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Condensed Matter Experiment: Quantum Matter, Quantum Electronic Devices, Low-Dimensional Systems, Nanoelectronics

Selected Publications
T. X. Zhang, A. L. Coughlin, Chi-Ken Lu, J. J. Heremans, and S. X. Zhang, "Recent progress on topological semimetal IrO2: electronic structures, synthesis, and transport properties", Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter 36, 273001 (2024). Click paper Click site

Y. Lim, B. Nepal, D. A. Smith, S. Wu, A. Srivastava, P. Nakarmi, C. Mewes, Z. Jiang, A. Gupta A, D. D. Viehland, C. Klewe, P. Shafer, I. J. Park, T. Mabe, V. P. Amin, J. J. Heremans, T. Mewes, and S. Emori, "Suppression of spin pumping at metal interfaces", APL Materials 11, 101121 (2023). Click paper Click site

Amanda L. Coughlin, Zhiliang Pan, Jeonghoon Hong, Tongxie Zhang, Xun Zhan, Wenqian Wu, Dongyue Xie, Tian Tong, Thomas Ruch, Jean J. Heremans, Jiming Bao, Herbert A. Fertig, Jian Wang, Jeongwoo Kim, Hanyu Zhu, Deyu Li, and Shixiong Zhang, "Enhanced Electron Correlation and Significantly Suppressed Thermal Conductivity in Dirac Nodal-Line Metal Nanowires by Chemical Doping", Advanced Science 10, 2204424 (2023). Click paper Click site

Adbhut Gupta, Gitansh Kataria, Mani Chandra, Siddhardh C. Morampudi, Saeed Fallahi, Geoff C. Gardner, Michael J. Manfra, Ravishankar Sundararaman, and Jean J. Heremans, "Fractional focusing peaks and collective dynamics in two-dimensional Fermi liquids", arXiv:2302.00182 (2023). Click paper Click site

M. B. Clavel, F. Murphy-Armando, Y. Xie, K. T. Henry, M. Kuhn, R. J. Bodnar, G. A. Khodaparast, D. Smirnov, J. J. Heremans, and M. K. Hudait, "Multivalley electron conduction at the indirect-direct crossover point in highly tensile-strained germanium", Physical Review Applied 18, 064083 (2022). Editors' Suggestion. Click paper Click site

Zijian Jiang, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans, "Carrier properties of Bi(111) grown on mica and Si(111)", Physical Review Materials 6, 095003 (2022). Click paper Click site

Adbhut Gupta, J. J. Heremans, Gitansh Kataria, Mani Chandra, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner, and M. J. Manfra, "Precision measurement of electron-electron scattering in GaAs/AlGaAs using transverse magnetic focusing", Nature Communications 12, 5048 (2021). Click paper Click site

Kuangyin Deng, John S. Van Dyke, Djordje Minic, J. J. Heremans, and Edwin Barnes, "Exploring self-consistency of the equations of axion electrodynamics", Physical Review B 104, 075202 (2021). Click paper Click site

Adbhut Gupta, J. J. Heremans, Gitansh Kataria, Mani Chandra, S. Fallahi, G. C. Gardner and M. J. Manfra, "Hydrodynamic and ballistic transport over large length scales in GaAs/AlGaAs", Physical Review Letters 126, 076803 (2021). Click paper Click site
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Zijian Jiang, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans, "Dynamic Nuclear Spin Polarization Induced by the Edelstein Effect at Bi(111) Surfaces", Physical Review Letters 125, 106802 (2020). Editors' Suggestion. Click paper Click site

S. Emori, C. Klewe, J.-M. Schmalhorst, J. Krieft, P. Shafer, Y. Lim, D. A. Smith, A. Sapkota, A. Srivastava, C. Mewes, Zijian Jiang, B. Khodadadi, H. Elmkharram, J. J. Heremans, E. Arenholz, G. Reiss, and T. Mewes, "Element-Specific Detection of Sub-Nanosecond Spin-Transfer Torque in a Nanomagnet Ensemble", Nano Letters 20, 7828 (2020). Click paper Click site

David A. Smith, Anish Rai, Youngmin Lim, Timothy Q. Hartnett, Arjun Sapkota, Abhishek Srivastava, Claudia Mewes, Zijian Jiang, Michael Clavel, Mantu K. Hudait, Dwight D. Viehland, Jean J. Heremans, Prasanna V. Balachandran, Tim Mewes, and Satoru Emori, "Magnetic Damping in Epitaxial Iron Alloyed with Vanadium and Aluminum", Physical Review Applied 14, 034042 (2020). Click paper Click site

