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Cheynis F, Curiotto S, Leroy F, Müller P. Spatial inhomogeneity and temporal dynamics of a 2D electron gas in interaction with a 2D adatom gas. Sci Rep 2017; 7:10642. [PMID: 28878360 PMCID: PMC5587567 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-10300-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/04/2017] [Accepted: 08/07/2017] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Fundamental interest for 2D electron gas (2DEG) systems has been recently renewed with the advent of 2D materials and their potential high-impact applications in optoelectronics. Here, we investigate a 2DEG created by the electron transfer from a Ag adatom gas deposited on a Si(111) \documentclass[12pt]{minimal}
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- F Cheynis
- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINAM, Marseille, France.
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINAM, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINAM, Marseille, France
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- Aix Marseille Univ, CNRS, CINAM, Marseille, France
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Okada Y, Shiau SY, Chang TR, Chang G, Kobayashi M, Shimizu R, Jeng HT, Shiraki S, Kumigashira H, Bansil A, Lin H, Hitosugi T. Quasiparticle Interference on Cubic Perovskite Oxide Surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 119:086801. [PMID: 28952762 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.119.086801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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We report the observation of coherent surface states on cubic perovskite oxide SrVO_{3}(001) thin films through spectroscopic-imaging scanning tunneling microscopy. A direct link between the observed quasiparticle interference patterns and the formation of a d_{xy}-derived surface state is supported by first-principles calculations. We show that the apical oxygens on the topmost VO_{2} plane play a critical role in controlling the coherent surface state via modulating orbital state.
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- Yoshinori Okada
- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
- Department of Physics, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan 701, Taiwan
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Department of Physics, National Tsing Hua University, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan
- Institute of Physics, Academia Sinica, Taipei 11529, Taiwan
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- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Physics, Northeastern University, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
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- Centre for Advanced 2D Materials and Graphene Research Centre, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117546, Singapore
- Department of Physics, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117542, Singapore
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- Advanced Institute for Materials Research (AIMR), Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
- Department of Applied Chemistry, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo 152-8552, Japan
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Sanchez-Santolino G, Tornos J, Hernandez-Martin D, Beltran JI, Munuera C, Cabero M, Perez-Muñoz A, Ricote J, Mompean F, Garcia-Hernandez M, Sefrioui Z, Leon C, Pennycook SJ, Muñoz MC, Varela M, Santamaria J. Resonant electron tunnelling assisted by charged domain walls in multiferroic tunnel junctions. NATURE NANOTECHNOLOGY 2017; 12:655-662. [PMID: 28396607 DOI: 10.1038/nnano.2017.51] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 03/02/2017] [Indexed: 05/28/2023]
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The peculiar features of domain walls observed in ferroelectrics make them promising active elements for next-generation non-volatile memories, logic gates and energy-harvesting devices. Although extensive research activity has been devoted recently to making full use of this technological potential, concrete realizations of working nanodevices exploiting these functional properties are yet to be demonstrated. Here, we fabricate a multiferroic tunnel junction based on ferromagnetic La0.7Sr0.3MnO3 electrodes separated by an ultrathin ferroelectric BaTiO3 tunnel barrier, where a head-to-head domain wall is constrained. An electron gas stabilized by oxygen vacancies is confined within the domain wall, displaying discrete quantum-well energy levels. These states assist resonant electron tunnelling processes across the barrier, leading to strong quantum oscillations of the electrical conductance.
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- Gabriel Sanchez-Santolino
- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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- Department of Materials Science &Engineering, National University of Singapore, Singapore 117575, Singapore
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- Instituto de Ciencia de Materiales de Madrid ICMM-CSIC, Calle Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, 3, 28049 Madrid, Spain
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto Pluridisciplinar, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Materials Science and Technology Div., Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- GFMC, Departamento de Fisica de Materiales, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
- Unidad Asociada ICMM-CSIC 'Laboratorio de heteroestructuras con aplicación en Espintrónica', UCM, CSIC, E-28049 Madrid, Spain
- Instituto de Magnetismo Aplicado, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, 28040 Madrid, Spain
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Copie O, Varignon J, Rotella H, Steciuk G, Boullay P, Pautrat A, David A, Mercey B, Ghosez P, Prellier W. Chemical Strain Engineering of Magnetism in Oxide Thin Films. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2017; 29:1604112. [PMID: 28370578 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201604112] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2016] [Revised: 02/20/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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Transition metal oxides having a perovskite structure form a wide and technologically important class of compounds. In these systems, ferroelectric, ferromagnetic, ferroelastic, or even orbital and charge orderings can develop and eventually coexist. These orderings can be tuned by external electric, magnetic, or stress field, and the cross-couplings between them enable important multifunctional properties, such as piezoelectricity, magneto-electricity, or magneto-elasticity. Recently, it has been proposed that additional to typical fields, the chemical potential that controls the concentration of ion vacancies in these systems may reveal an efficient alternative parameter to further tune their properties and achieve new functionalities. In this study, concretizing this proposal, the authors show that the control of the content of oxygen vacancies in perovskite thin films can indeed be used to tune their magnetic properties. Growing PrVO3 thin films epitaxially on an SrTiO3 substrate, the authors reveal a concrete pathway to achieve this effect. The authors demonstrate that monitoring the concentration of oxygen vacancies through the oxygen partial pressure or the growth temperature can produce a substantial macroscopic tensile strain of a few percent. In turn, this strain affects the exchange interactions, producing a nontrivial evolution of Néel temperature in a range of 30 K.
