Nanomaterials Growth Unit

Unit Leader: José Santiso

José Santiso

CSIC Tenured Scientist

jose.santiso@icn2.cat

Unit Leader

Dr José Santiso earned his degree in Physics at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB) in 1988, later obtaining his PhD from the Universitat de Barcelona (UB) in 1993.

After his doctoral studies, he worked as a visiting scientist at Cambridge University (UK) from 1994 to 1996. He then joined the Institut de Ciència de Materials de Barcelona (ICMAB) as a research associate and became a CSIC tenured scientist in 2002. In 2007 he moved to the former CIN2 as the leader of the Pulsed Laser Deposition and Nanoionics Group, which later became the ICN2 Nanomaterials Growth Unit.

In 2012 he received the Somiya Award from the International Union of Materials Research Society (IUMRS) for his contributions to solid state ionics. He completed several stays at different laboratories: in 2014 he joined for three month the International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Research (I²CNER, Kyushu University) thanks to a grant from the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. In 2015 stayed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (USA) for a three-month period and between 2018 and 2019 he joined for a few months the Universida Técnica Federico Santamaría in Valparaíso (Chile).

Dr Santiso has authored more than 140 articles, with about 2690 citations and an h-index of 28.

Publications

2024

  • A Self-Assembled Multiphasic Thin Film as an Oxygen Electrode for Enhanced Durability in Reversible Solid Oxide Cells

    Buzi, Fjorelo; Kreka, Kosova; Santiso, Jose; Rapenne, Laetitia; Sha, Zijie; Douglas, James O; Chiabrera, Francesco; Morata, Alex; Burriel, Monica; Skinner, Stephen; Bernadet, Lucile; Baiutti, Federico; Tarancon, Albert Acs Applied Materials & Interfaces; 2024. 10.1021/acsami.4c06290. IF: 8.300

  • Correlation between Strains, Oxygen Vacancies and Magnetotransport Properties of CaMnO3 Thin Films

    Agustín Lopez Pedroso; Joaquín Gajst; Santiago Carreira; José Santiso; Myriam H. Aguirre; J. Briático; Federico J. Williams; Laura Steren ; 2024. 10.1109/intermagshortpapers61879.2024.10576991.

  • Exsolution and Coarsening in Metal-Oxide Systems

    Ivar E. Reimanis; Dylan Jennings; Sandrine Ricote; José Santiso Microscopy And Microanalysis; 30 (Supplement_1) 2024. 10.1093/mam/ozae044.520. IF: 2.900

  • Impact of Oxygen Stoichiometry on the Thermoelectric Properties of Bi2Sr2Co2Oy Thin Films

    Arindom Chatterjee; Alexandros El Sachat; C. M. Sotomayor Torres; J. Santiso; Emigdio Chávez‐Ángel Acs Applied Energy Materials; 2024. 10.1021/acsaem.4c00551. IF: 5.400

  • On the Electrochemical Activation of Nanoporous Reduced Graphene Oxide Electrodes Studied by In Situ/Operando Electrochemical Techniques

    Bernicola, Maria del Pilar; Lounasvuori, Mailis; Padilla-Pantoja, Jessica; Santiso, Jose; Debiemme-Chouvy, Catherine; Perrot, Hubert; Petit, Tristan; Garrido, Jose A; del Corro, Elena Advanced Functional Materials; 2024. 10.1002/adfm.202408441. IF: 18.500

  • Photostrictive Actuators Based on Freestanding Ferroelectric Membranes

    Saptam Ganguly; David Pesquera; Daniel Moreno Garcia; Usman Saeed; Nona Mirzamohammadi; José Santiso; Jessica Padilla; José Manuel Caicedo Roque; Claire Laulhé; Felisa Berenguer; Luis Guillermo Villanueva; Gustau Catalán Advanced Materials; 2024. 10.1002/adma.202310198. IF: 27.400

  • Switching Dynamics and Improved Efficiency of Free-Standing Antiferroelectric Capacitors

    Saeed, Umair; Pesquera, David; Liu, Ying; Fina, Ignasi; Ganguly, Saptam; Santiso, Jose; Padilla-Pantoja, Jessica; Roque, Jose Manuel Caicedo; Liao, Xiaozhou; Catalan, Gustau Advanced Electronic Materials; 2024. 10.1002/aelm.202400102. IF: 5.300

  • Thermal Spin-Current Generation in Bi-Substituted YIG Films with Perpendicular Magnetic Anisotropy

    Lara M. Solis; Alberto Anadón; M. Rengifo; José Santiso; J.-C. Rojas-Sánchez; S. Petit-Watelot; Myriam H. Aguirre; Laura Steren 2015 Ieee Magnetics Conference (Intermag); 2024. 10.1109/intermagshortpapers61879.2024.10576882.

