Proceedings of the EMRS 2010 Summer Meeting Symposium E: Frontiers of Multifunctional Oxides (Preface)
- Laboratoire CRISMAT-CNRS-ENSICAEN, Caen, France
- ORNL
- IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
- University of Geneva
This proceedings issue of Thin Solid Films comprises selected papers from the Symposium 'Frontiers of multifunctional oxides' of the E-MRS conference held in Strasbourg May 31-June 4, 2010. The objective of this symposium was to bring together experimentalists and theorists in material science, chemistry, and physics to share their recent results, identify critical problems and provide promising solutions for tailoring physical properties of materials in oxide films, and in particular at the interfaces of superlattices. The goals of this symposium were to: (1) Discuss the most recent studies on oxides films for oxide electronic applications; (2) Present and review the latest advances in understanding the unusual properties in oxide thin films; (3) Present the recent studies on how interface effects can be used to tailor the properties of superlattice materials; (4) Present advanced techniques used to characterize films, including in-situ growth monitoring; (5) Determine theoretical approaches necessary for a prediction of films properties and an understanding of interface effects; (6) Identify open issues in the integration of oxide heterostructures with semiconductors; and (7) Present possible devices. The Symposium 'Frontiers of multifunctional oxides' provided a forum for the oxide films community to discuss properties and new developments, concepts and ideas in this field. The Symposium was of high scientific level and technical quality. More than 160 participants were registered and attended the Symposium. The scientific program consisted of invited (10), oral (55) and poster (112) presentations. The invited speakers were: V.V. Afanasev, Ch. Wenger, H. Lichte, T. Schroeder, A. Barthelemy, T.W. Noh, M. Martin, P.R. Willmott, E. Bousquet, and J. Santamaria. We greatly thank them for their contributions. After a rigorous peer-review process under the rules of Thin Solid Films, 24 articles were accepted for publication in this special issue. We hope that it will provide a good overview of current research in the field of multifunctional oxide thin films and that it will be useful for people interested in this field and for newcomers. We would like to express our gratitude to the authors who have contributed to this issue. We also gratefully acknowledge the hard work of the referees in providing critical reviews. We hope that you will read this special issue of Thin Solid Films with the same pleasure and interest as those we had while compiling and editing it. We wish you an excellent reading.
- Research Organization:
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC)
- DOE Contract Number:
- DE-AC05-00OR22725
- OSTI ID:
- 1050920
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: EMRS 2010 Summer Meeting Symposium E: Frontiers of Multifunctional Oxides, Strasbourg, Germany, 20100531, 20100604
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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