Materials: Synthesis, Growth, Defects and Lattice Properties, and Phase Transitions

Presentations

• Structural and Optical Properties in Shock-Compressed GaAs

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:12 PM

  Publication:
  AIP Advances 15, 035203 (2025)
  https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0249899
  

  Presenters

  • Brenden Magill

    • Virginia Tech

  Authors

  • Brenden Magill

    • Virginia Tech

  • Mithun Bhowmick

    • Miami University

  • Dhanalakshmi Sellan

    • University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

  • Kade Johnson

  • Kenneth Mikolaichik

  • Xuan Zhou

    • University of Texas at San Antonio

  • Amlan Das

  • Chari Ramkumar

    • Northern Kentucky University

  • Nicholas Smith

    • Virginia Tech

  • Giti Khodaparast

    • Virginia Tech

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• Epitaxial Growth Mechanisms: Focus on III-V/Si Heteroepitaxy

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:24 PM

  Publication: I. Lucci et al., Phys. Rev. Mater., 2018, 2, 060401(R).
  D. Gupta et al., Appl. Surf. Sci., 2024, 678, 161076.
  S. Pallikkara Chandrasekharan et al., Phys. Rev. B, 2023, 108, 075305.
  S. Pallikkara Chandrasekharan et al., Phys. Rev. B, 2024, 109 (4), 045304.
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08766
  https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.03769
  https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.5480430

  Presenters

  • Laurent PEDESSEAU

    • Institut FOTON - INSA Rennes

  Authors

  • Laurent PEDESSEAU

    • Institut FOTON - INSA Rennes

  • Sreejith Pallikkara Chandrasekharan

    • Institut national des sciences appliquées de Rennes (INSA Rennes)

  • Sofia Apergi

    • INSA Rennes

  • Charles Cornet

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• A New Route Toward Atomically Flat and Defect-Free Ge/SiGe Planar Heterostructures

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Malvika Tripathi

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  Authors

  • Malvika Tripathi

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Akshay Murthy

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

  • Daniel Bafia

    • Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab)

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• Controlling Oxygen Vacancy and Carrier Concentration in Manganite Heterostructures by Ionic Liquid Gating

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM

  Presenters

  • lang ji

    • Duke University

  Authors

  • lang ji

    • Duke University

  • Divine Kumah

    • Duke University

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• Scalable Growth of High-Quality Cubic Boron Arsenide through Flux-Assisted Bridgman And Chemical Vapor Transport Methods

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 12:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM

  Presenters

  • Mahammed Suleman Patel

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  Authors

  • Mahammed Suleman Patel

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Pawan Koirala

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • wenhao liu

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Yulin Zhu

  • Aswin Kondusamy

    • University of Texas at Dallas

  • Evan Glaser

  • Samuel White

  • James Culbertson

  • J.A. Freitas Jr.

  • Bing Lv

    • University of Texas at Dallas

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• Probing Local Structure Evolution in Amorphous Selenium and Se–Te Alloys via Temperature-Dependent EXAFS

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM

  Publication: Probing Local Structure Evolution in Amorphous Selenium and Se–Te Alloys via Temperature-Dependent EXAFS (Planned Paper)

  Presenters

  • Iakovos Tzoka

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  Authors

  • Iakovos Tzoka

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Varghese Chirayath

    • University of Texas at Arlington

  • Lu Ma

  • Domink Wierzbic

  • Alexander Weiss

  • Jonathan Asaadi

    • University of Texas at Arlington

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• Incommensurate guest-host phase in compressed Sb is a soliton lattice

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Igor Mazin

    • George Mason University

  Authors

  • Igor Mazin

    • George Mason University

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• Optimizing the Growth of Antimony Doped Sn₄₀Ge₆₀O₂ Thin Films

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 1:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM

  Presenters

  • Avery-Ryan Ansbro

    • University of Michigan

  Authors

  • Avery-Ryan Ansbro

    • University of Michigan

  • John Heron

    • University of Michigan

  • Yi Liang

    • UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN- ANN ARBOR

  • Yu Zheng

  • Pat Kezer

  • Manasi Londhe

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• New Submission

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:36 PM – March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM

  Publication: About to submit the work

  Presenters

  • Sudhan Koirala

    • New Mexico State University

  Authors

  • Sudhan Koirala

    • New Mexico State University

  • Damodar Neupane

    • Tribhuvan University

  • Deependra Mulmi

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• Soft phonon and the central peak at the structural phase transition in SrTiO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 1:48 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM

  Publication: A. Maity, K. Habicht, M. Merz, A. H. Said, C. Guguschev, D. Kojda, B. Ryll, J.-E. Hoffmann, A. Dittmar, T. Keller, and F. Weber, Soft phonon and the central peak at the cubic-to-tetragonal phase transition in SrTiO3, Phys. Rev. B 111, 134108 (2025).

  Presenters

  • Avishek Maity

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  Authors

  • Avishek Maity

    • Oak Ridge National Laboratory

  • Klaus Habicht

  • Michael Merz

  • Ayman Said

  • Christo Guguschev

  • Danny Kojda

  • Britta Ryll

  • Jan-Ekkehard Hoffmann

  • Andrea Dittmar

  • Thomas Keller

  • Frank Weber

    • Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

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• Growth of high-quality STO(111)/Pt(111) thin films on r-Al2O3 substrate by RF magnetron sputter deposition

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:00 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM

  Presenters

  • Ekaterina Taylor

    • University of Maine

  Authors

  • Ekaterina Taylor

    • University of Maine

  • Ethan Cronk

    • University of Maine

  • Kalani Perera

    • University of Maine

  • Nuri Emanetoglu

  • Nicholas Bingham

    • University of Maine

  • Mauricio Pereira da Cunha

  • Luke Doucette

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• Systematic study of homogenously oxygen-vacancy-doped bulk KTaO₃

  Oral-In-person

  March 18, 2026, 2:12 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM

  Presenters

  • Chiou Yang Tan

    • University of Minnesota

  Authors

  • Chiou Yang Tan

    • University of Minnesota

  • Issam Khayr

    • University of Minnesota

  • Rebecca Meyer

  • Dinesh Shukla

  • Damjan Pelc

    • University of Zagreb

  • Martin Greven

    • University of Minnesota

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• Optical and electrical characterization of graphene oxide films for possible applications in optical communications

  Oral-In-person · Withdrawn

  March 18, 2026, 2:24 PM – March 18, 2026, 2:36 PM

  Publication: Publication: D. J. Sánchez‑Trujillo, L. V. Osorio‑Maldonado, J. J. Prías‑Barragán. Nature: Sci. Rep. 13, 4810 (2023).
  Publication: Prías-Barragán, J. J. et al. Magnetism in graphene oxide nanoplatelets: The role of hydroxyl and epoxy bridges. J Magn Mater 541, (2022).
  Planned papers: Optical and electrical characterization of graphene oxide films for possible applications in optical communications

  Presenters

  • Diego Sanchez

    • University of Quindio

  Authors

  • Diego Sanchez

    • University of Quindio

  • Jhon Prias

  • Ingrid Torres Morales

  • Johanna Donayre Cedano

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