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most citedMoiré polar vortex, flat bands and Lieb lattice in twisted bilayer BaTiO

37 citations · 54 across the 25 of their papers we have counts for

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27 papers

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Quasicrystalline oxide interfaces by twisting SrTiO3 membranes

Shivasheesh Varshney, Sooho Choo, Huan Liu +34

Quasicrystals reveal that long-range order can exist without translational periodicity, but deterministic routes for designing strongly bonded quasicrystalline interfaces remain un…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Disentangling Strain and Ti3+ Contributions to the Anomalous Hall Effect in Epitaxial RuO2 Films

S. G. Jeong, A. Santhosh, S. Lee +7

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE) reported in epitaxial RuO2/TiO2 has been attributed to a strain-stabilized magnetic state, but strain can be entangled with Ru-Ti intermixing and in…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Light-Driven Ultrafast Control of Time-Reversal Symmetry in SrTiO3

In Hyeok Choi, Sergei Urazhdin, Shivasheesh Varshney +3

Light-driven control of material symmetry enables the engineering of phenomena forbidden in equilibrium. Although electromagnetic fields have been used to break time-reversal symme…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Electron Beam Radiolysis-Assisted Growth of Rutile TiO2 Thin Films

Silu Guo, Nitin Sathish Kumar, Sreejith Nair +3

A new approach for growing crystalline thin films is developed that takes advantage of electron beam radiolysis being a constructive force to rearrange atoms into a crystalline str…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Epitaxial Strain Activates Altermagnetic Spin-Splitting Torques in RuO2(100)

Qi Jia, Seung Gyo Jeong, Seungjun Lee +10

The altermagnetic nature of rutile RuO2 remains under active debate: bulk measurements indicate a nearly nonmagnetic ground state, whereas thin-film studies have reported symmetry-…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Magneto-Optical Detection of Anisotropic Spin Currents in Altermagnetic RuO2

Joongwon Lee, Jeonglyul Kim, Sreejith Nair +9

Altermagnets are a recently identified class of collinear antiferromagnets that host large spin-split electronic bands, offering a promising platform for efficient spin-current gen…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Designing dislocation-driven polar vortex networks in twisted perovskites

William Sandholt, Nicolas Gauquelin, John Mangeri +21

Twisting two atomic layers produces a geometric moire pattern, but bonding-induced interfacial reconstruction fundamentally transforms this into an ordered dislocation network - a…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Strain-Driven Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effect in RuO

Seungjun Lee, Seung Gyo Jeong, Jian-Ping Wang +2

The non-relativistic spin-momentum locking in altermagnets gives rise to a time-reversal-odd spin Hall effect, known as the altermagnetic spin-splitting effect (ASSE). Although ASS…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Emergence of unconventional magnetic order in strain-engineered RuO2/TiO2 superlattices

Seung Gyo Jeong, Seungjun Lee, Jin Young Oh +8

The spin ordering in RuO2 remains a highly debated topic, owing to its elusive nature, with reports ranging from a nonmagnetic ground state to signatures of unconventional magnetic…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2026

Wafer-scale High-k SrTiO3 Dielectrics with Rational Barrier-layer Design for Low Leakage and High Charge Density

Majid Mohseni, Shivasheesh Varshney, Seung Gyo Jeong +3

High-k oxides such as SrTiO3 promise large capacitance, but their dielectric response is often limited by leakage currents due to reduced bandgaps. We show that introducing a thin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Understanding Polaronic Transport in Anatase TiO2 Films by Combining Precise Synthesis and First-Principles Many-Body Theory

F. Liu, Z. Yang, Y. Luo +8

In complex oxides, charge carriers often couple strongly with lattice vibrations to form polarons-entangled electron-phonon quasiparticles whose transport properties remain difficu…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Hybrid MBE Route to Adsorption-Controlled Growth of BaTiO3 Membranes with Robust Polarization Switching

S. Choo, S. Varshney, J. Shah +5

Freestanding ferroelectric membranes are promising for flexible electronics, nonvolatile memory, photonics, and spintronics, but their synthesis is challenged by the need for repro…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Strain Engineering of Altermagnetic Symmetry in Epitaxial RuO Films

