New strain states and radical property tuning of metal oxides using a nanocomposite thin film approach

Oxides and Thin Film Preparation Methods

In recent years, the demand for thin film coatings on large area substrates has been rapidly increasing. Coating is some times required to make an object harder, or to provide the surface with particular electrical and optical properties. Hence, research on thin film science has received much attention due to its tremendous applications in modern technology. The importance of coatings and the s...

Physics of thin-film ferroelectric oxides

This review covers important advances in recent years in the physics of thin-film ferroelectric oxides, the strongest emphasis being on those aspects particular to ferroelectrics in thin-film form. The authors introduce the current state of development in the application of ferroelectric thin films for electronic devices and discuss the physics relevant for the performance and failure of these ...

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GRAPHENE-POLYIMIDE NANOCOMPOSITE PIEZORESISTIVE THIN FILM DEVICE FOR STRAIN AND PRESSURE MEASUREMENT by

Ab initio structure modelling of complex thin-film oxides: thermodynamical stability of TiC/thin-film alumina.

We present a strategy to identify energetically favourable oxide structures in thin-film geometries. Thin-film candidate configurations are constructed from a pool of sublattices of stable and metastable oxide bulk phases. Favourable stoichiometric compositions and atomic geometries are identified by comparing total and Gibbs free energies of the relaxed configurations. This strategy is illustr...