Publications 2020
Selective uptake of Ag(I) from aqueous solutions using ionic liquid-modified iron oxide nanoparticles, A. D. Aderibigbe, R. A. Crane, M. R. Lees, and A. J. Clark, Journal of Nanoparticle Research 22, 216 (2020).
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Investigation of the transport, magnetic and flux pinning properties of the noncentrosymmetric superconductor TaRh2B2 under hydrostatic pressure, S. Arumugam, N. Subbulakshmi, K. Manikandan, M. Kannan, D. A. Mayoh, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Physica C-Superconductivity and Its Applications 571, 1353586 (2020).
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Ir 5d-band derived superconductivity in LaIr3, A. Bhattacharyya, D. T. Adroja, P. K. Biswas, Y. J. Sato, M. R. Lees, D. Aoki, and A. D. Hillier, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 065602 (2020).
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Investigation of superconducting gap structure in HfIrSi using muon spin relaxation/rotation, A. Bhattacharyya, K. Panda, D. T. Adroja, N. Kase, P. K. Biswas, S. Saha, T. Das, M. R. Lees, and A. D. Hillier, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 085601 (2020).
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Real-space imaging of confined magnetic skyrmion tubes, M. T. Birch, D. Cortés-Ortuño, L. A. Turnbull, M. N. Wilson, F. Groß, N. Träger, A. Laurenson, N. Bukin, S. H. Moody, M. Weigand, G. Schütz, H. Popescu, R. Fan, P. Steadman, J. A. T. Verezhak, G. Balakrishnan, J. C. Loudon, A. C. Twitchett-Harrison, O. Hovorka, H. Fangohr, F. Y. Ogrin, J. Gräfe, and P. D. Hatton, Nature Communications 11, 1726 (2020).
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Anisotropy-induced depinning in the Zn-substituted skyrmion host Cu2OSeO3, M. T. Birch, S. H. Moody, M. N. Wilson, M. Crisanti, O. Bewley, A. Štefančič, G. Balakrishnan, R. Fan, P. Steadman, D. Alba Venero, R. Cubitt, and P. D. Hatton, Physical Review B 102, 104424 (2020).
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Coexistence of type-I and type-II superconductivity signatures in ZrB12 probed by muon spin rotation measurements, P. K. Biswas, F. N. Rybakov, R. P. Singh, S. Mukherjee, N. Parzyk, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, C. D. Dewhurst, E. Babaev, A. D. Hillier, and D. M. Paul, Physical Review B 102, 144523 (2020).
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Surface analysis of the PrB6 (001) cleavage plane by scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy, P. Buchsteiner, L. Harmsen, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and M. Wenderoth, Physical Review B 102, 205403 (2020).
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(M,Ru)O2 (M = Mg, Zn, Cu, Ni, Co) rutiles and their use as oxygen evolution electrocatalysts in membrane electrode assemblies under acidic conditions, D. L. Burnett, E. Petrucco, K. M. Rigg, C. M. Zalitis, J. G. Lok, R. J. Kashtiban, M. R. Lees, J. D. B. Sharman, and R. I. Walton, Chemistry of Materials 32, 6150 (2020).
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Crystal Growth by the Floating Zone Method of Ce-Substituted Crystals of the Topological Kondo Insulator SmB6, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, T. Ahmad, M. Walker, M.R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Crystals 10, 827 (2020).
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Optical Floating Zone Crystal Growth of Rare-Earth Disilicates, R2Si2O7 (R = Er, Ho, and Tm), M. Ciomaga Hatnean, O. A. Petrenko, M. R. Lees, T. E. Orton, and G. Balakrishnan, Crystal Growth and Design 20, 6636 (2020).
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SquidLab-A user-friendly program for background subtraction and fitting of magnetization data, M. J. Coak, C. Liu, D. M. Jarvis, S. Park, M. J. Cliffe, and P. A. Goddard, Review of Scientific Instruments 91, 023901 (2020).
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Tuning dimensionality in van-der-Waals antiferromagnetic Mott insulators TMPS3, M. J. Coak, D. M. Jarvis, H. Hamidov, C. R. S. Haines, P. L. Alireza, C. Liu, S. Son, I. Hwang, G. I. Lampronti, D. Daisenberger, P. Nahai-Williamson, A. R. Wildes, S. S. Saxena, and J. G. Park, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 124003 (2020).
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Ga2.52V2.48O7.33(OH)0.67, a synthetic member of the nolanite/akdalaite-type family of oxyhydroxides containing trivalent vanadium, D. S. Cook, M. R. Lees, J. M. Fisher, D. Thompsett, and R. I. Walton, Journal of Solid State Chemistry 288, 121396 (2020).
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In situ control of the helical and skyrmion phases in Cu2OSeO3 using high-pressure helium gas up to 5 kbar, M. Crisanti, N. Reynolds, I. Zivkovic, A. Magrez, H. M. Ronnow, R. Cubitt, and J. S. White, Physical Review B 101, 214435 (2020).
