Category: Papers

Congrats to FINO Lab alum Dr. Rajendra Paudel on his lead-author paper from his Ph.D. research in our group, which is out today in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A as an Editor’s Pick! It is also part of the Special Topic Collection Commemorating the Career of Fred Walker, who has been a…Continue Reading LaFeO3-LaNiO3 Heterostructure Paper Published in JVSTA

Our paper, led by FINO Lab Ph.D. graduate Miles Blanchet, is out in the Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A today! This work focused on the synthesis of spinel MnxCo3-xO4 films on MgAl2O4 substrates by MBE. These materials are highly relevant for electrocatalysis and energy storage, but there have been few studies of films…Continue Reading Paper on Mn-Co Spinel Films Published in JVSTA

In the FINO Lab’s first Tiger-Tide collaboration with our friendly rivals in Tuscaloosa, our paper with Prof. Adam Hauser’s group at the University of Alabama is out in the Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials. Using the Auburn tandem accelerator, we performed Rutherford backscattering measurements for Co2Fe(Ti0.5Al0.5) epitaxial films that the Hauser group grew by…Continue Reading Collaborative Paper on Co2Fe(Ti,Al) Published in Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials

Our collaborative paper with the Jalan group at the University of Minnesota is out today in Nature Nanotechnology! In this work, the Jalan group grew IrO2 films by solid-source metal-organic MBE and unexpectedly found that substrate-induced strain produced precipitates on the film surface. Careful characterization showed that these precipitates are Ir metal rather than oxide….Continue Reading IrO2 Paper Published in Nature Nanotechnology

Our collaborative paper with Prof. Byron Farnum’s group has been published in ChemElectroChem. Congratulations to recent Auburn chemistry graduate Dr. Amanda Chown on the lead author paper! In this work, delafossite CuCrO2 was synthesized by hydrothermal growth and characterized by Rajendra Paudel using our XPS capablities to examine the Cr and Cu valence states before…Continue Reading Paper on Li Intercolation in CuCrO2 Published in ChemElectroChem

Another day, another paper from Suresh Thapa! This paper in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces comes through a collaboration with Boris Kiefer and Sharad Mahatara at New Mexico State University where we have combined theory and experiment to examine the BaSnO3/SrNbO3 interface as a 2D electronic system. Sharad and Suresh deserve credit for getting this…Continue Reading SrNbO3-BaSnO3 Paper Published in ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

Our paper on the growth of SrNbO3 by hybrid molecular beam epitaxy is out in APL Materials today. This work was led by former student Suresh Thapa as part of his Ph.D. and is the first demonstration of SrNbO3 by MBE. Suresh used a new kind of metal-organic precursor to grow these materials, which are very promising…Continue Reading Paper on SrNbO3 Film Synthesis Published in APL Materials

Our collaborative paper with Prof. Byron Farnum’s group in the Department of Chemistry has been published in ACS Catalysis. In this work, Miles Blanchet from FINO Lab grew a series of MnFe2O4 and Fe3O4 samples by MBE on Nb-doped SrTiO3 and performed in situ XPS measurements. Alex Bredar from Prof. Farnum’s group performed cyclic voltammetry…Continue Reading Paper on MnFe2O4 Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysts Published in ACS Catalysis