Congratulations to Aravind Raji on receiving the 2025 Paris-Saclay Thesis Award.
We were fortunate to have Aravind working with great dedication, combining scanning transmission electron microscopy, electron spectroscopy, and synchrotron-based photoemission to reveal the electronic and structural properties of thin films of novel quantum materials.
His thesis is entitled “Exploring the electronic and structural properties of tantalates and infinite-layer nickelates via electron microscopy and X-ray spectroscopy approaches” and, for instance, if you want to learn more about the origin of charge-density waves in superconducting infinite-layer nickelates, you can find it here: