Dr Akhil Rajan

Research Fellow

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1809

Email

ar289@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Selected publications

• Open access

  From ferromagnetic semiconductor to antiferromagnetic metal in epitaxial Cr_xTe_y monolayers

  Kushwaha, N., Armitage, O., Edwards, B., Trzaska, L., Rigden, J., Bencok, P., Biswas, D., Lee, T.-L., Sanders, C., van der Laan, G., Wahl, P., King, P. D. C. & Rajan, A., 24 May 2025, In: npj Quantum Materials. 10, 7 p., 50.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Low-temperature fabrication of plasmonic titanium nitride thin films by electron beam evaporation

  Das, A., Nanao, Y., Rajan, A., Di Falco, A. & Schulz, S. A., 30 Apr 2025, In: Journal of Physics: Photonics. 7, 2, 7 p., 025032.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Persistence of charge ordering instability to Coulomb engineering in the excitonic insulator candidate TiSe₂

  Buchberger, S., Veld, Y. I. '., Rajan, A., Murgatroyd, P. A. E., Edwards, B., Saika, B. K., Kushwaha, N., Visscher, M. H., Berges, J., Carbone, D., Osiecki, J., Polley, C., Wehling, T. & King, P. D. C., 12 Nov 2025, In: Physical Review X. 15, 4, 14 p., 041028.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Substrate pre-sputtering for layer-by-layer van der Waals epitaxy of 2D materials

  Rajan, A., Ramirez, M., Kushwaha, N., Buchberger, S., Mo, S., Saika, B., McLaren, M. & King, P. D. C., 26 Aug 2025, In: APL Materials. 13, 8, 6 p., 081123.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Chemical trends of the bulk and surface termination-dependent electronic structure of metal-intercalated transition metal dichalcogenides

  Edwards, B. M., Deaconu, D., Murgatroyd, P., Buchberger, S., Antonelli, T., Halliday, D. R., Siemann, G.-R., Zivanovic, A., Trzaska, L., Rajan, A., Abarca Morales, E., Mayoh, D., Hall, A., Belosludov, R., Watson, M. D., Kim, T., Biswas, D., Lee, T., Polley, C. & Carbone, D. & 4 others, Leandersson, M., Balakrishnan, G., Bahramy, M. & King, P., 13 Aug 2024, In: Chemistry of Materials. 36, 15, p. 7117-7126 10 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Controlling the charge density wave transition in single-layer TiTe_2xSe_2(1−x) alloys by band gap engineering

  Antonelli, T., Rajan, A., Watson, M. D., Soltani, S., Houghton, J., Siemann, G.-R., Zivanovic, A., Bigi, C., Edwards, B. M. & King, P., 10 Jan 2024, In: Nano Letters. 24, 1, p. 215-221 7 p., 3c03776.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Letter › peer-review

• Open access

  Epitaxial growth of AgCrSe₂ thin films by molecular beam epitaxy

  Nanao, Y., Bigi, C., Rajan, A., Vinai, G., Dagur, D. & King, P., 28 Jan 2024, In: Journal of Applied Physics. 135, 4, 7 p., 045303.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Epitaxial growth of large-area monolayers and van der Waals heterostructures of transition-metal chalcogenides via assisted nucleation

  Rajan, A., Buchberger, S., Edwards, B. M., Zivanovic, A., Kushwaha, N., Bigi, C., Nanao, Y., Saika, B., Armitage, O. R., Wahl, P., Couture, P. & King, P., 28 Jun 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Advanced Materials. Early View, 9 p., 2402254.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Giant valley-Zeeman coupling in the surface layer of an intercalated transition metal dichalcogenide

  Edwards, B., Dowinton, O., Hall, A., Murgatroyd, P., Buchberger, S., Antonelli, T., Siemann, G.-R., Rajan, A., Abarca Morales, E., Zivanovic, A., Bigi, C., Belosludov, R., Polley, M., Carbone, D., Mayoh, D., Balakrishnan, G., Bahramy, M. & King, P., 1 Apr 2023, In: Nature Materials. 22, 4, p. 459-465 7 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Orbital-selective band hybridisation at the charge density wave transition in monolayer TiTe₂

  Antonelli, T., Rahim, W., Watson, M. D., Rajan, A., Clark, O. J., Danilenko, A., Underwood, K., Markovic, I., Abarca-Morales, E., Kavanagh, S. R., Fevre, P., Bertran, F., Rossnagel, K., Scanlon, D. O. & King, P. D. C., 27 Sept 2022, In: npj Quantum Materials. 7, 10 p., 98.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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