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The new science of oxide interfaces

12 - 13 September 2011 09:00 - 17:00

Organised by Professor Mark Blamire, Professor Dave Blank and Professor Judith Driscoll

Recent studies of the functional properties of heteroepitaxial interfaces between complex oxides have discovered a tremendous range of exciting new science, including properties such as magnetism and superconductivity which are not present in either parent material or appear at greatly elevated temperatures. This meeting will draw together leading scientists with diverse expertise to understand and exploit such oxide interfaces.

This meeting was followed by a satellite meeting on Superconductivity at oxide interfaces taking place at the Kavli Royal Society International Centre from 14-15 September 2011.

The proceedings of this meeting have been published in a dedicated issue of Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A.

The biographies and audio recordings are available below.

Organisers

  • Professor Mark Blamire, University of Cambridge, UK

    Mark Blamire is Professor of Device Materials in the Department of Materials Science at the University of Cambridge. He leads the Device Materials group, working primarily on superconducting spin electronics. This work is currently supported by an EPSRC Programme Grant (Superspin) exploring the potential for superconducting spin electronics. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics and the Institute of Materials, Minerals and Mining. He received his PhD in 1985 under Jan Evetts and has worked on the properties of superconducting materials and devices throughout his career. He has authored over 450 journal papers and contributed to the most recent European roadmap on superconductive electronics.

  • Professor Dave Blank, University of Twente, The Netherlands

    Professor Dave Blank received in 1991 his PhD in Physics from the University of Twente, Netherlands for his dissertation on High-Tc thin films prepared by laser ablation: an experimental study, under supervision of Prof Dr Horst Rogalla.

    After a research fellowship at Stanford in the group of Professor  Malcolm Beasley and Professor Theodore Geballe in 1998, he was appointed as associate professor and programme director on the materials science of interfaces in the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology at the University of Twente. Since October 2002 he is full professor in Inorganic Materials Science at the same university. From January 1, 2007 he is the Scientific Director of MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente. MESA+ host over 500 scientists in 30 research groups with an annual budget over 50 MEuro.

    His research is based upon growth studies, deposition and structuring techniques, and properties of complex materials, especially oxides. His research group consists of 20 PhD students, 5 postdocs and 3 scientific staff members. He has over 250 papers in refereed journals and was supervisor of 30 PhD graduations.

    In 2002 he was awarded with the VICI laureate of the Dutch Science Foundation for his work on artificial materials for nanoscale devices. He is member of the board of governors of NanoNed, member of the Swedish Royal Academic of Science Gothenburg, chairman of the executive Board of NanoNextNl.

    In 2010 he got from the Queen the Royal decoration Knighthood of the Order of the Dutch Lion and received in 2011 the STW Simon Stevin Meester award, the highest award in the Netherlands for applied sciences. 

  • Professor Judith Driscoll, University of Cambridge, UK

    Professor Driscoll has been at the University of Cambridge since 2003. She is also a Long Term visiting staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory.  She works on the materials science of functional oxide thin films and nanostructures, including superconductors, ferromagnetic, ferroelectric and multiferroics. She is a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and also a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. She has around 250 journal publications.