Anomalous Polar Textures in Quasi-1D Chalcogenides and Heterostructures

Faculty Investigators

Prof. Jayakanth Ravichandran

Principal Investigator

University of Southern California

Email: j.ravichandran@usc.edu

Prof. Nuh Gedik

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Email: gedik@mit.edu

Prof. Rohan Mishra

Washington University in St. Louis

Email: rmishra@wustl.edu

Prof. Abhay Pasupathy

Columbia University

Email: apn2108@columbia.edu

Prof. Han Wang

University of Southern California

Email: wang679@usc.edu

Prof. Di Xiao

University of Washington, Seattle

Email: dixiao@uw.edu

Post-doc and PhD Students

USC Group:

Boyang Zhao

Huandong Chen

Mythili Surendran

Shantanu Singh

Dr. Yan-Ting Wang

Nan Wang

Dr. Jiang-bing Wu

Hongming Zhang

MIT Group:

Batyr Ilyas

Emre Ergecen

WUSTL Group:

Guodong Ren

Columbia Group:

Sara Shabani

Eric Seewald

UW Group:

Dr. Jiaheng Li

Dr. Chong Wang

Latest News

10/21 Chong presented a talk on Electric Interfacial Dzyaloshinskii–Moriya interaction at the October MURI monthly meeting.

10/19 Nuh Gedik and Di Xiao are elected APS Fellows. Congratulations!

09/17 Nan presented a talk on electrical switching behavior of BaTiS₃ at the September MURI monthly meeting.

08/10 We had our first annual review of our MURI program at USC. The meeting was a great opportunity for the whole team and the program manager to get together in person for the first time since the kick-off and exchange the recent developments in the program!

07/15 Batyr presented a talk on experimental efforts of probing charity and Raman optical activity (ROA) in BaTiS₃ at the June MURI monthly meeting.

Recent Publications

M. Surendran, B. Zhao, G. Ren, S. Singh, A. Avishai, H. Chen, J-K. Han, M. Kawasaki, R. Mishra and J. Ravichandran, “Quasi-epitaxial growth of BaTiS₃ films”, Journal of Materials Research (2022) DOI: 10.1557/s43578-022-00776-y.

K. Ye, B. Zhao, B. Diroll, J. Ravichandran and R. Jaramillo, “Time-Resolved Photoluminescence Studies of Perovskite Chalcogenides”, Faraday Discussions (2022) DOI: 10.1039/D2FD00047D.

B. Zhao, M. S. B. Hoque, G. W. Jung, H. Mei, S. Singh, G. Ren, M. Milich, Q. Zhao, N. Wang, H. Chen, S. Niu, S-J. Lee, C-T. Kuo, J-S. Lee, J. A. Tomko, H. Wang, M. Kats, R. Mishra, P. E. Hopkins, J. Ravichandran, “Orientation Controlled Anisotropy in Single Crystals of Quasi-1D BaTiS₃”, Chemistry of Materials, 34, 5680–5689 (2022).