgett, Qingyun Mao, Hanjong Paik, Rajiv Misra, Lena F. Kourkoutis, Julie A. Borchers, William D. Ratcliff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Craig J. Fennie, Peter Schiffer, David A. Muller and Darrell G. Schlom, Nature 537, 523-527 (2016).

“High Dynamic Range Pixel Array Detector for Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy” (2016)

M. W. Tate, P. Purohit, D. Chamberlain, K. X. Nguyen, R. M. Hovden, C. S. Chang, P. Deb, E. Turgut, J. T. Heron, D. G. Schlom, D. C. Ralph, G. D. Fuchs, K. S. Shanks, H. T. Philipp, D. A. Muller, and S. M. Gruner, Microsc. Microanal. (2016).

“Large resistivity modulation in mixed-phase metallic systems” (2015)

Yeonbae Lee†, Z. Q. Liu†, J. T. Heron, J. D. Clarkson, J. Hong, M. D. Biegalski, U. Aschauer, S. L. Hsu, C. Ko, M. E. Nowakowski, J. Wu, H. M. Christen, S. Salahuddin, J. B. Bokor, N. A. Spaldin, D. G. Schlom and R. Ramesh, Nature Comm. 6, 5959 (2015).

“Magnetic Structure and Ordering of Multiferroic Hexagonal
LuFeO3” (2015)

Steven M. Disseler, Julie A. Borchers, Charles M. Brooks, Julia A. Mundy, Jarrett A. Moyer, Daniel A. Hillsberry, Eric L. Thies, Dmitri A. Tenne, John Heron, Megan E. Holtz, James D. Clarkson, Gregory M. Stiehl, Peter Schiffer, David A. Muller, Darrell G. Schlom, and William D. Ratcliff, Phys. Rev. Lett. 114, 217602 (2015).

“Deterministic switching of ferromagnetism at room temperature using an electric field” (2014)

J. T. Heron, J. L. Bosse, Q. He, Y. Gao, M. Trassin, J. D. Clarkson, C. Wang, J. Liu, S. Salahuddin, D. C. Ralph, D. G. Schlom, J. Iniguez, B. D. Huey, and R. Ramesh, Nature 516, 370-373 (2014).

“Electric Field Control of Magnetism Using BiFeO3-Based Heterostructures” (2014)

J. T. Heron, D. G. Schlom and R. Ramesh, Appl. Phys. Rev. 1, 021203 (2014).

“Intrinsic magnetic properties of hexagonal LuFeO3 and the effects of nonstoichiometry” (2014)

J. A. Moyer, R. Misra, J. A. Mundy, C. M. Brooks, J. T. Heron, D. A. Muller, D. G. Schlom, and P. Schiffer, Appl. Phys. Lett. Mater. 2, 012106 (2014).

“Interfacial Coupling in Multiferroic-Ferromagnetic Heterostructures” (2013)

M. Trassin, J. D. Clarckson, S. R. Bowden, Jian Liu, J. T. Heron, R. Paull, E. Arenholz, D. T. Peirce and J. Unguris, Phys. Rev. B 87, 134426 (2011). (2013).

“Spin-orbit Mott-insulator phase with reduced lattice symmetry in Sr2IrO4 thin-films detected using x-ray absorption spectroscopy” (2013)

C. R. Serrao, J. Liu, J. T. Heron, G. Singh-Bhalla, A. Yadav, S. J. Suresha, R. J. Paull, Y. Di, J.-H. Chu, M. Trassin, A. Vishwanath, E. Arenholz, C. Frontera, J. Zelezny, T. Jungwirth, X. Marti and R. Ramesh, Phys. Rev. Lett. B 87, 085121 (2013).

“Electrochemical and Physical Properties of Ti-substituted Layered Nickel Manganese Cobalt Oxide (NMC) Cathode Materials” (2012)

K. C. Kam, A. Mehta, J. T. Heron and M. M. Doeff, J. Electrochem. Soc. 159 (8) A1-A10 (2012).

“Electric-field-induced magnetization reversal in a ferromagnet-multiferroic heterostructure” (2011)

J. T. Heron, M. Trassin, K. Ashraf, M. Gajek, Q. He, S. Y. Yang, D. E. Nikonov, Y.-H.
Chu, S. Salahuddin and R. Ramesh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 217202 (2011).

“Microscopic origin of the giant ferroelectric polarization in tetragonal-like BiFeO3” (2011)

J. X. Zhang, Q. He, M. Trassin, W. Luo, M. D. Rossell, P. Yu, C. H. Wang, C. Y. Kuo, J. T. Heron, Z. Hu, R. J. Zeches, H. J. Lin, A. Tanaka, C. T. Chen, L. H. Tjeng, Y.-H. Chu and R. Ramesh, Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 147602 (2011).

“Electrically controllable spontaneous magnetism in nanoscale mixed phase multiferroics” (2011)

Q. He, Y.-H. Chu, J. T. Heron, S. Y. Yang, W. I. Liang, H. J. Lin, P. Yu, C. W. Liang, R. J. Zeches, W. C. Kuo, J. Y. Juang, C. T. Chen, E. Arenholz, A. Scholl and R. Ramesh, Nature Comm. 2, 225 (2011).

“Stoichiometric growth of high Curie temperature heavily alloyed GaMnAs” (2008)

S. Mack, R. C. Myers, J. T. Heron, A. C. Gossard, and D. D. Awschalom, Appl. Phys. Lett. 92, 192502 (2008).

News

  • New Publication! “Adaptive Magnetoactive Soft Composites for Modular and Reconfigurable Actuators” March 27, 2023
  • New Publication! “Geometric defects induced by strain relaxation in thin film oxide superlattices.” November 10, 2022
  • New Publication! “Nanophotonic control of thermal emission under extreme temperatures in air” September 29, 2022

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New Publication! “Adaptive Magnetoactive Soft Composites for Modular and Reconfigurable Actuators”

March 27, 2023 By Matt Webb

New Publication! “Geometric defects induced by strain relaxation in thin film oxide superlattices.”

November 10, 2022 By Matt Webb

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