Education

Ph.D. Ural State University, 1990

Research

The group's research focuses on fundamental studies of nanoscale physical phenomena in electronic and polar materials using scanning probe microscopy (SPM) techniques. More specifically, research involves applying SPM to nanoscale studies of the static and dynamic properties of ferroic domains, the scaling behavior of ferroelectric-based devices, the electronic properties of polar surfaces, SPM-assisted methods for the fabrication of nanostructures, and SPM studies of the electromechanical and mechanical properties of biocompatible materials and biological systems.

Recent Publications

• A. Erickson, S. Q. A. Shah, A. Mahmood, P. Buragohain, I. Fescenko, A. Gruverman, C. Binek, A. Laraoui, Imaging Local Effects of Voltage and Boron Doping on Spin Reversal in Antiferromagnetic Magnetoelectric Cr2O3 Thin Films and Devices. Adv. Funct. Mater. 2024, 34, 2408542.
• Saman Bagheri, Michael J. Loes, Alexey Lipatov, Khimananda Acharya, Tula R. Paudel, Haidong Lu, Rashmeet Khurana, Md. Ibrahim Kholil, Alexei Gruverman, Alexander Sinitskii, "Synthesis of high-quality large Cr2TiC2Tx MXene monolayers, their mechanical properties, p-type electrical transport, and positive photoresponse," Matter, Volume 7, Issue 12, 2024, Pages 4281-4296
• Li, Xin and Yun, Yu and Buragohain, Pratyush and Lu, Haidong and Thind, Arashdeep Singh and Walko, Donald A. and Yang, Detian and Mishra, Rohan and Gruverman, Alexei and Xu, Xiaoshan. Dual Mechanism for Transient Capacitance Anomaly in Improper Ferroelectrics. Phys. Rev. Lett. (2024) 133, 256801
• Haidong Lu, Hugo Aramberri, Alexey Lipatov, Roger Proksch, Alexander Sinitskii, Jorge Íñiguez, and Alexei Gruverman. Unraveling Piezoelectricity of Two-Dimensional Ferroelectric Metal 1T′′-MoS2. ACS Materials Letters 2023 5 (11), 3136-3141
• Michael J. Loes, Alexey Lipatov, Nataliia S. Vorobeva, Haidong Lu, Jehad Abourahma, Dmitry S. Muratov, Alexei Gruverman, and Alexander Sinitskii. Enhanced Photoresponse in Few-Layer SnS2 Field-Effect Transistors Modified with Methylammonium Lead Iodide Perovskite. ACS Applied Electronic Materials 2023 5 (2), 705-713
• Saman Bagheri, Jehad Abourahma, Haidong Lu, Nataliia S. Vorobeva, Shengyuan Luo, Alexei Gruverman, and Alexander Sinitskii. High-yield fabrication of electromechanical devices based on suspended Ti3C2Tx MXene monolayers. Nanoscale, 2023, 15, 1248-1259