2023

  • Antisite Defects and Chemical Expansion in Low-damping, High-magnetization Yttrium Iron Garnet Films

    Santiso, J; Garcia, C; Romanque, C; Henry, L; Bernier, N; Bagues, N; Caicedo, JM; Valvidares, M; Sandiumenge, F Chemnanomat; 9 (2) 2023. 10.1002/cnma.202200495. IF: 3.800

  • Band Alignment and Photoresponse of LaFeO3-Based Heterojunctions

    Sheng, YW; Mirjolet, M; Villa, M; Gazquez, J; Santiso, J; Klein, A; Fraxedas, J; Fontcuberta, J Physical Review Applied; 19 (2): 24001. 2023. 10.1103/PhysRevApplied.19.024001. IF: 4.600

  • Enhanced Thermoelectric Properties of Misfit Bi2Sr2-xCaxCo2Oy: Isovalent Substitutions and Selective Phonon Scattering

    Chatterjee, A; Banik, A; El Sachat, A; Roque, JMC; Padilla-Pantoja, J; Torres, CS; Biswas, K; Santiso, J; Chavez-Angel, E Materials (Basel); 16 (4): 1413. 2023. 10.3390/ma16041413. IF: 3.400

  • Improved High Temperature Thermoelectric Properties in Misfit Ca3Co4O9 by Thermal Annealing

    Chatterjee, A; El Sachat, A; Banik, A; Biswas, K; Castro-Alvarez, A; Torres, CMS; Santiso, J; Chavez-Angel, E Energies; 16 (13): 5162. 2023. 10.3390/en16135162. IF: 3.200

  • Native defects association enabled room-temperature p-type conductivity in β-Ga2O3

    Chi, ZY; Sartel, C; Zheng, YL; Modak, S; Chernyak, L; Schaefer, CM; Padilla, J; Santiso, J; Ruzin, A; Gonçalves, AM; von Bardeleben, J; Guillot, G; Dumont, Y; Pérez-Tomás, A; Chikoidze, E Journal Of Alloys And Compounds; 969: 172454. 2023. 10.1016/j.jallcom.2023.172454. IF: 6.200

  • Tunable Molecular Electrodes for Bistable Polarization Screening

    Spasojevic, I; Santiso, J; Caicedo, JM; Catalan, G; Domingo, N Small; 19 (30): e2207799. 2023. 10.1002/smll.202207799. IF: 13.300

2022

  • Effects of exsolution on the stability and morphology of Ni nanoparticles on BZY thin films

    Jennings D., Ricote S., Santiso J., Caicedo J., Reimanis I. Acta Materialia; 228 (117752) 2022. 10.1016/j.actamat.2022.117752. IF: 8.203

  • Role of pO2 and film microstructure on the memristive properties of La2NiO4+δ/LaNiO3−δ bilayers

    Maas K., Wulles C., Caicedo Roque J.M., Ballesteros B., Lafarge V., Santiso J., Burriel M. Journal of Materials Chemistry A; 10 (12): 6523 - 6530. 2022. 10.1039/d1ta10296f. IF: 12.732

  • The impact of Mn nonstoichiometry on the oxygen mass transport properties of La0.8Sr0.2MnyO3 +/-delta thin films

    Chiabrera, FM; Baiutti, F; Borgers, JM; Harrington, GF; Yedra, L; Liedke, MO; Kler, J; Nandi, P; Sirvent, JD; Santiso, J; Lopez-Haro, M; Calvino, JJ; Estrade, S; Butterling, M; Wagner, A; Peiro, F; De Souza, RA; Tarancon, A Jphys Energy; 4 (4) 2022. 10.1088/2515-7655/ac98df. IF: 7.528

2021

  • A high-entropy manganite in an ordered nanocomposite for long-term application in solid oxide cells

    Baiutti F., Chiabrera F., Acosta M., Diercks D., Parfitt D., Santiso J., Wang X., Cavallaro A., Morata A., Wang H., Chroneos A., MacManus-Driscoll J., Tarancon A. Nature Communications; 12 (1, 2660) 2021. 10.1038/s41467-021-22916-4. IF: 14.919

  • Back-to-Basics tutorial: X-ray diffraction of thin films

    Harrington G.F., Santiso J. Journal of Electroceramics; 2021. 10.1007/s10832-021-00263-6. IF: 1.785

  • Carbon Incorporation in MOCVD of MoS2Thin Films Grown from an Organosulfide Precursor

