Past publications (from 2021 – 2023) from our seed PREM center can be found here.
PUBLICATIONS: (bolded – PREM Graduate Students, ♦PREM UGs, affiliates, * PREM PIs, Partner PI*)
1. Currie, T. M.; McNealy-James, T.; Berriel, S. N.; Preradovic, K.; Sattelberger, A. P.; Banerjee, P.*; Jurca, T.*, Thermogravimetric analysis of commercial tungsten molecular precursors for vapor phase deposition processes. RSC Adv. 2024, 14 (54), 39867-39873. https://doi.org/10.1039/D4RA07284G.
2. McNealy-James, T.,♦Mangroo, R., Berriel, S.N., Currie, T.M., Bissell, E.,♦Tomar, L., *Jurca, T., *Banerjee, P., In situ, simultaneous spectroscopic ellipsometry and quadrupole mass spectrometry studies of ZnO etching using Hacac and O2 plasma, Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology – A, 2025, 43-4, https://doi.org/10.1116/6.0004417.
3. Currie, T. M., Brodie, A. W., Javier-Jimenez, D. R., Bhukima, Arami, J., Moore, J., Lee, S., Yap, G. P. A., McElwee-White, L., Jurca, T.* “Expanding the Scope of Mo(III) Precursor Molecules for Vapor Phase Growth of Mo-Based Materials: Mo(III) Guanidinate” Chemistry – European Journal, (2025) https://doi.org/10.1002/chem.202500244
4. Nathan Valadez, Iftakhar Bin Elius, Dante James, Peter Radanovich, Tetiana Romanova, Sami Elgalal, Grzegorz Chajewski, Florie Mesple, Ellis Thompson, Keng Tou Chu, Matthew Yankowitz*, Andrzej Ptok, Dariusz Kaczorowski, and Madhab Neupane*; Low-lying Electronic Structure of Rare-Earth Based Topological Nodal Line Semimetal Candidate DySbTe, Phys. Rev. B 112, 155148 (2025) – Published 21 October, 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/s56l-5563
5. Iftakhar Bin Elius, Nathan Valadez, Dante James, Sami Elgalal, Grzegorz Chajewski, Tetiana Romanova, Andrzej Ptok, Dariusz Kaczorowski, and Madhab Neupane*; Electronic band structure of a nodal line semimetal candidate ErSbTe, Phys. Rev. Materials 9, 114201 (2025) – Published 13 November, 2025 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/vf45-2k7m
6. Dylan A Jeff, ♦Kamal Harrison, Jonathan M DeStefano, Olivia Peek, *Jiun-Haw Chu, *Saiful I Khondaker, “Tip-enhanced Raman spectroscopy of wrinkle-induced strain in layered topological insulator Ta2Ni3Te5”, Optics Communication, vol 593, (2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.optcom.2025.132314
7. Jonathan M DeStefano, Elliott Rosenberg, Guodong Ren, Yongbin Lee, Zhenhua Ning, Olivia Peek, ♦Kamal Harrison, *Saiful I Khondaker, Liqin Ke, Igor I Mazin, *Juan Carlos Idrobo, *Jiun-Haw Chu, “Giant coercivity and enhanced intrinsic anomalous Hall effect at vanishing magnetization in a compensated kagome ferrimagnet”, Science Advances, vol 11, (2025), DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adx4671
CONFERENCES: (bolded – PREM Graduate Students, ♦PREM UGs, affiliates, * PREM PIs)
1. McNealy-James, T., ♦Tomar, L., Kang, X., Johnson, J., Berriel, S. N., ♦Mauri-Newell, B., ♦Mora, A., Currie, T. M., Jurca T.*, McElwee-White, L., Banerjee, P.*, “Role of Precursor Molecular Structure in Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) of Ruthenium Films”, Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI) Conference 2025, Feb 24-25, Melbourne FL.
2. McNealy-James, T., ♦Tomar, L., ♦Mangroo R., Berriel, S. N., Currie, T. M., Jurca T.*, Banerjee, P.*, “Chemical vapor etching or atomic layer etching of ZnO? In situ mass ellipsometry and mass spectrometry studies”, Florida Semiconductor Institute (FSI) Conference 2025, Feb 24-25, Melbourne FL.
3. ♦Mora, A., Bissell, E., Kostogiannes A., Rudawski, N., *Banerjee, P., *Gaume, R., “Atomic Layer Deposition on Powders for Precisely Engineered Microstructure and Composition Control of Sintered Ceramics”, UCF Scholars Symposium, Mar 26-28, Orlando, 2025.
