Oxide-based Materials and Devices XVI

Oxides are remarkable multifunctional materials with a huge range of emerging applications spanning domains as diverse as solid-state lighting, photovoltaics, nanotechnology, biotechnology, capacitors, transparent electronics, next-generation memories, sensors, and spintronics. A number of breakthroughs over the past few years have driven an exponential surge in research activity in the field. This interdisciplinary conference is intended to cover (but not be limited to) oxide materials for use as transparent conductors, opto-semiconductors, ferroelectrics, piezoelectrics, dielectrics, multiferroics, superconductors, magnetic oxides, metamaterials, and various electrical/optical components. We would like to encourage you to take part in this conference and submit an abstract. Presentations are solicited on the following topics:

• bulk growth and characterization
• thin films and multilayers (growth, interfaces, surfaces, and properties) of oxides, and oxides/non-oxide
• 2D materials
• nanostructured growth, properties and applications
• amorphous oxide semiconductors
• highly-correlated complex systems
• phase transitions
• modeling and theoretical studies
• structural, mechanical, electrical, chemical, thermal, magnetic, and optical properties
• degenerate conduction
• plasmonics
• doping and band gap engineering
• photon-induced phenomena in complex oxides
• optical studies
• processing, etching, annealing, and formation of ohmic and Schottky contacts
• applications including: LEDs, lasers, photovoltaics, TCOs, transparent electronics, FETs, TFTs, memories, spintronics, scintillators, sensors, actuators, SAW devices, MEMS, optical coatings plus devices for high temperature, RF, radiation hard, microwave, and radar applications
• integration with Si + beyond Si oxide electronics
• gate-controlled metal-insulator transitions in oxides
• multilayered oxide structures for optical materials
• graphene/graphene oxide/hybrids of graphene and oxides
• nanoionics
• energy management: production, harvesting, and storage
• "green" processing of materials/devices (cost-competitive biocompatible materials and processes).

Building on several years of excellent contributions, we are again calling for special focus sessions on ZnXO, and Ga-X-O.