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Hassel and Marianne Ledbetter MatSE Colloquium - "Hot Quantum Materials—Turning up the Heat for the Adsorption-Controlled Synthesis of Oxide Thin Films"

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Materials Science and Engineering Department
Location
100 Materials Science and Engineering Building, 1304 W. Green Street
Date
Oct 28, 2024   4:00 pm  
Speaker
Prof. Darrell Schlom
Contact
Bailey Peters
E-Mail
bnpeters@illinois.edu
Phone
217-333-1441
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"Hot Quantum Materials—Turning up the Heat for the Adsorption-Controlled Synthesis of Oxide Thin Films"

It has long been known that molecular-beam epitaxy (MBE) works best for materials that can be grown in an adsorption-controlled regime where thermodynamics automatically provides composition control.  This is where MBE started—for GaAs and other compound semiconductors—and underlies its success for producing semiconductor films with the highest purity and mobility.  The same holds for the growth of thin films of complex oxides by MBE, but the issue has been that it has not been possible to grow that many oxides in such a regime.  In this talk I will describe how high substrate temperature opens the door to this desired growth regime for the growth of complex oxide thin films.  Using a powerful CO2-laser capable of heating to substrate temperatures of 2000 °C, we have grown an increasing number of complex oxides in an adsorption-controlled regime by MBE.  In this talk I will show multiple examples ranging from the growth of excellent conductors (SrMoO3) to ferroelectrics (BaTiO3).

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