Ruijuan Xu
Assistant Professor
- Email: rxu22@ncsu.edu
- Office: 3076B Engineering Building I
- Website: https://mse.ncsu.edu/xu
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
- Mind the Gap—Imaging Buried Interfaces in Twisted Oxide Moirés
- Harikrishnan, K. P., Wei, X., Lee, C. H., Yoon, D., Lee, Y., Crust, K. J., … Muller, D. A. (2026, March 1), Advanced Materials, Vol. 3. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202521189
- Coexisting Phases in NaNbO 3 Thin Films Influenced by Epitaxial Strain and Size Effects
- Khandelwal, A., Crust, K. J., Ghanbari, R., Yu, Y., Xu, R., & Hwang, H. Y. (2025, October 14), Advanced Science, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202510099
- Electron ptychography reveals a ferroelectricity dominated by anion displacements
- Muller, D., Harikrishnan, K. P., Xu, R., Patel, K., Crust, K., Khandelwal, A., … Hwang, H. (2025, April 22), Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-4971528/v1
- Electron ptychography reveals a ferroelectricity dominated by anion displacements
- Harikrishnan, K. P., Xu, R., Patel, K., Crust, K. J., Khandelwal, A., Zhang, C., … Muller, D. A. (2025, April 23), Nature Materials, Vol. 4. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41563-025-02205-x
- Experimental progress in freestanding oxide membranes designed by epitaxy
- Harbola, V., Xu, R., & Hong, S. S. (2025, January 17), Advances in Physics X, Vol. 10. https://doi.org/10.1080/23746149.2025.2450538
- Low‐Loss Far‐Infrared Surface Phonon Polaritons in Suspended SrTiO 3 Nanomembranes
- Koons, K., Bechtel, H. A., Taboada‐Gutiérrez, J., Ghanbari, R., Wang, Y., Corder, S. N. G., … Liu, Y. (2025, May 12), Advanced Functional Materials, Vol. 5. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.202501041
- Strain-induced lead-free morphotropic phase boundary
- Ghanbari, R., Harikrishnan, K. P., Patel, K., Zhou, H., Zhou, T., Liu, R., … Xu, R. (2025, August 20), Nature Communications, Vol. 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-63041-w
- The classical-to-quantum crossover in the strain-induced ferroelectric transition in SrTiO3 membranes
- Li, J., Lee, Y., Choi, Y., Kim, J.-W., Thompson, P., Crust, K. J., … Lee, W.-S. (2025, May 13), Nature Communications, Vol. 16. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-025-59517-4
- Author Correction: 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/s41467-024-52983-2
- 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
