Functional oxides are an untapped resource for futuristic devices and functionalities. These
functionalities can range from high temperature superconductivity to multiferroicity and novel …

The effects of strain and oxygen vacancies on perovskite thin films have been studied in
great detail over the past decades and have been treated separately from each other. While …

A strain-driven orthorhombic (O) to rhombohedral (R) phase transition is reported in La-
doped BiFeO3 thin films on silicon substrates. Biaxial compressive epitaxial strain is found to …

Epitaxial films of SrMnO 3 and bilayers of SrMnO 3/La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 have been
deposited by pulsed laser deposition on different substrates, namely, LaAlO 3 (001),(LaAlO …

Oxide materials facilitating high-ion mobility and fast-ion transport are highly sought after for
applications requiring intensive redox cycling. Some of these materials, in addition, may …

Understanding and manipulating complex spin texture in multiferroics can offer new
perspectives for electric field-controlled spin manipulation. In BiFeO3, a well-known room …

Magnonic devices that utilize electric control of spin waves mediated by complex spin
textures are an emerging direction in spintronics research. Room-temperature multiferroic …

We model changes of magnetic ordering in Mn-based antiperovskite nitrides driven by
biaxial lattice strain at zero and at finite temperature. We employ a noncollinear spin …

Epitaxial strain provides important pathways to control the magnetic and electronic states in
transition-metal oxides. However, the large strain is usually accompanied by a strong …

Mobile oxygen vacancies offer a substantial potential to broaden the range of optical
functionalities of complex transition metal oxides due to their high mobility and the interplay …