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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

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

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

Strain Engineering of van Hove Singularity and Coupled Itinerant Ferromagnetism in Quasi-2D Oxide Superlattices

Seung Gyo Jeong, Minjae Kim, Jin Young Oh +12

Engineering van Hove singularities (vHss) near the Fermi level, if feasible, offers a powerful route to control exotic quantum phases in electronic and magnetic behaviors. However,…

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★ 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

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

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.mtrl-sci2025★ 3 cited

Metallicity and Anomalous Hall Effect in Epitaxially-Strained, Atomically-thin RuO2 Films

Seung Gyo Jeong, Seungjun Lee, Bonnie Lin +14

The anomalous Hall effect (AHE), a hallmark of time-reversal symmetry breaking, has been reported in rutile RuO2, a debated metallic altermagnetic candidate. Previously, AHE in RuO…

cond-mat.mes-hall2024★ 5 cited

Coexistence of unconventional spin Hall effect and antisymmetric planar Hall effect in IrO

Yifei Yang, Sreejith Nair, Yihong Fan +9

Crystal symmetry plays an important role in the Hall effects. Unconventional spin Hall effect (USHE), characterized by Dresselhaus and out-of-plane spins, has been observed in mate…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2024★ 12 cited

Altermagnetic Polar Metallic phase in Ultra-Thin Epitaxially-Strained RuO2 Films

Seung Gyo Jeong, In Hyeok Choi, Sreejith Nair +12

Altermagnetism refers to a wide class of magnetic orders featuring magnetic sublattices with opposite spins related by rotational symmetries, resulting in non-trivial spin splittin…

cond-mat.mtrl-sci2023

Thickness-dependent insulator-to-metal transition in epitaxial RuO2 films

Anil Kumar Rajapitamahuni, Sreejith Nair, Zhifei Yang +4

Epitaxially grown RuO2 films on TiO2 (110) exhibit significant in-plane strain anisotropy, with a compressive strain of - 4.7% along the [001] crystalline direction and a tensile s…