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ALS Science Highlight: Room-temperature 2D magnet: electronic-structure insights
Ji-Eun Lee et al., Nano Letters 23, 11526 (2023).
ALS Science Brief: Building a two-dimensional magnet one atom at a time
Yong Zhong et al., Nature Communications 14, 5340 (2023).
ALS Science Brief: Excitons dance the two-step in a 2D material
Yekai Song et al., Nature Communications 14, 1116 (2023).
ALS Science Brief: Crossing from one to two dimensions in a single material
Jing Zhang et al., npj Quantum Materials 7, 54 (2022).
ALS Science Highlight: A topological-insulator sandwich for efficient microelectronics
Qile Li et al., Advanced Materials 34, 2107520 (2022).
ALS Science Highlight: A novel insulating state emerges in a 2D Material
Jinwoong Hwang et al., Nature Communications 13, 906 (2022).
ALS Science Highlight: Interlayer coupling drives mysterious phase transition
Sunghun Kim et al., PNAS 118, e2105190118 (2021).
News and Views: A tell-tale wiggle
LBL News: This exotic particle had an out-of-body experience; These scientists took a picture of it
Wei Ruan et al., Nature Physics 17, 1154 (2021).
News and Views: Correlated insulator by the slice
Phys.org: Researchers discover a unique orbital texture in single-layer of 3-D material
Yi Chen et al., Nature Physics 16, 218 (2020).
LBL News: The best topological conductor yet - spiraling crystal is the key to exotic discovery
ALS Science Brief: Chiral crystals give rise to topological conductors
Daniel Sanchez et al., Nature 567, 500 (2019).
LBL News: 2-D material’s traits could send electronics R&D spinning in new directions
ALS Science Highlight: Researchers Confirm New 2D Topolgical Insulator
News and Views: Monolayers have the edge
Shujie Tang et al., Nature Physics 13, 683 (2017).
ALS Science Highlight: Strain turns tin into a 3D topological Dirac semimetal
Synopsis: Nonmetallic tin behaves like 3D graphene
Caizhi Xu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 118, 146402 (2017).
LBL News: How x-rays pushed topological matter research over the top
A nice 3D video of the beamline inside!
ALS Science Highlight: A new universal parameter for superconductivity
Ming Yi et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 256403 (2015).
ALS Science Highlight: Weyl fermions discovered after 85 years
Su-Yang Xu et al., Science 349, 6248 (2015); S.-M. Huang et al., Nature Communications 6, 7373 (2015)
ALS Science Brief: Discovery of Weyl semimetals may lead to novel future spintronic applications
Lexian Yang et al., Nature Physics 11, 728 (2015); Zhongkai Liu et al., Nature Materials 15, 27 (2016)
ALS Science Highlight: Graphene's 3D counterpart
LBL News: Natural 3D counterpart to graphene discovered
Zhongkai Liu et al., Science 343, 864 (2014); Zhongkai Liu et al., Nature Materials 13, 677 (2014)
ALS Science Brief: Minding the gap makes for more efficient solar cells
SLAC News: Scientists from SIMES and Berkeley Lab Cook Up New Electronic Material
Yi Zhang et al., Nature Nanotechnology 9, 111 (2014)
ALS Science Highlight: A new route to nanoscale conducting channels in insulating oxides
W. Meevasana et al., Nature Materials 10, 114 (2011); P. D. C. King et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 117602 (2012)
ALS Science Highlight: Two phase transitions make a high-temperature superconductor
LBL News: Closing in on the pseudogap
Ruihua He et al., Science 331, 1579 (2011)
ALS Science Highlight: Superconducting topological insulators
L. Andrew Wray et al., Nat. Phys. 6, 855 (2010)
ALS Science Highlight: ALS reveals new state of matter
David Hsieh et al., Nature 452, 970 (2008); Science 323, 919 (2009); Y. Xia et al., Nature Physics 5, 398 (2009); Yulin Chen et al., Science 325, 178 (2009)
ALS Science Highlight: Polaron coherence condensation in layered colossal resistive manganites
Norman Mannella et al., Phys. Rev. B 76, 233102 (2007)
ALS Science Highlight: Diamondoid monolayers as monochromatic electron source
Wanli Yang et al., Science 316, 1460 (2007)
ALS Science Highlight: Pseudogaps, polarons, and the mystery of high-Tc superconductivity
LBL News: Pseudogaps are not the answer
Norman Mannella et al., Nature 438, 474 (2005)