4. McNealy-James, T., ♦Tomar, L., ♦Mangroo R., Berriel, S. N., Currie, T. M., *Jurca T., *Banerjee, P. “Influence of molecular structure on Ruthenium Atomic Layer Deposition”, UCF Scholars Symposium, Mar 26-28, Orlando, 2025.
5. Jeff, D.A., Ells, R., Goeggle, C., ♦Cuevas, J., Sharma, R., Zhao, Y., *Chu, J-H., *Xu X., *Khondaker, S. I., “Controlled laser and temperature-assisted thinning of layered quantum material Nb3Br8“, UCF Scholars Symposium, Mar 26-28, Orlando, 2025.
6. Demosthene, B., Kravchuk, P., Harmon, C.L., Kalae, A., *Kang, E.H., “Small organic osmolytes accelerate actin filament assembly and stiffen filaments”, UCF Scholars Symposium, Mar 26-28, Orlando, 2025.
7. Douglas, T.V., Toland, C.A., Paulin, S.A., Castaneda, N., Tetard, L., Kang, E.H., “Gelsolin-Mediated Actin Filament Severing, Mechanics and Conformational Changes by Various pH”, UCF Scholars Symposium, Mar 26-28, Orlando, 2025.
8. ♦Mora, A., Bissell, E., Kostogiannes, K., Gaume, R., *Banerjee, R., “Atomic Layer Deposition on Powders for Precisely Engineered Microstructure and Composition Control of Sintered Ceramics”, Conference Across MRSEC-PREM Schools, 2025, Texas State University, San Marcos, May 2025.
9. *Banerjee, P., “Opportunities for atomic layer deposition in quantum technology”, Workshop on atomic layer deposition and etching for quantum technologies, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 20th 2025.
10. McNealy-James, T., Kang, X., ♦Tomar, T., Johnson, J., Berriel, S.N., Currie, T.M., *Jurca T., McElwee-White, L., *Banerjee, P., “Influence of Molecular Structure on Ruthenium Deposition: An in Situ Study Using Simultaneous Spectroscopic Ellipsometry and Quadrupole Mass Spectrometry”, AVS71 International Symposium and Conference, Charlotte, NC, 2025.
11. ♦Ayelen Mora, Eric Bissel, *Parag Banerjee “Correlation Analysis of In Situ Atomic Layer Deposition Mass Spectrometry Data for Surface Reaction Analysis”, AVS71 International Symposium and Conference, Charlotte, NC, 2025.
12. McNealy-James, T., Kang, X., ♦Tomar, T., Johnson, J., Berriel, S.N., Currie, T.M., *Jurca T., McElwee-White, L., *Banerjee, P., “In situ study of Ruthenium deposition and the role
of molecular structure”, Southeastern Regional Meeting of the ACS (SERMACS) 25, Orlando, Oct 2025.
13. *Feng X. (invited), “Ammonia electrosynthesis from nitrate contaminants: A
promising path to closing the nitrogen cycle”, South Eastern Regional Meeting of the ACS (SERMACS) 25, Orlando, Oct 2025.
14. Valadez, N., *Neupane M., “Electronic structure of a rare earth based nodal line semimetal canddiate LnSbTe”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
15. Jeff, D., *Khondaker S., “Investigation of chiral phonons in breathing Kagome lattice quantum material Nb3TeCl7”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
16. ♦Herera, I., *Blanco-Redondo, A., “Electrical and nonlinear optical properties in monolayer 2D kagome material Nb3TeCl7”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
17. ♦Suitt, N., *Neupane, M., “Epitaxial growth and structural characterization of topological insulator thin films by MBE”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
18. ♦Alvarez, N., *Khondaker, S., “Lattice dynamics and quantum materials PdPS3 investigated via polarized Raman spectroscopy”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
19. Fernandez, M., *Feng, X., “Electrocatalytic Ammonia Synthesis from nitrate on Nickel Phosphide Nanocrystals”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
20. Perez, E., Redondo-Blanco, A., “Modifying the magnetic order in Kagome using strain”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
21. Moore, J., Jurca, T., “Atom economical synthesis of zinc acetylacetonate complexes”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
22. Demosthene, B., *Kang, E., “How MoS2 modulates assembly kinetics and NIH-3T3 fibroblast cell morphology and spreading”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.
23. Wilkerson, M., *Leon, L., “Production of MoS2 monolayers via peptide driven liquid phase exfoliation”, STEMS 2025, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Nov 2025.