Electronic materials and interfaces, e.g. correlated materials, ferroelectrics
Operando and ultrafast electron microscopy of electronically driven dynamics
Multidimensional electron microscopy of structure and functional properties
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley 2022 Materials Science and Engineering
M.S. University of California, Berkeley 2019 Materials Science and Engineering
B.S.E. University of Pennsylvania 2017 Materials Science and Engineering
Selected Publications
Durham, D.B., Gage, T.E., Horn, C.P., Ma, X., Liu, H., Arslan, I., Guha, S. and Phatak, C., Nanosecond Structural Dynamics during Electrical Melting of Charge Density Waves in 1T-TaS2. Physical Review Letters, 132(22), p.226201. (2024).
Siddiqui, K.M., Durham, D.B., Cropp, F., Ji, F., Paiagua, S., Ophus, C., Andresen, N.C., Jin, L., Wu, J., Wang, S. and Zhang, X., Relativistic ultrafast electron diffraction at high repetition rates. Structural Dynamics, 10(6). (2023).
Durham, D.B., Ophus, C., Siddiqui, K.M., Minor, A.M. and Filippetto, D., Accurate quantification of lattice temperature dynamics from ultrafast electron diffraction of single-crystal films using dynamical scattering simulations. Structural Dynamics, 9(6). (2022).
Siddiqui, K.M. & Durham, D.B., Cropp, F., Ophus, C., Rajpurohit, S., Zhu, Y., Carlström, J.D., Stavrakas, C., Mao, Z., Raja, A. and Musumeci, P., Ultrafast optical melting of trimer superstructure in layered 1T′-TaTe2. Communications Physics, 4(1), p.152. (2021).
Professional Activities
Symposium organizer at Microscopy and Microanalysis 2024