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Publications-Dr. Kioussis

  1. Dorj Odkhuu and Nicholas Kioussis, “Strain-driven electric control of magnetization reversal at multiferroic interfaces”, Phys. Rev. B 97, 094404 (2018)
  2. Qilong Sun and Nicholas Kioussis, “Prediction of manganese trihalides as two-dimensional Dirac half-metals”, Phys. Rev. B 97, 094408 (2018).
  3. Farzad Mahfouzi and Nicholas Kioussis, “First-principles study of the angular dependence of the spin-orbit torque in Pt/Co and Pd/Co bilayers”, Phys. Rev. B 97, 224426 (2018).
  4. 4. Guohui Zheng, San-Huang Ke, Maosheng Miao, Jinwoong Kim, R. Ramesh, and Nicholas Kioussis, “Epitaxial strain controlled magnetization direction in ultrathin FeRh/MgO bilayers”, AIP Advances 7, 055914 (2017); doi: 10.1063/1.4974059.
  5.  T. Liang, S. Kushwaha, J. Kim, Q. Gibson, J. Lin, N. Kioussis, R. J. Cava, and N. P. Ong, “A pressure-induced topological phase in Pb1−xSnxTe with a large Berry curvature”, Sci. Adv. 3, e1602510 31 (2017).
  6.  F. Mahfouzi and N. Kioussis, “Current-induced damping of nanosized quantum moments in the presence of spin-orbit coupling”, Phys. Rev. B 95, 184417 (2017).
  7.  Guohui Zheng, San-Huang Ke, Maosheng Miao, Jinwoong Kim, R. Ramesh & Nicholas Kioussis, “Electric field control of magnetization direction across the antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic transition”, Scientific Reports 7, 5366 (2017).
  8. J. Kim, Jeongwoo Kim, Young-Sun Song, R. Wu, Seung-Hoon Jhi, and N. Kioussis, “Weyl node assisted conductivity switch in interfacial phase-change memory with van der Waals interfaces”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 235304 (2017).
  9. Xuelei Sui, Chong Wang, Jinwoong Kim, Jianfeng Wang, S. H. Rhim, Wenhui Duan, and Nicholas Kioussis, “Giant enhancement of the intrinsic spin Hall conductivity in β-tungsten via substitutional doping”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 241105(R) (2017). 
  10. Farzad Mahfouzi, Jinwoong Kim, and Nicholas Kioussis, “Intrinsic damping phenomena from quantum to classical magnets: An ab initio study of Gilbert damping in a Pt/Co bilayer”, Phys. Rev. B 96, 214421 (2017).
  11.  J. P. Velev, P. Merodio, C. Pollack, A. Kalitsov, M. Chshiev, and N. Kioussis, “Spin-transfer torque in multiferroic tunnel junctions with composite dielectric/ferroelectric barriers”, J Phys Condens Matter. 29(49), 495302 (2017).
  12. J. D. Clarkson, I. Fina, Z. Q. Liu, Y. Lee, J. Kim, C. Frontera, K. Cordero, S. Wisotzki, F. Sanchez, J. Sort, S. L. Hsu, C. Ko, L. Aballe, M. Foerster, J. Wu, H. M. Christen, J. T. Heron, D. G. Schlom, S. Salahuddin, N. Kioussis, J. Fontcuberta, X. Marti and R. Ramesh, “Hidden Magnetic States Emergent Under Electric Field, In A Room Temperature Composite Magnetoelectric Multiferroic”, Scientific Reports, 7, 15460 (2017).
  13. Anthony J. Ciani; Christoph H. Grein; Barry Irick, Maosheng Miao, Nicholas Kioussis, “Molecular dynamics growth modeling of InAs1−xSbx -based type-II superlattice”, Optical Engineering, 56, Issue: 9, 091609 (2017). 