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- Olivier Copie
- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
- Institut Jean Lamour, UMR 7198 CNRS-Université de Lorraine, F-54506, Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy, France
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- Theoretical Materials Physics, Q-MAT, CESAM, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 août, 20, 4000, Sart Tilman, Belgium
- Unité Mixte de Physique UMR 137 CNRS/Thales, 1 avenue A. Fresnel, 91767, Palaiseau, France
- Université Paris-Sud, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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- Theoretical Materials Physics, Q-MAT, CESAM, Université de Liège, Allée du 6 août, 20, 4000, Sart Tilman, Belgium
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- Normandie Univ., ENSICAEN, UNICAEN, CNRS, CRISMAT, 6 Boulevard Maréchal Juin, F-14050, Caen, Cedex 4, France
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Wang Z, Liu C, Liu Y, Wang J. High-temperature superconductivity in one-unit-cell FeSe films. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2017; 29:153001. [PMID: 28176680 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/aa5f26] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Since the dramatic enhancement of the superconducting transition temperature (T c) was reported in a one-unit-cell FeSe film grown on a SrTiO3 substrate (1-UC FeSe/STO) by molecular beam epitaxy (MBE), related research on this system has become a new frontier in condensed matter physics. In this paper, we present a brief review on this rapidly developing field, mainly focusing on the superconducting properties of 1-UC FeSe/STO. Experimental evidence for high-temperature superconductivity in 1-UC FeSe/STO, including direct evidence revealed by transport and diamagnetic measurements, as well as other evidence from scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES), are overviewed. The potential mechanisms of the enhanced superconductivity are also discussed. There are accumulating arguments to suggest that the strengthened Cooper pairing in 1-UC FeSe/STO originates from the interface effects, specifically the charge transfer and coupling to phonon modes in the TiO2 plane. The study of superconductivity in 1-UC FeSe/STO not only sheds new light on the mechanism of high-temperature superconductors with layered structures, but also provides an insight into the exploration of new superconductors by interface engineering.
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- Ziqiao Wang
- International Center for Quantum Materials, School of Physics, Peking University, Beijing 100871, People's Republic of China
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Wang Z, Zhong Z, McKeown Walker S, Ristic Z, Ma JZ, Bruno FY, Riccò S, Sangiovanni G, Eres G, Plumb NC, Patthey L, Shi M, Mesot J, Baumberger F, Radovic M. Atomically Precise Lateral Modulation of a Two-Dimensional Electron Liquid in Anatase TiO 2 Thin Films. NANO LETTERS 2017; 17:2561-2567. [PMID: 28282495 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.7b00317] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Engineering the electronic band structure of two-dimensional electron liquids (2DELs) confined at the surface or interface of transition metal oxides is key to unlocking their full potential. Here we describe a new approach to tailoring the electronic structure of an oxide surface 2DEL demonstrating the lateral modulation of electronic states with atomic scale precision on an unprecedented length scale comparable to the Fermi wavelength. To this end, we use pulsed laser deposition to grow anatase TiO2 films terminated by a (1 × 4) in-plane surface reconstruction. Employing photostimulated chemical surface doping we induce 2DELs with tunable carrier densities that are confined within a few TiO2 layers below the surface. Subsequent in situ angle-resolved photoemission experiments demonstrate that the (1 × 4) surface reconstruction provides a periodic lateral perturbation of the electron liquid. This causes strong backfolding of the electronic bands, opening of unidirectional gaps and a saddle point singularity in the density of states near the chemical potential.
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- Z Wang
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva , 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg , Am Hubland, Würzburg 97070 Germany
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva , 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics, and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences , Beijing 100190, China
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva , 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva , 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik und Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg , Am Hubland, Würzburg 97070 Germany
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) , CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich , CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva , 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut , CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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Gunkel F, Heinen RA, Hoffmann-Eifert S, Jin L, Jia CL, Dittmann R. Mobility Modulation and Suppression of Defect Formation in Two-Dimensional Electron Systems by Charge-Transfer Management. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:10888-10896. [PMID: 28262026 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.7b00905] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Electron mobility is one of the most-debated key attributes of low-dimensional electron systems emerging at complex oxide heterointerfaces. However, a common understanding of how electron mobility can be optimized in these systems has not been achieved so far. Here, we discuss a novel approach for achieving a systematic increase in electron mobility in polar/nonpolar perovskite interfaces by suppressing the thermodynamically required defect formation at the nanoscale. We discuss the transport properties of electron gases established at interfaces between SrTiO3 and various polar perovskites [LaAlO3, NdGaO3, and (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3], allowing for the individual variation of epitaxial strain and charge transfer among these epitaxial interfaces. As we show, the reduced charge transfer at (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3/SrTiO3 interfaces yields a systematic increase in electron mobility, while the reduced epitaxial strain has only minor impact. As thermodynamic continuum simulations suggest, the charge transfer across these interfaces affects both the spatial distribution of electrons and the background distribution of ionic defects, acting as major scatter centers within the potential well. Easing charge transfer in (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3/SrTiO3 yields an enlarged spatial separation of mobile charge carriers and scattering centers, as well as a reduced driving force for the formation of ionic defects at the nanoscale. Our results suggest a general recipe for achieving electron enhancements at oxide heterostructure interfaces and provide new perspectives for atomistic understanding of electron scattering in these systems.
