Selected Publications
S. Babar, T. T. Li, and J. R. Abelson, "Role of nucleation layer morphology in determining the statistical roughness of CVD-grown thin films," J. Vac. Sci. Technol. A 32, 060601 (2014). doi:10.1116/1.4895106
B. Cappella, and D. Silbernagl, "Nanomechanical properties of polymer thin films measured by force-distance curves," Thin Solid Films 516, 1952-1960 (2008). doi:10.1016/j.tsf.2007.09.042
G. Caruntu, A. Yourdkhani, M. Vopsaroiu, and G. Srinivasan, "Probing the local strain-mediated magnetoelectric coupling in multiferroic nanocomposites by magnetic field-assisted piezoresponse force microscopy," Nanoscale 4, 3218 (2012). doi:10.1039/c2nr00064d
Z. Chen, Z. Luo, C. Huang, Y. Qi, P. Yang, L. You, C. Hu, T. Wu, J. Wang, C. Gao, T. Sritharan, and L. Chen, "Low-Symmetry Monoclinic Phases and Polarization Rotation Path Mediated by Epitaxial Strain in Multiferroic BiFeO3 Thin Films," Adv. Funct. Mater. 21, 133-138 (2010). doi:10.1002/adfm.201001867
K.-H. Chung, K. Bhadriraju, T. A. Spurlin, R. F. Cook, and A. L. Plant, "Nanomechanical Properties of Thin Films of Type I Collagen Fibrils," Langmuir 26, 3629-3636 (2010). doi:10.1021/la903073v
D. C. Coffey, O. G. Reid, D. B. Rodovsky, G. P. Bartholomew, and D. S. Ginger, "Mapping Local Photocurrents in Polymer/Fullerene Solar Cells with Photoconductive Atomic Force Microscopy," Nano Lett. 7, 738-744 (2007). doi:10.1021/nl062989e
A. R. Damodaran, S. Lee, J. Karthik, S. MacLaren, and L. W. Martin, "Temperature and thickness evolution and epitaxial breakdown in highly strained BiFeO3 thin films," Phys. Rev. B 85, 024113 (2012). doi:10.1103/physrevb.85.024113
A. Duk, M. Schmidbauer, and J. Schwarzkopf, "Anisotropic one-dimensional domain pattern in NaNbO3epitaxial thin films grown on (110) TbScO3," Appl. Phys. Lett. 102, 091903 (2013). doi:10.1063/1.4794405
P. A. George, B. C. Donose, and J. J. Cooper-White, "Self-assembling polystyrene-block-poly(ethylene oxide) copolymer surface coatings: Resistance to protein and cell adhesion," Biomaterials 30, 2449-2456 (2009). doi:10.1016/j.biomaterials.2009.01.012
I. A. Golovchanskiy, A. V. Pan, S. A. Fedoseev, and M. Higgins, "Significant tunability of thin film functionalities enabled by manipulating magnetic and structural nano-domains," Appl. Surf. Sci. 311, 549-557 (2014). doi:10.1016/j.apsusc.2014.05.107
M. Gu, S. A. Wolf, and J. Lu, "Two-Dimensional Mott Insulators in SrVO3 Ultrathin Films," Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1, 1300126 (2014). doi:10.1002/admi.201300126
C. V. Hoven, X.-D. Dang, R. C. Coffin, J. Peet, T.-Q. Nguyen, and G. C. Bazan, "Improved Performance of Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells Through the Reduction of Phase Separation via Solvent Additives," Adv. Mater. 22, E63-E66 (2010). doi:10.1002/adma.200903677
J. S. Keist, C. A. Orme, P. K. Wright, and J. W. Evans, "An in situ AFM Study of the Evolution of Surface Roughness for Zinc Electrodeposition within an Imidazolium Based Ionic Liquid Electrolyte," Electrochim. Acta 152, 161-171 (2015). doi:10.1016/j.electacta.2014.11.091
A. Li, S. N. Ramakrishna, P. C. Nalam, E. M. Benetti, and N. D. Spencer, "Stratified Polymer Grafts: Synthesis and Characterization of Layered `Brush' and `Gel' Structures," Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1, (2013). doi:10.1002/admi.201300007
