Atomic-resolution imaging of electrically induced oxygen vacancy migration and phase transformation in SrCoO2.5-σ

Zhang, Qinghua; He, Xu; Shi, Jinan; Lu, Nianpeng; Li, Haobo; Yu, Qian; Zhang, Ze; Chen, Long-Qing; Morris, Bill; Xu, Qiang; Yu, Pu; Gu, Lin; Jin, Kuijuan; Nan, Ce-Wen

doi:10.1038/s41467-017-00121-6

Title: Atomic-resolution imaging of electrically induced oxygen vacancy migration and phase transformation in SrCoO_2.5-σ

Journal Article · Mon Jul 24 00:00:00 EDT 2017 · Nature Communications

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00121-6· OSTI ID:1392943

Zhang, Qinghua ^[1]; He, Xu ^[2]; Shi, Jinan ^[2]; Lu, Nianpeng ^[3]; Li, Haobo ^[3]; Yu, Qian ^[4]; Zhang, Ze ^[4]; Chen, Long-Qing ^[5]; Morris, Bill ^[6]; Xu, Qiang ^[7]; Yu, Pu ^[8]; Gu, Lin ^[9]; Jin, Kuijuan ^[10]; Nan, Ce-Wen ^[11]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics, Inst. of Physics; Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics, Inst. of Physics
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics
Zhejiang Univ., Hangzhou (China).. Center of Electron Microscopy and State Key Lab. of Silicon Materials
Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
DENSsolutions, Delft (The Netherlands)
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). State Key Lab. of Low-Dimensional Quantum Physics; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); RIKEN, Saitama (Japan). Center for Emergent Matter Science (CEMS)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics, Inst. of Physics; Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). School of Physical Sciences
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China). Beijing National Lab. for Condensed Matter Physics, Inst. of Physics; Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China). School of Physical Sciences
Tsinghua Univ., Beijing (China). School of Materials Science and Engineering

Oxygen ion transport is the key issue in redox processes. Visualizing the process of oxygen ion migration with atomic resolution is highly desirable for designing novel devices such as oxidation catalysts, oxygen permeation membranes, and solid oxide fuel cells. We show the process of electrically induced oxygen migration and subsequent reconstructive structural transformation in a SrCoO_2.5-σ film by scanning transmission electron microscopy. We find that the extraction of oxygen from every second SrO layer occurs gradually under an electrical bias; beyond a critical voltage, the brownmillerite units collapse abruptly and evolve into a periodic nano-twined phase with a high c/a ratio and distorted tetrahedra. These results show that oxygen vacancy rows are not only natural oxygen diffusion channels, but also preferred sites for the induced oxygen vacancies. These direct experimental results of oxygen migration may provide a common mechanism for the electrically induced structural evolution of oxides.

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Research Organization:: Pennsylvania State Univ., University Park, PA (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)

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Journal Information:: Nature Communications, Vol. 8, Issue 1; ISSN 2041-1723

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