Mapping local symmetry breaking in correlated systems
Unconventional collective charge excitations
Cryogenic and in situ electron microscopy instrumentation
Selected Publications
Y. Zhang, X. Shi, S.H. Sung, C. Li, H. Huang, P. Yu, I. El Baggari. Real-space visualization of order-disorder transition in BaTiO3. Sci. Adv. 11, eadx9804 (2025)
Y. Zhang, S.H. Sung, C.B. Clement, S.W. Cheong, El Baggari. Inverse Melting of Polar Order in Chemically Substituted BaTiO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256801 (2025)
E. Rennich, Emily, S.H. Sung, N. Agarwal, M. Gates, R. Kerns, R. Hovden, and I. El Baggari. Ultracold cryogenic TEM with liquid helium and high stability. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 122, e2509736122 (2025).
Y. Zhang, S.H. Sung, N. Agarwal, M. Gates, C. Li, P. Yu, R. Hovden, I. El Baggari. Imaging of nanoscale Polar Landscapes in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3. Nature. 656, 54-59 (2025).