Symposium MD3-Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design

Unlike conventional semiconductors, metal oxides have a greater ionicity in their bond and exhibit orbital freedom for the oxygen ions in the lattice. In addition, oxides display a strong interplay between the electron, spin, orbital and structural degrees of freedom. Consequently, many functional properties such as ferroelectricity, piezoelectricity, thermoelectricity, ferromagnetism, and superconductivity feature much more prominently in these systems than they do in conventional semiconductors.

Recent advances in atomic-scale oxide thin film growth have enabled layer-by-layer design of oxide heterostructures, providing an unprecedented control of their physical properties which offer potential solutions to the fundamental limits of scalability of conventional semiconductor technology. These capabilities are based on operating principles that are confined to shorter length scales as well as the broad range of functionality offered by complex oxide materials. New physical properties and behavior that are absent in bulk can be engineered. Examples include high-mobility two-dimensional electron gases and interface magnetism/superconductivity. Moreover, an increasing number of experiments has shown that it is possible to tune the emergent properties through the precise control of boundary conditions in the heterostructures such as strain, chemical composition, crystallographic symmetry, electric field effects, interfacial proximity, surface decoration, capping layers etc. For example, many energy-harvesting and storage devices composed of oxides are designed to utilize energy quanta (i.e., electrons, ions, photons, phonons) by electrostatic, chemical, optical, or mechanical means through interfacing with dissimilar materials.

This symposium aims to provide a multidisciplinary forum with the participation of scientists and engineers from various backgrounds in order to promote the discussion on advanced oxides and interfaces and their implementation in energy, information storage, and future advanced technology.

Topics will include:

Epitaxial stabilization of complex oxides
Oxide heterostructures and superlattices
Electrochemical gating and ionic conductors
Atomic-scale imaging/spectroscopy
Novel templates for oxide thin films
Experimental and theoretical approaches for fast materials design, discovery, or characterization
In-situ studies/characterization of oxide thin films
Interfacial reconstruction of structural and physical properties

Invited Speakers:

MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _0 (Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _1 (Unité Mixte de Physique CNRS/Thales, France)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _2 (University of Arkansas, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _3 (Sungkyunkwan University, Republic of Korea)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _4 (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _5 (Technische Universität Wien, Austria)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _6 (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _7 (Stanford University, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _8 (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _9 (CNR-SPIN Institute Naples, Italy)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _10 (RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Japan)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _11 (Seoul National University, Republic of Korea)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _12 (University of Groningen, Netherlands)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _13 (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Halle/Saale, Germany)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _14 (University of Twente, Netherlands)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _15 (Northwestern University, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _16 (National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba, Japan)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _17 (The University of British Columbia, Canada)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _18 (Paul Scherrer Institut, Switzerland)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _19 (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _20 (Max-Planck Institute for Solid State Research, Stuttgart, Germany)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _21 (University of Antwerp, Belgium)
MD3_Functional Oxide Heterostructures by Design _22 (Universität Würzburg, Germany)