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- Felix Gunkel
- Institute of Electronic Materials, RWTH Aachen University , 52062 Aachen, Germany
- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
- Ernst Ruska-Centre for Microscopy and Spectroscopy with Electrons, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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- Peter Grünberg Institute, Fundamentals of Future Information Technology, Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, Forschungszentrum Jülich , 52425 Jülich, Germany
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Smink AEM, de Boer JC, Stehno MP, Brinkman A, van der Wiel WG, Hilgenkamp H. Gate-Tunable Band Structure of the LaAlO_{3}-SrTiO_{3} Interface. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2017; 118:106401. [PMID: 28339281 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.118.106401] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The two-dimensional electron system at the interface between LaAlO_{3} and SrTiO_{3} has several unique properties that can be tuned by an externally applied gate voltage. In this work, we show that this gate tunability extends to the effective band structure of the system. We combine a magnetotransport study on top-gated Hall bars with self-consistent Schrödinger-Poisson calculations and observe a Lifshitz transition at a density of 2.9×10^{13}cm^{-2}. Above the transition, the carrier density of one of the conducting bands decreases with increasing gate voltage. This surprising decrease is accurately reproduced in the calculations if electronic correlations are included. These results provide a clear, intuitive picture of the physics governing the electronic structure at complex-oxide interfaces.
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- A E M Smink
- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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- MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, P.O. Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, The Netherlands
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Zhang C, Liu Z, Chen Z, Xie Y, He R, Tang S, He J, Li W, Jia T, Rebec SN, Ma EY, Yan H, Hashimoto M, Lu D, Mo SK, Hikita Y, Moore RG, Hwang HY, Lee D, Shen Z. Ubiquitous strong electron-phonon coupling at the interface of FeSe/SrTiO 3. Nat Commun 2017; 8:14468. [PMID: 28186084 PMCID: PMC5311057 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms14468] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/04/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022] Open
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The observation of replica bands in single-unit-cell FeSe on SrTiO3 (STO)(001) by angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has led to the conjecture that the coupling between FeSe electrons and the STO phonons are responsible for the enhancement of Tc over other FeSe-based superconductors. However the recent observation of a similar superconducting gap in single-unit-cell FeSe/STO(110) raised the question of whether a similar mechanism applies. Here we report the ARPES study of the electronic structure of FeSe/STO(110). Similar to the results in FeSe/STO(001), clear replica bands are observed. We also present a comparative study of STO(001) and STO(110) bare surfaces, and observe similar replica bands separated by approximately the same energy, indicating this coupling is a generic feature of the STO surfaces and interfaces. Our findings suggest that the large superconducting gaps observed in FeSe films grown on different STO surface terminations are likely enhanced by a common mechanism. Whether electron–phonon coupling is a generic feature in FeSe/SrTiO3 to enhance superconductivity remains unclear. Here, Zhang et al. report replica bands in FeSe/SrTiO3(110), suggesting a common mechanism in FeSe on SrTiO3 with different surface terminations.
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- Chaofan Zhang
- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- School of Physical Science and Technology, ShanghaiTech University, Shanghai 200031, China
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts 02467, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford Synchrotron Radiation Lightsource, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Department of Physics, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, 2575 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA.,Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Departments of Physics and Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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Maniv E, Dagan Y, Goldstein M. Correlation-Induced Band Competition in SrTiO3/LaAlO3. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1557/adv.2017.92] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/13/2022]
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Gunkel F, Hoffmann-Eifert S, Heinen RA, Christensen DV, Chen YZ, Pryds N, Waser R, Dittmann R. Thermodynamic Ground States of Complex Oxide Heterointerfaces. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2017; 9:1086-1092. [PMID: 27992161 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.6b12706] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The formation mechanism of 2-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) at heterointerfaces between nominally insulating oxides is addressed with a thermodynamical approach. We provide a comprehensive analysis of the thermodynamic ground states of various 2DEG systems directly probed in high temperature equilibrium conductivity measurements. We unambiguously identify two distinct classes of oxide heterostructures: For epitaxial perovskite/perovskite heterointerfaces (LaAlO3/SrTiO3, NdGaO3/SrTiO3, and (La,Sr)(Al,Ta)O3/SrTiO3), we find the 2DEG formation being based on charge transfer into the interface, stabilized by the electric field in the space charge region. In contrast, for amorphous LaAlO3/SrTiO3 and epitaxial γ-Al2O3/SrTiO3 heterostructures, the 2DEG formation mainly relies on the formation and accumulation of oxygen vacancies. This class of 2DEG structures exhibits an unstable interface reconstruction associated with a quenched nonequilibrium state.
