Aswin Kumar Anbalagan

Brookhaven National Laboratory

National Synchrotron Light Source II
Bldg. 743, Room 139
P.O. Box 5000
Upton, NY 11973-5000

(631) 344-3144
aanbalaga1@bnl.gov

Pronouns: He, him, his

Expertise | Education | Appointments | Publications | Highlights | Awards

Expertise

My expertise includes thin film growth (sputtering and thermal evaporation), 2D materials, defect engineering, magnetic materials, superconducting materials, and advanced synchrotron-based characterization techniques. Before joining NSLS-II as a research associate, I gained extensive experience at the Taiwan Light Source (TLS) and Taiwan Photon Source (TPS) at NSRRC, where I applied scattering and spectroscopy methods to investigate a broad range of functional materials.

Education

• Ph.D. - Department of Engineering and System Science,National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan (2020).
• M.Tech - Amity Insitute of Nuclear Science and Technology, Amity University, Noida, India (2016).
• B. Tech - Power System Engineering, University of Petroleum and Energy Studies, Dehradun,  India (2014).

Professional Appointments

• SRX beamline scientist, NSLS-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory (2025 - present).
• PI, Co-design Centre for Quantum Advantage (C2QA) (2025 - present).
• Research associate at National Synchrotron Light Source-II, Brookhaven National Laboratory ( 2022 – 2025).
• Post-doctoral researcher at Department of Engineering & System Science, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu, Taiwan ( 2020 – 2022).

Selected Publications

• Ji T, Ge H, Gomes L, et al (2026) In Situ Lithium Nitridosilicate Interlayer via Reactive Anolyte Design for All-Solid-State Silicon Anodes. Advanced Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.75015
• Yang S, Lee DH, Weiland C, et al (2026) Monolithic Oxidation Enables Ultrathin Vertically Graded Tantalum Oxide for Low-Voltage, Low-Variability Memristive Switching. Advanced Functional Materials. https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.77144
• Bahrami F, Bland MP, Shumiya N, et al (2026) Vortex motion induced losses in tantalum resonators. Physical Review B 113: https://doi.org/10.1103/4ny9-9n5b
• Chattaraj A, Nanayakkara T, Anbalagan A kumar, et al (2026) Preventing native oxide formation in niobium thin films through platinum encapsulation. Vacuum 244:114850. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vacuum.2025.114850
• Chuang K-W, Anbalagan A kumar, Wong Y-J, et al (2025) Enabling room-temperature ferromagnetism in few-layered MoS2 films via strain engineering. Applied Physics Letters 127:. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0281001
• Anbalagan A kumar, Chan W, Wu M, et al (2025) Revealing Robust Room Temperature Ferromagnetism in Gd-Doped Few-Layered MoS2 Thin Films. Advanced Science. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202510366
• Chaudhary M, Anbalagan AK, Chuang K-W, et al (2025) Phase transition in two-dimensional monolayer (1L)-molybdenum disulfide induced by atomic S-basal plane gliding via synchrotron X-ray monochromatic beam radiation for superior electronic performance. Materials Today 84:28–38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2025.02.001
• Anbalagan A k., Cummings R, Zhou C, et al (2025) Revealing the Origin and Nature of the Buried Metal-Substrate Interface Layer in Ta/Sapphire Superconducting Films. Advanced Science 12:. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202413058
• Zhou C, Mun J, Yao J, et al (2024) Ultrathin Magnesium-Based Coating as an Efficient Oxygen Barrier for Superconducting Circuit Materials. Advanced Materials 36:. https://doi.org/10.1002/adma.202310280
• Syum Z, Billo T, Sabbah A, et al (2023) Enhancing the lithium-ion storage capability of Cu2ZnSnS4 anodes via a nitrogen-doped conductive support. Chemical Engineering Journal 465:142786. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2023.142786
• Anbalagan A kumar, Hu F-C, Chan WK, et al (2023) Gamma-Ray Irradiation Induced Ultrahigh Room-Temperature Ferromagnetism in MoS2 Sputtered Few-Layered Thin Films. ACS Nano 17:6555–6564. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsnano.2c11955
• Anbalagan A kumar, Gupta S, Kumar RR, et al (2022) Gamma-ray engineered surface defects on zinc oxide nanorods towards enhanced NO2 gas sensing performance at room temperature. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical 369:132255. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.snb.2022.132255
• Sari FNI, Chen H-S, Anbalagan A kumar, et al (2022) V-doped, divacancy-containing β-FeOOH electrocatalyst for high performance oxygen evolution reaction. Chemical Engineering Journal 438:135515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2022.135515
• Chung J-C, Anbalagan A kumar, Fan C-L, et al (2022) Investigating the mechanism of magnetic phase transition temperature of FeRh thin films by doping copper impurities. Materials Chemistry and Physics 275:125252. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.matchemphys.2021.125252
• Billo T, Shown I, Anbalagan A kumar, et al (2020) A mechanistic study of molecular CO2 interaction and adsorption on carbon implanted SnS2 thin film for photocatalytic CO2 reduction activity. Nano Energy 72:104717. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nanoen.2020.104717

Research Highlights

Revealing Buried Layers: Exploring the Metal-Substrate Interface Layer in Superconducting Films

Scientists Reveal Hidden Interface in Superconducting Qubit Material

Magnesium Protects Tantalum, a Promising Material for Making Qubits

Awards & Recognition

• Best Poster Award at the Material Research Society (MRS) Taiwan, 2022.

• Best Poster Award at the Taiwan Physical Society (TPS) meeting, 2022.

• Best Poster Award at the Taiwan Association for Magnetic Technology (TAMT), 2021.

• Best Popularity Award at the 26th Annual Meeting National Synchrotron Radiation Research

  Center (NSRRC), 2020.

• Best Poster Award at the Taiwan Association for Magnetic Technology (TAMT), 2020.

• Best Poster Award at the Annual Meeting of Taiwan Physical Society (TPS), 2019.