Explore New Discoveries in Complex Oxide Heterostructures
The most abundant compound in the earth’s crust, oxide materials’ wide ranging electrical, optical, and magnetic properties have yielded high quality metals, dielectrics, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, semiconductors, ferromagnets, transparent conductors, ionic conductors, multiferroics, superconductors, and nonlinear optical materials. These have enormous potential as the fundamental building block of new generations of electronic, magnetic, optical and electromechanical devices, predominantly as atomic level epitaxially layered materials and heterostructures and epitaxial stacked membranes. Eom will discuss the fascinating discoveries that have cemented oxides as essential materials, wide-ranging current research that expands their impact, and future directions that will advance basic science and applications.