Ismail El Baggari

Current Projects

• Atomic scale imaging of quantum matter
• Order and disorder in ferroelectrics
• Mapping local symmetry breaking in correlated systems
• Unconventional collective charge excitations
• Cryogenic and in situ electron microscopy instrumentation

Selected Publications

1. Y. Zhang, X. Shi, S.H. Sung, C. Li, H. Huang, P. Yu, I. El Baggari. Real-space visualization of order-disorder transition in BaTiO3. Sci. Adv. 11, eadx9804 (2025)
2. Y. Zhang, S.H. Sung, C.B. Clement, S.W. Cheong, El Baggari. Inverse Melting of Polar Order in Chemically Substituted BaTiO3. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 256801 (2025)
3. E. Rennich, Emily, S.H. Sung, N. Agarwal, M. Gates, R. Kerns, R. Hovden, and I. El Baggari. Ultracold cryogenic TEM with liquid helium and high stability. Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. 122, e2509736122 (2025).
4. Y. Zhang, S.H. Sung, N. Agarwal, M. Gates, C. Li, P. Yu, R. Hovden, I. El Baggari.  Imaging of nanoscale Polar Landscapes in Quantum Paraelectric SrTiO3. Nature. 656, 54-59 (2025).