Epitaxial Growth of Complex Metal Oxides

Gertjan Koster is a Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is also a visiting professor at the Joseph Stephan Institute in Slovenia. His current research focuses on the growth and study of artificial materials, the physics of reduced scale (nanoscale) materials, metal–insulator transitions, and in situ spectroscopic characterization. Mark Huijben is a Professor at the University of Twente in the Netherlands. He is also a Guest Scientist of the IEK-1 Electrochemical Storage Department at Forschungszentrum Jülich in Germany. His research currently focuses on nanostructured thin films for advanced energy conversion and storage. Guus Rijnders is a Professor and Chairman of Inorganic Materials Science, University of Twente, Enschede, Netherlands. His research currently focuses on the integration of functional and smart materials with electronic and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS).

Part 1 Epitaxial growth techniques 1. Molecular beam epitaxy for the growth of complex oxide materials 2. Physical vapour deposition for the growth of complex oxide materials 3. Chemical vapour deposition for the growth of complex oxide materials 4. Pulsed laser deposition for the growth of complex metal oxides 5. Sputtering of complex metal oxides 6. Synthesis and surface engineering of complex metal oxides by atomic layer deposition 7. Hybrid molecular beam epitaxy for the growth of complex metal oxide materials 8. High pressure synthesis of transition metal oxides

Part 2 Epitaxial growth and functional properties of complex metal oxides 9. Epitaxial growth of ferroelectrics and multiferroics 10. Growth study of epitaxial oxide thin films using Reflection high-energy electron diffraction (RHEED) 11. Epitaxial growth of piezoelectrics 12. Epitaxial growth of superconducting oxides 13. Epitaxial growth of magnetic oxide thin films 14. Strain engineering during epitaxial growth of complex metal oxides 15. Defects, impurities and transport phenomenon in complex oxide crystals 16. In situ x-ray scattering of epitaxial oxide thin films 17. Scanning probe microscopy (SPM) of epitaxial oxide thin films

Part 3 Applications of complex metal oxides 18. Optoelectronics: an application of complex metal oxides 19. Spintronics: an application of complex metal oxides 20. Thermoelectric complex metal oxides 21. Solid oxide fuel cells based complex metal oxides 22. Applications of complex metal oxides in catalysis 23. PiezoMEMS based on complex metal oxides