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Thin film growth and materials physics of complex oxides: Structure-Property-Processing interrelationships ; Crystalline Oxides on Semiconductors ; Functional metal oxide thin film deposition and processing for microelectronic, magneto-electronic, optical and high frequency applications. Oxide thin film heterostructures : growth mechanisms and defect structures; physics of magneto-transport and electro-transport ; half-metallic ferromagnets; transport phenomena in highly correlated systems ; Multiferroic oxide heterostructures ; size effects ; self-assembled oxide nanostructures. Nanoscale Characterization : Understanding Materials Physics at the nanoscale using Scanned Probes ; Applications of scanning force microscopy to study domains, switching and polarization dynamics in ferroic thin films ; scaling studies using electric and magnetic force microscopy. Application of TEM techniques to solving materials problems; high resolution imaging of defect and crystal structure; analytical electron microscopy and micro-diffraction techniques; Lorentz imaging of domains. Materials Processing for Devices : Nano-fabrication technologies; novel physical phenomena in complex electronic and magnetic materials with shrinking dimensions; dry etching technologies for device fabrication. Information Technologies : Non-volatile information storage technologies ; Ferroelectric Memories ; Dynamic Random Access Memories ; Field effect devices ; Thin film magnetic and magneto-resistive devices; CMR thin films and heterostructures ; oxide spin valves and magnetic tunnel junctions. |
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CONCEPT Research Group
UC Berkeley
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
100 Hearst Memorial Mining Building
Berkeley, CA 94720-1760
Lab Phone: (510)643-8202
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