Prize Talk: James C. McGroddy Prize for New Materials: Progress towards "Materials by Design" in Complex Oxides

Virtually everyone involved in condensed matter physics and materials science innately understands the desire to engineer or design materials – whether to tune some parameter or instability, to test a theoretical idea, or to create new emergent phenomena. This has been the overarching theme of our work in complex oxides in forms spanning bulk materials, thin film interfaces and heterostructures, and freestanding crystalline membranes. A brief overview will be presented.

 

This work represents the collective effort of many mentors, students, postdocs, and collaborators, at Stanford University, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, RIKEN, the University of Tokyo, Bell Laboratories, Princeton University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Support from the US Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering; the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation; the Air Force Office of Scientific Research; the Office of Naval Research; the Japan Science and Technology Agency; the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science; and the National Science Foundation is gratefully acknowledged.