Transition metal oxides serve as an excellent platform in studying novel physical properties in solids. Due to the strong correlation, the various degrees of freedom such as charge, lattice, spin, and orbital usually couple with each other, thereby exhibiting unexpected, yet often technologically relevant physical properties. Recent advances in fabricating high-quality complex oxide heterostructures has further expanded the possibility of discovering many fascinating phenomena and has offered opportunities for controlling the behavior through deliberate control of structure, chemical composition, and orientation at the atomic scale. Based on both cutting-edge fabrication techniques and sophisticated characterization methods, our goal is to participate in establishing an exciting field of functional oxides as a new era of materials science and unprecedented device applications. In order to accomplish this goal, we propose the following scheme of future research.

1. Advanced pulsed laser epitaxy and understanding thin film growth kinetics