Transition-metal-oxide-based films and heterostructures are at the core next-generation nanoelectronic, microelectromechanical and macroelectronic devices expected to revolutionize fields of major social relevance as digital information and communication technologies, microactuation/microsensing and energy conversion. Such class of materials is characterized by an unprecedented wealth of functionalities, often being relevant to different fields of application, found in compounds that are extremely similar to each other in terms of chemistry, crystal structure and fundamental mechanisms.
The necessity to handle the unprecedented complexity of these materials rescales efforts of solid state scientists to a higher level and poses challenges that no individual Institution or Nations can face. To promote research on the formation of MeO coatings. To find out and understand the fundamental processes taking place during the formation of MeO. To determine the relationship between the structure, physical and electrical properties of the obtained MeO layers.
Project funding:
COST actions
Project results:
The synthesis of active ferroelectric (PbTiO3, BiFeO3, BiTiO3) thin films by reactive magnetron “layer-by-layer” deposition technique was performed. Characterization of the deposited metal oxide films surface morphology, structure, elemental composition, optical and electrical properties was done. The fundamental understanding and explanation of the processes occurring during the films deposition was performed. Optimization of the deposition parameters in order to obtain the thin metal oxide films with the desirable physical properties was done. Scientific results were published in one international journal indexed in the Web of Science and presented at 8 international conferences/events.
Period of project implementation: 2014-04-15 - 2018-04-14
Project partners: Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Suomija, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, United Kingdom
