Publications

2025

1. B. Lukaskawcez, S. Varshney, S. Choo, S. H. Park, D. Seo, L. Thompson, D. Uram, H. Binger, S. Koester, S.-H. Oh, T. Low, B. Jalan, and A. McLeod, Interfacial strong coupling and negative dispersion of propagating polaritons in free-standing oxide membranes, Adv. Opt. Mater. e01452 (2025)

2. A. K. Manjeshwar, Z. Yang, C.-H. Liao, J. Wen, S. J. Koester, R. D. James, and B. Jalan, Ferroelectric Switching in Hybrid Molecular Beam Epitaxy-Grown BaTiO3 Films, Nano Lett. 25, 14246 (2025)

3. S. Choo, S. Varshney, J. Shah, A. K. Manjeshwar, D. K. Lee, K. A. Mkhoyan, R. D. James and B. Jalan, Hybrid MBE Route to Adsorption-Controlled Growth of BaTiO3 Membranes with Robust Polarization Switching, Nano Lett. 25, 17467 (2025)

4. B. Jalan, From Breaking Rules to Making Rules in Materials Science, Sci. Adv. 11, eaed2475 (2025)

2026

5. 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, Nat. Commun. 17, 2516 (2026)

6. S. G. Jeong†, I. H. Choi†, S. Nair, L Buiarelli, B. Pourbahari, J. Y. Oh, N. Bassim, 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, PNAS 123 (10) e2526641123 (2026) †Equal contribution

7. I. H. Choi☨, S. G. Jeong☨, B. Jalan, and J. S. Lee, Exploring Altermagnetism in RuO2: From Conflicting Experiments to Emerging Consensus, Nano Convergence 13, 1 (2026) ☨Equal contributions

8. F. Liu☨, Z. Yang☨, Y. Luo☨, S. Guo, C. Zhang, S. Choo, X. Xu, X. Wang, K. A. Mkhoyan, M. Bernardi, and B. Jalan, Understanding Polaronic Transport in Anatase TiO2 Films by Combining Precise Synthesis and First-Principles Many-Body Theory, Rep. Prog. Phys. 89, 028003 (2026) ☨Equal contributions

9. Y. Zhang†, S. G. Jeong†, L. Buiarelli, S. Lee, Y. Guo, J. Wen, H. Li, S. Nair, I. H. Choi, Z. Ren, Z. Yue, A. Fedorov, S.-K. Mo, J. Kono, J. S. Lee, T. Low, T. Birol, R. M. Fernandes, M. Radovic, B. Jalan, M. Yi, Observation of mirror-odd and mirror-even spin texture in ultra-thin epitaxially-strained RuO2 films, Sci. Adv. 12, eaec2917 (2026). ☨Equal contributions

10. J. D. S. Forte, S. G. Jeong, A. Santhosh, S. Lee, B. Jalan, and T. Low, Strain Engineering of Altermagnetic Symmetry in Epitaxial RuO2 Films, Phys. Rev. B 114 084408 (2026)

11. N. Pryds, F. Gunkel, F. Trier, Z. Jovanović, L. Kornblum, M. G-Hernandez, M. Brandbyge, P. Bøggild, V. Harbola, Y.-J. Wu, J. Mannhart, J. Santamaria, C.-B. Eom, S. Varshney, S. Choo, D. K. Lee, N. P. B. Aetukuri, B. Jalan, D. Pesquera, J. Santiso, J. Schwarzkopf, J. Martin, P. Salles, M. Coll, G. Koster, M. Spreitzer, X. Zhang, J. Kim, M. Radovic, J. Petrovic, J. Song, H. N. Lee, M. Nord, C. J. Roh, G. Segantini, A. D. Caviglia, H. Jani, R. Xu, S. S. Hong, L. W. Martin, I. C. G. van den Bosch, C. Baeumer, L. Alff, S. Preu, J. Knabe, R. Dittmann, Bridging the Gap: Exploring Interfaces Between 2D Materials and Freestanding Oxide Membranes, IOP J. Physics: Materials (2026) https://doi.org/10.1088/2515-7639/ae998d

12. S. Lee, S. G. Jeong, J.-P. Wang, B. Jalan, and T. Low, Strain-Driven Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effects in RuO2, Nano Lett. 26, 8110 (2026)

13. S. G. Jeong, S. Lee, J. Y. Oh, B. Y. X. Lin, A. Santhosh, J. M. LeBeau, A. J. Grutter, W. S. Choi, T. Low, V. Lauter, and B. Jalan, Emergence of unconventional magnetic order in strain-engineered RuO2/TiO2 superlattices, Adv. Sci. (accepted) (2026) [arxiv]

14. I. H. Choi☨, S. G. Jeong☨, J. H. Lee, S. Kang, S. Nair, C. Kim, D. Wulferding, B. Jalan, and J. S Lee, Strain-induced Dynamic Spin-Phonon Coupling in Epitaxial RuO2 Films, under review (2026). ☨Equal contributions

15. J. Lee, J. Kim, S. Nair, S. Jeong, C. Kim, J.-P.-So, B.-J. Yang, B. Jalan, H. Yoo, F. Rana, T. Oh, and H.-G. Park, Magneto-Optical Detection of Anisotropic Spin Currents in Altermagnetic RuO2, under review (2026)

16. Q. Jia, S. G. Jeong, S. Lee, D. Tonini, A. Santhosh, Y. Yang, X. Li, B. Dixit, S. Liang, Y.-C. Chen, T. Low, B. Jalan, and J.-P. Wang, Epitaxial Strain Activates Altermagnetic Spin-Splitting Torques in RuO2 (100), submitted (2026) [arxiv]

17. S. Guo, N. S. Kumar, S. Nair, S. Ghosh, B. Jalan, and K. A. Mkhoyan, Electron Beam Radiolysis-Assisted Growth of Rutile TiO2 Thin Films,  under review (2026). [arxiv]

18. W. Sandholt, N. Gauquelin, J. Mangeri, E. Dollekamp, G. Panchal, T. Chennit, A. De Backer, A. Annys, N. Vitaliti, A. R. Insinga, J. M. Hansen, R. Mandal, D. R. Rodrigues, S. van Aert, K. I. Wurster, A. Bhowmik, I. E. Castelli, S. B. Simonsen, T. S. Jespersen, R. D. James, B. Jalan, J. Verbeeck, J. M. G. Lastra, and N. Pryds, Designing ordered dislocation networks in twisted bicrystal transition metal oxides, submitted (2026) [arxiv]

19. I. H. Choi, S. Urazhdin, S. Varshney, S. G. Jeong, B. Jalan, and K. A. Nelson, Light-Driven Ultrafast Control of Time-Reversal Symmetry in SrTiO3, submitted (2026). [arxiv]

20. S. Varshney, S. Choo, H. Liu, S. Sharma, D. K. Lee, N. Pryds, R. D. James, and B. Jalan, Lattice engineering by twisting 3D single-crystalline membranes: A perspective, under review (2026)

21. Z. Yang, S. Varshney, S. S. Kumar, T. Steegemans, R. Bjørk, D. V. Christensen, and B. Jalan, High-mobility SrTiO3 thin films with extraordinary magnetoresistance exceeding 9000%, under review (2026)

22. Z. Yang, S. Nair, S. Lee, T. Low, and B. Jalan, Electrochemical Control of Metal-Insulator Transition and Spin-Orbit Coupling in Ultrathin IrO2, under review (2026)