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- F Gunkel
- Institute of Electronic Materials, IWE2, RWTH Aachen University , 52056 Aachen, Germany
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- Peter Gruenberg Institute and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH , 52425 Juelich, Germany
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- Peter Gruenberg Institute and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH , 52425 Juelich, Germany
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark , Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark , Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Department of Energy Conversion and Storage, Technical University of Denmark , Risø Campus, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark
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- Peter Gruenberg Institute and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH , 52425 Juelich, Germany
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- Peter Gruenberg Institute and JARA-FIT, Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH , 52425 Juelich, Germany
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Tian B, Nukala P, Hassine MB, Zhao X, Wang X, Shen H, Wang J, Sun S, Lin T, Sun J, Ge J, Huang R, Duan C, Reiss T, Varela M, Dkhil B, Meng X, Chu J. Interfacial memristors in Al–LaNiO3heterostructures. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2017. [DOI: 10.1039/c7cp02398g] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Self-assembled interfacial memristive systems in Al–LaNiO3heterostructures.
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Ma X, Dai Y, Li M, Huang B. Oxygen vacancies at the Au/SrTiO 3(001) interface: stabilities, electronic properties and effect on photocatalysis. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 19:774-781. [PMID: 27929157 DOI: 10.1039/c6cp07087f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Oxygen vacancies have proven to induce various and important effects on the properties of materials. In the present work, the thermodynamic stabilities and electronic properties of oxygen vacancies (Ov) on the SrTiO3 (STO)(001) surface and at the Au/STO(001) interface are systematically investigated by means of first-principles calculations. Both the SrO and TiO2 terminated (001) surfaces of STO are examined. It is found that the Ov located in the near-surface region of the two surfaces can be divided into three categories according to their properties: Ov in the surface atomic layer, Ov in the subsurface TiO2 atomic layers, and Ov in the subsurface SrO atomic layers. Counter-intuitively, for the SrO terminated surface the most stable site of Ov is in the first subsurface atomic layer. The Au metal in the Au/STO heterostructure significantly promotes the formation of Ov at and near the interface and thermodynamically promotes migration of Ov to the interfacial atomic layer. Furthermore, the interface Schottky barrier height is highly sensitive to both the concentration and position of Ov at the interface. These results are beneficial for the atomic-level understanding of the performance of STO-based photocatalysts and the rational design of more efficient ones.
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- Xiangchao Ma
- School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China. and School of Physics and Optoelectronic Engineering, Xidian University, Xi'an, 710071, China
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- School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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- School of Physics, State Key Laboratory of Crystal Materials, Shandong University, Jinan 250100, China.
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Coey JMD, Venkatesan M, Stamenov P. Surface magnetism of strontium titanate. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2016; 28:485001. [PMID: 27666311 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/28/48/485001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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SrTiO3 plays a central role in oxide electronics. It is the substrate of choice for functional oxide heterostructures based on perovskite-structure thin-film stacks, and its surface or interface with a polar oxide such as LaAlO3 can become a 2D conductor because of electronic reconstruction or the presence of oxygen defects. Inconsistent reports of magnetic order in SrTiO3 abound in the literature. Here, we report a systematic experimental study aimed at establishing how and when SrTiO3 can develop a magnetic moment at room temperature. Polished (1 0 0), (1 1 0) or (1 1 1) crystal slices from four different suppliers are characterized before and after vacuum annealing at 750 °C, both in single-crystal and powdered form. Impurity content is analysed at the surface and in the bulk. Besides the underlying intrinsic diamagnetism of SrTiO3, magnetic signals are of three types-a Curie law susceptibility due to dilute magnetic impurities at the ppm level, a hysteretic temperature-dependent ferromagnetic impurity contribution, and a practically anhysteretic defect-related temperature-independent component that saturates in about 200 mT. The latter component is intrinsic. It is often the largest, reaching 10 μ B nm-2 of the surface area or more and dominating the magnetic response in low fields at room temperature. It is associated with defects near the surface, and can be destroyed by treatment with Tiron (C6H4Na2O8S2), an electron donor molecule that forms a strong complex with titanium at the surface. The origin of this unusual high-temperature ferromagnetic-like response is discussed.
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- J M D Coey
- School of Physics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
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Dudy L, Sing M, Scheiderer P, Denlinger JD, Schütz P, Gabel J, Buchwald M, Schlueter C, Lee TL, Claessen R. In Situ Control of Separate Electronic Phases on SrTiO3 Surfaces by Oxygen Dosing. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2016; 28:7443-7449. [PMID: 27332795 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201600046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2016] [Revised: 05/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Insulating SrTiO3 (STO) can host 2D electron systems (2DESs) on its surfaces, caused by oxygen defects. This study shows that the STO surface exhibits phase separation once the 2DES is formed and relates this inhomogeneity to recently reported magnetic order at STO surfaces and interfaces. The results open pathways to exploit oxygen defects for engineering the electronic and magnetic properties of oxides.
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- Lenart Dudy
- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany.
