Research area: Complex oxide thin films and heterostructures
Heterostructure materials result in symmetry breaking, electronic and/or atomic reconstruction(s) as well as strain gradients from which a wealth of new intriguing properties can emerge. Such richness arises from a strong interaction between the charge, orbital, spin, and lattice degrees of freedom.
My work includes a combination of both physics and chemistry to create new types of electronic state of matter using symmetry breaking of complex oxide films for. This includes experimental study of ionic and electronic conduction at confined oxide heterointerfaces by designing novel multilayer heterointerfaces. Understanding, how to design these heterointerfaces require control over the synthesis and characterization of epitaxial oxide heterostructures and heterointerfaces leading to new energy, information, and electronic applications.
Recently, new methods have been developed, bridging the realms of epitaxial complex oxides and of low-dimensional VdW materials systems, realizing freestanding perovskite films. My current research is on a fundamental understanding of how to engineer these freestanding oxide films and how the ionic and electronic transport across and along these interfaces is affected by the growth conditions, material types and external stimuli such as electric, magnetic, strain and light.