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EPSRC Reference:	GR/L24458/01
Title:	SPM FOR OPTIMISATION OF ELECTRICAL PROPERTIES OF METAL OXIDETHIN FILMS ON SUBMICRON DIMENSIONS
Principal Investigator:	Cohen, Professor LF
Other Investigators:	Thorton, Dr T Driscoll, Professor JL Vvedensky, Professor D Thornton, Dr T
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Project Partners:	Imperial College London National Physical Laboratory NPL Nikon Renishaw Surface Technology Systems Plc
Department:	Physics
Organisation:	Imperial College London
Scheme:	JREI
Starts:	08 July 1997	Ends:	07 July 2000	Value (£):	58,309
EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:	Materials Characterisation
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A Park Scientific multi-purpose scanning probe microscope will be purchased. This machine has extremely versatile features and flexible sample mounting arrangement which will allow for the development of a cold stage. The cold stage is useful but not essential to the main theme of the programme of research. The SPM will be used to correlate magnetic and electric force maps with topographic features in a range of electronic materials particularly thin film metal oxides, with a view to enabling the development of nanostructured electronic devices an sensors. The nature of the research activity is extremely interdisciplinary as is reflected by the co-investigators training and interests. The research will involve active industrial input also. Local oxygen content, cation and structural modification has proved to be vital to the performance of metal oxide films. Samples which will be provided by our collaborators (as indicated by letters of support) will be characterised globally in the Materials and Physics departments and patterned in Electrical Engineering. Theoretical modelling of the development of morphology and the impact on long range order will be made in the physics department and correlated with the SPM results.
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