W. Li, K. H. Hendriks, W. S. C. Roelofs, Y. Kim, M. M. Wienk, and R. A. J. Janssen, "Efficient Small Bandgap Polymer Solar Cells with High Fill Factors for 300 nm Thick Films," Adv. Mater. 25, 3182-3186 (2013). doi:10.1002/adma.201300017
Y. Liu, M. Clark, Q. Zhang, D. Yu, D. Liu, J. Liu, and G. Cao, "V2O5 Nano-Electrodes with High Power and Energy Densities for Thin Film Li-Ion Batteries," Adv. Energy Mater. 1, 194-202 (2011). doi:10.1002/aenm.201000037
D. Mazumdar, V. Shelke, M. Iliev, S. Jesse, A. Kumar, S. V. Kalinin, A. P. Baddorf, and A. Gupta, "Nanoscale Switching Characteristics of Nearly Tetragonal BiFeO3 Thin Films," Nano Lett. 10, 2555-2561 (2010). doi:10.1021/nl101187a
T. Mehmood, A. Kaynak, X. J. Dai, A. Kouzani, K. Magniez, D. R. de Celis, C. J. Hurren, and J. du Plessis, "Study of oxygen plasma pre-treatment of polyester fabric for improved polypyrrole adhesion," Mater. Chem. Phys. 143, 668-675 (2014). doi:10.1016/j.matchemphys.2013.09.052
P. C. Nalam, S. N. Ramakrishna, R. M. Espinosa-Marzal, and N. D. Spencer, "Exploring Lubrication Regimes at the Nanoscale: Nanotribological Characterization of Silica and Polymer Brushes in Viscous Solvents," Langmuir 29, 10149-10158 (2013). doi:10.1021/la402148b
L. S. C. Pingree, B. A. MacLeod, and D. S. Ginger, "The Changing Face of PEDOT:PSS Films: Substrate, Bias, and Processing Effects on Vertical Charge Transport," J. Phys. Chem. C 112, 7922-7927 (2008). doi:10.1021/jp711838h
B. Radisavljevic, A. Radenovic, J. Brivio, V. Giacometti, and A. Kis, "Single-layer MoS2 transistors," Nat. Nanotechnol. 6, 147-150 (2011). doi:10.1038/nnano.2010.279
O. G. Reid, G. E. Rayermann, D. C. Coffey, and D. S. Ginger, "Imaging Local Trap Formation in Conjugated Polymer Solar Cells: A Comparison of Time-Resolved Electrostatic Force Microscopy and Scanning Kelvin Probe Imaging," J. Phys. Chem. C 114, 20672-20677 (2010). doi:10.1021/jp1056607
E. Sengupta, A. L. Domanski, S. A. L. Weber, M. B. Untch, H.-Jü. Butt, T. Sauermann, H. J. Egelhaaf, and Rü. Berger, "Photoinduced Degradation Studies of Organic Solar Cell Materials Using Kelvin Probe Force and Conductive Scanning Force Microscopy," J. Phys. Chem. C 115, 19994-20001 (2011). doi:10.1021/jp2048713
A. B. South, R. E. Whitmire, A. J. Garcia, and L. A. Lyon, "Centrifugal Deposition of Microgels for the Rapid Assembly of Nonfouling Thin Films," ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 1, 2747-2754 (2009). doi:10.1021/am9005435
F. Streller, G. E. Wabiszewski, F. Mangolini, G. Feng, and R. W. Carpick, "Tunable, Source-Controlled Formation of Platinum Silicides and Nanogaps from Thin Precursor Films," Adv. Mater. Interfaces 1, (2014). doi:10.1002/admi.201300120
F. Yan, G. Chen, L. Lu, P. Finkel, and J. E. Spanier, "Local probing of magnetoelectric coupling and magnetoelastic control of switching in BiFeO3-CoFe2O4 thin-film nanocomposite," Appl. Phys. Lett. 103, 042906 (2013). doi:10.1063/1.4816793
J. Yang, S. Yim, and T. S. Jones, "Molecular-Orientation-Induced Rapid Roughening and Morphology Transition in Organic Semiconductor Thin-Film Growth," Sci. Rep. 5, 9441 (2015). doi:10.1038/srep09441