Growth of oxide thin films for various medical and electronic applications

Interest in thin film transition metal oxides is driven in part by the potential technological application of devices exploiting intriguing phenomena, i.e. oxide electronics, and in part by the novel structures and properties observed in epitaxial oxide films, using phase, strain, and interfacial engineering. However, in spite of the large number of observations and promise of epitaxial oxide thin films, most of the investigations have been focused on films on low-index commercially-available single-crystal substrates, which have limited the scope of the study, and the applications. Here, we will present how oxide thins films can be grown on different substrtaes including polycrystalline substrates, and glass tempates. Examples will given to show different applications that can be utilzed for medecine or electronics.