Michigan State University
Science at the Edge
Engineering Seminar
December
5th, 2014
11:30
a.m., Room1400 Biomedical and
Refreshments
served at 11:15 a.m.
Darrell Schlom
Materials
Science and Engineering
Cornell
University
Playing the “Strain
Game” to Enhance the Properties of Oxides
Abstract
Using epitaxy and
the misfit strain imposed by an underlying substrate, it is
possible to strain oxide thin films to percent levels—far beyond
where they would crack or plastically deform in bulk. Under such strains, the
properties of oxides can be dramatically altered. For example, materials that
are not ferroelectric or ferromagnetic in their unstrained state
can be transmuted into ferroelectrics, ferromagnets, or
materials that are both at the same time. Results of fundamental
scientific importance as well as revealing the tremendous
potential of utilizing multicomponent oxide thin films to create
devices with enhanced performance will be shown.
Bio
Darrell Schlom is the Herbert Fisk
Johnson Professor of Industrial Chemistry and Head of the
Department of Materials Science and Engineering at Cornell
University. After
receiving a B.S. degree from Caltech, he did graduate work at
Stanford University receiving an M.S. in Electrical
Engineering and a Ph.D. in Materials Science and Engineering. He was then a post-doc at
IBM’s research lab in Zurich, Switzerland in the oxide
superconductors and novel materials group managed by Nobel
Prize winners J. Georg Bednorz and K. Alex Müller. He has received various
awards including young investigator awards from the National
Science Foundation and the Office of Naval Research, an
Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellowship, and the MRS Medal. He is a Fellow of both
the American Physical Society and the Materials Research
Society.
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