    Schaefer C.M., Caicedo Roque J.M., Sauthier G., Bousquet J., Hébert C., Sperling J.R., Pérez-Tomás A., Santiso J., Del Corro E., Garrido J.A. Chemistry of Materials; 33 (12): 4474 - 4487. 2021. 10.1021/acs.chemmater.1c00646. IF: 9.811

  • Metallic Diluted Dimerization in VO2 Tweeds

    Sandiumenge F., Rodríguez L., Pruneda M., Magén C., Santiso J., Catalan G. Advanced Materials; 33 (9, 2004374) 2021. 10.1002/adma.202004374. IF: 30.849

  • Orbital occupancy and hybridization in strained SrV O3 epitaxial films

    Mirjolet M., Vasili H.B., Valadkhani A., Santiso J., Borisov V., Gargiani P., Valvidares M., Valentí R., Fontcuberta J. Physical Review Materials; 5 (9, 095002) 2021. 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.5.095002. IF: 3.989

  • Pulsed laser deposition of epitaxial non-doped PbTiO3 thin films from Pbo-TiO2 mosaic targets

    Sakai J., Roque J.M.C., Vales-Castro P., Padilla-Pantoja J., Sauthier G., Santiso J. Coatings; 11 (6, 662) 2021. 10.3390/coatings11060662. IF: 2.881

  • Strong strain gradients and phase coexistence at the metal-insulator transition in VO2 epitaxial films

    Rodríguez L., Sandiumenge F., Frontera C., Caicedo J.M., Padilla J., Catalán G., Santiso J. Acta Materialia; 220 (117336) 2021. 10.1016/j.actamat.2021.117336. IF: 8.203

  • The effect of Ni and Fe on the decomposition of yttrium doped barium zirconate thin films

    Jennings D., Ricote S., Caicedo J.M., Santiso J., Reimanis I. Scripta Materialia; 201 (113948) 2021. 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2021.113948. IF: 5.611

2020

  • Beating the Thermal Conductivity Alloy Limit Using Long-Period Compositionally Graded Si1- xGe xSuperlattices

    Ferrando-Villalba P., Chen S., Lopeandía A.F., Alvarez F.X., Alonso M.I., Garriga M., Santiso J., Garcia G., Goñi A.R., Donadio D., Rodríguez-Viejo J. Journal of Physical Chemistry C; 124 (36): 19864 - 19872. 2020. 10.1021/acs.jpcc.0c06410. IF: 4.189

  • Control of lateral composition distribution in graded films of soluble solid systems A1-xBx by partitioned dual-beam pulsed laser deposition

    Sakai J., Roque J.M.C., Vales-Castro P., Padilla-Pantoja J., Sauthier G., Catalan G., Santiso J. Coatings; 10 (6, 540) 2020. 10.3390/COATINGS10060540. IF: 2.436

  • Large thermoelectric power variations in epitaxial thin films of layered perovskite GdBaCo2O5.5±δwith a different preferred orientation and strain

    Chatterjee A., Chavez-Angel E., Ballesteros B., Caicedo J.M., Padilla-Pantoja J., Leborán V., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Rivadulla F., Santiso J. Journal of Materials Chemistry A; 8 (38): 19975 - 19983. 2020. 10.1039/d0ta04781c. IF: 11.301

  • Revealing Strain Effects on the Chemical Composition of Perovskite Oxide Thin Films Surface, Bulk, and Interfaces

    van den Bosch C.A.M., Cavallaro A., Moreno R., Cibin G., Kerherve G., Caicedo J.M., Lippert T.K., Doebeli M., Santiso J., Skinner S.J., Aguadero A. Advanced Materials Interfaces; 7 (2, 1901440) 2020. 10.1002/admi.201901440. IF: 4.948

  • Self-Pixelation Through Fracture in VO2 Thin Films

    Laura Rodríguez, Elena del Corro, Michele Conroy, Kalani Moore, Felip Sandiumenge, Neus Domingo, José Santiso, Gustau Catalan Acs Applied Electronic Materials; 2 (5): 1433 - 1439. 2020. 10.1021/acsaelm.0c00199. IF: 0.000

  • The formation of oriented barium carbonate from the decomposition of yttria-doped barium zirconate films

    Jennings D., Ricote S., Santiso J., Reimanis I. Scripta Materialia; 186: 401 - 405. 2020. 10.1016/j.scriptamat.2020.05.028. IF: 5.079

2019

  • Bipolar “table with legs” resistive switching in epitaxial perovskite heterostructures

    Bagdzevicius S., Boudard M., Caicedo J.M., Mescot X., Rodríguez-Lamas R., Santiso J., Burriel M. Solid State Ionics; 334: 29 - 35. 2019. 10.1016/j.ssi.2019.01.027. IF: 2.886

