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2017

Damodaran, A.R, J.D Clarkson, Z Hong, H B Liu, A.K Yadav, C.T Nelson, S.-L Hsu, M.R McCarter, K.-D Park, V Kravtsov, A Farhan, Y Dong, Z Cai, H Zhou, P Aguado-Puente, P García-Fernández, J Íñiguez, J Junquera, A Scholl, M.B Raschke, L.-Q Chen, D.D Fong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.W Martin."Phase coexistence and electric-field control of toroidal order in oxide superlattices."Nature Materials 16 (2017) 1003-1009. DOI

Li, Q, C.T Nelson, S.-L Hsu, A.R Damodaran, L.-L Li, A.K Yadav, M McCarter, L.W Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and S.V Kalinin."Quantification of flexoelectricity in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice polar vortices using machine learning and phase-field modeling."Nature Communications 8 (2017). DOI

Hong, Z, A.R Damodaran, F Xue, S.-L Hsu, J Britson, A.K Yadav, C.T Nelson, J.-J Wang, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.-Q Chen."Stability of Polar Vortex Lattice in Ferroelectric Superlattices."Nano Letters 17 (2017) 2246-2252. DOI

."Test Report #1." (2017).

2016

Fiebig, Manfred."Condensed-Matter Physics: Multitasking Materials from Atomic Templates."Nature 537.7621 (2016) 499 - 500. DOI

Ge, Jing, and Ronnen M Levinson."The Advancement of Cool Roof Standards in China from 2010 to 2015." (2016).

Delaire, Caroline, Case M van Genuchten, Susan Amrose, and Ashok J Gadgil."Bacteria attenuation by iron electrocoagulation governed by interactions between bacterial phosphate groups and Fe(III) precipitates."Water Research 103 (2016) 74 - 82. DOI

Karali, Nihan, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, Robert J Yinger, Chris Marnay, and Limingming Zhu."Benefit Analyses of Irvine Smart Grid Projects."CIGRE US National Committee 2016 Grid of the Future Symposium (2016).

Karali, Nihan, Dong Zhang, GuoQi Ren, Brendan Shaffer, Kevin Clampitt, JianCheng Yu, Robert J Yinger, and Chris Marnay."Benefits Analysis of Smart Grid Demonstration Projects."2016 China International Conference on Electricity Distribution (CICED 2016) (2016).

Wilson, Daniel L, Jeremy Coyle, Angeli Kirk, Javier Rosa, Omnia Abbas, Mohammed Idris Adam, and Ashok J Gadgil."Measuring and Increasing Adoption Rates of Cookstoves in a Humanitarian Crisis."Environmental Science & Technology 50.15 (2016) 8393 - 8399. DOI

Wilson, Daniel L, Daniel R Talancon, Richard L Winslow, Xioranny Linares, and Ashok J Gadgil."Avoided emissions of a fuel-efficient biomass cookstove dwarf embodied emissions."Development Engineering 1 (2016) 45 - 52. DOI

van Genuchten, Case M, Siva R.S Bandaru, Elena Surorova, Susan Amrose, Ashok J Gadgil, and Jasquelin Peña."Formation of macroscopic surface layers on Fe(0) electrocoagulation electrodes during an extended field trial of arsenic treatment."Chemosphere 153 (2016) 270 - 279. DOI

Sheppard, Colin, Andrew Harris, and Anand R Gopal."Cost-Effective Siting of Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure With Agent-Based Modeling."IEEE Transactions on Transportation Electrification 2.2 (2016) 174 - 189. DOI

Ravichandran, J, C.R Serrao, D.K Efetov, D Yi, Y.S Oh, S.-W Cheong, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and P Kim."Ambipolar transport and magneto-resistance crossover in a Mott insulator, Sr2IrO4."Journal of Physics Condensed Matter 28 (2016). DOI

