Interconnect resistance and reliability have emerged as critical factors limiting the
performance of advanced CMOS circuits. With the slowdown of transistor scaling …

The crystallization of amorphous solids impacts fields ranging from inorganic crystal growth
to biophysics. Promoting or inhibiting nanoscale epitaxial crystallization and selecting its …

Metallic delafossites (ABO2) are layered oxides with quasi-two-dimensional conduction
layers. Metallic delafossites are among the most conducting materials with the in-plane …

Abstract (00 l) textured granular thin films of PtCoO 2 [SG R 3¯ m] were deposited using a
pulsed KrF laser at an unusually high in-situ oxygen pressure of 2 mbar. Le-Bail fit of X-ray …

Metallic delafossites, ABO 2 (A= Pd or Pt), are layered oxides that are as conductive as
elemental metals. The high conductivity and surface polarity make metallic delafossites …

Epitaxial thin films of metallic delafossites are a recent topic of intense investigation due to
their intriguing electronic states. Using in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy …

Transparent conducting oxides (TCO) are a unique class of compounds that combine the
properties of being optically transparent but at the same time are electrically conductive …

This thesis describes in-depth studies of the remarkable electronic transport within the
ultrahigh conductivity delafossite metals PtCoO_2 and PdCoO_2 using the tool of focused …