Thin films of Transition Metal Oxides for Technological Applications
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| Stefano Lupi | Aggiungi Tutor di riferimento (Professore o Ricercatore afferente allo stesso Dipartimento del Proponente) |
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are among the most fascinating materials studied in solid-state physics, having a great variety of structural, chemical, and transport properties. These materials when prepared in the form of thin films allow the development of new systems with unique features, particularly appealing for numerous technological applications. For instance, VO2 shows an insulator-to-metal transition (IMT) at 340 K with a 4-order magnitude jump in resistivity, which can be modulated through film thickness, light, pressure, and electric field.
This research aims to prepare and study different types of TMOs films (MoO3, WO3, VO2, V2O5, SnO, and SnO2), both to develop and expand the scientific knowledge on TMOs materials and to study the role of transition oxide films in technological applications like protective coating for acceleration cavity in particle physics, IMT and plasmonics.