Publications

Summary: h-index=24, citations >2700

After ASU

55 Engineering magnetic correlations in 2D tungsten diselenide via in situ adatom doping of Nb. M. B., Abhijith, Mishra, S., Paul, S., Sankar, S., Pandey, V., Susarla, S., Kumar Singh, A., Kochat, V. Nanoscale, 2026.

54 Probing (sub)nanoscale ferrons in an electron microscope. Manna, M., Yang, F., Chaudhuri, S., Shenoy, S., Zhao, G.-D., Tanwani, M., Reddy, S. P., Hays, P. J., Sankar, S., de Souza Coutinho Nogueira, C., Muraleedharan, S., Xu, X., Das, S., Inzani, K., Long-Qing Chen, Susarla, S. arXiv preprint arXiv:2609.13625, 2026.

53 Recent Trends in Two-Dimensional Transition Metal-Tellurides and Their Applications. Chowde Gowda, C., Yadav, T. P., Chaudhary, V., Kar, S., Susarla, S., Mukhopadhyay, N. K., Tiwary, C. S. Small, 22(10), e10483, 2026.

52 Grainy CrₓOᵧ RRAM with Thermal Stability for Enabling Emerging Computing Applications. Maddineni, S. P., Niedzwiecki, D. J., Lu, Z., Huang, Y., Manna, M., Susarla, S., Chen, D. ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 7(24), 11199–11208, 2025.

Grainy CrxOy RRAM with Thermal Stability for Enabling Emerging Computing Applications

51 Topology-Driven Vibrations in a Chiral Polar Vortex Lattice. Hoglund, E. R., Walker, H. A., Meisenheimer, P., Pfeifer, T. W., De Vries, N., Chaudhuri, D., Lu, D., Ran, T., Quillin, N., Susarla, S., Bao, D.-L., et al. arXiv preprint arXiv:2509.10783, 2025.

50 Metallic 2D Janus SNbSe layers driven by a structural phase change. Wu, C., Sayyad, M. Y., Sailus, R. E., Dey, D., Xie, J., Hays, P., Kopaczek, J., Ou, Y., Susarla, S., Esqueda, I. S., Botana, A. S., Tongay, S. A. Nanoscale, 17, 7801-7812, 2025. doi:10.1039/D4NR04059G

49 Anisotropic Ferroelectricity in Polar Vortices. Behera, P., Ross, A. M., Shanker, N., Meisenheimer, P., Manna, M., Lin, C., Hsu, S., Harris, I., Kavle, P., Husain, S., Ojha, S. K., Das, S., Raja, A., Martin, L. W., Susarla, S., Salahuddin, S., Chen, L., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 37(1), 2410149, 2025.

48 Interface effects in the phase determination of Hf0. 5Zr0. 5O2 epitaxial thin films. Schimpf, J., Zhang, W., Manna, M., Susarla, S., Lu, X., Rondinelli, J. M., Martin, L. W. APL Materials, 13(1), 2025.

47 Overcoming the surface paradox: Buried perovskite quantum dots in wide-bandgap perovskite thin films. Zhang, H., Pasha, A., Metcalf, I., Zhou, J., Staunstrup, M., Zhu, Y., Liao, S., Ssennyimba, K., Chen, J., Reddy, S. P., Thébaud, S., Hou, J., Shuai, X., Mandani, F., Sidhik, S., Jones, M. R., Ma, X., Balakrishna, R. G., Susarla, S., Ginger, D. S., Katan, C., Kanatzidis, M. G., Bawendi, M. G., Natelson, D., Tamarat, P., Lounis, B., Even, J., Mohite, A. D. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.06061, 2025.

46 High-Yield Delamination of Hydrothermally-Etched V2CT x. Snyder, R. M., Sankar, S., Bhatt, P., Riaz, A. A., Thakur, P. K., Lee, T., Regoutz, A., Susarla, S., Birkel, C. S. Inorganic chemistry, 64(10), 4761–4765, 2025.

44 Manipulating chiral spin transport with ferroelectric polarization. Huang, X., Chen, X., Li, Y., Mangeri, J., Zhang, H., Ramesh, M., Taghinejad, H., Meisenheimer, P., Caretta, L., Susarla, S., Jain, R., Klewe, C., Wang, T., Chen, R., Hsu, C., Harris, I., Husain, S., Pan, H., Yin, J., Shafer, P., Qiu, Z., Rodrigues, D. R., Heinonen, O., Vasudevan, D., \'I\~niguez, J., Schlom, D. G., Salahuddin, S., Martin, L. W., Analytis, J. G., Ralph, D. C., Cheng, R., Yao, Z., Ramesh, R. Nature materials, 23(7), 898–904, 2024.

