Speaker: Professor TeYu Chien
Topic: Many-body interactions at complex oxide interfaces studied by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy
Speaker: Professor TeYu Chien
Organization: Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY, USA
Topic: Many-body interactions at complex oxide interfaces studied by cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy
Date: 14:00 , 2016.09.01
Location: Room 228, College of Engineering
Abstract:
Unlike traditional metals and semiconductors, where electrons are treated as electron gas (weakly interactions), complex oxides exhibit a highly coupled environment for charge, spin, orbital and lattice to have strong interactions. These highly coupled interactions provide a unique environment for many novel functionalities, such as superconductivity, ferromagnetism, ferroelectricity, coloso-magnetoresistance, and multiferroics. These highly coupled interactions are also, on the other hand, the reason that the properties of these materials are difficulty to be predicted. In this talk, I will introduce recently developed experimental technique - cross-sectional scanning tunneling microscopy and spectroscopy (XSTM/S) for studying complex oxide interfaces [1–9]. This will include the challenges and future perspectives of XSTM/S for complex oxides by demonstrating some successful examples.