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA, 94270, USA
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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- Diamond Light Source Ltd, Didcot, Oxfordshire, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Physikalisches Institut and Röntgen Center for Complex Material Systems (RCCM), Universität Würzburg, D-97074, Würzburg, Germany
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Tomczyk M, Cheng G, Lee H, Lu S, Annadi A, Veazey JP, Huang M, Irvin P, Ryu S, Eom CB, Levy J. Micrometer-Scale Ballistic Transport of Electron Pairs in LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} Nanowires. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 117:096801. [PMID: 27610871 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.117.096801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/25/2016] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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High-mobility complex-oxide heterostructures and nanostructures offer new opportunities for extending the paradigm of quantum transport beyond the realm of traditional III-V or carbon-based materials. Recent quantum transport investigations with LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3}-based quantum dots reveal the existence of a strongly correlated phase in which electrons form spin-singlet pairs without becoming superconducting. Here, we report evidence for the micrometer-scale ballistic transport of electron pairs in quasi-1D LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} nanowire cavities. In the paired phase, Fabry-Perot-like quantum interference is observed, in sync with conductance oscillations observed in the superconducting regime (at a zero magnetic field). Above a critical magnetic field B_{p}, the electron pairs unbind and the conductance oscillations shift with the magnetic field. These experimental observations extend the regime of ballistic electronic transport to strongly correlated phases.
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- Michelle Tomczyk
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisconsin 53706, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
- Pittsburgh Quantum Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15260, USA
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Wang Z, McKeown Walker S, Tamai A, Wang Y, Ristic Z, Bruno FY, de la Torre A, Riccò S, Plumb NC, Shi M, Hlawenka P, Sánchez-Barriga J, Varykhalov A, Kim TK, Hoesch M, King PDC, Meevasana W, Diebold U, Mesot J, Moritz B, Devereaux TP, Radovic M, Baumberger F. Tailoring the nature and strength of electron-phonon interactions in the SrTiO3(001) 2D electron liquid. NATURE MATERIALS 2016; 15:835-839. [PMID: 27064529 DOI: 10.1038/nmat4623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/25/2015] [Accepted: 03/10/2016] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Surfaces and interfaces offer new possibilities for tailoring the many-body interactions that dominate the electrical and thermal properties of transition metal oxides. Here, we use the prototypical two-dimensional electron liquid (2DEL) at the SrTiO3(001) surface to reveal a remarkably complex evolution of electron-phonon coupling with the tunable carrier density of this system. At low density, where superconductivity is found in the analogous 2DEL at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface, our angle-resolved photoemission data show replica bands separated by 100 meV from the main bands. This is a hallmark of a coherent polaronic liquid and implies long-range coupling to a single longitudinal optical phonon branch. In the overdoped regime the preferential coupling to this branch decreases and the 2DEL undergoes a crossover to a more conventional metallic state with weaker short-range electron-phonon interaction. These results place constraints on the theoretical description of superconductivity and allow a unified understanding of the transport properties in SrTiO3-based 2DELs.
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- Z Wang
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Department of Applied Physics, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY-II, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY-II, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Helmholtz-Zentrum Berlin für Materialien und Energie, Elektronenspeicherring BESSY-II, 12489 Berlin, Germany
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot OX11 0DE, UK
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- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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- School of Physics and NANOTEC-SUT Center of Excellence on Advanced Functional Nanomaterials, Suranaree University of Technology, Nakhon Ratchasima 30000, Thailand
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- Institute of Applied Physics, Vienna University of Technology, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/134, A-1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Institute of Condensed Matter Physics, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), CH-1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
- Laboratory for Solid State Physics, ETH Zürich, CH-8093 Zürich, Switzerland
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
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- Stanford Institute for Materials and Energy Sciences, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA
- Geballe Laboratory for Advanced Materials, Stanford University, Stanford, California 94305, USA
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- SwissFEL, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institut, CH-5232 Villigen PSI, Switzerland
- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland
- SUPA, School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 9SS, UK
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Mannhart J, Boschker H, Kopp T, Valentí R. Artificial atoms based on correlated materials. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2016; 79:084508. [PMID: 27427430 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/8/084508] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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Low-dimensional electron systems fabricated from quantum matter have in recent years become available and are being explored with great intensity. This article gives an overview of the fundamental properties of such systems and summarizes the state of the field. We furthermore present and consider the concept of artificial atoms fabricated from quantum materials, anticipating remarkable scientific advances and possibly important applications of this new field of research. The surprising properties of these artificial atoms and of molecules or even of solids assembled from them are presented and discussed.