B. Khodadadi, A. Rai, A. Sapkota, A. Srivastava, B. Nepal, Y. Lim, D. A. Smith, C. Mewes, S. Budhathoki, A. J. Hauser, M. Gao, J.-F. Li, D. D. Viehland, Zijian Jiang, J. J. Heremans, P. V. Balachandran, T. Mewes and S. Emori, "Conductivitylike Gilbert Damping due to Intraband Scattering in Epitaxial Iron", Physical Review Letters 124, 157201 (2020). Editors' Suggestion. Click paper Click site

Adbhut Gupta, J. J. Heremans, S. Fallahi and M. J. Manfra, "Hydrodynamic electron pumping in two-dimensional electron systems as a signature of viscous transport", arXiv:1907.00836v1. Click paper Click site

M. K. Hudait, M. Clavel, P. S. Goley, Y. Xie, J. J. Heremans, Y. Jiang, Z. Jiang, D. Smirnov, G. D. Sanders, and C. J. Stanton, "Structural, morphological and magnetotransport properties of composite semiconducting and semimetallic InAs/GaSb superlattice structure", Materials Advances 1, 1099 (2020). Click paper Click site

William T. Rieger, Yuhong Kang, Jean J. Heremans, and Hang Ruan, "Electronic Detection of Photonic Band Gaps in Nanolithographic Metallic Gratings", IEEE Journal of Quantum Electronics 56, 1-6 (2020). Click paper Click site

H. B. Kang, B. Poudel, W. Li, H. Lee, U. Saparamadu, A. Nozariasbmarz, M. G. Kang, Adbhut Gupta, J. J. Heremans and S. Priya, "Decoupled phononic-electronic transport in multi-phase n-type half-Heusler nanocomposites enabling efficient high temperature power generation", Materials Today 36, 63 (2020). Click paper Click site

R. W. Greening, D. A. Smith, Y. Lim, Zijian Jiang, J. Barber, S. Dail, J. J. Heremans and S. Emori, "Current-induced spin-orbit field in permalloy interfaced with ultrathin Ti and Cu", Applied Physics Letters 116, 052402 (2020). Click paper Click site

M. B. Clavel, J.-S. Liu, M. A. Meeker, G. A. Khodaparast, Yuantao Xie, J. J. Heremans, S. Bhattacharya and M. K. Hudait, "Electronic and optical properties of highly boron-doped epitaxial Ge/AlAs(001) heterostructures", Journal of Applied Physics 127, 075702 (2020). Click paper Click site

Wenjie Li, J. Wang, Y. Xie, J. L. Gray, J. J. Heremans, Han B. Kang, B. Poudel, Scott T. Huxtable and S. Priya, "Enhanced thermoelectric performance of Yb-single-filled skutterudite by ultralow thermal conductivity", Chemistry of Materials 31, 862 (2019). Click paper Click site

W. T. Rieger, J. J. Heremans, H. Ruan, Y. Kang and R. O. Claus, "Yagi-Uda Nanoantenna Structures for Infrared Detection Using Silicon", IEEE Photonics Society Summer Topical Meeting Series (2019). Click paper Click site

W. C. Yang, Y. T. Xie, X. Sun, X. H. Zhang, K. Park, S. C. Xue, Y. L. Li, C. G. Tao, Q. X. Jia, Y. Losovyj, H. Wang, J. J. Heremans and S. X. Zhang, "Stoichiometry control, electronic and transport properties of pyrochlore Bi2Ir2O7 thin films", Physical Review Materials 2, 114206 (2018). Click paper Click site

J.-S. Liu, M. Clavel, R. Pandey, S. Datta, Y. Xie, J. J. Heremans and M. K. Hudait, "Heterogeneous integration of InAs/GaSb tunnel diode structure on silicon using 200 nm GaAsSb dislocation filtering buffer", AIP Advances 8, 105108 (2018). Click

Yuantao Xie, and J. J. Heremans, "Effect of wire length on quantum coherence in InGaAs wires", Physical Review B 98, 035429 (2018). Click paper Click site

W. Rieger, J. J. Heremans, H. Ruan, Y. Kang and R. Claus, "Yagi-Uda nanoantenna enhanced metal-semiconductor-metal photodetector", Applied Physics Letters 113, 023102 (2018). Click paper Click site

Yao Zhang, V. Soghomonian and J. J. Heremans, "Spin decoherence of InAs surface electrons by transition metal ions", Physical Review B 97, 155439 (2018). Click paper Click site