43 Structural and angle-resolved optical and vibrational properties of chiral trivial insulator InSeI. Erdi, M., Kapeghian, J., Hays, P., Dandu, M., Blach, D. D., Sayyad, M., Kopaczek, J., Sailus, R., Raja, A., Susarla, S., Botana, A. S., Tongay, S. A. Applied Physics Reviews, 11(4), 041422, 2024. doi:10.1063/5.0219184

42 Uncovering polar vortex structures by inversion of multiple scattering with a stacked Bloch wave model. Zeltmann, S. E., Hsu, S., Brown, H. G., Susarla, S., Ramesh, R., Minor, A. M., Ophus, C. Ultramicroscopy, 250, 113732, 2023.

41 Imaging the electron charge density in monolayer MoS2 at the \AAngstrom scale. Martis, J., Susarla, S., Rayabharam, A., Su, C., Paule, T., Pelz, P., Huff, C., Xu, X., Li, H., Jaikissoon, M., Chen, V., Pop, E., Saraswat, K., Zettl, A., Aluru, N. R., Ramesh, R., Ercius, P., Majumdar, A. Nature communications, 14(1), 4363, 2023.

40 The emergence of three-dimensional chiral domain walls in polar vortices. Susarla, S., Hsu, S., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., Garc\'\ia-Fern\'andez, P., Savitzky, B. H., Das, S., Behera, P., Junquera, J., Ercius, P., Ramesh, R., Ophus, C. Nature communications, 14(1), 4465, 2023.

39 Engineering relaxor behavior in (BaTiO3) n/(SrTiO3) n superlattices. Lupi, E., Wexler, R. B., Meyers, D., Zahradnik, A., Jiang, Y., Susarla, S., Ramesh, R., Martin, L. W., Rappe, A. M. Advanced Materials, 35(51), 2302012, 2023.

38 Large spin--orbit torque in bismuthate-based heterostructures. Edgeton, A. L., Harris, I. A., Campbell, N. G., Chai, Y., Mazur, M. M., Gurung, G., Huang, X., Susarla, S., Tsymbal, E. Y., Ralph, D. C., Nan, T., Rzchowski, M. S., Ramesh, R., Eom, C. Nature Electronics, 6(12), 973–980, 2023.

37 Experimental and Theoretical Studies of the Surface Oxidation Process of Rare‐Earth Tritellurides. Kopaczek, J., Yumigeta, K., Ibrahim, A., Sayyad, M. Y., Sinha, S., Sailus, R., Hays, P., Moosavy, S. T. R., Susarla, S., Ataca, C. Advanced Electronic Materials, 9(5), 2201129, 2023.

36 Emergent Ferroelectric Switching Behavior from Polar Vortex Lattice. Behera, P., Parsonnet, E., Gómez-Ortiz, F., Srikrishna, V., Meisenheimer, P., Susarla, S., Kavle, P., Caretta, L., Wu, Y., Tian, Z., Fernandez, A., Martin, L. W., Das, S., Junquera, J., Hong, Z., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 35(23), 2208367, 2023. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202208367

35 Hyperspectral imaging of exciton confinement within a moir\'e unit cell with a subnanometer electron probe. Susarla, S., Naik, M. H., Blach, D. D., Zipfel, J., Taniguchi, T., Watanabe, K., Huang, L., Ramesh, R., da Jornada, F. H., Louie, S. G., Ercius, P., Raja, A. Science, 378(6625), 1235–1239, 2022.