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- J Mannhart
- Max Planck Institute for Solid State Research, 70569 Stuttgart, Germany
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Snijders PC, Şen C, McConnell MP, Ma YZ, May AF, Herklotz A, Wong AT, Ward TZ. Dynamic defect correlations dominate activated electronic transport in SrTiO3. Sci Rep 2016; 6:30141. [PMID: 27443503 PMCID: PMC4957113 DOI: 10.1038/srep30141] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/18/2016] [Accepted: 06/24/2016] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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Strontium titanate (SrTiO3, STO) is a critically important material for the study of emergent electronic phases in complex oxides, as well as for the development of applications based on their heterostructures. Despite the large body of knowledge on STO, there are still many uncertainties regarding the role of defects in the properties of STO, including their influence on ferroelectricity in bulk STO and ferromagnetism in STO-based heterostructures. We present a detailed analysis of the decay of persistent photoconductivity in STO single crystals with defect concentrations that are relatively low but significantly affect their electronic properties. The results show that photo-activated electron transport cannot be described by a superposition of the properties due to independent point defects as current models suggest but is, instead, governed by defect complexes that interact through dynamic correlations. These results emphasize the importance of defect correlations for activated electronic transport properties of semiconducting and insulating perovskite oxides.
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- Paul C. Snijders
- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Department of Physics, Lamar University, Beaumont, Texas 77710, USA
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- Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, USA
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- Chemical Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA
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Hong S, Nakhmanson SM, Fong DD. Screening mechanisms at polar oxide heterointerfaces. REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS. PHYSICAL SOCIETY (GREAT BRITAIN) 2016; 79:076501. [PMID: 27308889 DOI: 10.1088/0034-4885/79/7/076501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/06/2023]
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The interfaces of polar oxide heterostructures can display electronic properties unique from the oxides they border, as they require screening from either internal or external sources of charge. The screening mechanism depends on a variety of factors, including the band structure at the interface, the presence of point defects or adsorbates, whether or not the oxide is ferroelectric, and whether or not an external field is applied. In this review, we discuss both theoretical and experimental aspects of different screening mechanisms, giving special emphasis to ways in which the mechanism can be altered to provide novel or tunable functionalities. We begin with a theoretical introduction to the problem and highlight recent progress in understanding the impact of point defects on polar interfaces. Different case studies are then discussed, for both the high thickness regime, where interfaces must be screened and each interface can be considered separately, and the low thickness regime, where the degree and nature of screening can be manipulated and the interfaces are close enough to interact. We end with a brief outlook toward new developments in this rapidly progressing field.
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- Seungbum Hong
- Materials Science Division, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, IL 60439, USA. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, KAIST, Daejeon 305-701, Korea
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Taniuchi T, Motoyui Y, Morozumi K, Rödel TC, Fortuna F, Santander-Syro AF, Shin S. Imaging of room-temperature ferromagnetic nano-domains at the surface of a non-magnetic oxide. Nat Commun 2016; 7:11781. [PMID: 27283225 PMCID: PMC4906390 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms11781] [Citation(s) in RCA: 25] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/23/2015] [Accepted: 04/28/2016] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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Two-dimensional electron gases at oxide surfaces or interfaces show exotic ordered states of matter, like superconductivity, magnetism or spin-polarized states, and are a promising platform for alternative oxide-based electronics. Here we directly image a dense population of randomly distributed ferromagnetic domains of ∼40 nm typical sizes at room temperature at the oxygen-deficient surface of SrTiO3, a non-magnetic transparent insulator in the bulk. We use laser-based photoemission electron microscopy, an experimental technique that gives selective spin detection of the surface carriers, even in bulk insulators, with a high spatial resolution of 2.6 nm. We furthermore find that the Curie temperature in this system is as high as 900 K. These findings open perspectives for applications in nano-domain magnetism and spintronics using oxide-based devices, for instance through the nano-engineering of oxygen vacancies at surfaces or interfaces of transition-metal oxides. The surfaces of transition metal oxides exhibit a wide range of functional behaviours, from magnetism to superconductivity. Here, the authors use high-resolution microscopy to image the temperature dependent development of nanoscale ferromagnetic domains on an oxygen-deficient SrTiO3 surface.
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- T Taniuchi
- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.,CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8581, Japan
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- CSNSM, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiments 104 et 108, Orsay 91405, France.,Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin-BP48, Gif-sur-Yvette 91192, France
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- CSNSM, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiments 104 et 108, Orsay 91405, France
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- CSNSM, CNRS/IN2P3 and Université Paris-Sud, Bâtiments 104 et 108, Orsay 91405, France
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- Institute for Solid State Physics, University of Tokyo, Chiba 277-8581, Japan.,CREST, Japan Science and Technology Agency, Tokyo 102-0075, Japan
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Kumar N, Kitoh A, Inoue IH. Anomalous enhancement of the sheet carrier density beyond the classic limit on a SrTiO3 surface. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25789. [PMID: 27174141 PMCID: PMC4865841 DOI: 10.1038/srep25789] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/06/2016] [Accepted: 04/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Electrostatic carrier accumulation on an insulating (100) surface of SrTiO3 by fabricating a field effect transistor with Parylene-C (6 nm)/HfO2 (20 nm) bilayer gate insulator has revealed a mystifying phenomenon: sheet carrier density is about 10 times as large as ( is the sheet capacitance of the gate insulator, VG is the gate voltage, and e is the elementary charge). The channel is so clean to exhibit small subthreshod swing of 170 mV/decade and large mobility of 11 cm2/Vs for of 1 × 1014 cm−2 at room temperature. Since does not depend on either VG nor time duration, beyond is solely ascribed to negative charge compressibility of the carriers, which was in general considered as due to exchange interactions among electrons in the small limit. However, the observed is too large to be naively understood by the framework. Alternative ideas are proposed in this work.