W. Yang, Yuantao Xie, W. Zhu, K. Park, A. Chen, Y. Losovyj, Z. Li, H. Liu, M. Starr, J. A. Acosta, C. Tao, N. Li, Q. Jia, J. J. Heremans and S. X. Zhang, "Epitaxial thin films of pyrochlore iridate Bi2+xIr2-yO7-d: structure, defects and transport properties", Scientific Reports 7:7740, DOI:10.1038/s41598-017-06785-w (2017). Click paper Click site

Edwin Barnes, J. J. Heremans, and D. Minic, "Electromagnetic signatures of the chiral anomaly in Weyl semimetals", Physical Review Letters 117, 217204 (2016). Click paper Click site

Yuantao Xie, C. Le Priol and J. J. Heremans, "Geometrical dependence of quantum decoherence in circular arenas with side-wires", J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 28, 495003 (2016). Click

J. J. Heremans, Y. Xie, S. L. Ren, C. Le Priol and M. B. Santos, "Mapping electromagnetic dualities via quantum decoherence measurements in 2D materials", Proceedings of the SPIE 9932, 993207-1 (2016). Click

Y. Xie, J. J. Heremans and M. B. Santos, "Effect of two-dimensional parity symmetry breaking in Aharonov-Bohm interference phenomena", Integrated Ferroelectrics 174, 8 (2016). Click

Y. Kang, Hang Ruan, R. O. Claus, J. J. Heremans and M. Orlowski, "Observation of quantized and partial quantized conductance in polymer-suspended graphene nanoplatelets", Nanoscale Research Letters 11, 179 (2016), DOI 10.1186/s11671-016-1387-8. Click

M. K. Hudait, M. Clavel, P. S. Goley, Yuantao Xie, and J. J. Heremans, "Magnetotransport Properties of Epitaxial Ge/AlAs Heterostructures Integrated on GaAs and Silicon", ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 7, 22315 (2015). Click paper Click site

S. L. Ren, J. J. Heremans, C. K. Gaspe, S. Vijeyaragunathan, T. D. Mishima, and M. B. Santos, "Determination of time-reversal symmetry breaking lengths in an InGaAs Sagnac interferometer array", J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 27, 185801 (2015). Click

Vincent Deo, Yao Zhang, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans, "Quantum interference measurement of spin interactions in a bio-organic/semiconductor device structure", Scientific Reports 5:9487, DOI:10.1038/srep09487 (2015). Click paper Click site

J. J. Heremans, R. L. Kallaher, M. Rudolph, and M. B. Santos, "Magnetoelectric Mapping as Observed in Quantum Coherence Phenomena under Strong Spin-Orbit Interaction", Integrated Ferroelectrics 166, 10 (2015). Click

J. J. Heremans, R. L. Kallaher, M. Rudolph, M. B. Santos, W. Van Roy, and G. Borghs, "Spin-orbit interaction and spin coherence in narrow-gap semiconductor and semimetal wires", Proceedings of the SPIE 9167, 91670-D1 (2014). Click

Yao Zhang, and J. J. Heremans, "Effects of ferromagnetic nanopillars on spin coherence in an InGaAs quantum well", Solid State Communications 177, 36 (2014). Click

Yao Zhang, V. Soghomonian, R. L. Kallaher, and J. J. Heremans, "Antilocalization sensing of interactions between two-dimensional electrons and surface species", Chinese Science Bulletin 59(2), 133 (2014).Click

R. L. Kallaher, J. J. Heremans, W. Van Roy, and G. Borghs, "Spin and phase coherence lengths in InAs wires with diffusive boundary scattering", Physical Review B 88, 205407 (2013). Click

S. L. Ren, J. J. Heremans, C. K. Gaspe, S. Vijeyaragunathan, T. D. Mishima, and M. B. Santos, "Aharonov-Bohm oscillations, quantum decoherence and amplitude modulation in mesoscopic InGaAs/InAlAs rings", J. Phys.: Cond. Matt. 25, 435301 (2013). Click

Yao Zhang, R. L. Kallaher, V. Soghomonian, and J. J. Heremans, "Measurement by antilocalization of interactions between InAs surface electrons and local moments", Physical Review B 87, 054430 (2013). Click

M. Rudolph and J. J. Heremans, "Electronic and quantum phase coherence properties of bismuth thin films", Applied Physics Letters 100, 241601 (2012). Click paper Click site

J. J. Heremans, J. Zhong, R. Varghese, Gordon T. Yee, and S. Priya, "Finite size effects in nanoscaled multiferroics", Advances and Applications in Electroceramics: Ceramic Transactions 226, 211 (2011). Click

