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Orthorhombic crystal system

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Mapping orthorhombic domains with geometrical phase analysis in rare-earth nickelate heterostructures

Duncan Thomas Lindsay Alexander, Bernat Mundet

Most perovskite oxides belong to the Pbnm space group, composed of an anisotropic unit cell, A-site antipolar displacements, and oxygen octahedral tilts. Mapping the orientation of the orthorhombic unit cell in epitaxial heterostructures that consist of at ...

Aip Publishing2024

Magnetic structure of the two-dimensional XY antiferromagnet Sr2CoSi2O7 studied using single-crystal neutron diffraction

Bálint Náfrádi

We report a combined polarized and unpolarized neutron diffraction study on a multiferroic Sr2CoSi2O7 (SCSO) single crystal below and above the antiferromagnetic ordering temperature TN = 6.5 K. Unpolarized neutron diffraction measurements at 15 K confirm ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2023

Square and rhombic lattices of magnetic skyrmions in a centrosymmetric binary compound

Jonathan White, Le Yu

Magnetic skyrmions are topologically stable swirling spin textures with particle-like character, and have been intensively studied as a candidate of high-density information bit. While magnetic skyrmions were originally discovered in noncentrosymmetric sys ...

Nature Research2022

Molecular Origin of the Asymmetric Photoluminescence Spectra of CsPbBr3 at Low Temperature

Michael Graetzel, Ursula Röthlisberger, Mohammad Ibrahim Dar, Gwénolé Jean Jacopin, Ariadni Boziki

CsPbBr3 has received wide attention due to its superior emission yield and better thermal stability compared to other organic-inorganic lead halide perovskites. In this study, through an interplay of theory and experiments, we investigate the molecular ori ...

2021

Room-temperature skyrmion phase in bulk Cu2OSeO3 under high pressures

Helmuth Berger

A skyrmion state in a noncentrosymmetric helimagnet displays topologically protected spin textures with profound technological implications for high-density information storage, ultrafast spintronics, and effective microwave devices. Usually, its equilibri ...

National Academy of Sciences2020

Nanostructured alloys light the way to silicon-based photonics

Anna Fontcuberta i Morral

Silicon used for electronics has a cubic crystal lattice, which makes the material unsuitable for photonics applications. A method for producing germanium and silicon-germanium alloys that have hexagonal lattices offers a solution. ...

NATURE PUBLISHING GROUP2020

Deciphering crystal packing effects in the spin crossover of six [Fe-II(2-pic)(3)]Cl-2 solvatomorphs

Sergio Vela Llausi

In this work we investigate how the crystal packing affects the spin crossover (SCO) of [Fe-II(2-pic)(3)]Cl-2. Four alcohol solvatomorphs of this compound have been reported to present a transition from a singlet low spin (LS, S = 0) to a quintet high spin ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2019

Characterisation and hydration of ye'elimite containing cements

Frank Bullerjahn

Calcium sulphoaluminate cements (CSA) with the main phase yeâ elimite are a promising class of non-Portland cements which are gaining increasing interest from the cement industry. However, the hydration kinetics of CSA cements varies strongly, even for ce ...

EPFL2018

Competing Jahn-Teller distortions and ferrimagnetic ordering in the geometrically frustrated system Ni1-xCuxCr2O4

Philip Pattison

Competing Jahn-Teller distortions combined with geometrical frustration give rise to a rich phase diagram as a function of x(Cu) and temperature in the spinel system Ni1-xCuxCr2O4. The Jahn-Teller distortion of the end members acts in opposite ways, with a ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

The Nimrod transmembrane receptor Eater is required for hemocyte attachment to the sessile compartment in Drosophila melanogaster

Bruno Lemaitre, Olivier Burri, Olivier Binggeli

Eater is an EGF-like repeat transmembrane receptor of the Nimrod family and is expressed in Drosophila hemocytes. Eater was initially identified for its role in phagocytosis of both Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. We have deleted eater and show t ...