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- Neeraj Kumar
- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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- National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Tsukuba 305-8565, Japan
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Zhuang HL, Zhang L, Xu H, Kent PRC, Ganesh P, Cooper VR. Tunable one-dimensional electron gas carrier densities at nanostructured oxide interfaces. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25452. [PMID: 27151049 PMCID: PMC4858694 DOI: 10.1038/srep25452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/09/2016] [Accepted: 04/15/2016] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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The emergence of two-dimensional metallic states at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructure interface is known to occur at a critical thickness of four LAO layers. This insulator to-metal transition can be explained through the “polar catastrophe” mechanism arising from the divergence of the electrostatic potential at the LAO surface. Here, we demonstrate that nanostructuring can be effective in reducing or eliminating this critical thickness. Employing a modified “polar catastrophe” model, we demonstrate that the nanowire heterostructure electrostatic potential diverges more rapidly as a function of layer thickness than in a regular heterostructure. Our first-principles calculations indicate that for nanowire heterostructures a robust one-dimensional electron gas (1DEG) can be induced, consistent with recent experimental observations of 1D conductivity at LAO/STO steps. Similar to LAO/STO 2DEGs, we predict that the 1D charge density decays laterally within a few unit cells away from the nanowire; thus providing a mechanism for tuning the carrier dimensionality between 1D and 2D conductivity. Our work provides insight into the creation and manipulation of charge density at an oxide heterostructure interface and therefore may be beneficial for future nanoelectronic devices and for the engineering of novel quantum phases.
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- Houlong L Zhuang
- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee 37996, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States.,Computer Science and Mathematics Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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- Materials Science and Technology Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Bethel Valley Road, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, United States
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Chung SB, Chan C, Yao H. Dislocation Majorana zero modes in perovskite oxide 2DEG. Sci Rep 2016; 6:25184. [PMID: 27139319 PMCID: PMC4853714 DOI: 10.1038/srep25184] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2015] [Accepted: 04/12/2016] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Much of the current experimental efforts for detecting Majorana zero modes have been centered on probing the boundary of quantum wires with strong spin-orbit coupling. The same type of Majorana zero mode can also be realized at crystalline dislocations in 2D superconductors with the nontrivial weak topological indices. Unlike at an Abrikosov vortex, at such a dislocation, there is no other low-lying midgap state than the Majorana zero mode so that it avoids usual complications encountered in experimental detections such as scanning tunneling microscope (STM) measurements. We will show that, using the anisotropic dispersion of the t2g orbitals of Ti or Ta atoms, such a weak topological superconductivity can be realized when the surface two-dimensional electronic gas (2DEG) of SrTiO3 or KTaO3 becomes superconducting, which can occur through either intrinsic pairing or proximity to existing s-wave superconductors.
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- Suk Bum Chung
- Center for Correlated Electron Systems, Institute for Basic Science (IBS), Seoul 151-742, Republic of Korea.,Department of Physics and Astronomy, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-747, Korea
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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- Institute for Advanced Study, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China
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Altmeyer M, Jeschke HO, Hijano-Cubelos O, Martins C, Lechermann F, Koepernik K, Santander-Syro AF, Rozenberg MJ, Valentí R, Gabay M. Magnetism, Spin Texture, and In-Gap States: Atomic Specialization at the Surface of Oxygen-Deficient SrTiO_{3}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:157203. [PMID: 27127984 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.157203] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Motivated by recent spin- and angular-resolved photoemission (SARPES) measurements of the two-dimensional electronic states confined near the (001) surface of oxygen-deficient SrTiO_{3}, we explore their spin structure by means of ab initio density functional theory (DFT) calculations of slabs. Relativistic nonmagnetic DFT calculations display Rashba-like spin winding with a splitting of a few meV and when surface magnetism on the Ti ions is included, bands become spin-split with an energy difference ∼100 meV at the Γ point, consistent with SARPES findings. While magnetism tends to suppress the effects of the relativistic Rashba interaction, signatures of it are still clearly visible in terms of complex spin textures. Furthermore, we observe an atomic specialization phenomenon, namely, two types of electronic contributions: one is from Ti atoms neighboring the oxygen vacancies that acquire rather large magnetic moments and mostly create in-gap states; another comes from the partly polarized t_{2g} itinerant electrons of Ti atoms lying further away from the oxygen vacancy, which form the two-dimensional electron system and are responsible for the Rashba spin winding and the spin splitting at the Fermi surface.
