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Controlling mesoscopic phase separation
Start date:2005-06-01
End date:2008-11-30
Project Acronym:COMEPHS
Project status:Completed
Coordinator
| Organization name:NATIONAL TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS | |
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Name:Efthymios |
DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICS / SCHOOL OF APPLIED SCIENCES Heroon Polytechneiou st. 9 ZOGRAFOU, ATHENS HELLAS Region: |
| Tel:+30-210-772-2930 | |
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| URL:http://www.ntua.gr | Organization Type:Education |
Description
Objective:
Conventionally, electronic device functions are generated by combining various materials, in which each material has one particular functionality. With the atomic limit as the ultimate achievable goal in sight, we try to explore methods that do not need ex tensive use of top-down nanotechnology, including lithography and deposition/etching techniques, but use device structures that are spontaneously created by nature in the general framework of electronic phase separation. Here one material can adopt more th an one electronic state, and by judicious organization of these electronic states device functions can be generated with built-in atomic precision. In a number of materials like manganites, a spectacularly diverse range of exotic magnetic, electronic and c rystal structures can coexist at different locations on the same crystal. What looks in one sense like awkward complexity is in fact a route toward engineering without the difficulties of atomic scale lithography - by manipulating the propensity of phase s eparation and phase coexistence in these materials we may make dynamically controlled functional electronic structures. The coexisting phases may form robust magnetic, electronic and crystallographic textures on "mesoscopic" length scales. By controlling a n array of textured phases analogous to those in liquid crystals we may be able to control locally the electronic structure and properties without atomic-scale fabrication. In manganites, for example, a simple domain wall in the ferromagnetic metallic phas e could spontaneously develop an insulating barrier of the charge order phase creating the ultimate spin-tunnel junction. COMEPHS is the first European project that aims to concentrate all necessary resources in Europe in order to achieve functionality of mesoscopic textured states. The research aims to provide basis for a new set of electronic technology and COMEPHS is expected to ensure European preeminence in this strategic domain.
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Project Details
Start date:2005-06-01
End date:2008-11-30
Duration:42 months
Project Reference:517039
Project cost:3743800 EURO
Project Funding:3183800 EURO
Programme Acronym:
FP6-NMP
Programme type:Sixth Framework Programme
Subprogramme Area:Self-organisation and elf-assembling, Modelling and design of multi-functional materials
Contract type:Specific Targeted Innovation Project
URL:http://www.physics.ntua.gr/comephs/
Subject index:Industrial Manufacture, Materials Technology
Other Indexes:Nanotechnology
Results for this Project
| Final Report Summary - COMEPHS (Controlling mesoscopic phase separation) | 03/10/2012 |
Documents for this Project
| Final Report - COMEPHS (Controlling mesoscopic phase separation) | 14/04/2011 |
Other participants
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Name:Juergen |
INSTITUTE FOR EXPERIMENTAL PHYSICS II Ritterstrasse 26 LEIPZIG DEUTSCHLAND Region:SACHSEN Leipzig, Kreisfreie Stadt |
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Name:Michel |
LABORATOIRE DE PHYSIQUE DES SOLIDES, CNRS UMR 8502 15 Avenue Georges CLEMENCEAU ORSAY FRANCE Region:ÎLE DE FRANCE Ile de France Essonne |
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