Company Of Biologists Ltd2015

Torque magnetometry study of magnetically ordered state and spin reorientation in the quasi-one-dimensional S=1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet CuSb2O6

Helmuth Berger

The antiferromagnetically ordered state of the monoclinic quasi-one-dimensional S = 1/2 Heisenberg antiferromagnet CuSb2O6 was studied combining torque magnetometry with a phenomenological approach to magnetic anisotropy. This system is known to have a num ...

Amer Physical Soc2015

Impact of heterocirculene molecular symmetry upon two-dimensional

Despite the development of crystal engineering, it remains a great challenge to predict the crystal structure even for the simplest molecules, and a clear link between molecular and crystal symmetry is missing in general. Here we demonstrate that the two-d ...

Nature Publishing Group2014

Phase-field modeling of the dendrite orientation transition in Al-Zn alloys

Michel Rappaz, Paolo Di Napoli, Jonathan Friedli

With a few exceptions, phase-field simulations of dendritic growth in cubic materials have been modeled using simple expressions for the interfacial energy anisotropy and with strong anisotropy. However, recent experimental results show that the Dendrite O ...

Iop Publishing Ltd2012

Insights into the Origin of Cooperative Effects in the Spin Transition of [Fe(NH(2)trz)(3)](NO3)(2): the Role of Supramolecular Interactions Evidenced in the Crystal Structure of [Cu(NH(2)trz)(3)](NO3)(2)center dot H2O

The thermally induced hysteretic spin transition (ST) that occurs in the polymeric chain compound Fe(NH(2)trz)(3)(2) (1) above room temperature (T-c(sic) = 347 K, T-c(sic) = 314 K) has been tracked by Fe-57 Mossbauer spectroscopy, SQUID magnetometry ...

2010

Pressure-Induced Phase Transitions in Micro-, Submicro-, and Nanocrystalline NaNbO3

Arnaud Magrez

Pressure-induced successive phase transitions of micro-, submicro-, and nanocrystalline NaNbO3 particles were investigated by high-pressure Raman spectroscopy. Microcrystalline NaNbO3, which stabilizes in an orthorhombic Pbcm structure at ambient pressure, ...

2008

Temperature-induced Phase Transitions in Micro-, Submicro-, and Nanocrystalline NaNbO3

Arnaud Magrez

Phase transitions in micro-, submicro-, and nanocrystalline NaNbO3 were investigated by temperature-tuning Raman spectroscopy and X-ray powder diffraction method. Three powders with different average particle size showed successive phase transitions within ...

2007

Electric-field-, temperature-, and stress-induced phase transitions in relaxor ferroelectric single crystals

Nava Setter, Dragan Damjanovic, Matthew Davis

Electric-field-induced phase transitions have been evidenced by macroscopic strain measurements at temperatures between 25 degrees C and 100 degrees C in 001-poled (1-x)Pb(Mg1/3Nb2/3)O-3-xPbTiO(3) [(PMN-xPT);x=0.25,0.305,0.31] and (1-x)Pb(Zn1/3Nb2/3)O ...

2006

The alpha(2)-polymorph of salicylideneaniline

Gervais Chapuis, Philip Pattison

N-Salicylideneaniline (SA), C13H11NO, belongs to the large family of aromatic Schiff bases. It is of particular importance owing to its reversible photoreactivity. SA forms two photochromic polymorphs, both with two non-coplanar benzene rings. In addition, ...

2005

Polymorphism in micro-, submicro-, and nanocrystalline NaNbO3

Arnaud Magrez

NaNbO3 powders with various particle sizes (ranging from 30 nm to several microns) and well-controlled stoichiometry were obtained through microemulsion-mediated synthesis. The effect of particle size on the phase transformation of the prepared NaNbO3 Powd ...

2005

A nearly planar water sheet sandwiched between strontium-imidazolium carboxylate coordination polymers

Paul Joseph Dyson, Rosario Scopelliti, Zhaofu Fei, Dongbin Zhao

The crystal structure of a strontium-imidazolium polymeric material obtained from the reaction of zwitterionic 1,3-bis(carboxymethyl)-imidazolium with SrCO3 (2:1) in water is reported. The compound crystallized in the orthorhombic space group Pcc2 with a = ...

2005