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. 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. (accepted) (2025) [arxiv]

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 (accepted) (2025)  [arxiv] †Equal contribution

7. 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, submitted (2025). ☨Equal contributions [arxiv]

8. 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, submitted (2025) [arxiv]

9. I. H. Choi☨, S. G. Jeong☨, B. Jalan, and J. S. Lee, Exploring Altermagnetism in RuO2: From Conflicting Experiments to Emerging Consensus, submitted (2025) ☨Equal contributions

10. 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, submitted (2025) *Equal contributions [arxiv]