L. L. Xu, Shaola Ren, and J. J. Heremans, "Magnetoelectronics at Edges in Semiconductor Structures: Helical Aharonov-Casher Edge States", Integrated Ferroelectrics 131, 36 (2011). Click

M. Rudolph, and J. J. Heremans, "Spin-orbit interaction and phase coherence in lithographically defined bismuth wires", Physical Review B 83, 205410 (2011). Click paper Click site

K. Park, J. J. Heremans, V. W. Scarola, and D. Minic, "Robustness of topologically protected surface states in layering of Bi2Te3 thin films", Physical Review Letters 105, 186801 (2010). Click paper Click site

J. Zhong, J. J. Heremans, D. Viehland, G. T. Yee and S. Priya, Ferromagnetism and spin-glass-like behavior of BiFeO3 nanoparticles, Ferroelectrics 400, 3 (2010). Click

R. L. Kallaher, and J. J. Heremans, "Spin and phase coherence times in Te doped InSb thin films", Physics Procedia 3, 1237 (2010). Click

R. B. Lillianfeld, R. L. Kallaher, J. J. Heremans, Hong Chen, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, M. B. Santos, W. Van Roy, and G. Borghs, "Oscillatory quantum interference effects in narrow-gap semiconductor heterostructures", Physics Procedia 3, 1231 (2010). Click

R. L. Kallaher, J. J. Heremans, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, and M. B. Santos, "Spin-orbit interaction determined by antilocalization in an InSb quantum well", Physical Review B 81, 075303 (2010). Click

R. L. Kallaher, J. J. Heremans, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, and M. B. Santos, "Spin and phase coherence lengths in n-InSb quasi-one-dimensional wires", Physical Review B 81, 035335 (2010). Click

R. L. Kallaher, J. J. Heremans, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, and M. B. Santos, "Spin and phase coherence in quasi-1D InSb wires under strong spin-orbit interaction", Physica E 42, 971 (2010). Click

R. L. Kallaher, and J. J. Heremans, "Spin and phase coherence measured by antilocalization in n-InSb thin films", Physical Review B 79, 075322 (2009). Click

V. Soghomonian and J. J. Heremans, "Characterization of electrical conductivity in a zeolitelike material", Applied Physics Letters 95, 152112 (2009). Click

M. Frazier, J. G. Cates, J. A. Waugh, J. J. Heremans, M. B. Santos, X. Liu, and G. A. Khodaparast, "Photoinduced spin-polarized current in InSb-based structures," Journal of Applied Physics 106, 103513 (2009). Click

J. J. Heremans and Djordje Minic, "Towards a spin dual of the fractional quantum Hall effect", arXiv: 0802.4117v2 [cond-mat.mes-hall, hep-th].

Djordje Minic and J. J. Heremans, "Theory of high-temperature superconductivity and effective gravity", Physical Review B 78, 214501 (2008). Click

J. J. Heremans, Hong Chen, J. A. Peters, J. T. Beardsley, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, M. B. Santos, W. Van Roy, G. Borghs, "Spin-dependent Transverse Magnetic Focusing in InSb- and InAs-based Heterostructures", AIP Conference Proceedings 893, 1287 (2007). Click

Hong Chen, J. A. Peters, Yue Pan, J. J. Heremans, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, M. B. Santos, W. Van Roy, and G. Borghs, "Mesoscopic spin-dependent reflection experiments on InSb- and InAs-based heterostructures", Physica E 34, 374 (2006).

J. A. Peters, Hong Chen, Yue Pan, Yafei Guan, J. J. Heremans, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, M. B. Santos, W. Van Roy, and G. Borghs, "Localization and antilocalization in InSb and InAs antidot lattices", Physica E 34, 363 (2006).

Hong Chen, J. J. Heremans, J. A. Peters, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, and M. B. Santos, "Spin-polarized reflection in a two-dimensional electron system", Applied Physics Letters 86, 032113 (2005). Click

Hong Chen, J. J. Heremans, J. A. Peters, N. Goel, S. J. Chung, and M. B. Santos "Ballistic transport in InSb/InAlSb antidot lattices", Applied Physics Letters 84, 5380 (2004). Click

J. Jo, J. J. Heremans, F. Bradbury, H. Chen and V. Soghomonian "Gate tunable electron injection in submicron pentacene transistors" Nanotechnology 15, 1023 (2004).

A. O. Govorov and J. J. Heremans, "Hydrodynamic effects in interacting Fermi electron jets", Physical Review Letters 92, 26803 (2004). Click paper Click site

J. Jo, H. J. Kim, Y. Nishihara, H. Suezawa, J. C. Lee, V. Soghomonian and J. J. Heremans, "Modification of silicon optical properties by 250 keV electron irradiation", Japanese Journal of Applied Physics I 43, 1237 (2004).

