“…The recent advances in research efforts focused on perovskite oxides with general formula ABO 3 can be attributed to the availability of a wide variety of functionalities in these compounds, which are achievable in their pristine, nanoscopic, and defective forms. − Particularly, the alkaline-earth metal hafnate compounds, such as SrHfO 3 (SHO), have become the focus of research interest due to their practical utilization in various optical and electronic devices. , For instance, the high-permittivity, large band gap (6.1–6.5 eV), − and the epitaxial deposition of <1 nm thick layers on Si(100) has earned SHO an important candidature for future metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor technology. , Although SHO is optically inactive due to its large band gap, recent studies on nanoparticles and thin films of strontium hafnate have brought forth exciting functionalities of this material, which include visible photoluminescence and UV excitation due to vacancy defects and dopant, respectively.…”