Thin Film Epitaxy and Heterostructure Engineering

Presentations

• Anisotropic Rashba-Edelstein Effect in an Oxide 2DEG

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Junyi Yang

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Junyi Yang

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Justin Woods

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Adem Imamovic

    • University of Chicago

  • Ulrich Welp

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Jidong Jiang

    • Argonne National Laboratory

  • Anand Bhattacharya

    • Argonne National Laboratory

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• Superconductivity in BaBi₃ formed by in situ reduction at a Metal/Oxide heterointerface

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM

  Publication: Shama et al., Superconductivity in spin–orbit coupled BaBi₃ formed by in situ reduction of bismuthate films, arXiv:2506.20861

  Presenters

  • SHAMA Shama

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • SHAMA Shama

    • Duke University

  • Jordan McCourt

    • Duke University

  • Merve Baksi

    • Duke University

  • Gleb Finkelstein

    • Duke University

  • Divine Kumah

    • Duke University

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• Robust Superconductivity Beyond the Pauli Limit at KTaO₃ Interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 3:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM

  Publication: Enhanced critical field of superconductivity at an oxide interface. Nano Letters 23 (15), 6944-6950
  Violation of Pauli limit at KTaO3(110) interfaces. Phys. Rev. B., 111, 214506 (2025)

  Presenters

  • Samuel Poage

    • Ohio State University

  Authors

  • Samuel Poage

    • Ohio State University

  • Xueshi Gao

    • Ohio State University

  • Merve Baski

  • Athby Al-Tawhid

    • North Carolina State University

  • Jordan McCourt

    • Duke University

  • Ethan Arnault

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Gleb Finkelstein

    • Duke University

  • Salva Salmani-Rezaie

  • David Muller

    • Cornell University

  • Divine Kumah

    • Duke University

  • Chun Ning Lau

    • Ohio State University

  • Jose Lorenzana

  • Maria Gastiasoro

  • Kaveh Ahadi

    • Ohio State University

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• Exploring Ferroelectric Field Effect in SrIrO₃ Using First-Principles Calculations  

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Tula Paudel

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  Authors

  • Tula Paudel

    • South Dakota School of Mines & Technology

  • Peyton Burden

  • Yuanyuan Zhang

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Le Zhang

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

  • Xia Hong

    • University of Nebraska - Lincoln

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• Gate-tunable superconductivity and nanoscale constrictions in ionic liquid gated SrTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Sushant Padhye

    • University of Cincinnati

  Authors

  • Sushant Padhye

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Gayan De Silva

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Dickson Boahen

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Evgeny Mikheev

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• Polarization-Dependent Oxygen Diffusion Barriers and Magnetic Anisotropy in Co/HfO₂ Heterostructures

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Song Jihoon

    • Natural Sci Kyunghee University

  Authors

  • Song Jihoon

    • Natural Sci Kyunghee University

  • Sohee Park

    • Kyung Hee University - Seoul

  • Young-Kyun Kwon

    • Kyung Hee University - Seoul

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• Strain-Stabilized Interfacial Polarization in Altermagnetic RuO₂/TiO₂ Heterostructures

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 4:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM

  Publication: 1. S. G. Jeong, B. Y. X. Lin, M. Jin, I. H. Choi, S. Lee, Z. Yang, S. Nair, R. Choudhary, J. Parikh, A. Santhosh, M. Neurock, K. A. Stoerzinger, J. S. Lee, T. Low, Q. Tu, J. M. LeBeau, and B. Jalan, Strain-Stabilized Interfacial Polarization Tunes Work Function Over 1 eV in RuO2/TiO2 Heterostructures, under review (2025), https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07575.
  2. S. G. Jeong, S. Lee, B. Lin, Z. Yang, I. H. Choi, J. Y Oh, S. Song, S. W. Lee, S. Nair, R. Choudhary, J. Parikh, S. Park, W. S. Choi, J. S. Lee, J. M. LeBeau, T. Low, and B. Jalan, Metallicity and Anomalous Hall Effect in Epitaxially-Strained, Atomically-thin RuO2 Films, PNAS 122(24), e2500831122 (2025).
  3. S. G. Jeong, I. H. Choi, S. Nair, L. Buiarelli, B. Pourbahari, J. Y. Oh, N. Bassim, D. Hirai, A. Seo, W. S. Choi, R. M. Fernandes, T. Birol, L. Zhao, J. S. Lee, and B. Jalan, Altermagnetic polar metallic phase in ultra-thin epitaxially-strained RuO2 films, under review (2025), https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.05838.

