REU Summer Program at PARADIM Leads to Peer-Reviewed Publications

So far, 26 REUs have become co-authors —shown with their year of participation—on 29 peer-reviewed journal publications. Among them, eight REUs have contributed to multiple research papers, and four REUs are lead authors.

PARADIM - the Platform for the Accelerated Realization, Analysis, and Discovery of Interface Materials—is a Materials Innovation Platform (MIP) funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) via corporate agreements DMR-1539918 and DMR-2039380.

The Research Experiences for Undergraduates (REU) has been an integral part of PARADIM since its inception in 2016,

1. From 2016 to 2021 supported as part the main awards from NSF,
2. Since 2022 with dedicated funding from NSF as the “REU-Site: Summer Research Program at PARADIM,” via grant number DMR-2150446.

Publications: All publications involving REU authors are listed below, where the REU interns are highlighted with a yellow textbox and PARADIM faculty are in bold.

1. M.R. Gragg, A.G. Iwanicki, M.A. Siegler, and T.M. McQueen, “Hydroflux Crystal Growth of Alkali Tellurate Oxide-Hydroxides,” available online Dalton Trans. (2025).
2. J. Steele, J. Chen, T. Burrell, N.A. Pieczulewski, D. Bhattacharya, K. Smith, K. Gann, M.O. Thompson, H.G. Xing, D. Jena, D.A. Muller, M.D. Williams, M.K.I. Senevirathna, and D.G. Schlom, "Growth of Conductive Si-Doped α-Ga₂O₃ by Suboxide Molecular-Beam Epitaxy," APL Mater. 13, 101117 (2025) and Erratum APL Mater. 13, 129901 (2025).
3. S. Chae, S. Lee, A. Park, M.K.I. Senevirathna, Y. Feng, V. Kanneboina, V.-A. Ha, Y. Hu, C. Du, M. Barone, V. Protasenko, Y.E. Li, N. Podraza, K. Johnson, D. Jena, H.G. Xing, X. Pan, K. Cho, F. Giustino, M.D. Williams, and D.G. Schlom, “Controlling the p-Type Conductivity of α-SnO Thin Films by Potassium Doping,” APL Mater. 13, 101114 (2025).
4. T. Berry, V.C. Morano, T. Halloran, X. Zhang, T.J. Slade , A. Sapkota, S.L. Bud'ko, W. Xie, D.H. Ryan, Z. Xu, Y. Zhao, J.W. Lynn, T. Fennell, P.C. Canfield, C.L. Broholm, and T.M. McQueen, “Formation of a Simple Cubic Antiferromagnet through Charge Ordering in a Double Dirac Material,” Phys Rev. B 112, 155139 (2025).
5. T. Schwaigert, A. Barooni, B. Gregory, P. Malinowski, A. Tenneti, S. Hasko, B. Palazzolo, J.W. Hodgson, B. Faeth, P.M. Woodward, K.M. Shen, A. Singer, M. Ghazisaeidi, S. Salmani-Rezaie, D.G. Schlom, and K. Ahadi, “Synthesis and Electronic Structure of the Fractionally Occupied Double Perovskite EuTa₂O₆ with Ordered Europium Vacancies,” available online Adv. Funct. Mater. (2025).
6. S. Bernier, M. Sinha, T.J. Pearson, P.V. Sushko, P. Oyala, M.A. Siegler, W.A. Phelan, A.N. Neill, D.E. Freedman, and T.M. McQueen, "Symmetry-Mediated Quantum Coherence of W⁵⁺ Spins in an Oxygen-Deficient Double Perovskite," npj Quantum Mater. 10, 62 (2025).
7. A.N. Neill, L.A. Pressley, and T.M. McQueen, “Compensation Doping of the Qubit Host Ba₂CaWO_6—δ,” Mater. Today Quantum 5, 100029 (2025).
