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2D Oxide and van der Waals layered devices

Project description

A new class of 'flat' materials, alone and layered with others, really stacks up

With the isolation of graphene for the first time in 2004, a shining new path opened for the world of materials science and all the fields dependent on it. Graphene was the first 2D material, only one-atom thick and in this case pure carbon, but it is certainly not the only monolayer material with far-reaching potential in fields from basic physics and materials science to engineering. The EU-funded OXWALD project will work on the synthesis of 2D freestanding monolayers of an exciting new class of materials. These materials exhibit a unique entanglement among the electronic attributes of charge, orbital and spin and are responsive to light, electric field and magnetism. Scientists plan to produce monolayers of these materials and to combine them in heterogeneous multilayers with conventional 2D materials.

Objective

Two-dimensional (2D) Van der Waals (VdW) materials have started a new era in the physics and chemistry of materials full of exciting challenges in fundamental science and also holding impressive technological promises connected to their atomic scale thickness. However, electrons in current 2D materials, with graphene being the most representative example, do not “feel” each other and their electronic properties are interpreted within single particle models. Correlated 3d transition metal oxides (CCO) are prototype correlated materials where the unscreened Coulomb repulsion between electrons in narrow 3d bands gives rise to a delicate entanglement between electronic attributes: charge, orbital and spin. Their complex interactions is at the bottom of non-trivial entanglements responsible for a wide variety of electronic ground states (superconductivity, multiferroicity, spin or charge order, quantum magnets, etc). Moreover, these electronic phases can be manipulated by external stimuli (electric field, light, magnetic field etc) giving rise to a plethora of coupled responses. Typically these CCOs present broader range of functionalities than conventional 2D materials. In OXWALD the fellow Victor Rouco, will search for new synthesis strategies of 2D CCO freestanding monolayers, and their combinations in multifunctional heterostructures with conventional VdW materials. The main goal will be to imprint electron correlated groundstates into the one-electron states of vdW materials. This fellowship will be carried out at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) under the supervision of Prof. Jacobo Santamaria with a secondment at the Institute of Materials Research ICMM-CSIC also in Madrid.

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UNIVERSIDAD COMPLUTENSE DE MADRID
Net EU contribution
€ 160 932,48
Address
AVENIDA DE SENECA 2
28040 Madrid
Spain

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Comunidad de Madrid Comunidad de Madrid Madrid
Activity type
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
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Total cost
€ 160 932,48