Ritz
Carlton - St. Thomas, USVI: September 13th - 18th, 2009
Message from the conference
chairs The Villa Conference on Complex Oxide Heterostructures (VC-COH) aims to provide an interdisciplinary
forum for a diverse of researchers working on synthesis, theory, modeling, and characterization of functional complex oxides,
bridging materials research and applications. International scientists with common professional interests in oxide materials
will gather in a friendly and informal atmosphere to share both recent developments and their new ideas about revolutionary
approaches that promise materials with new functionalities and behaviors.
The conference style is reminiscent of the
Gordon Research Conferences (GRCs), which are well recognized for their effectiveness in promoting communication between scientists
in a setting other than one would find at large scientific meetings. While GRCs prohibit direct publication and reference
to the conference in publications, we are encouraging open-access to all information presented at Villa conferences, regardless
whether given in a talk, a poster, or the following conference proceedings.
VC-COH is designed for discussions both in
small groups and plenary sessions, to stimulate in-depth understanding of new materials discovery, design, synthesis, and
characterization, on both experimental and theoretical issues.
In this year’s conference, recent advances in materials design
at the atomic-scale to tailor inter-facial phenomena that control the macroscopic physical properties will be the main focus.
In particular, new emerging physical phenomena in complex oxide thin films and heterostructures with functionalities designed
through controlling and understanding the interactions of electrons, phonons, photons, atoms, ions, etc. are of great interest
for future oxide electronics. Special emphasis will be also given to complex oxides for energy technologies. Both experimental
and theoretical issues of nanoscale phenomena that promise materials with new functionalities and/or unobserved behaviors
will be discussed.
Kimberly A. Sablon (General Chair) Co-Chairmen
- Ivan Božović, Brookhaven Natioal Laboratory
- Gregory J. Salamo, University of Arkansas
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