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12 citations · 25 across the 12 of their papers we have counts for

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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

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-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.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

High-Mobility Carriers in Epitaxial IrO2 Films Grown using Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy

Sreejith Nair, Zhifei Yang, Kevin Storr +1

Binary rutile oxides of 5d metals such as IrO2, stand out as a paradox due to limited experimental studies despite the rich predicted quantum phenomena. Here, we investigate the el…

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…

physics.app-ph2024

Site-Specific Plan-view (S)TEM Sample Preparation from Thin Films using a Dual-Beam FIB-SEM

Supriya Ghosh, Fengdeng Liu, Sreejith Nair +2

Plan-view transmission electron microscopy (TEM) samples are key to understand the atomic structure and associated properties of materials along their growth orientation, especiall…

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…