Complex transition-metal oxides (TMOs) are critical materials for cutting-edge electronics
and energy-related technologies, on the basis of their intriguing properties including …

Vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films with ordered two phases, grown epitaxially on
substrates, have attracted tremendous interest in the past decade. These unique …

Perovskite offers a framework that boasts various functionalities and physical properties of
interest such as ferroelectricity, magnetic orderings, multiferroicity, superconductivity …

Strain is a novel approach to manipulating functionalities in correlated complex oxides.
However, significant epitaxial strain can only be achieved in ultrathin layers. We show that …

Piezoelectric sensors can be utilized in Lamb-wave-based structural health monitoring
(SHM), which is an effective method for aircraft structural damage detection. However, due to …

Self-assembled nanocomposite thin films couple two materials into a single film, typically, in
the form of vertically aligned nanopillars embedded in a matrix film. High-density vertical …

Ferroelectrics have become indispensable components in various application fields,
including information processing, energy harvesting, and electromechanical conversion …

Interfaces in complex oxides give rise to fascinating new physical phenomena arising from
the interconnected spin, lattice, charge and orbital degrees of freedom. Most commonly …

Epitaxial vertically aligned nanocomposites (VANs) and their related architectures have
shown many intriguing features that are not available from conventional two-dimensional …

Interface constitutes a significant volume fraction in nanocomposites, and it requires the
ability to tune and tailor interfaces to tap the full potential of nanocomposites. However, the …