Publications

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Selected publications/preprints at USC

1. Y-T Shao, T-R Liu, A Ngo, A Avishai, J Ravichandran, “Non-Destructive Imaging of Polar Domains and Crystallographic Symmetry in the Scanning Electron Microscope”, US Patent, under review (Pub. No. 2026-0029357-A1)

2. Ting-Ran Liu, Koushik Jagadish, Xiangwei Guo, Maya Ramesh, Peter Meisenheimer, Harish Kumarasubramanian, Sajid Husain, Ann V. Ngo, Amir Avishai, Jayakanth Ravichandra, Darrell G. Schlom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Yu-Tsun Shao*, “Revealing buried ferroelectric topologies by depth-resolved electron imaging”, under review

3. Ting-Ran Liu, Xiangwei Guo, Sajid Husain, Maya Ramesh, Pushpendra Gupta, Darrell Schlom, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, Yu-Tsun Shao*, “Spatially modulated morphotropic phase boundaries in a compressively strained multiferroic thin film”, under review.

4. Y.-T. Shao, S. Das, Z. Hong, R. Xu, S. Chandrika, F. Gómez-Ortiz, P. García-Fernández, L.-Q. Chen, H. Y Hwang, J. Junquera, L. W Martin, R. Ramesh, and D. A. Muller, “Emergent Chirality in a Polar Meron to Skyrmion Phase Transition”, Nature Communications, 14, 1355 (2023);  arXiv:2101.04545. See the featured USC Viterbi News article here. 

5. Shinhyo Bang, Juejing Liu, Bipeng Wang, Carlos Mora Perez, Ting-Ran Liu, Kyle D Crans, Zhaohong Sun, Andrew Strzelecki, Oleg V Prezhdo*, Yu-Tsun Shao*, Xiaofeng Guo, Richard L. Brutchey, “High-Pressure Phase Transition of Metastable Wurtzite-Like CuInSe2 Nanocrystals”, Chemistry of Materials, 37, 2611 (2025). 

6. Robert Busch, Hsu-Chih Ni, Yu-Tsun Shao, Jian-Min Zuo, “Large-Angle Rocking Beam Electron Diffraction of Large Unit Cell Crystals Using Direct Electron Detector”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 31, ozae088 (2025). 

7. Danielle E. White, Koushik Jagadish, Yu-Tsun Shao, Andrea M. Hodge, “Synthesis and characterization of aperiodic multifunctional AlN/Al2O3 nanomultilayers”, Thin Solid Films, 815, 140638 (2025).

8. Purnima P. Balakrishnan, Dan Ferenc Segedin, Lin Er Chow, P. Quarterman, Shin Muramoto, Mythili Surendran, Ranjan K. Patel, Harrison LaBollita, Grace A. Pan, Qi Song, Yang Zhang, Ismail El Baggari, Koushik Jagadish, Yu-Tsun Shao, Berit H Goodge, Lena F Kourkoutis, Srimanta Middey, Antia S Botana, Jayakanth Ravichandran, A Ariando, Julia A. Mundy, Alexander J. Grutter, “Extensive hydrogen is not necessary for superconductivity in topotactically reduced nickelates”, Nature Communications, 15, 7387 (2024). 

Selected publications prior to USC

1. L. Caretta*, Y.-T. Shao*, J. Yu, A. B. Mei, B. F. Grosso, C. Dai, P. Behera, D. Lee, M. McCarter, E. Parsonnet, F. Xue, E. Barnard, S. Ganschow, A. Raja, L. W. Martin, L.-Q. Chen, M. Fiebig, K. Lai, N. A. Spaldin, D. A. Muller, D. G. Schlom, R. Ramesh, “Nonvolatile Electric-Field Control of Inversion Symmetry”, Nature Materials, (2022). (featured news articles in Cornell Chronicle). arXiv:2201.00289.

2. Hongrui Zhang†, Yu-Tsun Shao†, Binhua Su†, Xiang Chen, Peter Meisenheimer, David A. Muller, Ramamoorthy Ramesh, “Spin Disorder Control of Topological Spin Texture”, Nature Communications, 15, 3828 (2024). 

3. H. Zhang*, D. Raftrey*, Y.-T. Chan*, Y.-T. Shao*, R. Chen, X. Chen, X. Huang, J. T. Reichanadter, K. Dong, S. Susarla, L. Caretta, Z. Chen, J. Yao, P. Fischer, J. B. Neaton, W. Wu, D. A. Muller, R. J. Birgeneau, R. Ramesh, “Room Temperature Skyrmion Lattice in a Layered Magnet (Fe0.5Co0.5)5GeTe2”, Science Advances, 8, eabm7103 (2022). (featured news articles in EurekaAlert! by AAAS).

4. H. Zhang*, Y.-T. Shao*, R. Chen*, X. Chen*, S. Susarla, J. T. Reichanadter, L. Caretta, X. Huang, N. S. Settineri, Z. Chen, J. Zhou, E. Bourret-Courchesne, P. Ercius, J. Yao, J. B. Neaton, D. A. Muller, R. J. Birgeneau, R. Ramesh, “A Room Temperature Polar Ferromagnetic Metal”, Physical Review Materials, 6, 044403 (2022). (featured news articles in Physics Magazine).

5. Z. Chen, Y. Jiang, Y.-T. Shao, M. E. Holtz, M. Odstrčil, M. Guizar-Sicairos, I. Hanke, S. Ganschow, D. G. Schlom, and D. A. Muller. “Electron Ptychography Achieves Atomic-Resolution Limits Set by Lattice Vibrations” Science 372, (2021): 826–831. (featured articles in Scientific American).

6. Y.-T. Shao, R. Yuan, H.-W. Hsiao, Q. Yang, Y. Hu, J.-M. Zuo. "Cepstral scanning transmission electron microscopy imaging of severe lattice distortions" Ultramicroscopy 231, 113252 (2021). (invited special issue, a tribute to Professor John Spence) 

7. J.-M. Zuo, R. Yuan, Y.-T. Shao, H.-W. Hsiao, S. Pidaparthy, Y. Hu, Q. Yang, J. Zhang, “Data-Driven Electron Microscopy: Electron Diffraction Imaging of Materials Structural Properties”, Microscopy, 71, i116 (2022).

8. H. T. Philipp, M. W. Tate, K. S. Shanks, L. Mele, M. Peemen, P. Dona, R. Hartong, G. van Veen, Y.-T. Shao, Z. Chen, J. Thom-Levy, D. A. Muller, S. M. Gruner, “Very-High Dynamic Range, 10,000 Frames/Second Pixel Array Detector for Electron Microscopy”, Microscopy and Microanalysis, 28, 425 (2022). 

9. Y. Yang*, Y.-T. Shao*, X. Lu, Y. Yang, H.-Y. Ko, R. A DiStasio Jr, F. J DiSalvo, D. A Muller, H. D Abruña, "Elucidating Cathodic Corrosion Mechanisms with Operando Electrochemical Transmission Electron Microscopy", JACS, 144, 34, 15698–15708 (2022).