Before ASU

34	Enabling ultra-low-voltage switching in BaTiO3. Jiang, Y., Parsonnet, E., Qualls, A., Zhao, W., Susarla, S., Pesquera, D., Dasgupta, A., Acharya, M., Zhang, H., Gosavi, T., Lin, C., Nikonov, D. E., Li, H., Young, I. A., Ramesh, R., Martin, L. W. Nature Materials, 21(7), 779–785, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41563-022-01266-6
33	Chiral structures of electric polarization vectors quantified by X-ray resonant scattering. Kim, K. T., McCarter, M. R., Stoica, V. A., Das, S., Klewe, C., Donoway, E. P., Burn, D. M., Shafer, P., Rodolakis, F., Gon\ccalves, M. A. P., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., \'I\~niguez, J., Garc\'ia-Fern\'andez, P., Junquera, J., Susarla, S., Lovesey, S. W., van der Laan, G., Park, S. Y., Martin, L. W., Freeland, J. W., Ramesh, R., Lee, D. R. Nature Communications, 13(1), 1769, 2022. doi:10.1038/s41467-022-29359-5
32	Electric field control of chirality. Behera, P., May, M. A., G\'omez-Ortiz, F., Susarla, S., Das, S., Nelson, C. T., Caretta, L., Hsu, S., McCarter, M. R., Savitzky, B. H., Barnard, E. S., Raja, A., Hong, Z., Garc\'ia-Fernandez, P., Lovesey, S. W., van der Laan, G., Ercius, P., Ophus, C., Martin, L. W., Junquera, J., Raschke, M. B., Ramesh, R. Science Advances, 8(1), eabj8030, 2022. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abj8030
31	Low temperature CVD growth of WSe2 enabled by moisture-assisted defects in the precursor powder. Sassi, L. M., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Apte, A., Castro-Pardo, S., Ajnsztajn, A., Vajtai, R., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C. S., Puthirath, A. B., Ajayan, P. M. 2D Materials, 9(4), 045026, 2022.
30	Pervasive beyond Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in a Doped van der Waals Magnet. Chen, X., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Susarla, S., Hogan, T., He, Y., Zhang, H., Wang, S., Yao, J., Ercius, P., Muller, D. A., Ramesh, R., Birgeneau, R. J. Phys. Rev. Lett., 128, 217203, 2022. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.217203
29	Inherent Spin–Polarization Coupling in a Magnetoelectric Vortex. Das, S., Laguta, V., Inzani, K., Huang, W., Liu, J., Chatterjee, R., McCarter, M. R., Susarla, S., Ardavan, A., Junquera, J., Griffin, S. M., Ramesh, R. Nano Letters, 22(10), 3976–3982, 2022. doi:10.1021/acs.nanolett.2c00496
28	Room-temperature skyrmion lattice in a layered magnet ((Fe$_0. 5$Co$_0.5$)$_5$GeTe$_2$). Zhang, H., Raftrey, D., Chan, Y., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Chen, X., Huang, X., Reichanadter, J. T., Dong, K., Susarla, S., Caretta, L., Chen, Z., Yao, J., Fischer, P., Neaton, J. B., Wu, W., Muller, D. A., Birgeneau, R. J., Ramesh, R. Science Advances, 8(12), eabm7103, 2022. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abm7103
27	A room temperature polar magnetic metal. Zhang, H., Shao, Y., Chen, R., Chen, X., Susarla, S., Raftrey, D., Reichanadter, J. T., Caretta, L., Huang, X., Settineri, N. S., Chen, Z., Zhou, J., Bourret-Courchesne, E., Ercius, P., Yao, J., Fischer, P., Neaton, J. B., Muller, D. A., Birgeneau, R. J., Ramesh, R. Phys. Rev. Mater., 6, 044403, 2022. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.6.044403
26	Novel spin--orbit torque generation at room temperature in an all-oxide epitaxial La0. 7Sr0. 3MnO3/SrIrO3 system. Huang, X., Sayed, S., Mittelstaedt, J., Susarla, S., Karimeddiny, S., Caretta, L., Zhang, H., Stoica, V. A., Gosavi, T., Mahfouzi, F., Sun, Q., Ercius, P., Kioussis, N., Salahuddin, S., Ralph, D. C., Ramesh, R. Advanced Materials, 33(24), 2008269, 2021.
25	Corrosion Resistance of Sulfur–Selenium Alloy Coatings. Susarla, S., Chilkoor, G., Kalimuthu, J. R., Saadi, M. A. S. R., Cui, Y., Arif, T., Tsafack, T., Puthirath, A. B., Sigdel, P., Jasthi, B., Sudeep, P. M., Hu, L., Hassan, A., Castro-Pardo, S., Barnes, M., Roy, S., Verduzco, R., Kibria, M. G., Filleter, T., Lin, H., Solares, S. D., Koratkar, N., Gadhamshetty, V., Rahman, M. M., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 33(51), 2104467, 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202104467
