Controlling Complex Electronic Materials

IRG Senior Participants:
Darrell Schlom (co-leader, Mat Sci), Kyle Shen (co-leader, Phys), Joel Brock (Appl Phys), J.C. Séamus Davis (Phys), Craig Fennie (Appl Phys), Richard G. Hennig (Mat Sci), Eun-Ah Kim (Phys), David Muller (Appl Phys)
Collaborators: Michael Lawler (SUNY Binghamton), Andy Mackenzie (St. Andrews University, UK), Alex Demkov (University of Texas), Hao Li (Motorola), Jeremy Levy (University of Pittsburgh), Joe C. Woicik (NIST), John F. Mitchell (Argonne National Laboratory), John W. Freeland (Argonne National Laboratory), Jürgen Schubert (Research Centre Jülich, Germany), Karin M. Rabe (RutgersUniversity), Li-Peng Wang (Intel), Long-Qing Chen (Penn State University), Luigi Maritato (University of Salerno, Italy), Marilyn E. Hawley (Los Alamos National Laboratory), Michael Bedzyk (Northwestern University), Peter Schiffer (Penn State Univ.), Philip Ryan (Argonne National Laboratory), Venkat Gopalan (Penn State Univ.)

Our group aims to study and control complex electronic materials -- systems where strong quantum interactions can result in unexpected and novel phenomena, including superconductivity, high thermopower, unconventional magnetism, and metal-insulator transitions. The physical properties of these complex electronic materials will be finely tuned through a variety of approaches including epitaxial strain, chemical doping, and interfacial engineering. These materials will be characterized using various probes of the electronic structure, both in real-space (STM, STEM) and momentum-space (ARPES, x-ray scattering), which will provide valuable input into developing realistic theoretical models for these novel and exciting systems.

E-mail IRG leaders: Darrell Schlom and Kyle Shen