Integration Of Functional Oxides Onto Silicon Substrates

The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the integration of functional oxides onto silicon substrates using MBE and Spin-Coating techniques. Functionality is defined, by Materials Department of Imperial College of London, as any property in a material that is not load-bearing in nature. Examples of functionalities that are not load-bearing include magnetic, electric, electro-optic, pyroelectric and many more unique types of behavior. More-than-Moore is the primary motivation within the thesis. Unlike the standard Moore's Law predicting the doubling of semiconductor devices onto a single microchip, More-than-Moore looks into increasing functionality in a single microchip.