A paper led by Steven Spurgeon and Peter Sushko from Pacific Northwest National Lab building Dr. Comes’ previous work on the LaFeO3/Nb-doped SrTiO3 interface has just been published in Physical Review Materials. We examine the interface between the two materials using scanning transmission electron microscopy and complementary density functional theory modeling. In the work we…Continue Reading Paper on LaFeO3/n-SrTiO3 Published in Physical Review Materials

Dr. Comes will be sharing some of his postdoctoral work at the International Workshop on Oxide Electronics on Wed, Sep 27 in Chicago. He’ll be sharing work on the LaFeO3/n-SrTiO3 interface that was published last year in Physical Review Letters and recently submitted work led by Dr. Steven Spurgeon using electron microscopy and density functional theory modeling…Continue Reading Dr. Comes Presenting Talks at International Workshop on Oxide Electronics and University of Alabama

Dr. Comes’ paper in collaboration with Steven Spurgeon and Daniel Perea at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has been published in Advanced Materials Interfaces. In this paper we demonstrate the first growth of an epitaxial oxide nanocomposite by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE). Almost all of the previous work had focused on depositing materials by pulsed laser deposition,…Continue Reading Paper on MBE-grown Oxide Nanocomposites Published in Advanced Materials Interfaces

Our molecular beam epitaxy system from Mantis has been delivered and is under vacuum! Check our lab construction page for more updates as we start our first round of experiments in the FINO Lab….Continue Reading MBE Delivered!

Dr. Comes was on the road last week, presenting an invited colloquium on Friday, April 7 at the University of Alabama-Birmingham on epitaxial oxide films and interfaces. Thanks to Prof. Mary Ellen Zvanut and the entire physics department for being such nice hosts! He followed that up with a trip to Emory University on Saturday…Continue Reading Dr. Comes Presents Invited Talks at UAB and the SPS Zone 6 Meeting

Congratulations to FINO Lab Ph.D. student Miles Blanchet for receiving NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Honorable Mention! Miles is a 2nd year student in the Physics department and was one of 5 graduate students at Auburn to receive either the fellowship or honorable mention. You can read more about the awards at Auburn here….Continue Reading Miles Blanchet Awarded Honorable Mention for NSF GRFP

Our collaborative paper led by Dr. Scott Chambers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory studying the electronic band alignment and interfacial behavior at the epitaxial SrTiO3/p-Ge interface has been published in Applied Physics Letters. Using molecular beam epitaxy of SrTiO3 was grown on a p-doped Ge substrate and characterized using x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) and scanning transmission…Continue Reading Study on Interfacial Properties of SrTiO₃/Ge Heterostructures Published in Applied Physics Letters

Our paper exploring the surface reactivity of LaFeO3 thin films with water using ambient pressure x-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AP-XPS) has been published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters! This work was led by Kelsey Stoerzinger at Pacific Northwest National Lab, who performed AP-XPS measurements on LaFeO3 epitaxial thin films with FeO2 and LaO surface terminations at the…Continue Reading Paper on Oxide-Water Surface Chemistry Published in Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters

Our work exploring the role of interfacial defects on polarization and conductivity in SrTiO3-LaCrO3 superlattices has been published in Chemistry of Materials. In this work, we explore the effects of off-stoichiometry defects and oxygen vacancies on interfacial carriers and polarization in these superlattices. The work was a collaboration during Dr. Comes’ post-doctoral work at Pacific Northwest…Continue Reading Paper on SrTiO₃-LaCrO₃ Superlattices Published in Chemistry of Materials

Dr. Comes will be presenting an invited talk on his work on the LaFeO3/n-SrTiO3 interface and on LaCrO3-SrTiO3 superlattices at the American Ceramics Society Electronic Materials and Applications conference this week at 9 am Friday, Jan 20. Portions of this work have been published in Physical Review Letters, Chemistry of Materials, and Advanced Materials Interfaces in…Continue Reading Invited Talk at Electronic Materials and Application 2017