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Position-dependent stability and lifetime of the skyrmion state in nickel-substituted Cu2OSeO3, M. Crisanti, M. T. Birch, M. N. Wilson, S. H. Moody, A. Štefančič, B. M. Huddart, S. Cabeza, G. Balakrishnan, P. D. Hatton, and R. Cubitt, Physical Review B 102, 224407 (2020).
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Comprehensive surface magnetotransport study of SmB6, Y. S. Eo, S. Wolgast, A. Rakoski, D. Mihaliov, B. Y. Kang, M. S. Song, B. K. Cho, M. C. Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, Z. Fisk, S. R. Saha, X. Wang, J. Paglione, and Ç. Kurdak, Physical Review B 101, 155109 (2020).
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Unusual phase boundary of the magnetic-field-tuned valence transition in CeOs4Sb12, K. Gotze, M. J. Pearce, P. A. Goddard, M. Jaime, M. B. Maple, K. Sasmal, T. Yanagisawa, A. McCollam, T. Khouri, P. C. Ho, and J. Singleton, Physical Review B 101, 075102 (2020).
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Local nuclear and magnetic order in the two-dimensional spin glass Mn0.5Fe0.5PS3, J. N. Graham, M. J. Coak, S. Son, E. Suard, J. G. Park, L. Clark, and A. R. Wildes, Physical Review Materials 4, 084401 (2020).
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Intrinsic Bulk Quantum Oscillations in a Bulk Unconventional Insulator SmB6, M. Hartstein, H. Liu, Y. T. Hsu, B. S. Tan, M. C. Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, S. E. Sebastian, Iscience 23, 101632 (2020).
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Structural, Magnetic, Magnetocaloric, and Magnetostrictive Properties of Pb1-xSrxMnBO4 (x = 0, 0.5, and 1.0), J. Head, P. Manuel, F. Orlandi, M. Jeong, M.R. Lees, R. Li, and C. Greaves, Chemistry of Materials 32, 10184 (2020)
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Magnetism and Neel skyrmion dynamics in GaV4S8-ySey, T. J. Hicken, S. J. R. Holt, K. J. A. Franke, Z. Hawkhead, A. Štefančič, M. N. Wilson, M. Gomilšek, B. M. Huddart, S. J. Clark, M. R. Lees, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, G. Balakrishnan, and T. Lancaster, Physical Review Research 2, 032001 (2020).
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Structure and magnetism of the skyrmion hosting family GaV4S8-ySey with low levels of substitutions between 0 ≤ y ≤ 0.5 and 7.5 ≤ y ≤ 8, S. J. R. Holt, A. Štefančič, C. Ritter, A. E. Hall, M. R. Lees, and G. Balakrishnan, Physical Review Materials 4, 114413 (2020) .
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Observation of plateau-like magnetoresistance in twisted Fe3GeTe2/Fe3GeTe2 junction, J. Kim, S. Son, M. J. Coak, I. Hwang, Y. Lee, K. Zhang, and J. G. Park, Journal of Applied Physics 128, 093901 (2020).
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Torque magnetometry study of the spin reorientation transition and temperature-dependent magnetocrystalline anisotropy in NdCo5, S. Kumar, C. E. Patrick, R. S. Edwards, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, and J. B. Staunton, Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 32, 255802 (2020).
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Tunability of the spin reorientation transitions with pressure in NdCo5, S. Kumar, C. E. Patrick, R. S. Edwards, G. Balakrishnan, M. R. Lees, and J. B. Staunton, Applied Physics Letters 116, 102408 (2020).
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Evolution of field-induced metastable phases in the Shastry-Sutherland lattice magnet TmB4, D. Lancon, V. Scagnoli, U. Staub, O. A. Petrenko, M. C. Hatnean, E. Canevet, R. Sibille, S. Francoual, J. R. L. Mardegan, K. Beauvois, G. Balakrishnan, L. J. Heyderman, C. Ruegg, and T. Fennell, Physical Review B 102, 060407 (2020).
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Metallic iron in cornflakes, F. Lermyte, W. Y. Zhang, J. Brooks, S. Huband, J. F. Collingwood, M. R. Lees, M.P. Rayman, P. J. Sadler, Food and Function 11, 2938 (2020).
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Enhancing easy-plane anisotropy in bespoke Ni(II) quantum magnets, J. L. Manson, Z. E. Manson, A. Sargent, D. Y. Villa, N. L. Etten, W. J. A. Blackmore, S. P. M. Curley, R. C. Williams, J. Brambleby, P. A. Goddard, A. Ozarowski, M. N. Wilson, B. M. Huddart, T. Lancaster, R. D. Johnson, S. J. Blundell, J. Bendix, K. A. Wheeler, S. H. Lapidus, F. Xiao, S. Birnbaum, and J. Singleton, Polyhedron 180, 114379 (2020).