Yia, D, J F Liu, S.-L Hsu, L Zhang, Y Choi, J.-W Kim, Z Chen, J.D Clarkson, C.R Serrao, E Arenholz, P.J Ryan, H Xu, R.J Birgeneau, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Atomic-scale control of magnetic anisotropy via novel spin-orbit coupling effect in La2/3Sr1/3MnO3/SrIrO3 superlattices."Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 113 (2016) 6397-6402. DOI

Mundy, J.A, C.M Brooks, M.E Holtz, J.A Moyer, H Das, A.F Rébola, J.T Heron, J.D Clarkson, S.M Disseler, Z Liu, A Farhan, R Held, R Hovden, E Padgett, Q Mao, H Paik, R Misra, L.F Kourkoutis, E Arenholz, A Scholl, J.A Borchers, W.D Ratcliff, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C.J Fennie, P Schiffer, D.A Muller, and D.G Schlom."Atomically engineered ferroic layers yield a room-temperature magnetoelectric multiferroic."Nature 537 (2016) 523-527. DOI

Ievlev, A.V, P Maksymovych, M Trassin, J Seidel, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, S.V Kalinin, and O.S Ovchinnikova."Chemical State Evolution in Ferroelectric Films during Tip-Induced Polarization and Electroresistive Switching."ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces 8 (2016) 29588-29593. DOI

Gao, Yuan, J.-M Hu, C.T Nelson, T.N Yang, Y Shen, L.Q Chen, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and C.W Nan."Dynamic in situ observation of voltage-driven repeatable magnetization reversal at room temperature."Scientific Reports 6 (2016). DOI

Yadav, A.K, C.T Nelson, S.L Hsu, Z Hong, J.D Clarkson, C.M Schlepütz, A.R Damodaran, P Shafer, E Arenholz, L.R Dedon, D Chen, A Vishwanath, A.M Minor, L.Q Chen, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Erratum: Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices (Nature (2016) 530 (198-201) DOI:10.1038/nature16463)."Nature 534 (2016) 138. DOI

Wang, C W, X Ke, J Wang, R Liang, Z Luo, Y Tian, D Yi, Q Zhang, J Wang, X.-F Han, G Van Tendeloo, L.-Q Chen, C.-W Nan, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J Zhang."Ferroelastic switching in a layered-perovskite thin film."Nature Communications 7 (2016). DOI

Ko, C, Y Lee, Yimin Chen, J Suh, D Fu, A Suslu, Sang Hoon Lee, J.D Clarkson, H.S Choe, S Tongay, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and J Wu."Ferroelectrically gated atomically thin transition-metal dichalcogenides as nonvolatile memory."Advanced Materials 28 (2016) 2923-2930. DOI

Agar, J.C, S Pandya, R Xu, A.K Yadav, Z Liu, Thomas Angsten, S Saremi, M Asta, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, and L.W Martin."Frontiers in strain-engineered multifunctional ferroic materials."MRS Communications 6 (2016) 151-166. DOI

Liu, Z.Q, L Li, Z Gai, J.D Clarkson, S.L Hsu, A.T Wong, L.S Fan, M.-W Lin, C.M Rouleau, T.Z Ward, H.N Lee, A.S Sefat, H.M Christen, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Full Electroresistance Modulation in a Mixed-Phase Metallic Alloy."Physical Review Letters 116 (2016). DOI

Khan, A.I, K Chatterjee, J.P Duarte, Z Lu, A Sachid, S Khandelwal, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, C Hu, and S Salahuddin."Negative Capacitance in Short-Channel FinFETs Externally Connected to an Epitaxial Ferroelectric Capacitor."IEEE Electron Device Letters 37 (2016) 111-114. DOI

Yadav, A.K, C.T Nelson, S.L Hsu, Z Hong, J.D Clarkson, C.M Schlepuëtz, A.R Damodaran, P Shafer, E Arenholz, L.R Dedon, D Chen, A Vishwanath, A.M Minor, L.Q Chen, J.F Scott, L.W Martin, and Ramamoorthy Ramesh."Observation of polar vortices in oxide superlattices."Nature 530 (2016) 198-201. DOI