Invited Paper EM-TuA3
Growth and Properties on Multifunctional Epitaxial Oxide Structures

Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 2:20 pm, Room 210

Complex oxides exhibit a wide range of phenomena, including magnetism, ferroelectricity, superconductivity, and colossal magnetoresistance. The epitaxial growth of these complex oxides in crystalline heterostructure form allows these functionalities to be combined and utilized for fundamental science and technical applications. The ability to integrate this class of materials with others, and silicon in particular, multiply these research and technical opportunities. To fully realize this potential, the interfaces between materials must be understood, controlled, and optimized on the atomic level. We have developed techniques for the determination of such interface structures with sub-Angstrom accuracy, and informed by first-principles calculations, we have developed real-space models for complex oxide heteroepitaxy.