B. Hartzell, B. McCord, D. Asare, H. Chen, J. J. Heremans and V. Soghomonian, "Comparative current-voltage characteristics of nicked and repaired l-DNA", Applied Physics Letters 82, 4800 (2003). Click

B. Hartzell, B. McCord, D. Asare, H. Chen, J. J. Heremans and V. Soghomonian, "Current-voltage characteristics of diversely disulfide terminated l-DNA" Journal of Applied Physics 94, 2764 (2003). Click

S. A. Solin, Tineke Thio, D. R. Hines and J. J. Heremans "Enhanced room-temperature geometric magnetoresistance in inhomogeneous narrow-gap semiconductors", Science 289, 1530 (2000). Click

M. W. Pelczynski, J. J. Heremans and S. Schwed "Compound semiconductor applications for automotive sensors", Mat. Res. Soc. Symp. Proc. 607, 65 (2000). Click

J. J. Heremans, S. von Molnar, D. D. Awschalom and A. C. Gossard "Ballistic electron focusing by elliptic reflecting barriers", Applied Physics Letters 74, 1281 (1999). Click paper Click site

J. J. Heremans, S. Watts, S. Wirth, X. Yu, E. S. Gillman, K. H. Dahmen and S. von Molnar "Grain boundary effects on transport in MOCVD-grown, Ca-doped lanthanum manganites", Journal of Applied Physics 83, 7055 (1998).

S. Wirth, J. J. Heremans, S. von Molnar, M. Field, K. L. Campman, A. C. Gossard and D. D. Awschalom "Magnetic anisotropy in arrays of nanometer-scale iron particles", IEEE Transactions on Magnetics 34, 1105 (1998).

J. J. Heremans, M. Carris, S. Watts, X. Yu, K. H. Dahmen and S. von Molnar "Characterization of films of La1-xSrxMnO3 grown by means of metal organic chemical vapor deposition", J. Appl. Phys. 81, 4967 (1997).

J. J. Heremans, M. B. Santos and M. Shayegan "Transverse magnetic focusing and the dispersion of GaAs 2D holes at (311)A heterojunctions", Surf. Sci. 305, 348 (1994). Click

J. J. Heremans, M. B. Santos, K. Hirakawa and M. Shayegan "Mobility anisotropy of two-dimensional hole systems in (311)A GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunctions", Journal of Applied Physics 76, 1980 (1994). Click

X. Ying, J. P. Lu, J. J. Heremans, M. B. Santos, M. Shayegan, S. A. Lyon, M. Littman, P. Gross and H. Rabitz "Quantum reflection and transmission of ballistic two-dimensional electrons by a potential barrier", Appl. Phys. Lett. 65, 1154 (1994). Click

T. S. Lay, J. J. Heremans, Y. W. Suen, M. B. Santos, K. Hirakawa, M. Shayegan and A. Zrenner, "High-quality two-dimensional electron system confined in an AlAs quantum well", Appl. Phys. Lett. 62, 3120 (1993). Click

J. J. Heremans, M. B. Santos and M. Shayegan, "Observation of magnetic focusing in two-dimensional hole systems", Appl. Phys. Lett. 61, 1652 (1992). Click

Y. P. Li, D. C. Tsui, J. J. Heremans, J. A. Simmons and G. W. Weimann, "Low-frequency noise in transport through quantum point contacts", Appl. Phys. Lett. 57, 774 (1990). Click paper Click site

T. Sajoto, M. B. Santos, J. J. Heremans, M. Shayegan, M. Heiblum, M. V. Weckwerth and U. Meirav, "Use of superlattices to realize inverted GaAs/AlGaAs heterojunctions with low-temperature mobility of 2x106 cm2/Vs", Appl. Phys. Lett. 54, 840 (1989). Click

Books and reference works
Contributed Chapter 14 on "Carrier transport in superlattices" to "Survey of Semiconductor Physics", 2nd ed., Karl W. Boer, editor, John Wiley & Sons, New York, 2002.

Awards
National Science Foundation, Division of Materials Research: Topical Materials Research Programs.
National Science Foundation CAREER Award "Mesoscopic spin-dependent transport in two-dimensional systems".
US Department of Energy, Basic Energy Sciences, Div. Materials Sciences and Engineering.
National Science Foundation Nanoscale Interdisciplinary Research Team (NIRT) Award.
NASA awards.