  • Enhanced thermoelectric properties of lightly Nb doped SrTiO3 thin films

    Bhansali S., Khunsin W., Chatterjee A., Santiso J., Abad B., Martin-Gonzalez M., Jakob G., Sotomayor Torres C.M., Chávez-Angel E. Nanoscale Advances; 1 (9): 3647 - 3653. 2019. 10.1039/c9na00361d. IF: 0.000

  • Independent Tuning of Optical Transparency Window and Electrical Properties of Epitaxial SrVO3 Thin Films by Substrate Mismatch

    Mirjolet M., Vasili H.B., López-Conesa L., Estradé S., Peiró F., Santiso J., Sánchez F., Machado P., Gargiani P., Valvidares M., Fontcuberta J. Advanced Functional Materials; 29 (37, 1904238) 2019. 10.1002/adfm.201904238. IF: 15.621

  • Nanostructural changes upon substitutional Al doping in ZnO sputtered films

    Landa-Cánovas A.R., Santiso J., Agulló-Rueda F., Herrero P., Navarrete-Astorga E., Ochoa-Martínez E., Ramos-Barrado J.R., Gabás M. Ceramics International; 45 (5): 6319 - 6327. 2019. 10.1016/j.ceramint.2018.12.116. IF: 3.450

  • Superposition of interface and volume type resistive switching in perovskite nanoionic devices

    Bagdzevicius S., Boudard M., Caicedo J.M., Rapenne L., Mescot X., Rodríguez-Lamas R., Robaut F., Santiso J., Burriel M. Journal of Materials Chemistry C; 7 (25): 7580 - 7592. 2019. 10.1039/c9tc00609e. IF: 6.641

  • Thin film oxide-ion conducting electrolyte for near room temperature applications

    Garbayo I., Chiabrera F., Alayo N., Santiso J., Morata A., Tarancón A. Journal of Materials Chemistry A; 7 (45): 25772 - 25778. 2019. 10.1039/c9ta07632h. IF: 10.733

2018

  • An in operando study of chemical expansion and oxygen surface exchange rates in epitaxial GdBaCo2O5.5 electrodes in a solid-state electrochemical cell by time-resolved X-ray diffraction

    Chatterjee A., Caicedo J.M., Ballesteros B., Santiso J. Journal of Materials Chemistry A; 6 (26): 12430 - 12439. 2018. 10.1039/c8ta02790k. IF: 9.931

  • Atomic resolution imaging and quantitative elemental mapping of the misfit dislocation core phase in multicomponent oxides

    Bagués N., Santiso J., Esser B.D., Williams R.E.A., McComb D.W., Konstantinovic Z., Balcells Ll., Sandiumenge F. Microscopy and Microanalysis; 24 (S1): 24 - 25. 2018. 10.1017/S1431927618000612. IF: 2.124

  • Growth and structural characterization of strained epitaxial H f0.5 Z r0.5 O2 thin films

    Torrejón L., Langenberg E., Magén C., Larrea Á., Blasco J., Santiso J., Algarabel P.A., Pardo J.A. Physical Review Materials; 2 (1, 013401) 2018. 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.013401.

  • Optimisation of growth parameters to obtain epitaxial Y-doped BaZrO3 proton conducting thin films

    Magrasó A., Ballesteros B., Rodríguez-Lamas R., Sunding M.F., Santiso J. Solid State Ionics; 314: 9 - 16. 2018. 10.1016/j.ssi.2017.11.002. IF: 2.751

  • The Misfit Dislocation Core Phase in Complex Oxide Heteroepitaxy

    Bagués N., Santiso J., Esser B.D., Williams R.E.A., McComb D.W., Konstantinovic Z., Balcells L., Sandiumenge F. Advanced Functional Materials; 28 (8, 1704437) 2018. 10.1002/adfm.201704437. IF: 13.325

2017

  • Domain wall magnetoresistance in BiFeO3 thin films measured by scanning probe microscopy

    Domingo N., Farokhipoor S., Santiso J., Noheda B., Catalan G. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter; 29 (33, 334003) 2017. 10.1088/1361-648X/aa7a24. IF: 2.678

  • On the persistence of polar domains in ultrathin ferroelectric capacitors

    Zubko P., Lu H., Bark C.-W., Martí X., Santiso J., Eom C.-B., Catalan G., Gruverman A. Journal of Physics Condensed Matter; 29 (28, 284001) 2017. 10.1088/1361-648X/aa73c3. IF: 2.678

