Complex Thin Film Systems / Advanced Epitaxy
WORKGROUP
The junior professor group ‘Complex Thin Film Systems / Advanced Epitaxy’ is associated with the Collaborative Research Center SFB 1073 "Control of Energy Conversion on Atomic Scales". The goal of the group is to produce high-quality epitaxial complex thin films using methods like pulsed laser deposition and metal-organic aerosol deposition.
RESEARCH TOPICS
Magnetism
- Perovskite oxides with modified B-site for ferromagnetism and A-site for ferroelectricity
- Metal/metal oxide interface study (eg: Co/Co-oxide) for exchange bias systems
- Molecular magnets with different organic length chains to study the relaxation dynamics of magnetic quantum tunneling
Correlated Photonic Materials
- Defect and stoichiometry engineering to obtain conducting, visible light transparent oxides and plasmonic crystals
- Modifying transparent conductors into multiferroics by anion substitution
Superconductivity
- Nb based superconducting materials
- Influence of interfacing superconducting Nb with plasmonic SrNbO3
Photo/electrochemical activities
- Perovskite oxides and oxynitrides for oxygen evolution and reduction reactions
- Relationship between magnetic phases and the electrochemical activities
- Photocatalytic and plasmonic materials