Coherent growth of oxide films on a cleaved layered metal oxide substrate
Abstract
Understanding oxide interface-induced effects requires controlled epitaxial growth of films on well-defined substrate surfaces. While conventional film growth on ex situ prepared substrates has proven to be a successful route, the choices of appropriate substrates with atomically defined surfaces are limited. Here, by depositing La2/3 Sr1/3 Mn O3 on Sr2 Ru O4 (001), we present an alternative method of growing oxide thin films on in situ cleaved surfaces of layered-structured substrates. Cleaving Sr2 Ru O4 at low temperature in ultrahigh vacuum exposes an atomically flat, solely SrO-terminated surface with up to micrometer-scale terraces. The deposition of La 2/3 Sr1/3 Mn O3 spontaneously diminishes the surface Ru O6 in-plane rotational distortion of the substrate and results in a cubic-like perovskite film structure with (La/Sr)-O layer termination. The interface is atomically sharp without obvious deviation of lattice spacing and chemical valence, except in the first unit cell where Ru-Mn intermixing is observed. Finally, these results demonstrate that film growth on a cleaved substrate can be an alternative route to obtain well-defined interfaces and in addition increase the availability of substrates for future oxide films.
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- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy
- Louisiana State Univ., Baton Rouge, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Astronomy; Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Energy Science and Technology
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States). Dept. of Energy Science and Technology
- Univ. di Salerno, Fisciano, Salerno (Italy). CNR-SPIN Unità di Salerno and Dipartimento di Fisica “E.R. Caianiello”
- Tulane Univ., New Orleans, LA (United States). Dept. of Physics and Engineering Physics
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- Research Org.:
- Brookhaven National Lab. (BNL), Upton, NY (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1480966
- Alternate Identifier(s):
- OSTI ID: 1478596
- Report Number(s):
- BNL-209415-2018-JAAM
Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953; PRMHAR
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0012704; AC02-98CH10886; SC0002136; SC0012432
- Resource Type:
- Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Physical Review Materials
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 2; Journal Issue: 10; Journal ID: ISSN 2475-9953
- Publisher:
- American Physical Society (APS)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 75 CONDENSED MATTER PHYSICS, SUPERCONDUCTIVITY AND SUPERFLUIDITY
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Siwakoti, Prahald, Guo, Hangwen, Wang, Zhen, Zhu, Yimei, Fittipaldi, Rosalba, Vecchione, Antonio, Wang, Y., Mao, Zhiqiang, and Zhang, Jiandi. Coherent growth of oxide films on a cleaved layered metal oxide substrate. United States: N. p., 2018.
Web. doi:10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104407.
Siwakoti, Prahald, Guo, Hangwen, Wang, Zhen, Zhu, Yimei, Fittipaldi, Rosalba, Vecchione, Antonio, Wang, Y., Mao, Zhiqiang, & Zhang, Jiandi. Coherent growth of oxide films on a cleaved layered metal oxide substrate. United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104407
Siwakoti, Prahald, Guo, Hangwen, Wang, Zhen, Zhu, Yimei, Fittipaldi, Rosalba, Vecchione, Antonio, Wang, Y., Mao, Zhiqiang, and Zhang, Jiandi. Thu .
"Coherent growth of oxide films on a cleaved layered metal oxide substrate". United States. https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104407. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1480966.
@article{osti_1480966,
title = {Coherent growth of oxide films on a cleaved layered metal oxide substrate},
author = {Siwakoti, Prahald and Guo, Hangwen and Wang, Zhen and Zhu, Yimei and Fittipaldi, Rosalba and Vecchione, Antonio and Wang, Y. and Mao, Zhiqiang and Zhang, Jiandi},
abstractNote = {Understanding oxide interface-induced effects requires controlled epitaxial growth of films on well-defined substrate surfaces. While conventional film growth on ex situ prepared substrates has proven to be a successful route, the choices of appropriate substrates with atomically defined surfaces are limited. Here, by depositing La2/3 Sr1/3 Mn O3 on Sr2 Ru O4 (001), we present an alternative method of growing oxide thin films on in situ cleaved surfaces of layered-structured substrates. Cleaving Sr2 Ru O4 at low temperature in ultrahigh vacuum exposes an atomically flat, solely SrO-terminated surface with up to micrometer-scale terraces. The deposition of La 2/3 Sr1/3 Mn O3 spontaneously diminishes the surface Ru O6 in-plane rotational distortion of the substrate and results in a cubic-like perovskite film structure with (La/Sr)-O layer termination. The interface is atomically sharp without obvious deviation of lattice spacing and chemical valence, except in the first unit cell where Ru-Mn intermixing is observed. Finally, these results demonstrate that film growth on a cleaved substrate can be an alternative route to obtain well-defined interfaces and in addition increase the availability of substrates for future oxide films.},
doi = {10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.2.104407},
journal = {Physical Review Materials},
number = 10,
volume = 2,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018},
month = {Thu Oct 18 00:00:00 EDT 2018}
}
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Figure 1: (a) A ball model showing the possible structure of growth of LSMO thin films on SRO214 single crystals. (b) The RHEED pattern before and after growth are sharp. The oscillations indicate layer-by-layer growth.
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