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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 has joined ICREA as a group leader in the Centre d’Investigacions in Nanociencia i Nanotecnologia (CIN2).
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Research Interest
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The main focus of my research is exploring what happens to the functional properties of oxide electroceramics when you make them very thin or very small. The reason I focus on oxides (and, within these, those with a perovskite structure) is that they combine a rather simple crystal structure with a vast array of different, often useful and always exciting electronic properties. Of these, the three types of materials that I have studied most are ferroelectrics, multiferroics and materials with metal-insulator transitions, and the two themes that right now tickle me are the effects of strain gradients on electrical properties and the physics and applications of domain walls. My immediate priority will be to establish in CIN2 a reference laboratory for the study of these topics.
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KeyWords
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thin films, multiferroics, ferroelectricity, domain walls, perovskite oxides, nanoelectronics.
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