24	Structure, Properties and Applications of Two-Dimensional Hexagonal Boron Nitride. Roy, S., Zhang, X., Puthirath, A. B., Meiyazhagan, A., Bhattacharyya, S., Rahman, M. M., Babu, G., Susarla, S., Saju, S. K., Tran, M. K., Sassi, L. M., Saadi, M. A. S. R., Lai, J., Sahin, O., Sajadi, S. M., Dharmarajan, B., Salpekar, D., Chakingal, N., Baburaj, A., Shuai, X., Adumbumkulath, A., Miller, K. A., Gayle, J. M., Ajnsztajn, A., Prasankumar, T., Harikrishnan, V. V. J., Ojha, V., Kannan, H., Khater, A. Z., Zhu, Z., Iyengar, S. A., Autreto, P. A. D. S., Oliveira, E. F., Gao, G., Birdwell, A. G., Neupane, M. R., Ivanov, T. G., Taha-Tijerina, J., Yadav, R. M., Arepalli, S., Vajtai, R., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 33(44), 2101589, 2021. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202101589
23	Mapping modified electronic levels in the moir\'e patterns in MoS2/WSe2 using low-loss EELS. Susarla, S., M. Sassi, L., Zobelli, A., Woo, S. Y., Tizei, L. H., St\'ephan, O., Ajayan, P. M. Nano letters, 21(9), 4071–4077, 2021.
22	Atomic scale crystal field mapping of polar vortices in oxide superlattices. Susarla, S., Garc\'\ia-Fern\'andez, P., Ophus, C., Das, S., Aguado-Puente, P., McCarter, M., Ercius, P., Martin, L. W., Ramesh, R., Junquera, J. Nature communications, 12(1), 6273, 2021.
21	2D electrets of ultrathin moO2 with apparent piezoelectricity. Apte, A., Mozaffari, K., Samghabadi, F. S., Hachtel, J. A., Chang, L., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Moore, D. C., Glavin, N. R., Litvinov, D., Sharma, P., Puthirath, A. B., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 32(24), 2000006, 2020.
20	Atomic-level alloying of sulfur and selenium for advanced lithium batteries. Susarla, S., Puthirath, A. B., Tsafack, T., Salpekar, D., Babu, G., Ajayan, P. M. ACS applied materials \& interfaces, 12(1), 1005–1013, 2019.
19	Interface and defect engineering of hybrid nanostructures toward an efficient HER catalyst. Ozden, S., Bawari, S., Vinod, S., Martinez, U., Susarla, S., Narvaez, C., Joyner, J., Tiwary, C. S., Narayanan, T. N., Ajayan, P. M. Nanoscale, 11(26), 12489–12496, 2019.
18	High-K dielectric sulfur-selenium alloys. Susarla, S., Tsafack, T., Owuor, P. S., Puthirath, A. B., Hachtel, J. A., Babu, G., Apte, A., Jawdat, B. I., Hilario, M. S., Lerma, A., Calderon, H. A., Hernandez, F. C. R., Tam, D. W., Li, T., Lupini, A. R., Idrobo, J. C., Lou, J., Wei, B., Dai, P., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Science advances, 5(5), eaau9785, 2019.
17	Two-Dimensional Lateral Epitaxy of 2H (MoSe₂)--1T'(ReSe₂) Phases. Apte, A., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Yoon, J., Bharadwaj, P., Tour, J. M., Idrobo, J. C., Kalia, R. K., Nakano, A., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. Nano Letters, 19(9), 2019.
16	Strain-induced structural deformation study of 2D MoxW (1-x) S2. Susarla, S., Manimunda, P., Jaques, Y. M., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Asif, S. S., Galv\~ao, D. S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced materials interfaces, 6(5), 1801262, 2019.
15	Fiber Reinforced Layered Dielectric Nanocomposite. Rahman, M. M., Puthirath, A. B., Adumbumkulath, A., Tsafack, T., Robatjazi, H., Barnes, M., Wang, Z., Kommandur, S., Susarla, S., Sajadi, S. M., Salpekar, D., Yuan, F., Babu, G., Nomoto, K., Islam, S. M., Verduzco, R., Yee, S. K., Xing, H. G., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Functional Materials, 29(28), 1900056, 2019. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.201900056
14	Interconnecting Bone Nanoparticles by Ovalbumin Molecules to Build a Three-Dimensional Low-Density and Tough Material. Owuor, P. S., Tsafack, T., Hwang, H. Y., Sajadi, M., Jung, S., Li, T., Susarla, S., Wei, B., Vajtai, R., Lou, J., Bhowmick, S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(48), 41757–41762, 2018. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b13681
