Author Archives
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Scanning Probe Microscopy provides new perspectives for chemistry on surfaces and beyond
In today’s blog, we asked Professor Pavel Jelinek from Nanosurf Lab and Palacky University Olomouc to talk about the focus of his recent Topical Review published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, which details the remarkable recent progress made in the… Read More ›
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Image of the Week: Electron-phonon relaxation on the Fermi surface of Pb
This week’s image comes from a recent paper by Rittweger et al., published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, in which they investigate the electronic transport properties of face-centred cubic (fcc) bulk Pb in the presence of electron-phonon interaction. Using ab initio methods, Rittweger et… Read More ›
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Does ink drying on a functional surface remain still?
Chalmers et al. explain why watching ink (or paint) dry turns out to be rather interesting.
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Super-resolving cell biology problems
How can we investigate the small structures inside our cells using super-resolution microscopy?
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Planar borophene functionalized by transition metals
Can the adsorption of transition metals functionalize the novel 2D material borophene for nanoelectronic applications? In a recent Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter paper, Alvarez-Quiceno et al. perform a systematic first-principles investigation aimed at answering this question. They discuss their findings… Read More ›
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Manipulating Spin-Orbit Coupling Effects
Tetragonally strained interstitial Fe-Co-B alloys: beyond large magnetocrystalline anisotropy
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Quantitative atomic force microscopy, regardless of operation mode
Söngen et al. discuss their recent Special Issue paper, in which they develop a new method for quantitative analysis of AFM data applicable to any mode.
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Charge transport anomaly in layered reduced graphene oxide under applied strain
It is a common observation that the resistance of a conducting film on a flexible substrate increases when subjected to strain, albeit with a few exceptions (such as a variant of conducting polymer PEDOT: PSS, where the reverse is observed)…. Read More ›
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Image of the Week: Band inversion due to anisotropic spin-orbit coupling results in a Lifshitz transition in disordered graphene
This week’s image is from a paper recently published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter: The influence of anisotropic Rashba spin–orbit coupling on current-induced spin polarization in graphene. This work by Mir Vahid Hosseini uses Green’s function method and linear response theory to… Read More ›
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Reconciliation between atomic and electronic structure periodicity in Si(111)-7×7
For the first time, a 7×7 intensity modulation of electronic band structure has been observed in the 7×7–reconstructed Si(111) surface. Sheverdyaeva et al. give an account of their research published in Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter.
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2D ternary oxides – a new platform for substrate bound 2D materials
How to fabricate atomically-thin 2D ternary oxide crystals via bottom-up synthesis
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Current noise captures non-equilibrium electronic states
Unexpected energy relaxation in a quantum Hall edge channel.
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Image of the week: Quasicrystalline structure of small spherical viral capsids
Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter is currently running a Special Issue on soft quasicrystals, guided by guest editors Primoz Ziherl & Tomonari Dotera. This week’s image is from one of the most recent articles of the issue by Sergei Rochal… Read More ›
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Fast pulse sequence switches magnetization
“Venerable magnetism meets a young laser with novel results.” Can switching be realized by directly applying the fast pulse sequence of a TiS oscillator?
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Nonlinear conduction in a stable material with cheap components
Fe3O2BO3 is a ludwigite with a single type of metallic ion (Fe). The ludwigites belong to the family of oxyborates and are characterized by the presence of low dimensional sub-units in the form of three legged ladders (3LL) along the… Read More ›
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