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most citedFracture and Fatigue of Thin Crystalline SrTiO Membranes

28 citations · 38 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Reconfigurable Strain Gradient Polarity in Crystalline Oxide Nanomembranes for Controlled Bending of Functional Materials

Tiffany C. Wang, Minyong Han, Varun Harbola +1

We report the fabrication and mechanical characterization of a "bubble" geometry for accessing local strain gradients using freestanding, single-crystalline manganite nanomembranes…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Optical Signature of Moiré Superlattices Formed by Twisted SrTiO Membranes

T. A. M. Ragib Shahriar, Fumikazu Murakami, Xing He +11

Moiré superlattices formed at the interfaces of mismatched lattices have attracted significant interest over the past decade due to their large tunability of band parameters and in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Instability-driven mechanically locked states in functional oxide membranes

Varun Harbola, Thomas Emil le Cozannet, Denis Alikin +10

Mechanical instabilities in thin solids offer a powerful route to engineer nonlinear responses, yet their controlled use in functional crystalline oxides has remained largely unexp…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Microscopic mechanisms of flexoelectricity in oxide membranes

Harikrishnan KP, Varun Harbola, Jaehong Choi +9

Modern electromechanical actuators and sensors rely on the piezoelectric effect that linearly couples strain and electric polarization. However, this effect is restricted to materi…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

alpha-Ta Films on c-plane Sapphire with Enhanced Microstructure

Lena N. Majer, Sander Smink, Wolfgang Braun +7

Superconducting films of alpha-Ta are promising candidates for the fabrication of advanced superconducting qubits. However, alpha-Ta films suffer from many growth-induced structura…

cond-mat.supr-con2024

Vector-substrate-based Josephson junctions

Yu-Jung Wu, Martin Hack, Katja Wurster +5

We present a way to We present a way to fabricate bicrystal Josephson junctions of high-Tc cuprate superconductors that does not require bulk bicrystalline substrates. Based on vec…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 1 cited

Interface Design Beyond Epitaxy: Oxide Heterostructures Comprising Symmetry-forbidden Interfaces

Hongguang Wang, Varun Harbola, Yu-Jung Wu +2

Epitaxial growth of thin-film heterostructures is generally considered the most successful procedure to obtain interfaces of excellent structural and electronic quality between thr…

physics.app-ph2021★ 28 cited

Fracture and Fatigue of Thin Crystalline SrTiO Membranes

Varun Harbola, Ruijuan Xu, Samuel Crossley +2

The increasing availability of a variety of two-dimensional materials has generated enormous growth in the field of nanoengineering and nanomechanics. Recent developments in thin f…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2020★ 9 cited

Strain-Induced Room-Temperature Ferroelectricity in SrTiO Membranes

Ruijuan Xu, Jiawei Huang, Edward S. Barnard +11

Advances in complex oxide heteroepitaxy have highlighted the enormous potential of utilizing strain engineering via lattice mismatch to control ferroelectricity in thin-film hetero…