  Presenters

  • Seung Gyo Jeong

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Seung Gyo Jeong

    • University of Minnesota

  • In Hyeok Choi

  • SEUNGJUN LEE

    • University of Minnesota

  • Bonnie X. Y. Lin

  • Mengru Jin

  • Zhifei Yang

    • University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  • Sreejith Thampan Nair

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Juhi Parikh

    • University of Minnesota

  • Anand Santhosh

    • University of Minnesota

  • Matthew Neurock

  • Kelsey Stoerzinger

  • Qing Tu

  • James LeBeau

    • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Tony Low

    • University of Minnesota

  • Jongseok Lee

    • Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology

  • Bharat Jalan

    • University of Minnesota

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• Robust phase coherent effects observed in nonlinear transport in KTaO₃ interfaces

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 4:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Yoram Dagan

    • Tel Aviv University

  Authors

  • Yoram Dagan

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Shilo Avraham

    • Tel Aviv University

  • Shay Sandik

    • Tel Aviv University

  • David Gitman

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• High mobility and suppression of superconductivity in SrTiO₃ 2D electron gases

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Dickson Boahen

    • University of Cincinnati

  Authors

  • Dickson Boahen

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Sushant Padhye

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Huma Yusuf

  • Gayan De Silva

    • University of Cincinnati

  • Evgeny Mikheev

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• Magnetic Field Induced Nonlinear Transport in LaTiO₃/SrTiO₃  Interfaces

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:18 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM

  Presenters

  • Aidan Steineman

    • Kent State University

  Authors

  • Maxim Khodas

    • Hebrew University of Jerusalem

  • Aidan Steineman

    • Kent State University

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• Metallicity in Ultrathin IrO₂ Thin Films through Heterostructure Engineering

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:30 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM

  Presenters

  • Sreejith Thampan Nair

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  Authors

  • Sreejith Thampan Nair

    • University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

  • Seung Gyo Jeong

  • SEUNGJUN LEE

    • University of Minnesota

  • Zhifei Yang

    • University of Minnesota Twin Cities

  • Vivian Ferry

  • Tony Low

    • University of Minnesota

  • Bharat Jalan

    • University of Minnesota

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• Correlated oxygen states and Schottky barrier heights in oxides: A DFT+U study

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:42 PM – March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM

  Presenters

  • Inhwan Kim

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  Authors

  • Inhwan Kim

    • The University of Texas at Austin

  • Alex Demkov

    • The University of Texas

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• Electronic Structure and Superconductivity in La_1.55Sr_0.45CuO₄/La₂CuO₄ Artificial High-T_c Superlattices Probed with Hard X-ray Photoelectron Spectroscopy

  Oral-In-person

  March 16, 2026, 5:54 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM

  Presenters

  • Uditha Jayathilake

    • Temple University

  Authors

  • Uditha Jayathilake

    • Temple University

  • Sharup Sheikh

    • Temple University

  • Tien-Lin Lee

    • Diamond Light Source Ltd

  • Gennady Logvenov

  • Gaetano Campi

  • Antonio Bianconi

    • Univ of Rome La Sapienza

  • Alexander Gray

    • Temple University

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• Dimensionality and Strain Control in (SrRuO₃)m/(SrTiO₃)n Superlattices Grown by Pulsed-Laser Deposition

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 16, 2026, 6:06 PM – March 16, 2026, 6:18 PM

  Presenters

  • Umme Habiba

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  Authors

  • Umme Habiba

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Nikita Kundu

    • Oklahoma State University

  • Ujjal Lamichhane

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Margaret Andersen

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Ishwor Rana

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

  • Amelia Rutter

  • Derek Meyers

    • Oklahoma State University-Stillwater

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