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Josep Fontcuberta is affiliated with the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona in Spain and has an extensive research portfolio in the fields of Materials Science and Engineering. Their work spans various subfields, including Materials Chemistry, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Inorganic Chemistry, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their research focuses on several key topics within these fields, particularly related to magnetic and transport properties of perovskites and related materials, inorganic chemistry and materials, ferroelectric and piezoelectric materials, as well as ferroelectric and negative capacitance devices. Additional areas of study include multiferroics and related materials, advanced memory and neural computing, and electronic and structural properties of oxides.

Fontcuberta has published research in a variety of journals, frequently contributing to:

  • ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • Chemistry of Materials
  • Advanced Electronic Materials
  • Inorganic Chemistry
  • Physical Review B

The recent publications include:

  • "Non-volatile optical switch of resistance in photoferroelectric tunnel junctions" (2021) in Nature Communications
  • "Blocking of Conducting Channels Widens Window for Ferroelectric Resistive Switching in Interface-Engineered Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Tunnel Devices" (2020) in Advanced Functional Materials
  • "Polarization and Resistive Switching in Epitaxial 2 nm Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 Tunnel Junctions" (2021) in ACS Applied Electronic Materials
  • "Optical Plasmon Excitation in Transparent Conducting SrNbO3 and SrVO3 Thin Films" (2021) in Advanced Optical Materials
  • "Control of up-to-down/down-to-up light-induced ferroelectric polarization reversal" (2022) in Materials Horizons

They have collaborated frequently with a number of researchers, including:

  • Ignasi Fina (19 joint works)
  • Jaume Gàzquez (13 joint works)
  • Carlos Frontera (11 joint works)
  • Judith Oró-Solé (11 joint works)
  • Amparo Fuertes (11 joint works)

Best Publications

  • Tunnel junctions with multiferroic barriers

    Martin Gajek;Martin Gajek;Manuel Bibes;Stéphane Fusil;Karim Bouzehouane

  • Room-temperature antiferromagnetic memory resistor

    X. Marti;I. Fina;C. Frontera;Jian Liu

  • Colossal magnetoresistance of ferromagnetic manganites: Structural tuning and mechanisms.

    J. Fontcuberta;B. Martínez;A. Seffar;S. Piñol

  • High-field magnetoresistance at interfaces in manganese perovskites

    Ll. Balcells;J. Fontcuberta;B. Martínez;X. Obradors

  • NiFe2O4: A Versatile Spinel Material Brings New Opportunities for Spintronics

    Ulrike Lüders;Ulrike Lüders;Agnès Barthelemy;Manuel Bibes;Karim Bouzehouane

  • Cationic ordering control of magnetization in Sr2FeMoO6 double perovskite

    Ll. Balcells;J. Navarro;M. Bibes;A. Roig

  • Electric-field control of exchange bias in multiferroic epitaxial heterostructures.

    V. Laukhin;V. Skumryev;X. Martí;D. Hrabovsky

  • Surface symmetry-breaking and strain effects on orbital occupancy in transition metal perovskite epitaxial films

    D. Pesquera;G. Herranz;A. Barla;E. Pellegrin

  • ENHANCED FIELD SENSITIVITY CLOSE TO PERCOLATION IN MAGNETORESISTIVE LA2/3SR1/3MNO3/CEO2 COMPOSITES

    Ll. Balcells;A. E. Carrillo;B. Martínez;J. Fontcuberta

  • The 2016 oxide electronic materials and oxide interfaces roadmap

    M. Lorenz;M. S. Ramachandra Rao;T. Venkatesan;E. Fortunato

  • Towards Oxide Electronics: a Roadmap

    M. Coll;J. Fontcuberta;M. Althammer;M. Bibes

  • Nanoscale Multiphase Separation at La 2/3 Ca 1/3 MnO 3 / SrTiO 3 Interfaces

    M. Bibes;Ll. Balcells;S. Valencia;J. Fontcuberta

  • Raising the Curie temperature in Sr 2 FeMoO 6 double perovskites by electron doping

    J. Navarro;C. Frontera;Ll. Balcells;B. Martínez

  • Spin filtering through ferrimagnetic NiFe2O4 tunnel barriers

    U. Lüders;M. Bibes;K. Bouzehouane;E. Jacquet

  • Multiferroic iron oxide thin films at room-temperature

    Martí Gich;Ignasi Fina;Alessio Morelli;Florencio Sánchez

  • High mobility conduction at (110) and (111) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces

    G. Herranz;F. Sánchez;N. Dix;M. Scigaj

  • Electric control of magnetism at the Fe/BaTiO3 interface

    Greta Radaelli;Daniela Petti;E. Plekhanov;I. Fina

  • Engineering two-dimensional superconductivity and Rashba spin–orbit coupling in LaAlO3/SrTiO3 quantum wells by selective orbital occupancy

    Gervasi Herranz;Gyanendra Singh;Nicolas Bergeal;Alexis Jouan

  • Pressure dependence of the metal-insulator transition in the charge-transfer oxides RNiO3 (R=Pr,Nd,Nd0.7La0.3).

    X. Obradors;L. M. Paulius;M. B. Maple;J. B. Torrance

  • Charge trapping in optimally doped epitaxial manganite thin films

    M. Bibes;S. Valencia;Ll. Balcells;B. Martinez

Frequent Co-Authors

Florencio Sánchez
Florencio Sánchez Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Xavier Obradors
Xavier Obradors Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Maria Varela
Maria Varela Complutense University of Madrid
Manuel Bibes
Manuel Bibes Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Carlos Frontera
Carlos Frontera Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Jaume Gazquez
Jaume Gazquez Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
José Luis García-Muñoz
José Luis García-Muñoz Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
José M. González-Calbet
José M. González-Calbet Complutense University of Madrid
Anna Roig
Anna Roig Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona
Jordi Arbiol
Jordi Arbiol Catalan Institute of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology

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