Susan Trolier-McKinstry

Affiliate Researcher
Titles and Affiliations
Steward S. Flaschen Professor, Materials Science and Engineering

Research Summary

Research interests are centered around structure-processing-property relationships in electroceramics. This includes work on dielectric and piezoelectric thin films, texture development in piezoelectric ceramics, and spectroscopic ellipsometry.

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Recent Publications

Polarization stability and its influence on electrocaloric effects of high entropy perovskite oxide films

Son, Y., Udovenko, S., Ayyagari, S. V. G., Barber, J. P., Nakamura, K., Rost, C. M., Alem, N. & Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Jan 15 2025, In: Acta Materialia. 283, 120576.

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Strain Fluctuations Unlock Ferroelectricity in Wurtzites

Baksa, S. M., Gelin, S., Oturak, S., Spurling, R. J., Sepehrinezhad, A., Jacques, L., Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Van Duin, A., Maria, J. P., Rappe, A. M. & Dabo, I., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Advanced Electronic Materials.

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Adjustable X-ray optics: thin-film actuator measurement and figure correction performance

Buffo, K., Deroo, C., Reid, P., Kradinov, V., Marquez, V., Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Bishop, N., Jackson, T. N., Tran, Q., Liang, H. & Tendulkar, M., Jul 1 2024, In: Journal of Astronomical Telescopes, Instruments, and Systems. 10, 3, 039003.

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Ferroelectric Al1−xBxN-GaN heterostructures

Casamento, J., He, F., Skidmore, C., Hayden, J., Nordlander, J., Redwing, J. M., Trolier-McKinstry, S. & Maria, J. P., Apr 1 2024, In: Applied Physics Letters. 124, 14, 142101.

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Perspectives and progress on wurtzite ferroelectrics: Synthesis, characterization, theory, and device applications

Casamento, J., Baksa, S. M., Behrendt, D., Calderon, S., Goodling, D., Hayden, J., He, F., Jacques, L., Lee, S. H., Smith, W., Suceava, A., Tran, Q., Zheng, X., Zu, R., Beechem, T., Dabo, I., Dickey, E. C., Esteves, G., Gopalan, V. & Henry, M. D. & 9 others, Ihlefeld, J. F., Jackson, T. N., Kalinin, S. V., Kelley, K. P., Liu, Y., Rappe, A. M., Redwing, J., Trolier-McKinstry, S. & Maria, J. P., Feb 19 2024, In: Applied Physics Letters. 124, 8, 080501.

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Colossal Strain Tuning of Ferroelectric Transitions in KNbO3 Thin Films

Hazra, S., Schwaigert, T., Ross, A., Lu, H., Saha, U., Trinquet, V., Akkopru-Akgun, B., Gregory, B. Z., Mangu, A., Sarker, S., Kuznetsova, T., Sarker, S., Li, X., Barone, M. R., Xu, X., Freeland, J. W., Engel-Herbert, R., Lindenberg, A. M., Singer, A. & Trolier-McKinstry, S. & 8 others, Muller, D. A., Rignanese, G. M., Salmani-Rezaie, S., Stoica, V. A., Gruverman, A., Chen, L. Q., Schlom, D. G. & Gopalan, V., Dec 27 2024, In: Advanced Materials. 36, 52, 2408664.

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Frequency dependence of wake-up and fatigue characteristics in ferroelectric Al0.93B0.07N thin films

He, F., Zhu, W., Hayden, J., Casamento, J., Tran, Q., Kang, K., Song, Y., Akkopru-Akgun, B., Yang, J. I., Tipsawat, P., Brennecka, G., Choi, S., Jackson, T. N., Maria, J. P. & Trolier-McKinstry, S., Mar 1 2024, In: Acta Materialia. 266, 119678.

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Deposition and dielectric characterization of highly oriented V2O5 thin films

Jacques, L., Shetty, S., Vega, F. J., Liu, Y., Aronson, B., Beechem, T. & Trolier-McKinstry, S., Feb 2024, In: MRS Communications. 14, 1, p. 76-81 6 p.

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Thermal Characterization of Ferroelectric Al1-xBxN for Nonvolatile Memory

Kang, K., Casamento, J. A., Shoemaker, D. C., Song, Y., Ozdemir, E. Z., McIlwaine, N. S., Maria, J. P., Choi, S. & Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Dec 11 2024, In: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces. 16, 49, p. 67921-67933 13 p.

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Integration of scanning probe microscope with high-performance computing: Fixed-policy and reward-driven workflows implementation

Liu, Y., Pratiush, U., Bemis, J., Proksch, R., Emery, R., Rack, P. D., Liu, Y. C., Yang, J. C., Udovenko, S., Trolier-McKinstry, S. & Kalinin, S. V., Sep 1 2024, In: Review of Scientific Instruments. 95, 9, 093701.

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The Interplay Between Ferroelectricity and Electrochemical Reactivity on the Surface of Binary Ferroelectric AlxB1-xN

Liu, Y., Ievlev, A., Casamento, J., Hayden, J., Trolier-McKinstry, S., Maria, J. P., Kalinin, S. V. & Kelley, K. P., Feb 2024, In: Advanced Electronic Materials. 10, 2, 2300489.

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PbZrO3-based thin film capacitors with high energy storage efficiency

Son, Y., Udovenko, S., Gaur, A. P. S., Cui, J., Tan, X. & Trolier-McKinstry, S., Nov 18 2024, In: Applied Physics Letters. 125, 21, 212905.

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Substrate dependence of the self-heating in lead zirconate titanate (PZT) MEMS actuators

Song, Y., Kang, K., Tipsawat, P., Cheng, C. Y., Zhu, W., LaBella, M., Choi, S. & Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Apr 28 2024, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 135, 16

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Quantitative piezoelectric measurements of partially released Pb(Zr, Ti)O3 structures

Tipsawat, P., Zheng, X., Tran, Q. T., Jackson, T. N. & Trolier-McKinstry, S. E., Sep 7 2024, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 136, 9, 095101.

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Mapping domain structures near a grain boundary in a lead zirconate titanate ferroelectric film using X-ray nanodiffraction

Udovenko, S., Son, Y., Tipsawat, P., Knox, R. J., Hruszkewycz, S. O., Yan, H., Huang, X., Pattammattel, A., Zajac, M., Cha, W., Pagan, D. C. & Trolier-Mckinstry, S., Dec 1 2024, In: Journal of Applied Crystallography. 57, Pt 6, p. 1789-1799 11 p.

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