Photograph of Salma Khatun

Salma Khatun

Postdoc Research Associate

Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering

Email: skhatun@ameslab.gov

Office: 221 Spedding

Photograph of Salma Khatun

Credentials

Education

Indian Association for the Cultivation of Science, India, Ph.D. 2021 Physics
University of Calcutta, India, MSc 2016 Physics

Professional Appointments

2025.04 - Present; Postdoc Research Associate, Ames National Laboratory, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
2022.06 - 2025.03; Postdoctoral Scholar, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
2019.11 - 2020.12; Visiting Student, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

Honors & Awards

Dean of Faculty Fellowship, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel, 2021
VATAT fellowships for international visiting students, Planning and Budgeting Committee (VATAT), Israel, 2019
CSIR - Junior Research Fellowship (JRF), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, India, 2017

Areas of Expertise

Surface Science
Molecular beam epitaxy
Ultra-high vacuum scanning tunneling microscopy
X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and related surface science techniques

Publications

V. Pathirage S. Khatun M. Batzill

Intercalation of Mn in a few layers of NbSe2 by molecular beam epitaxy

Surface Science, 2025

S. Khatun O. Alanwoko V. Pathirage C. C. Oliveira R. M. Tromer P. Autreto D. S. Galvao M. Batzill

Solid state reaction epitaxy, a new approach for synthesizing van der Waals heterolayers: The case of Mn and Cr on Bi2Se3

Advanced Functional Materials, 2024

M. S. Uddin S. Khatun C. Vijayan J. K. Rath

Bandgap study of quantum dot-sized SiGe alloy nanocrystals prepared in a nonthermal capacitively-coupled plasma by ambient scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Physica B: Condensed Matter, 2024

V. Pathirage S. Khatun S. Lisenkov K. Lasek J. Li S. Kolekar M. Valvidares P. Gargiani Y. Xin I. Ponomareva M. Batzill

2D materials by design: Intercalation of Cr or Mn between two VSe2 van der Waals layers

Nano Letters, 2023

K. Lasek J. Li M. Ghorbani-Asl S. Khatun O. Alanwoko V. Pathirage A. V. Krasheninnikov M. Batzill

Formation of in-plane semiconductor–metal contacts in 2D platinum telluride by converting PtTe2 to Pt2Te2

Nano Letters, 2022

S. Khatun M. A. Andrés S. R. Cohen I. Kaplan-Ashiri O. Brontvein I. Rosenhek-Goldian R. S. Weatherup B. Eren

Electronic interactions and stability issues at the copper-graphene interface in air and in alkaline solution under electrochemical control

Electrochimica Acta, 2022

S. Khatun S. R. Cohen S. S. Peled I. Rosenhek‐Goldian R. S. Weatherup B. Eren

Observing electrochemical reactions on suspended graphene: an operando Kelvin probe force microscopy approach

Advanced materials interfaces, 2021

S. Khatun A. Maiti G. Das A. J. Pal

Role of individual bands in the unusual temperature-dependent band gap of methylammonium lead iodide

The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, 2020

S. Khatun A. Maiti A. J. Pal

Bowing of transport gap in hybrid halide perovskite alloys (CH3NH3Sn1− xPbxI3): which band is responsible?

Applied Physics Letters, 2020

A. Maiti S. Khatun A. J. Pal

Rashba band splitting in CH3NH3PbI3: An insight from spin-polarized scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Nano Letters, 2019

S. Khatun A. J. Pal

Dirac states of 2D topological insulators: effect of heterovalent dopant-content

Microscopy and Microanalysis, 2019

D. Panigrahi S. Khatun A. Khan A. Sahoo S. Chatterjee A. J. Pal A. Dhar

Photosensitivity and charge injection dynamics of pentacene based thin-film transistors: influence of substrate temperature

Organic Electronics, 2019

S. Khatun A. Banerjee A. J. Pal

Nonlayered tellurene as an elemental 2D topological insulator: Experimental evidence from scanning tunneling spectroscopy

Nanoscale, 2019

S. Khatun H. Bhunia A. J. Pal

Bi2Se3 topological insulator at the 2D-limit: Role of halide-doping on Dirac point

Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018