Dr. Julia Medvedeva, professor of physics, co-authored a paper titled “Thermal stability of amorphous metal oxides: The interplay of secondary cations, degree of substitution and local structure.” The paper was published as an invited article in a special issue of Chemistry of Materials on the occasion of Professor C.N.R. Rao’s 90th birthday. The paper, co-authored by researchers from Northwestern University, aims to help understand thermal stability of amorphous metal oxides, the candidate materials for emerging next-generation electronics, throughout an entire manufacturing process involved in device fabrication as well as device operation in specific applications.