  14. Maryam Soleimani, Seifollah Jalili, Farzad Mahfouzi and N. Kioussis, “Spin-orbit torque-driven magnetization switching in 2D-topological insulator heterostructure”, Europhysics Letters, 117 , 37001 (2017).
  15. Cecile Grezes, Nicholas Kioussis, Sarah Tolbert, Zongzhi Zhang, Jane P. Chang, Pedram Khalili Amiri, and Kang L. Wang, “Enhancement of voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy through precise control of Mg insertion thickness at CoFeB vertical bar MgO interface”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 110, 052401 (2017).
  16. P.V. Ong and Nicholas Kioussis, “Ab initio prediction of giant magnetostriction and spin-reorientation in strained Au/FeCo/MgO heterostructure”, J. of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials 400, 262 (2016). 
  17. Farzad Mahfouzi, Branislav K. Nikolić, and Nicholas Kioussis, “Antidamping spin-orbit torque driven by spin-flip reflection mechanism on the surface of a topological insulator: A time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function approach”, Phys. Rev. B 93, 115419 (2016).
  18. Diana Chien, Xiang Li, Kin Wong, Mark A. Zurbuchen, Shauna Robbennolt, Guoqiang Yu, Sarah Tolbert, Nicholas Kioussis, Pedram Khalili Amiri, Kang L. Wang and Jane P. Chang, “Enhanced voltage-controlled magnetic anisotropy in magnetic tunnel junctions with and MgO/PZT/MgO tunnel barrier”, Appl. Phys. Lett. 108, 112402 (2016).
  19. P. Lee, J. Kim, J.G. Kim, M.T. Ryu, H.M. Park, N. Kim, Y. Kim, N.S. Lee, N. Kioussis, Seung-Hoon Jhi, J. Chung, “Topological modification of the electronic structure by Bi-bilayers lying deep inside bulk Bi2Se3”, J. of Pyysics-Condensed Matter, 28, 085002 (2016). 
  20. Farzad Mahfouzi, B. Nikolic, and N. Kioussis, “Antidamping spin-orbit torque driven by spin-flip reflection mechanism on the surface of a topological insulator: A time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function approach,” Phys. Rev. B 93, 115419 (2016).
  21.  F. Mahfouzi and N. Kioussis, “Ferromagnetic Damping/Anti-damping in a Periodic 2D Helical Surface; A Nonequilibrium Keldysh Green Function Approach”, SPIN 6, 1640009 (2016). 
  22.  P.V. Ong, N. Kioussis, Nicholas; P. A. Khalili, and K. Wang, “Electric-field-driven magnetization switching and nonlinear magnetoelasticity in Au/FeCo/MgO heterostructures”, Scientific Reports Nature 6 , 29815 (2016). 
  23.  J. Kim, R. Ramesh, and N. Kioussis, “Revealing the hidden structural phases of FeRh”, Phys. Rev. B 94, 180407 (2016).
  24.  P. V. Ong, N. Kioussis, Amiri, P. A. Khalili, “Oscillatory magnetic anisotropy and spin-reorientation induced by heavy-metal cap in Cu/FeCo/M (M = Hf or Ta): A first-principles study”, Phys. Rev. B 94, 174404 (2016).
  25. D. Odkhuu, Mao-sheng Miao, F. Aqariden, C. Grein, and N. Kioussis, “Atomic and electronic structure of CdTe/metal (Cu, Al, Pt) interfaces and their influence to the Schottky barrier”, J. Appl. Phys. 120, 185703 (2016).
  26. Wei Liu, Jingyao Liu, Guohui Zheng, Sanhuang Ke, Maosheng Miao, and Nicholas Kioussis, “Electronic Structure Change in DNA Caused by Base Pair Motions and Its Effect on Charge Transfer in DNA Chains”, Australian J. of Chemistry, 69, 300, DOI: 10.1071/CH15177 (2016). 
