Template Engineering of Metal-to-Insulator Transitions in Epitaxial Bilayer Nickelate Thin Films

Lee, Jongmin; Kim, Gi-Yeop; Jeong, Seyeop; Yang, Mihyun; Kim, Jong-Woo; Cho, Byeong-Gwan; Choi, Yongseong; Kim, Sangmo; Choi, Jin San; Lee, Tae Kwon; Kim, Jiwoong; Lee, Dong Ryeol; Chang, Seo Hyoung; Park, Sungkyun; Jung, Jong Hoon; Bark, Chung Wung; Koo, Tae-Young; Ryan, Philip J.; Ihm, Kyuwook; Kim, Sanghoon; Choi, Si-Young; Kim, Tae Heon; Lee, Sanghan

doi:10.1021/acsami.1c13675

Title: Template Engineering of Metal-to-Insulator Transitions in Epitaxial Bilayer Nickelate Thin Films

Journal Article · Fri Nov 05 00:00:00 EDT 2021 · ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.1c13675· OSTI ID:1858783

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School of Materials Science and Engineering, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Gwangju 61005, Republic of Korea
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
Pohang Accelerator Laboratory, Pohang 37673, Republic of Korea
Advanced Photon Source, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois 60439, United States
Department of Electrical Engineering, Gachon University, Seongnam 13120, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, University of Ulsan and Energy Harvest-Storage Research Center (EHSRC), Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Inha University, Incheon 22212, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Pusan National University, Busan 46241, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Soongsil University, Seoul 06978, Republic of Korea
Department of Physics, Chung-Ang University, Seoul 06974, Republic of Korea

Understanding metal-to-insulator phase transitions in solids has been a keystone not only for discovering novel physical phenomena in condensed matter physics but also for achieving scientific breakthroughs in materials science. In this work, we demonstrate that the transport properties (i.e., resistivity and transition temperature) in the metal-to-insulator transitions of perovskite nickelates are tunable via the epitaxial heterojunctions of LaNiO₃ and NdNiO₃ thin films. Here, a mismatch in the oxygen coordination environment and interfacial octahedral coupling at the oxide heterointerface allows us to realize an exotic phase that is unattainable in the parent compound. With oxygen vacancy formation for strain accommodation, the topmost LaNiO₃ layer in LaNiO₃/NdNiO₃ bilayer thin films is structurally engineered and it electrically undergoes a metal-to-insulator transition that does not appear in metallic LaNiO₃. Modification of the NdNiO₃ template layer thickness provides an additional knob for tailoring the tilting angles of corner-connected NiO₆ octahedra and the linked transport characteristics further. Our approaches can be harnessed to tune physical properties in complex oxides and to realize exotic physical phenomena through oxide thin-film heterostructuring.

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

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF)

Grant/Contract Number:: DEAC02-06CH11357; AC02-06CH11357; NRF-2018R1D1A1B07043155; NRF-2020R1F1A1057220; NRF-2019R1C1C1010345; NRF-2019R1A6A1A11053838; NRF-2020R1A4A1017915; 2017M3D1A1040834; NRF-2019K1A3A7A09033393; 2013M3A6B1078872; 2020R1A6C101A202

OSTI ID:: 1858783

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1840962

Journal Information:: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces, Journal Name: ACS Applied Materials and Interfaces Vol. 13 Journal Issue: 45; ISSN 1944-8244

Publisher:: American Chemical SocietyCopyright Statement

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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