Johnathas D. S. Forte, Seung Gyo Jeong, Anand Santhosh +3

The magnetic ground state of RuO has been under intense debate. Using first-principles calculations, we show that compressive strain along [001] direction stabilizes an alterma…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 1 cited

Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films

In Hyeok Choi, Seung Gyo Jeong2, Seung Gyo Jeong +7

Magnetic order parameters in altermagnets can couple to quantized lattice vibration via both piezomagnetic and magnetoelastic effects, leading to the renormalization of phonon disp…

cond-mat.supr-con2025

Superconducting Dome in Ionic Liquid Gated Homoepitaxial Strontium Titanate Thin Films

Sushant Padhye, Jin Yue, Shivasheesh Varshney +3

In this work, we patterned a two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) on the surface of a SrTiO thin film grown homoepitaxially on SrTiO by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy (hMBE).…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025★ 4 cited

Observation of mirror-odd and mirror-even spin texture in ultrathin epitaxially strained RuO2 films

Yichen Zhang, Seung Gyo Jeong, Luca Buiarelli +24

Recently, rutile ruthenium dioxide (RuO) has attracted renewed interest due to expectations of prominent altermagnetic spin splitting. However, accumulating experimental eviden…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Machine Learning-Assisted Nano-imaging and Spectroscopy of Phase Coexistence in a Wide-Bandgap Semiconductor

Alyssa Bragg, Fengdeng Liu, Zhifei Yang +10

Wide bandgap semiconductors with high room temperature mobilities are promising materials for high-power electronics. Stannate films provide wide bandgaps and optical transparency,…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Strain-Stabilized Interfacial Polarization Tunes Work Function Over 1 eV in RuO2/TiO2 Heterostructures

Seung Gyo Jeong, Bonnie Y. X. Lin, Mengru Jin +14

Interfacial polarization-charge accumulation at the heterointerface-is a well-established tool in semiconductors, but its influence in metals remains unexplored. Here, we demonstra…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

High-Performance Ultra-Wide-Bandgap CaSnO3 Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistors

Weideng Sun, Junghyun Koo, Donghwan Kim +8

The increasing demand for high-voltage and high-power electronic applications has intensified the search for novel ultrawide bandgap (UWB) semiconductors. Alkaline earth stannates…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Ferroelectric Switching in Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown BaTiO3 Films

Anusha Kamath Manjeshwar, Zhifei Yang, Chin-Hsiang Liao +4

Molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) is a promising synthesis technique for both heterostructure growth and epitaxial integration of ferroelectric BaTiO3. However, a direct measurement of…

cond-mat.mes-hall2025

Interfacial strong coupling and negative dispersion of propagating polaritons in freestanding oxide membranes

Brayden Lukaskawcez, Shivasheesh Varshney, Sooho Choo +12

Membranes of complex oxides like perovskite SrTiO3 extend the multi-functional promise of oxide electronics into the nanoscale regime of two-dimensional materials. Here we demonstr…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Magnetic Transitions in Sr3Ru2O7 films

R. Choudhary, A. Rajapitamahuni, S. Guo +4

In scientific research, both positive and negative results play crucial role in advancing the field. Negative results provide valuable insights that can guide future experiments an…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2025

Anisotropic Strain Relaxation-Induced Directional Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics in RuO2 Films

S. G. Jeong, I. H. Choi, S. Lee +9

Ultrafast light-matter interactions inspire potential functionalities in picosecond optoelectronic applications. However, achieving directional carrier dynamics in metals remains c…

cond-mat.str-el2025

Absence of two-phonon quasi-elastic scattering in the normal state of doped--SrTiO by THz pump-probe spectroscopy

K. Santhosh Kumar, David Barbalas, Rishi Bhandia +4

Multi-pulse nonlinear THz spectroscopies enable a new understanding of interacting metallic systems via their sensitivity to novel correlation functions. Here, we investigated the…