Multifunctional Oxide Heterostructures

This book is devoted to the rapidly developing field of oxide thin-films and heterostructures. Oxide materials combined with atomic-scale precision in a heterostructure exhibit an abundance of macroscopic physical properties involving the strong coupling between the electronic, spin, and structural degrees of freedom, and the interplay between magnetism, ferroelectricity, and conductivity. Recent advances in thin-film deposition and characterization techniques made possible the experimental realization of such oxide heterostructures, promising novel functionalities and device concepts. The book consists of chapters on some of the key innovations in the field over recent years, including strongly correlated oxide heterostructures, magnetoelectric coupling and multiferroic materials, thermoelectric phenomena, and two-dimensional electron gases at oxide interfaces. The book covers the core principles, describes experimental approaches to fabricate and characterize oxide heterostructures, demonstrates new functional properties of these materials, and provides an overview of novel applications.Preface ; PART I. FUNDAMENTALS ; 1. A Brief Introduction to Strongly Correlated Electronic Materials ; 2. Magnetoelectric Coupling and Multiferroic Materials ; PART II. OXIDE FILMS AND INTERFACES: GROWTH AND CHARACTERIZATION ; 3. Synthesis of Epitaxial Multiferroic Oxide Thin Films ; 4. Synchrotron X-Ray Scattering Studies of Oxide Heterostructures ; 5. Scanning Transmission Electron Microscopy of Oxides ; 6. Advanced Modes of Piezoresponse Force Microscopy for Ferroelectric Nanostructures ; PART III. OXIDE FILMS AND INTERFACES: FUNCTIONAL PROPERTIES ; 7. General Considerations of the Electrostatic Boundary Conditions in Oxide Heterostructures ; 8. Strongly-Correlated Heterostructures ; 9. Manganites Multilayers ; 10. Thermoelectric Oxides: Films & Heterostructures ; PART IV. APPLICATIONS ; 11. High-K Gate Dielectrics for Advanced CMOS ; 12. FeFET and Ferroelectric Random Access Memories ; 13. LaAlO3/SrTiO3-Based Device Concepts