Call for Papers

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The interplay between charge, spin, lattice, and orbital degrees of freedom in strongly correlated oxide materials leads to a wide range of emergent phenomena that include ferroelectricity, magnetism, superconductivity, and tunable electrical/optical/catalytic properties. This symposium covers recent advances in the synthesis and characterization of complex oxide thin films, heterostructures, superlattices and vertical nanocomposites, strain/microstructure/property correlation and the emergence of unique properties. Topics of interest include epitaxy of complex oxides, stabilization, heterointerface engineering, emergent interfacial properties, new materials discovery, advanced characterizations, and device applications in energy harvesting, memories, and sensors, among others. Contributions that connect advances in synthesis science to structure and property trends are of particular interest, as are those which link theoretical/computational and experimental efforts. The goal of this symposium is to bring together international and interdisciplinary researchers with an interest in epitaxial thin films to exchange ideas and foster collaboration. The topics listed for this symposium reflect the needs and opportunities of strongly correlated oxide thin films towards the applications in spintronics, quantum information science, microelectronics, and clean energy.

Topics will include:

• Synthesis and characterization of epitaxial thin films, heterostructures, superlattices and nanocomposites
• Magnetism, ferroelectricity, multiferroicity and superconductivity
• Structure-property correlation
• Synthesis and characterization of metastable materials and high-entropy complex oxides in thin film form
• Phase change materials in thin film form
• Theoretical simulation and modelling of oxide heterostructures focused on strain, defects, and doping
• Emergent interface phenomena and defects
• Advanced characterization of structural and functional properties in complex oxide thin films by atomic/piezo force microscopy, electron microscopy, neutron scattering, and synchrotron radiation.
• Strain-, defect-, and interface-controlled device performance in energy harvesting, memories, and sensors, among others

Invited Speakers (tentative):

• Charles Ahn (Yale University, USA)
• Ariando Ariando (National University of Singapore, Singapore)
• Christoph Baeumer (University of Twente, Netherlands)
• Anand Bhattacharya (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
• Antia Botana (Arizona State University, USA)
• Jak Chakhalian (Rutgers University, USA)
• Si-Young Choi (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Ying-hao Chu (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)
• Yingge Du (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA)
• Elliot Fuller (Sandia National Laboratories, USA)
• Chen Ge (Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)
• Xia Hong (University of Nebraska–Lincoln, USA)
• Harold Y. Hwang (Stanford University, USA)
• Shinbuhm Lee (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology, Republic of Korea)
• Danfeng Li (City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)
• Mingzhao Liu (Brookhaven National Laboratory, USA)
• Julia Mundy (Harvard University, USA)
• Yuefeng Nie (Nanjing University, China)
• Stuart Parkin (Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics, Germany)
• Km Rubi (Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA)
• Sverre M. Selbach (Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway)
• Kyle Shen (Cornell University, USA)
• Jeongkeun Song (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA)
• Hiroshi Takatsu (Kyoto University, Japan)
• Jean-Marc Triscone (University of Geneva, Switzerland)
• Susan Trolier-Mckinstry (The Pennsylvania State University, USA)
• Haiyan Wang (Purdue University, USA)
• Lingfei Wang (University of Science and Technology of China, China)
• Bilge Yildiz (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA)

Symposium Organizers