Interface creation on a mixed-terminated perovskite surface

Li, Yan; Wrobel, Friederike; Yan, Xi; Bhattacharya, Anand; Sun, Jirong; Hong, Hawoong; Zhou, Hua; Wang, Huanhua; Fong, Dillon D.

doi:10.1063/5.0036279

Title: Interface creation on a mixed-terminated perovskite surface

Journal Article · Wed Feb 10 00:00:00 EST 2021 · Applied Physics Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0036279· OSTI ID:1765376

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Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China); Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Univ. of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States); Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), Beijing (China)
Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Lemont, IL (United States). Advanced Photon Source (APS)

In the field of complex oxide heterostructures, understanding of the initial substrate surface can be critical to fundamental studies regarding the development of emergent properties at the film–substrate interface. For this reason, a considerable amount of effort has gone into the development of techniques to achieve surfaces with single termination for a variety of perovskite single crystals. However, a decisive understanding of how an interface is created when epitaxial growth occurs on a mixed terminated surface remains lacking. Employing in situ synchrotron X-ray scattering during thin film growth by molecular beam epitaxy, we investigate the initial stages of growth on (LaAlO₃)(Sr₂AlTaO₆) (001) substrates with mixed termination. Using LaNiO₃ as a model system, we find that the surface layers of the substrate restructure during deposition such that while a NiO₂ monolayer is weakly bound, a LaO monolayer bonds strongly, effectively incorporating with (Al, Ta)O₂ from the surface and forming a La(Al, Ta)O₃ ultrathin film.With regard to the synthesis of high-quality complex oxide heterostructures, it is important that the substrate meet an array of criteria related to the crystal structure, lattice parameter, thermodynamic properties, electrical and optical properties, and so on. In particular, the surface of the substrate should be atomically smooth and exhibit the step-terrace structure ideal for epitaxial thin film growth. Perovskite oxides with the formula ABO₃ have two possible (001) surfaces: AO (A-site termination) and BO₂ (B-site termination). The ability to consistently achieve one of these surface terminations on ${SrTiO}_{3},$ i.e., TiO₂, has helped SrTiO₃ become the predominant oxide in the field.

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Research Organization:: Argonne National Lab. (ANL), Argonne, IL (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS); China Scholarship Council; USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES). Materials Sciences & Engineering Division; USDOE

Grant/Contract Number:: AC02-06CH11357; 11U153210485; Y611U21

OSTI ID:: 1765376

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1765052

Journal Information:: Applied Physics Letters, Vol. 118, Issue 6; ISSN 0003-6951

Publisher:: American Institute of Physics (AIP)Copyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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