Wednesday 4th September 2013

Department of Physics, University of Warwick

Organisers: Sean McMitchell, James Lloyd-Hughes and Chris McConville

 

Background and Purpose

The field of complex oxide thin films is an extremely important area of research with their increasing level of incorporation into numerous technologies. Complex oxides offer a wide range of functional properties in a limited number of structure types. This allows integration into such devices as microwave filters for communications, novel microelectronic devices, and even fuel cells. Many of these applications require processing into thin film form to create device architectures. However, thin film growth of oxides also allows structural engineering to create new materials and phases that are not accessible through traditional bulk synthesis routes.

This meeting is aimed at bringing the UK academic community together for a series of presentations to allow discussion of the state-of-the-art and direction of British research in the field as well as to offer some insight into current European work.

Programme

 

Time	Title
Wednesday 4th September 2013
10:30	Coffee and Registration
10:55	Welcome and Introduction
11:00 - 11:30	Marin Alexe (Warwick) - Thin films for ferroelectric spintronics
11:30 – 12:00	Sean McMitchell (Warwick) - Growth of novel materials by strain engineering and manipulation of deposition kinetics
12:00 – 12:45	Guus Rijnders (Twente) - Controlling the growth of epitaxial oxides at the atomic scale
12:45	Lunch and Posters
14:00 – 14:45	Judith MacManus-Driscoll (Cambridge) - Multifunctionality through coupling of oxide interfaces
14:45 – 15:10	Clementine Walker (Imperial) - Pulsed Laser Deposition of LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 thin film devices
15:10 – 15:40	Tim Jackson (Birmingham) Analysis of the permittivity of thin films at microwave frequencies
15:40	Round Table Discussion
16:10	Tea and Posters

Participants

The event will start at 10.30am on 4th September 2013, at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry and not in Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps of the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.

This list of participants is accurate as of 24.05.2013.

Name	Affiliation
Sean McMitchell	University of Warwick
James Lloyd-Hughes	University of Warwick
Chris McConville	University of Warwick
Marin Alexe	University of Warwick
Guus Rijnders	University of Twente
Clementine Walker	Imperial College London
Dean Keeble	University of Warwick
Judith Driscoll	University of Cambridge
Tim Jackson	University of Birmingham
Natasha Flack	University of Liverpool
Richard Walton	University of Warwick
David Keeble	University of Dundee
Aleksander Krupski	University of Warwick
Katarzyna Miskow	University of Warwick
Robert Palgrave	University College London
Emily Glover	University College London
Abhijeet Sangle	University of Cambridge
Prasad Bhagwati	University of Cambridge
Daesung Park	University of Warwick
James Mudd	University of Warwick
Katie Doig	University of Oxford
Tianle Wang	Imperial College London
Giovanni Costantini	University of Warwick
David Leadley	University of Warwick
Geetha Balakrishnan	University of Warwick
Mike Mills	University of Warwick
Collins Ouserigha	University of Warwick
Ana Sanchez	University of Warwick
Jon Duffy	University of Warwick
Tom Hase	University of Warwick

Venue

All talks will be held in the Physics Lecture Theatre (PLT) on the third floor of the Physics Building. Registration will be held on the Physics Concourse outside the PLT. Physics is building 48 on the campus map.

The workshop will start with the registration at the University of Warwick. Note that the university is located at the outskirts of Coventry city and not in the town of Warwick. See http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/ for travel details and http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/about/visiting/maps/ for maps on the central campus. In case you come by car, parking is available for delegates at car park 15.

Contact

Tel: +44 (0) 7875384472

E-mail: s.mcmitchell@warwick.ac.uk