Topic: “Low-temperature co-sputtering for interlayer-free high performance Nb₃Sn thin film coated copper SRF cavities”

Topic: “Optical properties in highly conductive perovskites”

24th November 2023

See the latest review article on memristors.

Topic: “Substoichiometric phases of hafnium oxide with semiconducting properties”

March 3rd to March 10th 2023

The international Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science (GP-MS) has sent five PhD candidates to the Materials Science department of TU Darmstadt to evaluate a possible exchange of half a year during their PhD time.

Topic: “Switching in emerging memories and their response to heavy ion irradiation”

24th October to 27th October

The international Joint Graduate Program in Materials Science (GP-MS) organized its 5th symposium at Tohoku University in Sendai, Japan.

October 31st to November 4th 2022

Congratulations to Georgia Gkouzia winning the best poster award at the MMM 2022 (Magnetism and Magnetic Materials) in Minneapolis.

ACS Nano publication on emerging memory materials and devices

October 2nd to October 5th 2022

The International Workshop on Oxide Electronics series has become an important venue to discuss recent advances and emerging trends in this central field of our research.

We presented our most recent results on two conferences in Spain and Italy.

You know skateboards – but do you know the superconducting hoverboard?

Batteries – Interfacial chemical reactions and stability in 5V Lithium Ion Cells

Defect-Stabilized Substoichiometric Polymorphs of Hafnium Oxide with Semiconducting Properties – ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 14, 1290–1303 (2022)

New Collaborative Research Centre 1487

The German Research Foundation is establishing the new Collaborative Research Centre 1487 to study iron from a chemical and materials science perspective.

Topic: “ Deposition and modelling of lead zirconate titanate thin films on stainless steel for MEMS applications ”

Epitaxy Induced Highly Ordered Sm₂Co₁₇–SmCo₅ Nanoscale Thin-Film Magnets – ACS Appl. Mater. Interfaces 13 32415−32423 (2021)

(July 2021 – June 2024)

In the EU's Horizon 2020 framework programme in the ECSEL-IA line (Electronic Components and Systems for European Leadership – Innovative Action), the collaborative project storAIge is being launched at the Advanced Thin Film Technology group.

BMBF joint project: TOSCA/ANGELOTTI

New materials for the next generation of superconducting accelerators

Mimicking the human brain with oxygen-engineered yttria-based memory cells

RMU Doctoral graduation in the ATFT group

Topic: “Dielektrika in epitaktischen Volloxid-Varaktoren für Mikrowellen-Anwendungen”

Topic: “Interfaces in all-oxide thin-film varactors with highly-conducting SrMoO₃ electrodes for microwave applications”

Within the new Collaborative Research Center CRC/TRR 270 , a method to induce uniaxial anisotropy in materials with easy-plane anisotropy has been shown, in close collaboration with the advanced electron microscopy and the micromagnetic simulation groups.

Solid Electrolyte Interfaces: The Effect of Interfacial Charge Distribution on Chemical Compatibility and Stability of the High Voltage Electrodes (LiCoPO₄, LiNiPO₄)/Solid Electrolyte (LiPON) Interface

Our paper is among the top 10% most downloaded papers within the first 12 month after online publication in the last two years in Advanced Electronic Materials. Wow!

Topic: “Structural and magnetic properties of epitaxial rare-earth cobalt thin films”

Memory chips for the next computer generations

Researchers in Darmstadt around materials scientists Professor Lambert Alff and Professor Leopoldo Molina-Luna are developing memory devices for a new type of chip.

Topic: “Defect Engineering in Transition Metal Oxide-Based Resistive Random Access Memory”.

Dr. Leopoldo Molina-Luna receives the APL Materials Excellence in Research award on behalf of Patrick Salg in Boston, 4th December 2019.

A meeting at highest European level.

Paving the way for early career exchange with a renowned Japanese university.

A team from Advanced Thin Film Technology wins two renowned prizes for startup ideas and concepts.

Lambert Alff gave an Invited Talk at the NVMTS in Durham, North Carolina.

Topic: “Electrochemical investigations of sodium solid state batteries using sodium cobaltate thin film cathodes.”

Forming-Free Grain Boundary Engineered Hafnium Oxide Resistive Random Access Memory Devices

Topic: “Investigation of structural and magnetic properties in MnBi/FeCo and MnGa/FeCo exchange spring bilayers”