2016

  • Fabrication of phononic crystals on free-standing silicon membranes

    Sledzinska M., Graczykowski B., Alzina F., Santiso Lopez J., Sotomayor Torres C.M. Microelectronic Engineering; 149: 41 - 45. 2016. 10.1016/j.mee.2015.09.004. IF: 1.277

  • Misfit Dislocation Guided Topographic and Conduction Patterning in Complex Oxide Epitaxial Thin Films

    Sandiumenge F., Bagués N., Santiso J., Paradinas M., Pomar A., Konstantinovic Z., Ocal C., Balcells L., Casanove M.-J., Martínez B. Advanced Materials Interfaces; 3 (14, 1600106) 2016. 10.1002/admi.201600106. IF: 3.365

  • Self-Arranged Misfit Dislocation Network Formation upon Strain Release in La0.7Sr0.3MnO3/LaAlO3(100) Epitaxial Films under Compressive Strain

    Santiso J., Roqueta J., Bagués N., Frontera C., Konstantinovic Z., Lu Q., Yildiz B., Martínez B., Pomar A., Balcells L., Sandiumenge F. ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces; 8 (26): 16823 - 16832. 2016. 10.1021/acsami.6b02896. IF: 7.145

  • Strain-induced perpendicular magnetic anisotropy in L a2CoMn O6-É thin films and its dependence on film thickness

    Galceran R., López-Mir L., Bozzo B., Cisneros-Fernández J., Santiso J., Balcells L., Frontera C., Martínez B. Physical Review B; 93 (14, 144417) 2016. 10.1103/PhysRevB.93.144417.

  • Thermodynamic conditions during growth determine the magnetic anisotropy in epitaxial thin-films of La0.7Sr0.3MnO3

    Vila-Fungueiriño J.M., Bui C.T., Rivas-Murias B., Winkler E., Milano J., Santiso J., Rivadulla F. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics; 49 (31, 315001) 2016. 10.1088/0022-3727/49/31/315001.

2015

  • Enhanced conduction and ferromagnetic order at (100)-type twin walls in L a0.7 S r0.3Mn O3 thin films

    Balcells L., Paradinas M., Baguès N., Domingo N., Moreno R., Galceran R., Walls M., Santiso J., Konstantinovic Z., Pomar A., Casanove M.-J., Ocal C., Martínez B., Sandiumenge F. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; 92 (7, 075111) 2015. 10.1103/PhysRevB.92.075111. IF: 3.736

  • Microstructure and ionic conductivity of LLTO thin films: Influence of different substrates and excess lithium in the target

    Aguesse F., Roddatis V., Roqueta J., Garcia P., Pergolesi D., Santiso J., Kilner J.A. Solid State Ionics; 272: 1 - 8. 2015. 10.1016/j.ssi.2014.12.005. IF: 2.561

  • Nanostructured Ti thin films by magnetron sputtering at oblique angles

    Alvarez R., Garcia-Martin J.M., Garcia-Valenzuela A., Macias-Montero M., Ferrer F.J., Santiso J., Rico V., Cotrino J., Gonzalez-Elipe A.R., Palmero A. Journal of Physics D: Applied Physics; 49 (4, 045303) 2015. 10.1088/0022-3727/49/4/045303. IF: 2.721

  • Persistence of ferroelectricity above the Curie temperature at the surface of Pb(Z n1/3 N b2/3) O3-12%PbTi O3

    Domingo N., Bagués N., Santiso J., Catalan G. Physical Review B - Condensed Matter and Materials Physics; 91 (9, 094111) 2015. 10.1103/PhysRevB.91.094111. IF: 3.736

  • Strain-Engineered Ferromagnetism in LaMnO3 Thin Films

    Roqueta J., Pomar A., Balcells L., Frontera C., Valencia S., Abrudan R., Bozzo B., Konstantinović Z., Santiso J., Martínez B. Crystal Growth and Design; 15 (11): 5332 - 5337. 2015. 10.1021/acs.cgd.5b00884. IF: 4.891

  • Tailoring thermal conductivity by engineering compositional gradients in Si1−xGe x superlattices

    Ferrando-Villalba P., Lopeandía A.F., Alvarez F.X., Paul B., de Tomás C., Alonso M.I., Garriga M., Goñi A.R., Santiso J., Garcia G., Rodriguez-Viejo J. Nano Research; 8 (9): 2833 - 2841. 2015. 10.1007/s12274-015-0788-9. IF: 7.010

2004

  • Crecimiento de películas delgadas de membranas de conducción iónica mediante la técnica PIMOCVD

    Santiso, J.; Santiso J. Boletin de la Sociedad Espanola de Ceramica y Vidrio; 43 (2): 448 - 451. 2004. .