Ruijuan Xu

Assistant Professor

Dr. Ruijuan Xu is an Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering at North Carolina State University. Ruijuan received her B.E. from Zhejiang University, her M.S. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and her Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in Materials Science and Engineering. Before joining NC State, she was a GLAM Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Applied Physics at Stanford University and SLAC National Laboratory. Ruijuan’s current research focuses on the design and manipulation of novel functional properties and exotic phenomena in oxide thin films, heterostructures, and membranes. Her research group leverages atomic-scale epitaxy and state-of-the-art characterization techniques to construct novel ferroic materials, with an emphasis on applications in next-generation microelectronics and energy technologies.

Publications

Experimental progress in freestanding oxide membranes designed by epitaxy
Harbola, V., Xu, R., & Hong, S. S. (2025). [Review of , ]. ADVANCES IN PHYSICS-X, 10(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2025.2450538
Flexoelectric Enhancement of Strain Gradient Elasticity Across a Ferroelectric-to-Paraelectric Phase Transition
Harbola, V., Pesquera, D., Xu, R., Ashby, P. D., Martin, L. W., & Hwang, H. Y. (2024, August 12), NANO LETTERS, Vol. 8. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.nanolett.4c02946
Highly confined epsilon-near-zero and surface phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes
Xu, R., Crassee, I., Bechtel, H. A., Zhou, Y., Bercher, A., Korosec, L., … Liu, Y. (2024), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 15(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-47917-x
Highly confined epsilon-near-zero and surface phonon polaritons in SrTiO3 membranes (vol 15, 4743, 2024)
Xu, R., Crassee, I., Bechtel, H. A., Zhou, Y., Bercher, A., Korosec, L., … Liu, Y. (2024, October 2), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, Vol. 15. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-52983-2
Emergent chirality in a polar meron to skyrmion phase transition
Shao, Y.-T., Das, S., Hong, Z., Xu, R., Chandrika, S., Gomez-Ortiz, F., … Muller, D. A. (2023), NATURE COMMUNICATIONS, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36950-x
Size-Induced Ferroelectricity in Antiferroelectric Oxide Membranes
Xu, R., Crust, K. J., Harbola, V., Arras, R., Patel, K. Y., Prosandeev, S., … Hwang, H. Y. (2023). Size‐Induced Ferroelectricity in Antiferroelectric Oxide Membranes. Advanced Materials, 2, 2210562. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202210562,
Emergent chirality in a polar meron to skyrmion transition revealed by 4D-STEM
Shao, Y. T., Das, S., Hong, Z., Xu, R., Chandrika, S., Gómez-Ortiz, F., … Muller, D. (2021), Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27(S1), 348–350. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1431927621001793
Fracture and fatigue of thin crystalline SrTiO3 membranes
Harbola, V., Xu, R., Crossley, S., Singh, P., & Hwang, H. Y. (2021), Applied Physics Letters, 119, 053102. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0060465
Probing the dynamics of ferroelectric topological oscillators with the electron beam
Shao, Y. T., Nahas, Y., Sergei, P., Das, S., Xu, R., Chandrika, S., … Muller, D. (2021), Microscopy and Microanalysis, 27(S1), 690–692. https://doi.org/10.1017/S143192762100283X
Symmetry-aware recursive image similarity exploration for materials microscopy
Nguyen, T. N. M., Guo, Y., Qin, S., Frew, K. S., Xu, R., & Agar, J. C. (2021), Npj Computational Materials, 7, 166. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00637-y

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Ruijuan Xu