Thin Films and Heterostructures for Oxide Electronics

Ferroelectrics, Nano-scale phenomena, High k Dielectrics.- Nanoscale Phenomena in Ferroelectric Thin Films.- High-K Candidates for use as the Gate Dielectric in Silicon MOSFETs.- Science and Technology of High-Dielectric Constant (K) Thin Films for Next Generation CMOS.- Magnetic Memory and Spintronics.- Materials Requirements for Magnetic Random-Access Memory (MRAM) Devices.- Maganites, Magnetite, and Double-Perovskite Thin Films and Heterostructures.- Diluted Magnetic Semiconductors and Insulators.- Diluted Magnetic Oxide Systems.- Epitaxial Growth and Properties of Magnetically Doped TiO2.- Interfaces and Surfaces: Correlated Electron Systems.- Interfaces in Materials with Correlated Electron Systems.- Electronic Reconstruction at Surfaces and Interfaces of Correlated Electron Materials.- Wide Band Gap Semiconductors.- Wide Band Gap ZnO and ZnMgO Heterostructures for Future Optoelectronic Devices.- Combinatorial Synthesis and Materials Discovery.- Combinatorial Synthesis of Functional Metal Oxide Thin Films.- Film Growth and Real-Time in situ Characterization.- Real-Time Growth Monitoring by High-Pressure RHEED during Pulsed Laser Deposition.- Recent Advances in the Deposition of Multi-Component Oxide Films by Pulsed Energy Deposition.