Alexander Gray

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Alexander Gray

  • College of Science and Technology

    • Physics

      • Associate Professor

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

PHYS 2063

Wave Physics

Undergraduate

PHYS 4091

Undergraduate Research

Undergraduate

PHYS 5002

Physics Research and Ethics

Graduate

PHYS 8050

Physics Seminar

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Chrysler, M., Gabel, J., Lee, T., Penn, A., Matthews, B., Kepaptsoglou, D., Ramasse, Q., Paudel, J., Sah, R., Grassi, J., Zhu, Z., Gray, A., Lebeau, J., Spurgeon, S., Chambers, S., Sushko, P., & Ngai, J. (2021). Tuning band alignment at a semiconductor-crystalline oxide heterojunction via electrostatic modulation of the interfacial dipole. Physical Review Materials, 5(10). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.104603.

  • Kalha, C., Fernando, N., Bhatt, P., Johansson, F., Lindblad, A., Rensmo, H., Medina, L., Lindblad, R., Siol, S., Jeurgens, L., Cancellieri, C., Rossnagel, K., Medjanik, K., Schonhense, G., Simon, M., Gray, A., Nemsak, S., Lomker, P., Schlueter, C., & Regoutz, A. (2021). Hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy: A snapshot of the state-of-the-art in 2020. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter, 33(23). doi: 10.1088/1361-648X/abeacd.

  • Rattanachata, A., Nicolaï, L., Martins, H., Conti, G., Verstraete, M., Gehlmann, M., Ueda, S., Kobayashi, K., Vishik, I., Schneider, C., Fadley, C., Gray, A., Minár, J., & Nemšák, S. (2021). Bulk electronic structure of lanthanum hexaboride (La B6) by hard x-ray angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy. Physical Review Materials, 5(5). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.055002.

  • Wang, J., Shin, Y., Paudel, J., Grassi, J., Sah, R., Yang, W., Karapetrova, E., Zaidan, A., Strocov, V., Klewe, C., Shafer, P., Gray, A., Rondinelli, J., & May, S. (2021). Strain-Induced Anion-Site Occupancy in Perovskite Oxyfluoride Films. Chemistry of Materials, 33(5), 1811-1820. doi: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.0c04793.

  • Iacocca, E., Liu, T., Reid, A., Fu, Z., Ruta, S., Granitzka, P., Jal, E., Bonetti, S., Gray, A., Graves, C., Kukreja, R., Chen, Z., Higley, D., Chase, T., Guyader, L.L., Hirsch, K., Ohldag, H., Schlotter, W., Dakovski, G., Coslovich, G., Hoffmann, M., Carron, S., Tsukamoto, A., Kirilyuk, A., Kimel, A., Rasing, T., Stöhr, J., Evans, R., Ostler, T., Chantrell, R., Hoefer, M., Silva, T., & Dürr, H. (2019). Spin-current-mediated rapid magnon localisation and coalescence after ultrafast optical pumping of ferrimagnetic alloys. Nature Communications, 10(1). doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-09577-0.

  • Arab, A., Liu, X., Köksal, O., Yang, W., Chandrasena, R., Middey, S., Kareev, M., Kumar, S., Husanu, M., Yang, Z., Gu, L., Strocov, V., Lee, T., Minár, J., Pentcheva, R., Chakhalian, J., & Gray, A. (2019). Electronic Structure of a Graphene-like Artificial Crystal of NdNiO3. Nano Letters, 19(11), 8311-8317. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.9b03962.

  • Yang, W., Chandrasena, R., Gu, M., Reis, R.D., Moon, E., Arab, A., Husanu, M., Nemšák, S., Gullikson, E., Ciston, J., Strocov, V., Rondinelli, J., May, S., & Gray, A. (2019). Probing single-unit-cell resolved electronic structure modulations in oxide superlattices with standing-wave photoemission. Physical Review B, 100(12). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.100.125119.

  • Golalikhani, M., Lei, Q., Chandrasena, R., Kasaei, L., Park, H., Bai, J., Orgiani, P., Ciston, J., Sterbinsky, G., Arena, D., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Davidson, B., Millis, A., Gray, A., & Xi, X. (2018). Nature of the metal-insulator transition in few-unit-cell-thick LaNiO3 films. Nature Communications, 9(1). doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-04546-5.

  • Chandrasena, R., Flint, C., Yang, W., Arab, A., Nemšák, S., Gehlmann, M., Özdöl, V., Bisti, F., Wijesekara, K., Meyer-Ilse, J., Gullikson, E., Arenholz, E., Ciston, J., Schneider, C., Strocov, V., Suzuki, Y., & Gray, A. (2018). Depth-resolved charge reconstruction at the LaNiO3/CaMnO3 interface. Physical Review B, 98(15). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.155103.

  • Gray, A., Nemšák, S., & Fadley, C. (2018). Combining Hard and Soft X-ray Photoemission with Standing-Wave Excitation, Resonant Excitation, and Angular Resolution. Synchrotron Radiation News, 31(4), 42-49. doi: 10.1080/08940886.2018.1483659.

