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Silicon films doped with Er and O were prepared by techniques of physical vapor deposition on crystalline silicon, ion beam mixing and oxygen incorporation through Ar+ and O2+ implantation, and thermal annealing. Processing steps were…
As a unique perovskite transparent oxide semiconductor, high-mobility La-doped BaSnO3 films have been successfully synthesized by molecular beam epitaxy and pulsed laser deposition. However, it remains a big challenge for magnetron…
High quality optical thin film materials form a basis for on-chip photonic micro- and nano-devices, where several photonic elements form an optical circuit. Their realization generally requires the thin film to have a higher refractive…
We re-examine real-time holography for all-optical structuring of light and optical computation using a contemporary material: a subwavelength-thick, spatially unstructured film of indium tin oxide (ITO). When excited by spatially…
The magnetoelectric coupling effect serves as a crucial bridge between electrical and magnetic order parameters in condensed matter physics, forming the physical basis for the development of next-generation low-power information storage and…
The Si based TiO2 thin films were prepared via the combination both of Sol-Gel and Spin-Coating method. The films were sintered at 850 degrees Celsius for half an hour, and the resulting films were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD)…
A new fabrication process is developed for growing Bi2Se3 topological insulators in the form of nanowires/nanobelts and ultra-thin films. It consists of two consecutive procedures: first Bi2Se3 nanowires/nanobelts are deposited by standard…
We present calculations for the temperature-dependent electronic structure and magnetic properties of thin ferromagnetic EuO films. The treatment is based on a combination of a multiband-Kondo lattice model with first-principles TB-LMTO…
We experimentally demonstrate a very large dynamic optical reflection modulation from a simple unpatterned layered stack of phase-change materials ultrathin films. Specifically, we theoretically and experimentally demonstrate that properly…
We report on the optimization process to synthesize epitaxial thin films of GdTiO3 on SrLaGaO4 substrates by pulsed laser deposition. Optimized films are free of impurity phases and are fully strained. They possess a magnetic Curie…
Infrared (IR) transmittance tunable metal-insulator conversion was demonstrated on glass substrate by using thermochromic vanadium dioxide (VO2) as the active layer in three-terminal thin-film-transistor-type device with water-infiltrated…
A study of dynamic and reversible voltage controlled magnetization switching in ferromagnetic Co/Pt thin film with perpendicular magnetic anisotropy at room temperature is presented. The change in the magnetic properties of the system is…
High-quality epitaxial SrVO3 (SVO) thin films of various thicknesses were grown on (001)-oriented LSAT substrates by pulsed electron-beam deposition technique. Thick SVO films (~25 nm) exhibited metallic behavior with the electrical…
The ability to synthesis well-ordered two-dimensional materials under ultra-high vacuum and directly characterize them by other techniques in-situ can greatly advance our current understanding on their physical and chemical properties. In…
We have grown epitaxial thin films of multiferroic BiMnO$_3$ using pulsed laser deposition. The films were grown on SrTiO$_3$ (001) substrates by ablating a Bi-rich target. Using x-ray diffraction we confirmed that the films were epitaxial…
Thin films of pure and self-deficient calcium titanites i.e., CaTiO$_3$, Ca$_{1-\alpha}$TiO$_3$, CaTi$_{1-\beta}$O$_3$ and CaTiO$_{3-\gamma}$ have been deposited on ITO substrate using dip coating method. X-ray diffraction and Scanning…
Boron (B) alloying transforms the magnetoelectric antiferromagnet Cr2O3 into a multifunctional single-phase material which enables electric field driven {\pi}/2 rotation of the N\'eel vector. Nonvolatile, voltage-controlled N\'eel vector…
Active metasurfaces hold great promise for spatial light modulation, and electro-optic tuning using lithium niobate is particularly attractive due to its high transparency and well-established thin-film platform. In this work, we present a…
We demonstrate stable operation of a thin-film lithium tantalate (TFLT) modulator at very high operating temperatures. We show that the electro-optic modulation and bandwidth of the TFLT modulators are not affected by high-temperature…
SrTiO3 plays a central role in oxide electronics. It is the substrate of choice for functional oxide heterostructures based on perovskite-structure thin-film stacks, and its surface or interface with a polar oxide such as LaAlO3 can become…