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Raman response of topologically protected surface states in sub-micrometric Pb0.77Sn0.23Se flakes, S. Mehdipour, D. López-Diaz, M.M. Velázquez, P. Hidalgo, B. Méndez, M. Luna, V. Bellani, M. Amado, G. Balakrishnan, and E. Diez, Journal of Raman Spectroscopy 51, 2489 (2020).
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Disorder-induced critical exponents near a ferromagnetic quantum critical point in Mn1-xCrxSi, A. K. Mishra, S. S. Samatham, M. R. Lees, and V. Ganesan, Physical Review B 101, 144436 (2020).
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Extremely well isolated two-dimensional spin-1/2 antiferromagnetic Heisenberg layers with a small exchange coupling in the molecular-based magnet CuPOF, D. Opherden, N. Nizar, K. Richardson, J. C. Monroe, M. M. Turnbull, M. Polson, S. Vela, W. J. A. Blackmore, P. A. Goddard, J. Singleton, E. S. Choi, F. Xiao, R.C. Williams, T. Lancaster, F. L. Pratt, S. J. Blundell, Y. Skourski, M. Uhlarz, A. N. Ponomaryov, S. A. Zvyagin, J. Wosnitza, M. Baenitz, I. Heinmaa, R. Stern, H. Kühne, and C. P. Landee, Physical Review B 102, 064431 (2020).
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Strongly adhesive dry transfer technique for van der Waals heterostructure, S. Son, Y. J. Shin, K. X. Zhang, J. Shin, S. Lee, H. Idzuchi, M. J. Coak, H. Kim, J. Kim, J. H. Kim, M. Kim, D. Kim, P. Kim, and J. G. Park, 2d Materials 7, 041005 (2020).
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Establishing magneto-structural relationships in the solid solutions of the skyrmion hosting family of materials: GaV4S8−ySey, A. Štefančič, S. J. R. Holt, M. R. Lees, C. Ritter, M. J. Gutmann, T. Lancaster, and G. Balakrishnan, Scientific Reports 10, 9813 (2020).
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Extremely slow nonequilibrium monopole dynamics in classical spin ice, T. Stöter, M. Doerr, S. Granovsky, M. Rotter, S. T. B. Goennenwein, S. Zherlitsyn, O. A. Petrenko, G. Balakrishnan, H. D. Zhou, J. Wosnitza, Physical Review B 101, 224416 (2020).
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LiHoF4: Cuboidal demagnetizing factor in an Ising ferromagnet, M. Twengström, L. Bovo, O. A. Petrenko, S. T. Bramwell, and P. Henelius, Physical Review B 102, 144426 (2020).
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Proximity-induced ferromagnetism and chemical reactivity in few-layer VSe2 heterostructures, G. Vinai, C. Bigi, A. Rajan, M. D. Watson, T. L. Lee, F. Mazzola, S. Modesti, S. Barua, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, P. D. C. King, P. Torelli, G. Rossi, and G. Panaccione, Physical Review B 101, 035404 (2020).
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Direct observation of the energy gain underpinning ferromagnetic superexchange in the electronic structure of CrGeTe3, M. D. Watson, I. Marković, F. Mazzola, A. Rajan, E. A. Morales, D. M. Burn, T. Hesjedal, G. van der Laan, S. Mukherjee, T. K. Kim, C. Bigi, I. Vobornik, M. Ciomaga Hatnean, G. Balakrishnan, and P. D. C. King, Physical Review B 101, 205125 (2020).
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Near-ideal molecule-based Haldane spin chain, R. C. Williams, W. J. A. Blackmore, S. P. M. Curley, M. R. Lees, S. M. Birnbaum, J. Singleton, B. M. Huddart, T. J. Hicken, T. Lancaster, S. J. Blundell, F. Xiao, A. Ozarowski, F. L. Pratt, D. J. Voneshen, Z. Guguchia, C. Baines, J. A. Schlueter, D. Y. Villa, J. L. Manson, and P. A. Goddard, Physical Review Research 2, 013082 (2020).
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Stability and metastability of skyrmions in thin lamellae of Cu2OSeO3, M. N. Wilson, M. T. Birch, A. Štefančič, A. C. Twitchett-Harrison, G. Balakrishnan, T. J. Hicken, R. Fan, P. Steadman, and P. D. Hatton, Physical Review Research 2, 013096 (2020).
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Magnetic order and disorder in a quasi-two-dimensional quantum Heisenberg antiferromagnet with randomized exchange, F. Xiao, W. J. A. Blackmore, B. M. Huddart, M. Gomilsek, T. J. Hicken, C. Baines, P. J. Baker, F. L. Pratt, S.J. Blundell, H. Lu, J. Singleton, D. Gawryluk, M. M. Turnbull, K. W. Kramer, P. A. Goddard, and T. Lancaster, Physical Review B 102, 174429 (2020).
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