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Group Leaders

Dr. Florencio Sánchez

Prof. Sánchez leads the Materials Engineering Strategies for Enhanced Ferroelectric Response Research Line, which pivotes around the development of functional oxides thin films, mainly ferroelectric HfO2, and their integration into epitaxial complex heterostructures, with particular interest in the integration with silicon.

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Dr. Ignasi Fina

Dr. Ignasi Fina leads the Ferroelectric Devices for Multifunctional Memory and Energy Storage Research line, which is focused on new ferroelectric materials for multifunctional memory applications.

Postdoctoral Researchers

Dr. Faizan Ali

Marie Curie fellow

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Dr. Tingfeng Song

Project Researcher

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Mehrdad Ghiasabadi Farahani

Title: “Ferroelectric HfO2 thin films for memory devices”
Starting: 1/2/2023  
Supervisors: Ignasi Fina and Florencio Sánchez

PhD Students

Xueliang Lyu

Title: “Ferroelectric HfO2 thin films for memory devices”
Starting: 1/10/2022 
Supervisors: Ignasi Fina and Florencio Sánchez

Wenjing Dong

Title: “Piezoelectric response in hafnia based eptaxial films”
Starting: 1/3/2023
Supervisors: Ignasi Fina and Florencio Sánchez

Ye Tu

Title: “Epitaxial HfO2 films with different dopants”
Starting:  1/11/2024
Supervisors: Ignasi Fina and Florencio Sánchez

Neus Alert

Title: “Epitaxial ferroelectric doped hafnia for improved performance energy storage capacitors”
Starting:  1/10/2025
Supervisors: Ignasi Fina 

Mostafa Habibi

Title: “Comprehensive study of doping effects on the ferroelectricity in epitaxial HfO2 films”
Starting:  01/01/2026
Supervisors: Florencio Sánchez and José Pedro Basto da Silva

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