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David A. Muller is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on materials science, physics and astronomy, and engineering, with substantial contributions spanning these fields.

The scientist's work encompasses several specialized subfields, including materials chemistry, electronic, optical and magnetic materials, electrical and electronic engineering, atomic and molecular physics and optics, and condensed matter physics.

Research topics covered by David A. Muller include advanced electron microscopy techniques and applications, electron and X-ray spectroscopy techniques, advanced X-ray imaging techniques, electronic and structural properties of oxides, magnetic properties of thin films, electrocatalysts for energy conversion, and magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials.

David A. Muller has published notable papers such as "Operando studies reveal active Cu nanograins for CO2 electroreduction" (2023) in Nature, "Electrocatalysis in Alkaline Media and Alkaline Membrane-Based Energy Technologies" (2022) in Chemical Reviews, "Electron ptychography achieves atomic-resolution limits set by lattice vibrations" (2021) in Science, "Electronically integrated, mass-manufactured, microscopic robots" (2020) in Nature, and "Tilted spin current generated by the collinear antiferromagnet ruthenium dioxide" (2022) in Nature Electronics.

Frequent co-authors working with David A. Muller include Yu-Tsun Shao, Darrell G. Schlom, Huili Grace Xing, Héctor D. Abruña, and Zhen Chen.

Key publication venues for their work include Microscopy and Microanalysis, arXiv (Cornell University), APL Materials, Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), and Nature Communications.

Best Publications

  • One-dimensional electrical contact to a two-dimensional material.

    L. Wang;I. Meric;P. Y. Huang;Q. Gao

  • Superconducting Interfaces Between Insulating Oxides

    N. Reyren;S. Thiel;A. D. Caviglia;L. Fitting Kourkoutis

  • Janus monolayers of transition metal dichalcogenides

    Ang Yu Lu;Hanyu Zhu;Jun Xiao;Chih Piao Chuu

  • Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulphide

    Arend M. Van Der Zande;Pinshane Y. Huang;Daniel A. Chenet;Timothy C. Berkelbach

  • Grains and grain boundaries in single-layer graphene atomic patchwork quilts

    Pinshane Y. Huang;Carlos S. Ruiz-Vargas;Arend M. van der Zande;William S. Whitney

  • Grains and grain boundaries in highly crystalline monolayer molybdenum disulfide

    Arend M. van der Zande;Pinshane Y. Huang;Daniel A. Chenet;Timothy C. Berkelbach

  • Structurally ordered intermetallic platinum–cobalt core–shell nanoparticles with enhanced activity and stability as oxygen reduction electrocatalysts

    Deli Wang;Huolin L. Xin;Huolin L. Xin;Robert Hovden;Hongsen Wang

  • High-mobility three-atom-thick semiconducting films with wafer-scale homogeneity

    Kibum Kang;Saien Xie;Lujie Huang;Yimo Han

  • Why some interfaces cannot be sharp

    Naoyuki Nakagawa;Harold Y. Hwang;David A. Muller

  • The electronic structure at the atomic scale of ultrathin gate oxides

    D. A. Muller;T. Sorsch;S. Moccio;F. H. Baumann

  • Multi-terminal transport measurements of MoS2 using a van der Waals heterostructure device platform.

    Xu Cui;Gwan-Hyoung Lee;Young Duck Kim;Ghidewon Arefe

  • Artificial charge-modulationin atomic-scale perovskite titanate superlattices

    A. Ohtomo;D. A. Muller;J. L. Grazul;H. Y. Hwang

  • Compressive-stress-induced formation of thin-film tetrahedral amorphous carbon

    D. R. McKenzie;D. Muller;B. A. Pailthorpe

  • Graphene and boron nitride lateral heterostructures for atomically thin circuitry

    Mark P. Levendorf;Cheol Joo Kim;Lola Brown;Pinshane Y. Huang

  • Graphene kirigami

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  • A strong ferroelectric ferromagnet created by means of spin–lattice coupling

    June Hyuk Lee;June Hyuk Lee;Lei Fang;Eftihia Vlahos;Xianglin Ke

  • Atomic-scale imaging of nanoengineered oxygen vacancy profiles in SrTiO3

    David A. Muller;David A. Muller;Naoyuki Nakagawa;Naoyuki Nakagawa;Akira Ohtomo;Akira Ohtomo;John L. Grazul;John L. Grazul

  • Atomic-Scale Chemical Imaging of Composition and Bonding by Aberration-Corrected Microscopy

    D. A. Muller;L. Fitting Kourkoutis;M. Murfitt;J. H. Song;J. H. Song

  • Observation of room-temperature polar skyrmions

    S. Das;Y. L. Tang;Y. L. Tang;Z. Hong;M. A. P. Gonçalves

  • Tailoring Electrical Transport Across Grain Boundaries in Polycrystalline Graphene

    Adam W. Tsen;Lola Brown;Mark P. Levendorf;Fereshte Ghahari

  • High-temperature interface superconductivity between metallic and insulating copper oxides

    A. Gozar;G. Logvenov;L. Fitting Kourkoutis;A. T. Bollinger

  • Direct fabrication of large micropatterned single crystals

    Joanna Aizenberg;David A. Muller;John L. Grazul;D. R. Hamann

Frequent Co-Authors

Darrell G. Schlom
Darrell G. Schlom Cornell University
Huolin L. Xin
Huolin L. Xin University of California, Irvine
Héctor D. Abruña
Héctor D. Abruña Cornell University
Lena F. Kourkoutis
Lena F. Kourkoutis Cornell University
Harold Y. Hwang
Harold Y. Hwang Stanford University
John Silcox
John Silcox Cornell University
Jiwoong Park
Jiwoong Park University of Chicago
Sol M. Gruner
Sol M. Gruner Cornell University
Peter Ercius
Peter Ercius Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Judy J. Cha
Judy J. Cha Yale University

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