With our development of pulsed laser deposition (PLD) with control at an atomic level using high-pressure reflection high-energy electron diffraction we are able to control the growth of these materials and introduced new growth manipulation techniques, like pulsed laser interval deposition. At present, extremely sharp and homogeneous interfaces can be realized and this is, for example, yet utilized in magnetic tunnel junctions in the ferromagnetic ‘bad metal’ SrRuO3. The possibility to use building blocks of complex materials (complex means materials build of more than 2 elements) enables the design of artificial superstructures with atomically sharp interfaces with enhanced functionalities.
Right now, the following projects are going on in this research area: