This forward–looking title focuses on the key innovations for industrial growth areas for functional metal oxides: energy technology, semiconductors, electronics, and automotive. Bridging the gap between basic science and technological applications, the book covers the full range of topics in the field of advanced metal oxide science and technology such as metallic, semiconducting, insulating, ferromagnetic, superconducting, ferroelectric, and multiferroic metal oxide systems and their engineered interface systems.  It emphasizes many of the modern applications of metal oxides in solar cells, batteries, catalysis and for resistive switches. Chapters about the growth and processing of oxidic thin films and nanomaterials round the topic out.