University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, United States, PhD in Materials Science and Engineering, 2009-2015
Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai, TN, Bachelors and Masters in Metallurgical and Materials Engineering, 2004-2009
Experience:
Assistant Professor, Centre for Nanoscience and Engineering, IISc Bengaluru, 2020-Present
Marie-Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellow at Nanostructures of Functional Oxides Group, University of Groningen, 9747AG, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2018-2020
Postdoctoral Researcher in Advanced Ferroics Group, Structures, Propriétés et Modélisation des Solides (SPMS), CentraleSupélec, University Paris Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. 2015-2018
S. Zhou, J.Antoja-Lleonart, P. Nukala, V. Ocelik, N.R. Lutjes, B. Noheda, “Crystallization of GeO2 thin-films into alpha-quartz: from spherulites to single-crystals”, arXiV2007:03916
S. Damerio, P. Nukala, B. Noheda, et al., “Structure and magnetic properties of epitaxial CaFe2O4 thin-films”, npj Quantum Materials, 5(1), 1-10, 2020
P. Nukala*, Y. Wei*, V de Haas, Q. Guo, J.Antoja-Lleonart, B. Noheda, Guidelines for the stabilization of polar rhombohedral phase in epitaxial Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin-films, arXiV:2005:01809, to appear in the Golden Jubilee edition of Ferroelectrics, Dec 2020.
L.B.Lours, M. Mulder, P. Nukala, S de Graaf, et al., “Stabilization of phase-pure rhombohedral HfZrO4 in pulsed laser deposited films”, Physical Review Materials, 4(4), 043401 (2020)
P. Nukala*, J.Antoja-Lleonart*, et al., “Direct epitaxial growth of polar (1-x)HfO2-(x)ZrO2 ultra-thin films on Silicon”, ACS Applied Electronic Materials, 1 (12) 2585 (2019).
Y. Wei, S. Matzen, …, P. Nukala, B. Noheda et al., “Magnetic tunnel junctions based on ferroelectric Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 tunnel barriers”, Physical review applied, Just accepted (2019). Selected for editors suggestion highlight.
A. Arora, L.C. Phillips, P. Nukala, …, B. Dkhil, M. Bibes, S. Valencia, “Switching on superferromagnetism”, Physical review materials, 3, 024403 (2019).
Y. Wei, P. Nukala, M. Salvedra, B. Noheda, et al., “A rhombohedral ferroelectric phase in epitaxially strained Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 thin films”, Nature Materials 17, 1095 (2018).
O. Ischeknko, G. Amblin, D. Arl, …, P. Nukala et al., “Highly-reactive TiO2 anatase single crystal domains grown by Atomic Layer Deposition”, Crystal Growth and Design 18, 4929, (2018).
V. S. Nguyen, V. H. Mai, P. A. Senzier, C. Pasquir, K. Wang,,.. , P. Nukala, et al., Direct Evidence of Lithium Ion Migration in Resistive Switching of Lithium Cobalt Oxide Nanobatteries”, Small 14, 1801038 (2018)†.
B. Narayan, J.S. Malhotra, R. Pandey, K. Yeddanapudi, P. Nukala, B. Dkhil, A. Senyshyn, R. Rajeev, “Electrostrain in excess of 1% in polycrystalline piezoelectrics”, Nature Materials 17, 427 (2018).
P.L. Popa*, J. Crepelliere*, P. Nukala, R. Leturque, D. Lenoble, Invisible electronics: Metastable Cu vacancy chain defects for highly conductive p-type transparent oxide, Applied Materials Today, 9, 184 (2017).
P. Nukala*, B. Tian*,…, B.Dkhil et al., Interfacial memristors in Al-LaNiO3 heterostructures, Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 19, 16920 (2017) .
P. Nukala, M. Ren, R. Agarwal, J. Berger, et al., “Inverting polar domains via electrical pulsing in metallic germanium telluride”, Nature Communications, 8, 15033 (2017).¶
Y. Lu, M. Stegmaeir, P. Nukala, et al., “Mixed-mode operation of hybrid phase-change nanophotonic circuits”, Nano Letters., 17, 150 (2016).
M. Ren*, R. Agarwal*, P. Nukala, W. Liu, R. Agarwal, “Nanotwin detection and domain polarity determination via second harmonic generation polarimetry”, Nano Letters. 16, 4404 (2016).
M. Jung*, R. Agarwal*, P. Nukala, D. Choi, I-Wei Chen, et al., “Observing oxygen vacancy filament driven electroforming in Pt-TiO2-Pt device via strong metal-support interaction”, Nano Letters. 16, 2139 (2016). ¶ †
P. Nukala, C.C.Lin, R. Composto, R. Agarwal, “Ultralow-power switching via defect-engineering in germanium telluride phase-change memory devices,” Nature Communications. 7, 10428 (2016) †.
P.Nukala, et al., “Direct observation of metal-insulator transition in single-crystalline nanowire germanium telluride devices prior to amorphization”, Nano Letters. 14, 2201 (2014).¶
S.W.Nam, H.-S.Chung, …, P.Nukala, R.Agarwal, et al., “Electrical wind-force driven and dislocation-templated amorphization in phase-change nanowires, Science, 336, 1566 (2011). ¶
L-K van Vugt, B. Piccione, C-H. Cho, P. Nukala, R. Agarwal, “One dimensional polaritons with size-tunable and enhanced coupling strengths in semiconducting nanowires”, PNAS, 108, 10050 (2011).
Q. Yang, P. Nukala, Y.M. Chiang, C.C. Wong, “Three dimensional metallic opals fabricated by double templating”, Thin solid films 517, 5166 (2009).* represents equal contribution authors.
