Charge transport and hydrodynamics in materials

G Varnavides, A Yacoby, C Felser… - Nature Reviews Materials, 2023 - nature.com
As high-quality single-crystal materials used in electronic devices approach the microscale
and nanoscale, charge-transport phenomena in these devices result in inhomogeneous …

The properties of ultrapure delafossite metals

AP Mackenzie - Reports on Progress in Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Although they were first synthesized in chemistry laboratories nearly fifty years ago, the
physical properties of the metals PdCoO 2, PtCoO 2 and PdCrO 2 have only more recently …

Evidence for hydrodynamic electron flow in PdCoO2

PJW Moll, P Kushwaha, N Nandi, B Schmidt… - Science, 2016 - science.org
Electron transport is conventionally determined by the momentum-relaxing scattering of
electrons by the host solid and its excitations. Hydrodynamic fluid flow through channels, in …

Correlated metals as transparent conductors

L Zhang, Y Zhou, L Guo, W Zhao, A Barnes… - Nature materials, 2016 - nature.com
The fundamental challenge for designing transparent conductors used in photovoltaics,
displays and solid-state lighting is the ideal combination of high optical transparency and …

Rational strain engineering in delafossite oxides for highly efficient hydrogen evolution catalysis in acidic media

F Podjaski, D Weber, S Zhang, L Diehl, R Eger… - Nature Catalysis, 2020 - nature.com
The rational design of hydrogen evolution reaction electrocatalysts that can compete with
platinum is an outstanding challenge in the process of designing viable power-to-gas …

A review on the p-type transparent Cu–Cr–O delafossite materials

M Moreira, J Afonso, J Crepelliere, D Lenoble… - Journal of Materials …, 2022 - Springer
Transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) constitute a class of materials that combine high
electrical conductivity and optical transparency. These features led to the development of the …

Maximal Rashba-like spin splitting via kinetic-energy-coupled inversion-symmetry breaking

V Sunko, H Rosner, P Kushwaha, S Khim, F Mazzola… - Nature, 2017 - nature.com
Engineering and enhancing the breaking of inversion symmetry in solids—that is, allowing
electrons to differentiate between 'up'and 'down'—is a key goal in condensed-matter physics …

Quantum Oscillations and High Carrier Mobility in the Delafossite

CW Hicks, AS Gibbs, AP Mackenzie, H Takatsu… - Physical Review Letters, 2012 - APS
We present de Haas–van Alphen and resistivity data on single crystals of the delafossite
PdCoO 2. At 295 K we measure an in-plane resistivity of 2.6 μ Ω cm, making PdCoO 2 the …

Electric dipole effect in PdCoO2/β-Ga2O3 Schottky diodes for high-temperature operation

T Harada, S Ito, A Tsukazaki - Science advances, 2019 - science.org
High-temperature operation of semiconductor devices is widely demanded for
switching/sensing purposes in automobiles, plants, and aerospace applications. As …

Generation of terahertz radiation via the transverse thermoelectric effect

P Yordanov, T Priessnitz, MJ Kim, G Cristiani… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Terahertz (THz) radiation is a powerful tool with widespread applications ranging from
imaging, sensing, and broadband communications to spectroscopy and nonlinear control of …