13	Soft-Lithographic Patterning of Luminescent Carbon Nanodots Derived from Collagen Waste. Meiyazhagan, A., Aliyan, A., Ayyappan, A., Moreno-Gonzalez, I., Susarla, S., Yazdi, S., Cuanalo-Contreras, K., Khabashesku, V. N., Vajtai, R., Mart\'i, A. A., Ajayan, P. M. ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, 10(42), 36275–36283, 2018. doi:10.1021/acsami.8b13114
12	Porous graphene current collectors filled with silicon as high-performance lithium battery anode. Ababtain, K., Babu, G., Susarla, S., Gullapalli, H., Masurkar, N., Ajayan, P. M., Arava, L. M. R. Materials Research Express, 5(1), 014004, 2018.
11	Differences in the mechanical properties of monolayer and multilayer WSe2/MoSe2. Jaques, Y. M., Manimunda, P., Nakanishi, Y., Susarla, S., Woellner, C., Bhowmick, S., Asif, S., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. MRS advances, 3(6-7), 373–378, 2018.
10	Deformation mechanisms of vertically stacked WS2/MoS2 heterostructures: the role of interfaces. Susarla, S., Manimunda, P., Morais Jaques, Y., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Syed Amnulla, S. A., Galv\~ao, D. S., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. ACS nano, 12(4), 4036–4044, 2018.
9	Molecular simulation of MoS2 exfoliation. Zhou, G., Rajak, P., Susarla, S., Ajayan, P. M., Kalia, R. K., Nakano, A., Vashishta, P. Scientific reports, 8(1), 16761, 2018.
8	Achieving Self-Stiffening and Laser Healing by Interconnecting Graphene Oxide Sheets with Amine-Functionalized Ovalbumin. Owuor, P. S., Tsafack, T., Schara, S., Hwang, H., Jung, S., Salvatierra, R. V., Li, T., Susarla, S., Ren, M., Wei, B., Vajtai, R., Tour, J. M., Lou, J., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials Interfaces, 5(20), 1800932, 2018.
7	Telluride-based atomically thin layers of ternary two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide alloys. Apte, A., Krishnamoorthy, A., Hachtel, J. A., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Nakano, A., Kalia, R. K., Vashishta, P., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Chemistry of Materials, 30(20), 7262–7268, 2018.
6	Thermally Induced 2D Alloy-Heterostructure Transformation in Quaternary Alloys. Susarla, S., Hachtel, J. A., Yang, X., Kutana, A., Apte, A., Jin, Z., Vajtai, R., Idrobo, J. C., Lou, J., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 30(45), 1804218, 2018. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201804218
5	Re Doping in 2D Transition Metal Dichalcogenides as a New Route to Tailor Structural Phases and Induced Magnetism. Kochat, V., Apte, A., Hachtel, J. A., Kumazoe, H., Krishnamoorthy, A., Susarla, S., Idrobo, J. C., Shimojo, F., Vashishta, P., Kalia, R., Nakano, A., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 29(43), 1703754, 2017. doi:https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.201703754
4	Nanoscale deformation and friction characteristics of atomically thin WSe2 and heterostructure using nanoscratch and Raman spectroscopy. Manimunda, P., Nakanishi, Y., Jaques, Y., Susarla, S., Woellner, C., Bhowmick, S., Asif, S., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. 2D Materials, 4(4), 045005, 2017.
3	Quaternary 2D transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) with tunable bandgap. Susarla, S., Kutana, A., Hachtel, J. A., Kochat, V., Apte, A., Vajtai, R., Idrobo, J. C., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Advanced Materials, 29(35), 1702457, 2017.
2	Lightweight Hexagonal Boron Nitride Foam for CO$_2$ Absorption. Owuor, P., Park, O., Woellner, C., Jalilov, A., Susarla, S., Joyner, J., Ozden, S., Duy, L., Salvatierra, R., Vajtai, R., Tour, J., Lou, J., Galv\~ao, D., Tiwary, C., Ajayan, P. ACS Nano, 11(9), 8944–8952, 2017. doi:10.1021/acsnano.7b03291
1	Phase segregation behavior of two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide binary alloys induced by dissimilar substitution. Susarla, S., Kochat, V., Kutana, A., Hachtel, J. A., Idrobo, J. C., Vajtai, R., Yakobson, B. I., Tiwary, C. S., Ajayan, P. M. Chemistry of Materials, 29(17), 7431–7439, 2017.