Microwave impedance microscopy and its application to quantum materials

ME Barber, EY Ma, ZX Shen - Nature Reviews Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Materials in which quantum mechanical effects lead to novel properties on the macroscopic
scale are of interest both fundamentally and for applications. For such quantum materials …

An atomic-scale multi-qubit platform

Y Wang, Y Chen, HT Bui, C Wolf, M Haze, C Mier… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Individual electron spins in solids are promising candidates for quantum science and
technology, where bottom-up assembly of a quantum device with atomically precise …

Unveiling alternating current electronic properties at ferroelectric domain walls

J Schultheiß, T Rojac, D Meier - Advanced Electronic Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Ferroelectric domain walls exhibit a range of interesting electrical properties and are now
widely recognized as functional 2D systems for the development of next‐generation …

Nanoscale Conductivity Imaging of Correlated Electronic States in Moiré Superlattices

Z Chu, EC Regan, X Ma, D Wang, Z Xu, MIB Utama… - Physical review …, 2020 - APS
We report the nanoscale conductivity imaging of correlated electronic states in angle-
aligned WSe 2/WS 2 heterostructures using microwave impedance microscopy. The …

Non-volatile electric-field control of inversion symmetry

L Caretta, YT Shao, J Yu, AB Mei, BF Grosso, C Dai… - Nature Materials, 2023 - nature.com
Competition between ground states at phase boundaries can lead to significant changes in
properties under stimuli, particularly when these ground states have different crystal …

Direct visualization of edge state in even-layer MnBi2Te4 at zero magnetic field

W Lin, Y Feng, Y Wang, J Zhu, Z Lian, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Being the first intrinsic antiferromagnetic (AFM) topological insulator (TI), MnBi2Te4 is
argued to be a topological axion state in its even-layer form due to the antiparallel …

Freestanding ferroelectric bubble domains

SR Bakaul, S Prokhorenko, Q Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Bubble‐like domains, typically a precursor to the electrical skyrmions, arise in ultrathin
complex oxide ferroelectric–dielectric–ferroelectric heterostructures epitaxially clamped with …

Dynamic Stabilization of Metastable States in Triple‐Well Ferroelectric Sn2P2S6

SM Neumayer, N Bauer, S Basun… - Advanced …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Polarization dynamics in ferroelectric materials is governed by the effective potential energy
landscape of the order parameter. The unique aspect of ferroelectrics compared to many …

Visualization of Mesoscopic Conductivity Fluctuations in Amorphous Semiconductor Thin-Film Transistors

J Yu, Y Zhou, X Wang, A Dodabalapur, K Lai - Nano Letters, 2023 - ACS Publications
Charge transport in amorphous semiconductors is considerably more complicated than the
process in crystalline materials due to abundant localized states. In addition to device-scale …

Superior photo-carrier diffusion dynamics in organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites revealed by spatiotemporal conductivity imaging

X Ma, F Zhang, Z Chu, J Hao, X Chen, J Quan… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
The outstanding performance of organic-inorganic metal trihalide solar cells benefits from
the exceptional photo-physical properties of both electrons and holes in the material. Here …