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High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation
Abstract
Epitaxy is widely employed to create highly oriented crystalline films. A less appreciated, but nonetheless powerful means of creating such films is via topotactic transformation, in which a chemical reaction transforms a single crystal of one phase into a single crystal of a different phase, which inherits its orientation from the original crystal. Topotactic reactions may be applied to epitactic films to substitute, add or remove ions to yield epitactic films of different phases. Here we exploit a topotactic reduction reaction to provide a non-ultra-high vacuum (UHV) means of growing highly oriented single crystalline thin films of the easily over-oxidized half-metallic semiconductor europium monoxide (EuO) with a perfection rivalling that of the best films of the same material grown by molecular-beam epitaxy or UHV pulsed-laser deposition. Lastly, as the technique only requires high-vacuum deposition equipment, it has the potential to drastically improve the accessibility of high-quality single crystalline films of EuO as well as other difficult-to-synthesize compounds.
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- Univ. Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany). Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). School of Applied and Engineering Physics
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering
- Oak Ridge National Lab. (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States). Quantum Condensed Matter Division
- Peter Grunberg Institute, Julich (Germany). JARA-FIT, Research Centre
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). School of Applied and Engineering Physics; Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Cornell Univ., Ithaca, NY (United States). Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering; Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, NY (United States)
- Univ. Augsburg, Augsburg (Germany). Center for Electronic Correlations and Magnetism
- Publication Date:
- Research Org.:
- Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
- Sponsoring Org.:
- USDOE Office of Science (SC), Basic Energy Sciences (BES)
- OSTI Identifier:
- 1259679
- Grant/Contract Number:
- SC0002334; DMR-1120296; FA9550-10-1-0123
- Resource Type:
- Journal Article: Accepted Manuscript
- Journal Name:
- Nature Communications
- Additional Journal Information:
- Journal Volume: 6; Journal ID: ISSN 2041-1723
- Publisher:
- Nature Publishing Group
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
- Subject:
- 36 MATERIALS SCIENCE
Citation Formats
Mairoser, Thomas, Mundy, Julia A., Melville, Alexander, Hodash, Daniel, Cueva, Paul, Held, Rainer, Glavic, Artur, Schubert, Jürgen, Muller, David A., Schlom, Darrell G., and Schmehl, Andreas. High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation. United States: N. p., 2015.
Web. doi:10.1038/ncomms8716.
Mairoser, Thomas, Mundy, Julia A., Melville, Alexander, Hodash, Daniel, Cueva, Paul, Held, Rainer, Glavic, Artur, Schubert, Jürgen, Muller, David A., Schlom, Darrell G., & Schmehl, Andreas. High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation. United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8716
Mairoser, Thomas, Mundy, Julia A., Melville, Alexander, Hodash, Daniel, Cueva, Paul, Held, Rainer, Glavic, Artur, Schubert, Jürgen, Muller, David A., Schlom, Darrell G., and Schmehl, Andreas. 2015.
"High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation". United States. https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms8716. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1259679.
@article{osti_1259679,
title = {High-quality EuO thin films the easy way via topotactic transformation},
author = {Mairoser, Thomas and Mundy, Julia A. and Melville, Alexander and Hodash, Daniel and Cueva, Paul and Held, Rainer and Glavic, Artur and Schubert, Jürgen and Muller, David A. and Schlom, Darrell G. and Schmehl, Andreas},
abstractNote = {Epitaxy is widely employed to create highly oriented crystalline films. A less appreciated, but nonetheless powerful means of creating such films is via topotactic transformation, in which a chemical reaction transforms a single crystal of one phase into a single crystal of a different phase, which inherits its orientation from the original crystal. Topotactic reactions may be applied to epitactic films to substitute, add or remove ions to yield epitactic films of different phases. Here we exploit a topotactic reduction reaction to provide a non-ultra-high vacuum (UHV) means of growing highly oriented single crystalline thin films of the easily over-oxidized half-metallic semiconductor europium monoxide (EuO) with a perfection rivalling that of the best films of the same material grown by molecular-beam epitaxy or UHV pulsed-laser deposition. Lastly, as the technique only requires high-vacuum deposition equipment, it has the potential to drastically improve the accessibility of high-quality single crystalline films of EuO as well as other difficult-to-synthesize compounds.},
doi = {10.1038/ncomms8716},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1259679},
journal = {Nature Communications},
issn = {2041-1723},
number = ,
volume = 6,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015},
month = {Thu Jul 16 00:00:00 EDT 2015}
}
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