  • Gray, A., Hoffmann, M., Jeong, J., Aetukuri, N., Zhu, D., Hwang, H., Brandt, N., Wen, H., Sternbach, A., Bonetti, S., Reid, A., Kukreja, R., Graves, C., Wang, T., Granitzka, P., Chen, Z., Higley, D., Chase, T., Jal, E., Abreu, E., Liu, M., Weng, T., Sokaras, D., Nordlund, D., Chollet, M., Alonso-Mori, R., Lemke, H., Glownia, J., Trigo, M., Zhu, Y., Ohldag, H., Freeland, J., Samant, M., Berakdar, J., Averitt, R., Nelson, K., Parkin, S., & Dürr, H. (2018). Ultrafast terahertz field control of electronic and structural interactions in vanadium dioxide. Physical Review B, 98(4). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.98.045104.

  • Keqi, A., Gehlmann, M., Conti, G., Nemšák, S., Rattanachata, A., Minár, J., Plucinski, L., Rault, J., Rueff, J., Scarpulla, M., Hategan, M., Pálsson, G., Conlon, C., Eiteneer, D., Saw, A., Gray, A., Kobayashi, K., Ueda, S., Dubon, O., Schneider, C., & Fadley, C. (2018). Electronic structure of the dilute magnetic semiconductor G a1-x M nx P from hard x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and angle-resolved photoemission. Physical Review B, 97(15). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.155149.

  • Rogge, P., Chandrasena, R., Cammarata, A., Green, R., Shafer, P., Lefler, B., Huon, A., Arab, A., Arenholz, E., Lee, H., Lee, T., Nemšák, S., Rondinelli, J., Gray, A., & May, S. (2018). Electronic structure of negative charge transfer CaFeO3 across the metal-insulator transition. Physical Review Materials, 2(1). doi: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.015002.

  • Nemšák, S., Gray, A., & Fadley, C. (2018). Standing-wave and resonant soft- and hard-X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy of oxide interfaces. In Springer Series in Materials Science, 266 (pp. 153-179). doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-74989-1_7.

  • Zhang, W., Yang, W., Chandrasena, R., Özdöl, V., Ciston, J., Kornecki, M., Raju, S., Brennan, R., Gray, A., & Ren, S. (2018). The effect of core-shell engineering on the energy product of magnetic nanometals. Chemical Communications, 54(78), 11005-11008. doi: 10.1039/c8cc05978k.

  • Lei, Q., Golalikhani, M., Davidson, B., Liu, G., Schlom, D., Qiao, Q., Zhu, Y., Chandrasena, R., Yang, W., Gray, A., Arenholz, E., Farrar, A., Tenne, D., Hu, M., Guo, J., Singh, R., & Xi, X. (2017). Constructing oxide interfaces and heterostructures by atomic layer-by-layer laser molecular beam epitaxy. Npj Quantum Materials, 2(1). doi: 10.1038/s41535-017-0015-x.

  • Granitzka, P., Jal, E., Guyader, L.L., Savoini, M., Higley, D., Liu, T., Chen, Z., Chase, T., Ohldag, H., Dakovski, G., Schlotter, W., Carron, S., Hoffman, M., Gray, A., Shafer, P., Arenholz, E., Hellwig, O., Mehta, V., Takahashi, Y., Wang, J., Fullerton, E., Stöhr, J., Reid, A., & Dürr, H. (2017). Magnetic Switching in Granular FePt Layers Promoted by Near-Field Laser Enhancement. Nano Letters, 17(4), 2426-2432. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00052.

  • Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Saari, T., Wang, B., Wolak, M., Chandrasena, R., Lane, C., Chang, T., Jeng, H., Lin, H., Kronast, F., Gray, A., Xi, X., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2017). Erratum: Inter-Layer Coupling Induced Valence Band Edge Shift in Mono- to Few-Layer MoS2. Scientific Reports, 7, 42619. doi: 10.1038/srep42619.

  • Chandrasena, R., Yang, W., Lei, Q., Delgado-Jaime, M., Wijesekara, K., Golalikhani, M., Davidson, B., Arenholz, E., Kobayashi, K., Kobata, M., Groot, F.D., Aschauer, U., Spaldin, N., Xi, X., & Gray, A. (2017). Strain-Engineered Oxygen Vacancies in CaMnO3 Thin Films. Nano Letters, 17(2), 794-799. doi: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.6b03986.

  • Trainer, D., Putilov, A., Giorgio, C.D., Saari, T., Wang, B., Wolak, M., Chandrasena, R., Lane, C., Chang, T., Jeng, H., Lin, H., Kronast, F., Gray, A., Xi, X., Nieminen, J., Bansil, A., & Iavarone, M. (2017). Inter-Layer Coupling Induced Valence Band Edge Shift in Mono- to Few-Layer MoS 2. Scientific Reports, 7. doi: 10.1038/srep40559.