Controlling octahedral rotations in a perovskite via strain doping

Herklotz, Andreas; Biegalski, Michael D.; Lee, Ho Nyung; Ward, Thomas Zac; Wong, A. T.; Meyer, T.

doi:10.1038/srep26491

Title: Controlling octahedral rotations in a perovskite via strain doping

Journal Article · Tue May 24 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Scientific Reports

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26491· OSTI ID:1255673

Herklotz, Andreas ^[1]; Biegalski, Michael D. ^[1]; Lee, Ho Nyung ^[1]; Ward, Thomas Zac ^[1]; Wong, A. T. ^[2]; Meyer, T. ^[1]

Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States); Univ. of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (United States)

The perovskite unit cell is the fundamental building block of many functional materials. The manipulation of this crystal structure is known to be of central importance to controlling many technologically promising phenomena related to superconductivity, multiferroicity, mangetoresistivity, and photovoltaics. The broad range of properties that this structure can exhibit is in part due to the centrally coordinated octahedra bond flexibility, which allows for a multitude of distortions from the ideal highly symmetric structure. However, continuous and fine manipulation of these distortions has never been possible. Here, we show that controlled insertion of He atoms into an epitaxial perovskite film can be used to finely tune the lattice symmetry by modifying the local distortions, i.e., octahedral bonding angle and length. Orthorhombic SrRuO₃ films coherently grown on SrTiO₃ substrates are used as a model system. Implanted He atoms are confirmed to induce out-of-plane strain, which provides the ability to controllably shift the bulk-like orthorhombically distorted phase to a tetragonal structure by shifting the oxygen octahedra rotation pattern. Lastly, these results demonstrate that He implantation offers an entirely new pathway to strain engineering of perovskite-based complex oxide thin films, useful for creating new functionalities or properties in perovskite materials.

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Research Organization:: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE

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Journal Information:: Scientific Reports, Vol. 6, Issue 6; ISSN 2045-2322

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