  27. M. Lia, J. Lua, M. Akyol, Xi Chen, H. Shi, G. Han, T. Shi, Guanghua Yu, A. Ekicibil, Nick Kioussis, P.V. Ong, Pedram Khalili Amiri, and Kang L. Wang, “The impact of Hf layer thickness on the perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in Hf/CoFeB/MgO/Ta films”, Journal of Alloys and Compounds 694, 76 (2017)
  28. Artur Useinov, Alan Kalitsov, Julian Velev, and Nicholas Kioussis, Ferroelectric Control of Spin Transfer Torque in Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions, Phys. Rev. B 91, 094408 (2015).
  29. Zhi Li, Jin Li, Peter Blaha, and Nicholas Kioussis, Predicted topological phase transition in the SmS Kondo insulator under pressure, Phys. Rev. B 89, 121117(Rapid Communications) (2014).
  30. Artur Useinov, Alan Kalitsov, Julian Velev and Nicholas Kioussis, Electric-field/Magnetic-field Control of Bias-dependent Tunnel Magnetoresistance/Electroresistance in Multiferroic Tunnel Junctions, Applied Physics Letters 105 (10), 102403 (2014).
  31. Y. -H. Tang, F. -C. Chu, and Nicholas Kioussis, Dual Control of Giant Field-like Spin Torque in Spin Filter Tunnel Junctions, Scientific Reports 5, 11341 (2015).
  32. Jin Li, Chaoyu He, Lijun Mneg, Jinwoong Kim, Huaping Xiao, Chao Tang, Xiaolin Wei, Nicholas Kioussis, G. Malcolm Stocks, and Jianxin Zhong, Two-dimensional topological insulators with tunable band gaps: Single-layer HgTe and HgSe, Scientific Reports, 5 14115 (2015).
  33. Zhi Li, Jinwoong Kim, Nicholas Kioussis, Shu-Yu Ning, Haibin Su, Toshiaki Iitaka, Takami Tohyama, Xinyu Yang, and Jiu-Xing Zhang, GdN thin film: Chern insulating state on square lattice, Phys. Rev. B 92, 201303(R) (2015).
  34. Hua Peng, Nicholas Kioussis, and Derek Stewart, Anisotropic lattice thermal conductivity in chiral tellurium from first principles, Appl. Phys. Lett. 107, 251904 (2015).
  35. Farzad Mahfouzi, Branislav K. Nikolić, and Nicholas Kioussis, Antidamping spin-orbit torque driven by spin-flip reflection mechanism on the surface of a topological insulator: A time-dependent nonequilibrium Green function approach, Phys. Rev. B 93, 115419 (2016).
  36. Paengro Lee, Jinwoong Kim, Jin Gul Kim, Min-tae Ryu, Hee-min Park, Namdong Kim, Yongsam Kim, Nam-Suk Lee, Nicholas Kioussis, Seung-Hoon Jhi, Topological modification of the electronic structure by Bi-bilayers lying deep inside bulk Bi2Se3, Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 28 (8), 085002 (2016). 
  37. Farzad Mahfouzi and Nicholas Kioussis, Ferromagnetic Damping/Anti-damping in a Periodic 2D Helical Surface; A Nonequilibrium Keldysh Green Function Approach, SPIN (in press, Nov. 2016)
  38. Lars Winterfeld, Luis A. Agapito, Jin Li, Nicholas Kioussis, Peter Blaha, and Yong P. Chen, Strain-induced topological insulator phase transition in HgSe, Phys. Rev. B 87, 075143 (2013).
  39. Luis A. Agapito, Nicholas Kioussis, William A. Goddard III, and N. P. Ong, Novel Family of Chiral-Based Topological Insulators:Elemental Tellurium under Strain, Phys. Rev. Lett. 110, 176401 (2013).
  40. Jin Lin, A. Ciani, J. Gayles, D. A. Papaconstantopoulos, Nicholas Kioussis, C. Grein and F. Aqariden, Nonorthogonal tight-binding model for tellurium and selenium, Philosophical Magazine B 93, 3216 (2013).
