Schmitt, Joshua2009-05-272009-05-272009-04-08https://hdl.handle.net/11299/50376Additional contributor: Chris Leighton (faculty mentor).Complex oxides with perovskite structures offer an interesting and intriguing field of research for material scientists and physicists due to their wide range of electronic and magnetic properties like high Tc superconductivity, colossal magnetoresistance (CMR), ferroelectricity, spin state transitions etc. Although bulk La1-xSrxCoO3 has received considerable attention due to the existence of spin-state transitions, magnetoelectronic phase separation, and giant anomalous Hall Effect, a thorough and comprehensive study in thin films is still missing.en-USInstitute of TechnologyDepartment of Chemical Engineering and Materials SciencePresentation