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Crystals, Volume 8, Issue 5

May 2018 - 50 articles

Cover Story: k-(BEDT-TTF)2X (X= Cu[N(CN)2]Cl, Cu2(CN)3, and Ag2(CN)3) are known as Mott insulators driven by electron–electron interaction near the metal-to-insulator boundary. Magnetic order occurs in k-(BEDT–TTF)2Cu[N(CN)2]Cl, but is absent in the salts with Cu2(CN)3 or Ag2(CN)3 anions which promote a quantum spin liquid. Random disorder affects magnetism while signatures of ferroelectricity persist. This review calls for further research to elucidate roles of correlations, randomness and charge-spin coupling to ultimately tune the ground state of these organic complex solids. View this paper
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Articles (50)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,603 Views
12 Pages

Transitions and Geometric Evolution of Cu309 Nanocluster during Slow Cooling Process

  • Pengfei Ji,
  • Yi Zhao,
  • Mingli Wan,
  • Jinna He,
  • Mingli Tian,
  • Yueli Song and
  • Yong Li

21 May 2018

Since the nucleation and growth of clusters is usually a non-equilibrium condensation process, a distribution of structural isomers for a given cluster size may be encountered even under the same conditions. In this work, molecular dynamics simulatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
36 Citations
4,183 Views
17 Pages

20 May 2018

Two new hetero-trinuclear 3d-4f complexes [Zn2(L)Ho(μ2-OAc)2(OAc)(MeOH)]·CH2Cl2 (1) and [Zn2(L)Er(μ2-OAc)2]OAc (2), derived from a bis(salamo)-based ligand H4L, were synthesized and characterized via elemental analyses, IR, UV–Vis, fluorescence spect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,562 Views
7 Pages

19 May 2018

The Zn1−xLixO (x = 0, 0.01, 0.03, and 0.05) nanocrystalline films were synthesized on silicon (Si) substrates by using the sol-gel method. The crystal structure and surface morphology of these films were investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,627 Views
11 Pages

19 May 2018

A new family of LnIII [12-Metallacrown-4] compounds of formulas (C5H6N) [LnFe4(shi)4(C6H5COO)4(Py)4]·3.5Py [Ln = EuIII (1); GdIII (2); TbIII (3); DyIII (4); and, H3shi = salicylhydroxamic acid] were obtained through one-pot reactions with H3sh...

  • Review
  • Open Access
79 Citations
13,362 Views
29 Pages

One-Dimensional Zinc Oxide Nanomaterials for Application in High-Performance Advanced Optoelectronic Devices

  • Meng Ding,
  • Zhen Guo,
  • Lianqun Zhou,
  • Xuan Fang,
  • Lili Zhang,
  • Leyong Zeng,
  • Lina Xie and
  • Hongbin Zhao

18 May 2018

Unlike conventional bulk or film materials, one-dimensional (1D) semiconducting zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures exhibit excellent photoelectric properties including ultrahigh intrinsic photoelectric gain, multiple light confinement, and subwavelength...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,362 Views
8 Pages

18 May 2018

In this paper, an analytical and closed-form solution to the lumped parameter equivalent circuit model of organic solar cells is proposed to complete the simulations of the S-shaped I-V characteristics. Based on the model previously proposed by Mazha...

  • Review
  • Open Access
295 Citations
23,555 Views
26 Pages

18 May 2018

Recognizing the bonding situations in chemical compounds is of fundamental interest for materials design because this very knowledge allows us to understand the sheer existence of a material and the structural arrangement of its constituting atoms. S...

  • Review
  • Open Access
92 Citations
13,984 Views
14 Pages

Brief Review of Surface Passivation on III-V Semiconductor

  • Lu Zhou,
  • Baoxue Bo,
  • Xingzhen Yan,
  • Chao Wang,
  • Yaodan Chi and
  • Xiaotian Yang

18 May 2018

The III-V compound semiconductor, which has the advantage of wide bandgap and high electron mobility, has attracted increasing interest in the optoelectronics and microelectronics field. The poor electronic properties of III-V semiconductor surfaces...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,346 Views
13 Pages

18 May 2018

The newly designed butterfly-shaped hetero-tetranuclear CuII-NaI coordination compound, [Cu3(HL)2Na]∙Pic (Pic− is abbreviation of picrate) (1) which is derived from a naphthalenediol-based bis(Salamo)-type chelating ligand H4L have been synthes...

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