Bruce Davidson’s research investigates epitaxial growth techniques for new materials, and novel physical properties that can result from the atomic design of interfaces and reduced dimensionality, i.e. thin film properties in the 2D limit. These efforts include molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth of semiconductor, superconducting and multifunctional oxide heterostructures and devices as well as advances in pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of complex oxides. State-of-the-art design of interfaces has been explored in tunnel junction devices made of the cuprate high-temperature superconductors (HTS Josephson junctions) and magnetic tunnel junctions (MTJs) made from manganites that have shown record tunneling magnetoresistance.
