Exploring Exchange Interactions at Perovskite Oxide Interfaces

非技术描述：该项目的重点是开发新的人工层状材料，以促进在原子水平上对纳米科学的基本理解。这些材料在下一代器件（自旋电子器件和轨道电子器件）中具有应用，已经预测下一代器件在器件速度和能量效率方面比传统电子器件显示出显著的改进。关键在于利用由钙钛矿氧化物表面和界面处纳米尺度上发生的结构和化学变化引起的意外物理现象。外展活动包括支持加州大学戴维斯分校的科学，技术，工程和数学转移日，其目标是教育弱势群体和代表性不足的群体，从数学工程科学成就计划在北方加州。技术专长：该项目的目标是开发一个基本的理解界面现象，如铁磁和反铁磁层之间的界面交换耦合相互作用。过氧化氢氧化物是这些研究的理想候选材料，因为它们具有广泛的功能特性，这些特性来自电荷，自旋，轨道和晶格自由度之间的强耦合。此外，它们具有大量的阳离子和生长参数，可以用来操纵它们的性能。这项工作的方法利用激光辅助生长来控制界面特性与原子层精度结合的最先进的技术，用于表征其结构，化学和功能特性在多个长度尺度。此外，几何约束效应，因为这些材料被图案化到纳米尺度的尺寸正在调查。这些结果使得能够在与器件应用相关的尺寸上开发紧急界面特性的预测模型。参与的研究生和本科生通过介绍最先进的合成，复杂的表征技术，理论计算。

NON-TECHNICAL DESCRIPTION: This project focuses on the development of new artificial layered materials that advance the fundamental understanding of nanoscience at the atomic level. These materials have applications in next generation devices (spintronic and orbitronic) which have been predicted to display significant improvements in device speed and energy efficiency over conventional electronic devices. The key lies in harnessing the unexpected physical phenomena that result from the changes in structure and chemistry which occur over nanometer scales at surfaces and interfaces of perovskite oxides. Outreach activities include support for the UC Davis Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Transfer Day which targets educationally disadvantaged and underrepresented groups from Mathematics Engineering Science Achievement programs in Northern California.TECHNICAL DETAILS: The goal of this project is to develop a fundamental understanding of interfacial phenomena such as exchange coupling interactions at interfaces between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic layers. Perovskite oxides are ideal candidate materials for these studies due to their wide range of functional properties that result from the strong coupling between the charge, spin, orbital, and lattice degrees of freedom. In addition, they possess a large number of cations and growth parameters that can be used to manipulate their properties. The approach of this work utilizes laser-assisted growth to control interfacial properties with atomic layer precision in combination with state-of-the-art techniques for characterizing their structural, chemical, and functional properties over multiple length scales. In addition, geometric confinement effects as these materials are patterned down to nanoscale dimensions are being investigated. These results are enabling the development of predictive models of the emergent interfacial properties at dimensions relevant for device applications The participating graduate and undergraduate students are gaining hands-on training in disciplines that lie at the intersection between the traditional fields of Materials Science and Engineering, Physics, and Electrical Engineering through the introduction to state-of-the-art synthesis, sophisticated characterization techniques, and theoretical calculations.