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Catalán Bernabé, Gustau
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ICREA Research Professor at CSIC - CIN2 (Centro d'Investigació en Nanociència i Nanotecnologia). Experimental Sciences & Mathematics
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Gustau Catalán graduated in Physics at the Universitat de Barcelona (1997) and gained his PhD, also in Physics, at the Queen’s University of Belfast (2001). This was followed by research positions at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies (2002-2004), at the University of Groningen (2004-2005) and, finally, at the University of Cambridge (2005-2009). In 2009 he joined ICREA as a group leader in the Centre d’Investigacions in Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (CIN2).
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Research Interests
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The main focus of my research is exploring what happens to the functional properties of oxide materials when you make them very thin or very small. The interest in oxides (and, specifically, in those with a perovskite structure) stems from their combination of structural simplicity with a vast array of different and often unique electronic properties. Of these, the properties I have studied most are ferroelectricity, magnetoelectricity and metal-insulator transitions, and the two themes that currently tickle my interest are the effects of strain gradients on electrical properties (flexoelectricity) and the physics and applications of domain walls (domain wall nanoelectronics).
The reserach on these topics is carried out at the laboratory of Oxide Nanoelectronics (ON) in the Center for Investigations in Nanoscience and Nanotechnology (CIN2), located in the campus of the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona.
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KeyWords
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thin films, multiferroics, ferroelectricity, flexoelectricity, piezoelectricity, domain walls, perovskite oxides, metal-insulator transitions, nanoelectronics.
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