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Symposium HH: Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Systems

• 2012 MRS Spring Meeting & Exhibit

• April 9 - April 13, 2012
• Moscone West Convention Center | Marriott Marquis - San Francisco, California-
• Meeting Chairs: Lara A. Estroff, Jun Liu, Kornelius Nielsch, Kazumi Wada

Nanocomposites, Nanostructures, and Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Systems

This symposium is co-sponsored by the Japan Society of Applied Physics  

Future electronics will increasingly rely on oxide materials because of their unique functionalities.  With advances in the synthesis and characterization of oxide thin films and nanostructures has come the observation of exciting new materials phenomena.  The parallel fields of oxide heteroepitaxy and nanomaterials both exploit surfaces, interfaces, and boundaries in materials to achieve better performance and new properties.  Core to both fields is the ability to control these structures at unprecedented atomic levels.  Because of these common themes, this symposium aims to bring together researchers from both communities to identify and illumi-nate new areas of interaction and collaboration.  The combined expertise of the two fields will be explored and connected to major challenges across the disciplines.  At their core, the ability to control multilayered oxide-thin-film heterostructures to possess well-defined surfaces and interfaces makes them a novel extension and an ideal form of nanocomposite systems.  This symposium, in particular, will focus on correlated electron phenomena in such nano- and heterostructures.

Topics to be addressed will include (but will not be limited to):

• Synthesis and characterization of oxide nanocomposites/nanomaterials, artificial two dimensional sheets of nanoparticles, heteroepitaxial thin films, and multi-layered systems
• Characterization and control of defects in oxide nanocomposites and heterostructures (including changes from heterostructure to nanocomposite by heavy radiation damage)
• Theoretical and computational approaches to such materials
• Studies of functional oxide materials arising from electron correlations
  (i.e., magnetic, dielectric/ferroelectric, superconducting, etc.)
• Studies of interfacial properties in such materials (i.e., ferromagnetic/ superconductor, novel p-n junctions, exchange bias, novel properties at hetero-interfaces)
• Magnetization reversal and phase separation in such materials
• ZnO/manganites novel p-n junctions, magnetic field modulations

Joint sessions with the following symposia are being considered: I: Recent Advances in Superconductors, Novel Compounds, and High-Tc Materials; and BB: Solution Synthesis of Inorganic Films and Nanostructured Materials.

A tutorial is tentatively planned on commonalities and differences between nanocomposites and heterostructures. Further information will be included in the MRS Program that will be available online in January.

Invited speakers include (partial list):

Peter Badica (INCDFM, Romania), Ivan Bozovic (Brookhaven National Lab), Judith Driscoll (Univ. of Cambridge, United Kingdom), Sibylle Gemming  (Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Germany), Hans-Ulrich Habermeier (Max-Planck-Inst., Germany), Hideo Hosono (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan),  Toshio Kamiya (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan), Masashi Kawasaki (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Hideomi Koinuma (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Kai Liu (Univ. of California, Davis), Josep Nogues (Univ. Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain), Shigetoshi Ohshima (Yamagata Univ., Japan), Akira Ohtomo (Tokyo Inst. of Technology, Japan), Reji Philip (Raman Research Inst., India), Ramamoorthy Ramesh (Univ. of California, Berkeley), Lakshmi Reddy (S V D College, India), Jacobo Santamaria (Univ. Complutense, Spain), Yuzo Shigesato (Aoyama Gakuin Univ., Japan), Hitoshi Tabata (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan), Masashi Tachiki  (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan), Katsuhisa Tanaka (Kyoto Univ., Japan), Suzanne te Velthuis (Argonne National Lab), Hiroshi Yamamoto (Nihon Univ., Japan), Tetsuya Yamamoto (Kochi Univ. of Technology, Japan).

Symposium Organizers

Tamio Endo
Mie University
Graduate School of Engineering
Tsu, Mie 514-8507, Japan
Tel 81-59-231-9400, Fax 81-59-231-9409
endo@elec.mie-u.ac.jp  

Hiroaki Nishikawa
Kinki University
Faculty of Biology-Oriented Science and Technology,
Kinokawa, Wakayama 649-6493, Japan
Tel 81-736-77-0345 x-4208, Fax 81-736-77-4754
nishik32@waka.kindai.ac.jp 

Anand Bhattacharya
Argonne National Laboratory
Materials Science Division and the Center for Nanoscale Materials
Bldg. 440, A233
9700 S. Cass Ave.
Argonne, IL 60439
Tel 630-252-6518, Fax 630-252-4646
anand@anl.gov  

Lane W. Martin
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering and Materials Research Laboratory
Urbana, IL 61801
Tel 217-244-9162, Fax 217-333-5290
lwmartin@illinois.edu  

Nobuyuki Iwata
Nihon University
College of Science and Technology
Funabashi-shi, Chiba 274-8501, Japan
Tel 81-47-469-5457, Fax 81-47-469-5457
iwata@ecs.cst.nihon-u.ac.jp