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functional strongly correlated materials鈥攖he basis for next generation technologies.</p> </div> </div> <div class="grid_8"> <div class="boundingBox group"> <h3><a href="tem/">Nanoscale Structure and Structural Defects in Advanced Materials</a></h3> <p class="font-1">Utilizes advanced electron microscopy techniques to study nanoscale structure and defects that determine the utility of functional materials, such as superconductors, multiferroics, and other energy related systems including thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, and batteries.</p> </div> </div> <div class="grid_8"> <div class="boundingBox group"> <h3><a href="/cmpmsd/mbe/">Molecular Beam Epitaxy of Superconducting Oxides</a></h3> <p class="font-1">Addresses key open questions in HTS physics such as the dimensionality of the HTS phenomenon, the spin and charge of free carriers, the nature of the superconducting transition, the role of charge stripes (if any) in the HTS state, the nature of the overdoped metallic state, and 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