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Special Topic Collection on Complex Oxides

This Special Topic Collection features articles dedicated to the science and technology of Complex Oxides. Topics include synthesis, growth, and characterization of oxide thin films and heterostructures physics of oxide films and heterostructures, defect engineering in oxide films and interfaces, nanoionic and nanoelectronic thin films, devices and application based on oxide materials and heterostructures, and oxides for energy conversion and storage applications.

Guest Editors: Bharat Jalan and Nini Pryds

Image credit: Yang Liu, Zheng Wang, Arashdeep Singh Thind, Thomas Orvis, Debarghya Sarkar, Rehan Kapadia, Albina Y. Borisevich, Rohan Mishra, Asif Islam Khan, and Jayakanth Ravichandran, JVST A 37(1), doi.org/10.1116/1.5054130, (2019)

Interfaces

Surface energy engineering for LiTaO₃ and α-quartz SiO₂ for low temperature (<220 °C) wafer bonding

Brian Baker; Nicole Herbots; Shawn D. Whaley; Mohammed Sahal; Jacob Kintz; Aliya Yano; Saaketh Narayan; Alex L. Brimhall; Wey-Lyn Lee; Yuko Akabane; Robert J. Culbertson

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5095157

Thin Films

Kinetic model for color-center formation in TiO₂ film using femtosecond laser irradiation

Susumu Kato; Atsushi Sunahara; Masahiro Tsukamoto

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085822

Thin Films

Formation of highly conformal spinel lithium titanate thin films based on a novel three-step atomic layer deposition process

Sascha Bönhardt; Kati Kühnel; Alireza M. Kia; Wenke Weinreich

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5082275

Interfaces

Thermally activated nucleation and growth of cobalt and nickel oxide nanoparticles on porous silica

Vijayakumar Murugesan; Michel Gray; Mond Guo; Heather Job; Libor Kovarik; Arun Devaraj; Suntharampillai Thevuthasan; Karthikeyan K. Ramasamy

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5080448

Thin Films

Electron-electron interactions in nano-patterned La_0.3Sr_0.7MnO₃ thin films

Laurie E. Calvet; Guillaume Agnus; Philippe Lecoeur

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085669

Thin Films

Electrical and optical properties of wide-gap n-type Sn₂Ta₂O₇ films

Shunichi Suzuki; Keishi Nishio; Naoto Kikuchi

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5081991

Thin Films

Photocatalytic study for indium tantalum oxide thin film in visible light

Chuan Li; Joe Jang-Hsin Hsieh; Po Hui Hsueh

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085767

Interfaces

Temperature dependence of the magnetization of L a 0.67 S r 0.33 M n O 3 thin films on L a A l O 3

Arjan A. Burema; Job J. L. van Rijn; Tamalika Banerjee

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085933

Interfaces

Growth-temperature dependence of conductivity at the LaCrO₃/SrTiO₃ (001) interface

Athby Al-Tawhid; Jordan R. Frick; Daniel B. Dougherty; Divine P. Kumah

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085334

Letters

Structural and optical properties of high magnesium content wurtzite-Zn_1−xMg_xO nanowires

Abdiel Rivera; Anas Mazady; John W. Zeller; Ashok K. Sood; Tariq Manzur; Mehdi Anwar

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5085837

Thin Films

Characterization of VO₂/ferroelectric thin film heterostructures deposited on various complex oxide single crystal substrates

Adrian Petraru; Ravi Droopad; Hermann Kohlstedt

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5082288

Thin Films

MoO₃ films grown on polycrystalline Cu: Morphological, structural, and electronic properties

Salvatore Macis; Carla Aramo; Carmela Bonavolontà; Giannantonio Cibin; Alessandro D’Elia; Ivan Davoli; Mario De Lucia; Massimiliano Lucci; Stefano Lupi; Marco Miliucci; Andrea Notargiacomo; Carlo Ottaviani; Claudio Quaresima; Manuela Scarselli; Jessica Scifo; Massimo Valentino; Paola De Padova; Augusto Marcelli

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5078794

Thin Films

Structural properties of strained epitaxial La_1+δCrO₃ thin films

Dong Han; Mohamed Bouras; Claude Botella; Aziz Benamrouche; Bruno Canut; Geneviève Grenet; Guillaume Saint-Girons; Romain Bachelet

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5082185

Thin Films

Epitaxial growth and strain relaxation studies of BaTiO₃ and BaTiO₃/SrTiO₃ superlattices grown by MBE on SrTiO₃-buffered Si(001) substrate

Clement Merckling; Maxim Korytov; Umberto Celano; Min-Hsiang Mark Hsu; Sabine M. Neumayer; Stephen Jesse; Stefan de Gendt

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5082237

Letters

Toward epitaxial ternary oxide multilayer device stacks by atomic layer deposition

Peter J. King; Marko Vehkamäki; Miika Mattinen; Mikko J. Heikkilä; Kenichiro Mizohata; Wontae Noh; Markku Leskelä; Mikko Ritala

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5081997

Thin Films

On the limit of defect doping in transition metal oxides

Aravindh Kumar; Raisul Islam; Dipankar Pramanik; Krishna Saraswat

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5055563

Thin Films

Control of growth orientation in as-deposited epitaxial iron-rich nickel ferrite spinel

Jon E. Bratvold; Henrik H. Sønsteby; Ola Nilsen; Helmer Fjellvåg

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5082012

Thin Films

Mechanistic study of the atomic layer deposition of scandium oxide films using Sc(MeCp)₂(Me₂pz) and ozone

Rezwanur Rahman; Joseph P. Klesko; Aaron Dangerfield; Ming Fang; Jean-Sébastien M. Lehn; Charles L. Dezelah; Ravindra K. Kanjolia; Yves J. Chabal

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5059695

Thin Films

Epitaxial growth and dielectric characterization of atomically smooth 0.5Ba(Zr_0.2Ti_0.8)O₃–0.5(Ba_0.7Ca_0.3)TiO₃ thin films

Yang Liu; Zheng Wang; Arashdeep Singh Thind; Thomas Orvis; Debarghya Sarkar; Rehan Kapadia; Albina Y. Borisevich; Rohan Mishra; Asif Islam Khan; Jayakanth Ravichandran

https://doi.org/10.1116/1.5054130

Thin Films