Current Research Topics
High-k Gate Dielectrics for III-V CMOS
- Article in UCSB's Convergence Magazine
- Presentation at 7th International Symposium on Advanced Gate Stack Technology (September 2010) and the publications on which it is based: APL, JAP and JAP
Complex Oxide Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- Presentation at SpinAps 2010
- SrTiO3 growth by hybrid MBE: JVST
- MBE of SrTiO3 with a growth window: APL
- Movie showing SrTiO3 surface reconstruction after film growth
Complex Oxide Thin Films and Heterostructures: Transport
Properties
- High-mobility SrTiO3 thin films by MBE: Nature Mater.
- Ultrathin LaNiO3 films: APL, APL
- Two-dimensional electron gas in delta-doped SrTiO3: PRB
Upcoming Meetings and Presentations
- Applications of Quantitative STEM to Functional Oxides and Interfaces, 3rd International Symposium on Advanced Microscopy and Theoretical Calculations (AMTC3), May 9-11, 2012, Gifu City, Japan.
- Emergent Phenomana in Two-Dimensional Electron Gases at Oxide Interfaces, Frontiers in Electronic Materials: Correlation Effects and Memristive Phenomena, June 17-20, 2012, Eurogress Aachen, Aachen, Germany.
- Two-dimensional Electron Gases at Mott/Band Insulator Interfaces, Electroceramics XIII, June 24-27, 2012, University of Twente, Enschede,The Netherlands.
- Quantitative STEM of Oxide Interfaces, European Microscopy Congress 2012, 16 - 21 September 2012, Manchester Central, UK.
- Properties of high-density, two-dimensional electron gases at Mott/band insulator interfaces, Workshop on Oxide Electronics (WOE19), September 30-October 3, 2012, Appeldoorn, The Netherlands.
- Scaling and interface control of high-k/III-V interfaces, 222nd Electrochemical Society Meeting, October 07-12, 2012, Honolulu, Hawaii.
- TBA, International Institute of Physics (IIP) Workshop on "Novel materials: adding material-specific reality in physicist’s models", December 3-14, 2012, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, Brazil.
News
- April 2012: Jack Zhang has won a NDSEG fellowship - congratulations!
- March 2012: Clayton Jackson and Adam Kajdos have both won NSF graduate fellowships - congratulations!
- August 2011: Congratulations to Yoontae Hwang for defending his Ph.D. thesis
- May/June 2011: Congratulations to Bharat Jalan and Junwoo Son for defending their Ph.D. theses
- April 2011: Tyler Cain has won a NDSEG fellowship - congratulations!
- April 2011: Jack Zhang has won a Microscopy Society of America (MSA) Presidential Student Award
- February 2011: Bharat Jalan has won a APS Division of Materials Physics Ovshinsky Student Travel Award
- October 2010: Clayton Jackson has won the Barpal fellowship.
- August 2010: Bharat Jalan has been awarded the MBE Student Award of the 16th International Conference on Molecular Beam Epitaxy
- June 2010: James LeBeau has been awarded an International Federation of Societies for Microscopy (ISFM) scholarship to attend IMC17
- June 2010: Congratulations to James LeBeau for defending his Ph.D. thesis
- April 2010: Bharat Jalan has won a Gold Graduate Student Award at the MRS Spring Meeting
- July 2009: Birks Award (Microbeam Analysis Society Outstanding Paper Award) for Best Contributed Paper to James LeBeau, Scott Findlay, Les Allen and Susanne Stemmer
- May 2009: Nicholas Wright has been awarded an Intel Foundation/SRCEA Fellowship
- January 2009: Bharat Jalan has been awarded the Young Scientist Award of the 36th Conference on the Physics and Chemistry of Surfaces and Interfaces (PCSI-36)
- August 2008: James LeBeau has been awarded a Microbeam Analysis Society Distinguished Scholar Award
Funding