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. 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

10. 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, under review (2026). ☨Equal contributions [arxiv]

11. 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, under review (2025) [arxiv]

12. 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, under review (2026)

13. S. Lee, S. G. Jeong, J.-P. Wang, B. Jalan, and T. Low, Strain-Driven Altermagnetic Spin Splitting Effects in RuO2, under review (2026)

14. 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, submitted (2026) [arxiv]

15. 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]

16. 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)

17. 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)

18. 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)