Over the past approximately 10 years, it has become routine to use piezoelectric actuators to
apply large anisotropic stresses to correlated electron materials. Elastic strains exceeding …

Strain tuning is a powerful experimental method in probing correlated electron systems.
Here we study the strain response of the lattice dynamics and electronic structure in the …

There is evidence for competition between superconductivity and short-range charge-
density wave order in a number of cuprate compounds and especially in YBa 2 Cu 3 O 6+ x …

Electronic ordering is prevalent in correlated systems, which commonly exhibit competing
interactions. Here, we use x-ray diffraction to show that the charge density wave transition …

Strongly correlated electron materials are often characterized by competition and interplay of
multiple quantum states. For example, in high-temperature cuprate superconductors …

In the past 20 years, 2D van der Waals materials have garnered broad interest across a
wide range of scientific and engineering disciplines. They provide a highly tunable platform …