Electron quantum interference in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films
Abstract
The electron reflectivity from NiO thin films grown on Ag(001) has been systematically studied as a function of film thickness and electron energy. A strong electron quantum interference effect was observed from the NiO film, which is used to derive the unoccupied band dispersion above the Fermi surface along the Γ-X direction using the phase accumulation model. The experimental bands agree well with first-principles calculations. A weaker electron quantum interference effect was also observed from the CoO film.
- Authors:
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- Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China)
- Fudan Univ., Shanghai (China); Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructures, Nanjing (China)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Univ. of California, Davis, CA (United States); Georgetown Univ., Washington DC (United States)
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
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- Research Org.:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES); National Key Basic Research Program of China; National Key Research and Development Program of China; National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1642683
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1608348
- Grant/Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231; 2015CB921401; 2016YFA0300703; 11974079; 11734006; 11825403
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- AIP Advances
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 10; Journal Issue: 4; Journal ID: ISSN 2158-3226
- Publisher:
- American Institute of Physics (AIP)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
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Xu, Jia, Lou, Feng, Jia, Mengwen, Chen, Gong, Zhou, Chao, Li, Qian, Liu, Kai, Schmid, Andreas K., Xiang, Hongjun, and Wu, Yizheng. Electron quantum interference in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films. United States: N. p., 2020.
Web. doi:10.1063/1.5129772.
Xu, Jia, Lou, Feng, Jia, Mengwen, Chen, Gong, Zhou, Chao, Li, Qian, Liu, Kai, Schmid, Andreas K., Xiang, Hongjun, & Wu, Yizheng. Electron quantum interference in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films. United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5129772
Xu, Jia, Lou, Feng, Jia, Mengwen, Chen, Gong, Zhou, Chao, Li, Qian, Liu, Kai, Schmid, Andreas K., Xiang, Hongjun, and Wu, Yizheng. Fri .
"Electron quantum interference in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films". United States. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5129772. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1642683.
@article{osti_1642683,
title = {Electron quantum interference in epitaxial antiferromagnetic NiO thin films},
author = {Xu, Jia and Lou, Feng and Jia, Mengwen and Chen, Gong and Zhou, Chao and Li, Qian and Liu, Kai and Schmid, Andreas K. and Xiang, Hongjun and Wu, Yizheng},
abstractNote = {The electron reflectivity from NiO thin films grown on Ag(001) has been systematically studied as a function of film thickness and electron energy. A strong electron quantum interference effect was observed from the NiO film, which is used to derive the unoccupied band dispersion above the Fermi surface along the Γ-X direction using the phase accumulation model. The experimental bands agree well with first-principles calculations. A weaker electron quantum interference effect was also observed from the CoO film.},
doi = {10.1063/1.5129772},
journal = {AIP Advances},
number = 4,
volume = 10,
place = {United States},
year = {2020},
month = {4}
}
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