Publications

Acknowledgments

All work primarily or partially supported by the MRSEC grant MUST include the following acknowledgment: "This research was primarily (partially) supported by the NSF through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials Research Science and Engineering Center DMR-2309037." For research performed using MRSEC supported facilities (instrumental or computational), please include the following text: "The authors acknowledge the use of facilities and instrumentation supported by NSF through the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Materials Research Science and Engineering Center DMR-2309037."

IRG Publications

S.M.T.-S. Afrid, H.L. Zhao, A.M. van der Zande, and S. Rakheja

Strain-Controlled Interfacial Transport Governs Contact Resistance in Top and Edge n/p-Type Metal-TMD Junctions

ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces (2026) 10.1021/acsami.6c10548

Y. Zhang, J. Huang, B. Ahammed, S.H. Bae, H.L. Zhao, A.M. van der Zande, and P.Y. Huang

Measuring 3D atomic coordinates and thermal vibrations with electron ptychography

Microscopy and Microanalysis 32 ozag053.585 (2026) 10.1093/mam/ozag053.585

H.L. Zhao, S.M.T.-S. Afrid, D. Yoon, Z. Martin, Z. Islam, S. Chen, Y. Zhang, P.Y. Huang, S. Rakheja, and A.M. van der Zande

Enhancing Hole Mobility in Monolayer WSe2 p-Type Field-Effect Transistors via Process-Induced Compression

ACS Nano 20 (25) 18252-18262 (2026) 10.1021/acsnano.6c03313

V. Wu, C. Lee, E. Ertekin, and N.H. Perry

Frontiers of defect, transport, and reaction theories in complex and driven solid-state ionic materials

MRS Bulletin 51 543-557 (2026) 10.1557/s43577-026-01080-4

A. Aguadero, et al.

Chapter 3: In-situ Optical Transmission Relaxation in Roadmap on advanced and / real-time characterisation of solid state materials and devices for energy applications

Journal of Physics Energy 18-22 (2026) 10.1088/2515-7655/ae6a6e

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Seed Publications

S. Bhattacharya, S. Sahoo, H. Dong, D.H. Hong, T. Taniguchi, K. Watanabe, N. Masoni, A.M. van der Zande, S. I. Bogdanov, and R. M. Sankaran

Remote Plasma for Damage-Controlled Fabrication of Single-photon Emitters in Ultrathin Hexagonal Boron Nitride

Applied Physics Letters 128 214103 (2026) 10.1063/5.0327648

J. Seo, S.H. Choi, Q. Chen, S. Park, I. Jeon, and H. Kim

Crystal Engineering Pathways Above, Below, and Between 2D Materials

Advanced Functional Materials 36, 37 29607 (2026) 10.1002/adfm.202529607

E.S. Lee, B.C. Jeong, P. Ghasemiahangarani, K. Melendez-Bonet, L. Ge, T. Schoetz, A. Statt, and A.S. Kuenstler

Spatiotemporal Regulation of Ion Transport via Photothermal Heating in Azobenzene-Based Polymer Networks

ACS Applied Polymer Materials 7, 18 12540-12549 (2025) 10.1021/acsapm.5c02412

S. Bhattacharya, H. Boyd, S. Reichardt, V. Allard, A.H. Tabebi, N. Maccaferri, O. Shenderova, A.L. Lereu, L. Wirtzi, G. Strangi, and R.M. Sankaran

Intervalence Plasmons in Boron-Doped Diamond

Nature Communication 16 444 (2025) 10.1038/s41467-024-55353-0

O. Dubinkin, and T. L. Hughes

Entanglement signatures of multipolar higher-order topological phases

Physical Review B 108 (2023) 10.1103/physrevb.108.155138

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