8. Y.E. Li, J. Shine, C. Guguschev, M. Brützam, D.G. Schlom, and N. Ravi, “Corroborating the Magnetic Easy Axis of Epitaxial (100) α-iron and (0001) BaFe₁₂O₁₉ Thin Films by ⁵⁷Fe Mössbauer Spectroscopy,” AIP Adv. 15, 015323 (2025).
9. C.A. Gorsak, H.J. Bowman, K.R. Gann, J.T. Buontempo, K.T. Smith, P. Tripathi, J. Steele, D. Jena, D.G. Schlom, H.G. Xing, M.O. Thompson, and H.P. Nair, “In situ Etching of β-Ga₂O₃ using tert-Butyl Chloride in an MOCVD System,” Appl. Phys. Lett. 125, 242103 (2024).
10. F.V.E. Hensling, P. Vogt, J. Park, S.-L. Shang, H. Ye, Y.-M. Wu, K. Smith, V. Show, K. Azizie, H. Paik, D. Jena, H.G. Xing, Y.E. Suyolcu, P.A. van Aken, S. Datta, Z.-K. Liu, and D.G. Schlom, “Fully Transparent Epitaxial Oxide Thin-Film Transistor Fabricated at Back-End-of-Line Temperature by Suboxide Molecular-Beam Epitaxy,” Adv. Electron. Mater. 11, 2400499 (2025).
11. Q. Song, Z. He, B.D. Faeth, C.T. Parzyck, A. Scheid, C.J. Mowers, Y. Feng, Q. Xu, S. Hasko, J. Park, M.R. Barone, Y.E. Suyolcu, P.A. van Aken, B. Pamuk, C.J. Fennie, P.D.C. King, K.M. Shen, and D.G. Schlom, “Surface Reconstructions and Electronic Structure of Metallic Delafossite Thin Films,” APL Mater. 12, 081117 (2024).
12. F.V.E. Hensling, D. Dahliah, M.A. Smeaton, B. Shrestha, V. Show, C.T. Parzyck, C. Hennighausen, G.N. Kotsonis, G.-M. Rignanese, M.R. Barone, I. Subedi, A. Disa, K.M. Shen, B.D. Faeth, A.T. Bollinger, I. Božović, N.J. Podraza, L.F. Kourkoutis, G. Hautier, and D.G. Schlom, “Is Ba₃In₂O₆ a High-T_c Superconductor?” J. Phys.: Condens. Matter 36, 315602 (2024).
13. A. Gupta, A. Weiser, L. Pressley, Y. Luo, C. Lygouras, J. Trowbridge, W.A. Phelan, C.L. Broholm, T.M. McQueen, and W.K. Park, “Topological Surface States in the Kondo Insulator YbB₁₂ Revealed via Planar Tunneling Spectroscopy,” Phys. Rev. B 107, 165132 (2023).
14. K. Azizie, F.V.E. Hensling, C.A. Gorsak, Y. Kim, D.M. Dryden, M.K.I. Senevirathna, S. Coye, S.-L. Shang, J. Steele, P. Vogt, N.A. Parker, Y.A. Birkhölzer, J.P. McCandless, D. Jena, H.G. Xing, Z.-K. Liu, M.D. Williams, A.J. Green, K. Chabak, A.T. Neal, S. Mou, M.O. Thompson, H.P. Nair, and D.G. Schlom, “Silicon-Doped β-Ga₂O₃ Films Grown at 1 μm/h by Suboxide Molecular-Beam Epitaxy,” APL Mater. 11, 041102 (2023).
15. T. Schwaigert, S. Salmani-Razaie, M.R. Barone, H. Paik, E. Ray, M.D. Williams, D.A. Muller, D.G. Schlom, and K. Ahadi, “Molecular Beam Epitaxy of KTaO₃,” J. Vac. Science & Technol. A 41, 022703 (2023).
16. Q. Song, S. Doyle, G.A. Pan, I. El Baggari, D.F. Segedin, D. Córdova Carrizales, J. Nordlander, C. Tzschaschel, J.R. Ehrets, Z. Hasan, H. El-Sherif, J. Krishna, C. Hanson, H. LaBollita, A. Bostwick, C. Jozwiak, E. Rotenberg, S.-Y. Xu, A. Lanzara, A.T. N’Diaye, C.A. Heikes, Y. Liu, H. Paik, C.M. Brooks, B. Pamuk, J.T. Heron, P. Shafer, W.D. Ratcliff, A.S. Botana, L. Moreschini, and J.A. Mundy, “Antiferromagnetic Metal Phase in an Electron-Doped Rare-Earth Nickelate,” Nat. Phys. 19, 522–528 (2022).
17. F.V.E. Hensling, M.A. Smeaton, V. Show, K. Azizie, M.R. Barone, L.F. Kourkoutis, and D.G. Schlom, “Epitaxial growth of the first two members of the Ba_n+1In_nO_2.5n+1 Ruddlesden–Popper homologous series,” J. Vac. Science & Technol. A 40, 062707 (2022).