  41. H. Peng, N. Kioussis and G. J. Snyder, Elemental Tellurium as a Chiral P-type Thermoelectric Material, Phys. Rev. B 89, 195206 (2014).
  42. Z. Li, J. Li, P. Blaha, and N. Kioussis, Predicted Topological Phase Transition in the SmS Kondo Insulator Under Pressure, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Comm.) 89, 121117 (2014).
  43. A. Shabaev, K. Hoang, D. Papaconstantopoulos, M.J. Mehl, and N. Kioussis, Tight-Binding Studies of Bulk Properties and Hydrogen Vacancies in KBH4, Computational Materials Science 79, 888 (2013).
  44. Luis Agapito, Jacob Gayles, Christian Wolowiec, and Nicholas Kioussis Aviram-Ratner, Rectifying mechanism for DNA base-pair sequencing through graphene nanogaps, J. of Nanotechnology, 23 135202 (2012).
  45. Y. H. Tang and N. Kioussis, “Crucial Role of Interfacial Alloying on spin transfer torque in magnetic tunnel junctions”, Phys. Rev. B 85, 104413 (2012)
  46. Ming-Wei Lin, Cheng Ling, Luis A. Agapito, Nicholas Kioussis, Yiyang Zhang, Mark Ming-Cheng Cheng, Wei L. Wang, Efthimios Kaxiras, and Zhixian Zhou, “Approaching the intrinsic band gap in suspended high-mobility graphene nanoribbons”, Phys. Rev. B 84, 125411 (2011)
  47. J. Li, J. Gayles, Nicholas Kioussis, Z. Zhang, C. Grein, and F. Aqariden, Ab initio studies of the unreconstructed polar (111) CdTe surface, J. Electronics Materials (in press, 2012)
  48. Luis A. Agapito and Nicholas Kioussis, “Seamless” Graphene Interconnects for the Prospect of All-Carbon Spin-Polarized Field-Effect Transistors”, J. Phys. Chemistry 115, 2874 (2011)
  49. Y.H. Tang, N. Kioussis, A. Kalitsov, W. H. Butler, and Roberto Car, Disorder induced enhancement of spin torque in magnetic tunnel junctions, J. Appl. Phys. 109, 07C920 (2011)
  50. Luis A. Agapito, Nicholas Kioussis, and Efthimios Kaxiras, “Electric-field control of magnetism in graphene quantum dots: Ab initio calculations”, Phys. Rev. B (Rapid Communication) 82, 201411 (2010)
  51. N. Kioussis and N. Ghoniem, “Modeling of dislocation interaction with solutes, nano-precipitates and interfaces: A Multiscale Challenge”, Invited Review Article, Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanotechnology, Ed. M. Rieth and W. Schommers, 7, pp. 1-30 (2010)
  52. Zhengzheng Chen, Nicholas Kioussis, King-Ning Tu, Nasr Ghoniem, and Jenn-Ming Yang Inhibiting adatom diffusion through surface alloying, , Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 015703 (2010)
  53. Z. Chen, N. Kioussis, and N. Ghoniem, “Strain-field effects on the formation and migration energies of self interstitials in a-Fe from first principles”, Phys. Rev. B 81, 094102 (2010)
  54. Y.H. Tang, N. Kioussis, A. Kalitsov, W. H. Butler, and Roberto Car, “Influence of asymmetry on the bias behavior of spin torque in magnetic tunnel junctions”, Phys. Rev. B 81, 054437 (2010)
  55. Z. Chen, G. Lu, N. Kioussis, and N. Ghoniem, “The crucial role of chemistry on mobile properties of dislocations”, Phil. Mag. 90, 21 (2010)
  56. Y. Tang, N. Kioussis, A. Kalitsov, W. H. Butler, and Roberto Car, “Filed-like spin torque in magnetic tunnel junctions”, J. of Physics, 200 062033 (2010)