Reconstruction-stabilized epitaxy of LaCoO3/SrTiO3 (111) heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition

Hu, Minhui; Zhang, Qinghua; Gu, Lin; Guo, Qinlin; Cao, Yanwei; Kareev, M.; Chakhalian, J.; Guo, Jiandong

doi:10.1063/1.5006298

Title: Reconstruction-stabilized epitaxy of LaCoO₃/SrTiO₃ (111) heterostructures by pulsed laser deposition

Journal Article · Fri Jan 19 00:00:00 EST 2018 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5006298· OSTI ID:1503638

Hu, Minhui ^[1]; Zhang, Qinghua ^[1]; Gu, Lin ^[2]; Guo, Qinlin ^[1]; Cao, Yanwei ^[3]; Kareev, M. ^[3]; Chakhalian, J. ^[3]; Guo, Jiandong ^[2]

Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Quantum Matter, Beijing (China)
Rutgers Univ., Piscataway, NJ (United States)

Unlike widely explored complex oxide heterostructures grown along [001], the study of [111]-oriented heterointerfaces is very limited thus far. One of the main challenges is to overcome the polar discontinuity that hinders the epitaxy of atomically sharp interfaces. Here, by taking LaCoO₃/SrTiO₃(111) as a prototype, we show that the reconstruction, which effectively compensates the surface polarity, can stabilize the epitaxy of the heterostructure with polar discontinuity. A reconstructed substrate surface is prepared, while the growth is controlled to form reconstruction on the film surface. To suppress the chemical diffusion across the interface, the growth is interrupted between each unit cell layer to allow the lattice relaxation at a lowered temperature. In this way, high quality two-dimensional growth is realized and the heterointerfaces exhibit sharpness at the atomic scale. As a result, our work provides a path to precisely control the growth of complex oxide heterostructures along polar orientations that exhibit emergent quantum phenomena.

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

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Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 112, Issue 3; ISSN 0003-6951

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