June 2026: Ky wins the Physics department’s UGF award, and Mahir wins the physics milestone award. Congratulations!!
May 2026: Mahir wins the best poster award at the Arizona Imaging and Microanalysis Society(AIMS) conference 2026. Kudos!!
April 2026: Congratulations to Preston for passing his Barrett Honors Thesis, and to Ethan for successfully defending his Master’s thesis! Great job, both!
March 2026: Sandhya wins the Early Career Program grant from the Army Research Office. We will use this funding to investigate the topological defects in moiré materials.
January 2026: Our team got awarded the RCSA Scialog QMI teaming grants to work on Terahertz Quantum Interconnects Via Reconfigurable Ferron Networks
December 2025: Patrick’s first author paper, “Tunable n-type rhenium doping in MoS2 monolayers by atmospheric chemical vapor deposition,” was accepted for publication in MRS Bulletin. Congratulations!
November 2025: Sriram and Mahir clear their comprehensive exams.
September 2025: Our team got awarded a CARET grant from Arizona State University to work on two-dimensional van der Waals magnets. Excited to begin work.
August 2025: Our group is awarded its first collaborative grant from Applied Materials (AMAT) with the Tongay lab and a conference grant as a sole PI from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Excited to begin work.
August 2025: Mahir wins the second prize for his poster at M&M 2025.
July 2025: Mahir wins the pre-meeting congress travel award from the MSA.
June 2025: Patrick wins the SEMTE travel award and the MSA Student Council Boots on the Ground travel funding. He will use this to attend the ptychography summer school.
May 2025: Sandhya wins the prestigious Scialog fellowship in Quantum Matter and Information to be held in October 2025
May 2025: Patrick, Sriram, and Mahir win the ASU graduate college student travel awards to attend the M&M 2025 meeting.
April 2025: Patrick wins the prestigious student scholar award from MSA to be presented to him in August 2025 at M&M.
March 2025: Patrick passes his comprehensive exam on “Electron Microscopy of Defects in Low- and High-Pressure Phases of Layered Materials”.
February 2025: Sandhya wins the prestigious Albert Crewe Award from the Microscopy Society of America (MSA) to be presented to her in August 2025 at M&M.
January 2025: Mahir wins Physics graduate travel award to present his research at the Ferro2025 Workshop on Fundamental Physics of Ferroelectrics.
December 2024: Annual update on publications: 4 journal articles and 5 conference proceedings, out of which 8 are ones where Susarla group students have actively participated in.
November 2024: Kshitish defends his master’s thesis on Growth and characterization of room temperature topological magnetic materials. He will now leave the group and work with Jason Khoury at ASU.
October 2024: Sriya, a high school student, joins the group via the SCENE program.
July 2024: Mahir and Sriram present posters, and Patrick presents his first talk at M&M 2024. Patrick won the second prize in the imaging contest.
June 2024: Sriram, Patrick, and Mahir win ASU graduate college travel awards to present their research at the M&M 2024 meeting.
May 2024: Two undergraduate students, Triston and Preston, majoring in Applied Physics, join the Susarla group to work over the summer
April 2024: Surya Prakash Reddy successfully defends his master’s thesis on “Transmission electron microscopy in halide perovskites”
March 2024: Nnemaka joins and presents a poster at the SCENE symposium
November 2023: Tochukwu, an undergraduate senior, joins the Susarla group
September 2023: Nnemaka joins as a part of the SCENE program
August 2023: Sriram converts into a PhD student with the Fulton Fellowship and joins the Susarla group
Sriram will work on excitonic properties in the two-dimensional moiré systems.
July 2023: Patrick and Sriram present their first posters at the Microscopy and Microanalysis (M&M) meeting 2024
June 2023: Our ORNL user proposal was selected
May 2023: Our LBNL user proposal was selected
April 2023: Surya presents the MORE poster
Surya presented his poster on Analysis of Vibrational EELS Datasets to Unravel the Nanoscale Ferroelectric-Ferroelastic Coupling in Oxides.
March 2023: Badar joins Susarla group
Badar is a sophomore who will primarily assist in sample preparation
Feb 2023: Kshitish joins Susarla group
Kshitish is a first-year Master’s student with a Mechanical Engineering Major. He will work on 2D magnetic materials.
Jan 2023: Mahir joins the Susarla group
Mahir is first year physics student who will work on imaging phonon modes in ferroelectric materials. Welcome Mahir!
Nov 2022: Surya wins the MORE Fellowship
He will work on the data analysis of phonon EELS spectra
Aug 24, 2022: Susarla group welcomes master’s student, Sriram
Sriram joined the group in Fall 2022. He will work on the drift correction in images. Welcome Sriram!
Aug 19, 2022: Susarla group welcomes master’s student, Surya
Surya joined the group in Fall 2022. He will work on data analysis of vibrational EELS datasets. Welcome Surya!
Aug 18, 2022: Sandhya gives an invited talk at Foundry user meeting
Sandhya presented her postdoctoral work on Imaging Excitons at the nanoscale at the Foundry Annual User Meeting
Aug 15, 2022: Sajib Dhar joins the Susarla group
Sajib obtained his undergraduate degree from the Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. He has joined the Susarla group to work on exploring atomic-scale correlated properties of complex oxides. Welcome Sajib!
Aug 10, 2022: Patrick joins the Susarla group
Patrick completed his bachelor’s and master’s from Arizona State University. He will be jointly advised by Prof. Susarla and Prof. Tongay. He will work on exploring the atomic-scale structural and electronic properties of two-dimensional materials. Welcome Patrick!