Complex oxide materials
display a rich spectrum of physical properties, including dielectricity, ferroelectricity, ferromagnetism, (semi)conducting
behavior, and superconductivity. This class of materials, especially in forms of thin films and heterostructures, is strategically
and industrially important and offers a wide range of opportunities for electronic, magnetic, piezoelectric, and communication
applications. This conference aims to provide an interdisciplinary forum for a diverse of researchers working on epitaxial
complex oxides, bridging the materials research and application.
Recent advances in materials design at the atomic-scale
to tailor interfacial phenomena that control the macroscopic physical properties will be focused. In particular, new emerging
physical phenomena in complex oxide thin films and heterostructures with designed functionality through controlling and
understanding the interactions of electrons, phonons, atoms, ions, etc. are of great interest for future oxide electronics.
Special emphasis will be also given to complex oxides for energy technologies. For example, Co-based oxides are a promising
candidate for thermoelectric application and doped TiO2 for bandgap engineering.
Both
experimental and theoretical issues will be focused on new materials discovery, design, synthesis, and characterization
at the nanoscale that promise materials with new functionalities.
Session
topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Growth control at the atomic length scale; Heteroepitaxy of complex oxides
- Transport and magnetism in correlated-electron oxide heterostructures
- Control of oxygen
vacancies in oxide thin films
- Complex oxides for energy application
- Interface and size effects in ferroelectrics, multiferroics, and piezoelectrics