18. Q. Song, J. Sun, C.T. Parzyck, L. Miao, Q. Xu, F.V.E. Hensling, M.R. Barone, C. Hu, J. Kim, B.D. Faeth, H. Paik, P.D.C. King, K.M. Shen, and D.G. Schlom, “Growth of PdCoO₂ Films with Controlled Termination by Molecular-Beam Epitaxy and Determination of Their Electronic Structure by Angle-Resolved Photoemission Spectroscopy,” APL Mater. 10, 091113 (2022).
19. M.-C. Jung, J. Kapeghian, C. Hanson, B. Pamuk, and A.S. Botana, “Electronic Structure of Higher-Order Ruddlesden-Popper Nickelates,” Phys. Rev. B 105, 085150 (2022).
20. A. Zare, M.-R. He, M. Straker, M.V.S. Chandrashekhar, M. Spencer, K.J. Hemker, J.W. McCauley, and K.T. Ramesh, “Mechanical Characterization of Boron Carbide Single Crystals,” J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 105, 3030-3042 (2022) and correction J. Am. Ceram. Soc. 105, 3657 (2022).
21. F.V.E. Hensling, D. Dahliah, P. Dulal, P. Singleton, J. Sun, J. Schubert, H. Paik, I. Subedi, B. Subedi, G.-M. Rignanese, N.J. Podraza, G. Hautier, and D.G. Schlom, “Epitaxial Stannate Pyrochlore Thin Films: Limitations of Cation Stoichiometry and Electron Doping,” APL Mater. 9, 051113 (2021).
22. El Baggari, N. Sivadas, G.M. Stiehl, J. Waelder, D.C. Ralph, C.J. Fennie, and L.F. Kourkoutis, “Direct Visualization of Trimerized States in 1T'-TaTe₂,” Phys. Rev. Lett. 125, 165302 (2020).
23. L. Miao, N.J. Schreiber, H.P. Nair, B.H. Goodge, S. Jiang, J.P. Ruf, Y. Lee, M. Fu, B. Tsang, Y. Li, C. Zeledon, J. Shan, K.F. Mak, L.F. Kourkoutis, D.G. Schlom, and K.M. Shen, “Strain Relaxation Induced Transverse Resistivity Anomalies in SrRuO₃ Thin Films,” Phys. Rev. B 102, 064406 (2020).
24. M. Straker, A. Chauhan, M. Sinha, W.A. Phelan, M.V.S. Chandrashekhar, K.J. Hemker, C. Marvel, and M. Spencer, “Growth of High Purity Zone-Refined Boron Carbide Single Crystals by Laser Diode Floating Zone Method,” J. Cryst. Growth 543, 125700 (2020).
25. W.A. Phelan, J. Zahn, Z. Kennedy, and T.M. McQueen, “Pushing Boundaries: High Pressure, Supercritical Optical Floating Zone Materials Discovery,” J. Solid State Chem. 270, 705–709 (2019).
26. A. McCray, B. Savitzky, K. Whitham, T. Hanrath, and L.F. Kourkoutis, “Orientational Disorder in Epitaxially Connected Quantum Dot Solids,” ACS Nano 13, 11460-11468 (2019).
27. J.N. Nelson, J.P. Ruf, Y. Lee, C. Zeledon, J.K. Kawasaki, S. Moser, C. Jozwiak, E. Rotenberg, A. Bostwick, D.G. Schlom, K.M. Shen, and L. Moreschini, “Dirac Nodal Lines Protected Against Spin-Orbit Interaction in IrO₂,” Phys. Rev. Mater. 3, 064205 (2019).
28. H.P. Nair, J.P. Ruf, N.J. Schreiber, L. Miao, M.L. Grandon, D.J. Baek, B.H. Goodge, J.P.C. Ruff, L.F. Kourkoutis, K.M. Shen, and D.G. Schlom, “Demystifying the Growth of Superconducting Sr₂RuO₄ Thin Films,” APL Mater. 6, 101108 (2018).
29. Y. Han, M.-Y. Li, G.-S. Jung, M.A. Marsalis, Z. Qin, M.J. Buehler, L.-J. Li, and D.A. Muller, “Sub-nanometre channels embedded in two-dimensional materials,” Nat. Mater. 17, 129-133 (2017).