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- Michaela Altmeyer
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universtät Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universtät Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Bat 510, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Bat 510, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- I. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Universität Hamburg, 20355 Hamburg, Germany
- Institut für Keramische Hochleistungswerkstoffe, TU Hamburg-Harburg, D-21073 Hamburg, Germany
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, Bât 104 et 108, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Bat 510, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Goethe-Universtät Frankfurt, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Bat 510, Université Paris-Sud, 91405 Orsay, France
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Wang Z, Loon A, Subramanian A, Gerhold S, McDermott E, Enterkin JA, Hieckel M, Russell BC, Green RJ, Moewes A, Guo J, Blaha P, Castell MR, Diebold U, Marks LD. Transition from Reconstruction toward Thin Film on the (110) Surface of Strontium Titanate. NANO LETTERS 2016; 16:2407-12. [PMID: 26954064 PMCID: PMC4834633 DOI: 10.1021/acs.nanolett.5b05211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/08/2023]
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The surfaces of metal oxides often are reconstructed with a geometry and composition that is considerably different from a simple termination of the bulk. Such structures can also be viewed as ultrathin films, epitaxed on a substrate. Here, the reconstructions of the SrTiO3 (110) surface are studied combining scanning tunneling microscopy (STM), transmission electron diffraction, and X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS), and analyzed with density functional theory calculations. Whereas SrTiO3 (110) invariably terminates with an overlayer of titania, with increasing density its structure switches from n × 1 to 2 × n. At the same time the coordination of the Ti atoms changes from a network of corner-sharing tetrahedra to a double layer of edge-shared octahedra with bridging units of octahedrally coordinated strontium. This transition from the n × 1 to 2 × n reconstructions is a transition from a pseudomorphically stabilized tetrahedral network toward an octahedral titania thin film with stress-relief from octahedral strontia units at the surface.
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- Z. Wang
- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/134, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/134, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/165-TC, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Chemistry, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/134, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United
Kingdom
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, 116 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Department of Physics and Engineering Physics, University of Saskatchewan, 116 Science Place, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan S7N 5E2, Canada
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed
Matter Physics and Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, People’s Republic
of China
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- Institute of Materials Chemistry, TU Wien, Getreidemarkt 9/165-TC, 1060 Vienna, Austria
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- Department
of Materials, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PH, United
Kingdom
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstrasse 8-10/134, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, United States
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Rödel TC, Fortuna F, Sengupta S, Frantzeskakis E, Le Fèvre P, Bertran F, Mercey B, Matzen S, Agnus G, Maroutian T, Lecoeur P, Santander-Syro AF. Universal Fabrication of 2D Electron Systems in Functional Oxides. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2016; 28:1976-1980. [PMID: 26753522 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201505021] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/12/2015] [Revised: 11/19/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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2D electron systems (2DESs) in functional oxides are promising for applications, but their fabrication and use, essentially limited to SrTiO3 -based heterostructures, are hampered by the need for growing complex oxide overlayers thicker than 2 nm using evolved techniques. It is demonstrated that thermal deposition of a monolayer of an elementary reducing agent suffices to create 2DESs in numerous oxides.
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- Tobias Chris Rödel
- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin-BP48, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CSNSM, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS/IN2P3, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique des Solides, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin-BP48, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint-Aubin-BP48, 91192, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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- CRISMAT, ENSICAEN-CNRS UMR6508, 6 bd. Maréchal Juin, 14050, Caen, France
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- Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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- Institut d'Electronique Fondamentale, Univ. Paris-Sud, CNRS, Université Paris-Saclay, 91405, Orsay, France
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Cancellieri C, Mishchenko AS, Aschauer U, Filippetti A, Faber C, Barišić OS, Rogalev VA, Schmitt T, Nagaosa N, Strocov VN. Polaronic metal state at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Nat Commun 2016; 7:10386. [PMID: 26813124 PMCID: PMC4737810 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms10386] [Citation(s) in RCA: 112] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/11/2015] [Accepted: 12/03/2015] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Interplay of spin, charge, orbital and lattice degrees of freedom in oxide heterostructures results in a plethora of fascinating properties, which can be exploited in new generations of electronic devices with enhanced functionalities. The paradigm example is the interface between the two band insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 that hosts a two-dimensional electron system. Apart from the mobile charge carriers, this system exhibits a range of intriguing properties such as field effect, superconductivity and ferromagnetism, whose fundamental origins are still debated. Here we use soft-X-ray angle-resolved photoelectron spectroscopy to penetrate through the LaAlO3 overlayer and access charge carriers at the buried interface. The experimental spectral function directly identifies the interface charge carriers as large polarons, emerging from coupling of charge and lattice degrees of freedom, and involving two phonons of different energy and thermal activity. This phenomenon fundamentally limits the carrier mobility and explains its puzzling drop at high temperatures.
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- C. Cancellieri
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH-5232, Switzerland
- EMPA, Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science & Technology, Ueberlandstrasse 129, Duebendorf 8600, Switzerland
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
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- Materials Theory, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
- Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of Bern, Freiestrasse 3 3012 Bern, Switzerland
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- CNR-IOM, Istituto Officina dei Materiali, Cittadella Universitaria, Cagliari, Monserrato 09042-I, Italy
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- Materials Theory, ETH Zurich, Wolfgang-Pauli-Strasse 27, Zürich CH-8093, Switzerland
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- Institute of Physics, Bijenička 46, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH-5232, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH-5232, Switzerland
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- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 2-1 Hirosawa, Wako, Saitama 351-0198, Japan
- Department of Applied Physics, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, Villigen CH-5232, Switzerland
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Stephanovich VA, Dugaev VK, Barnaś J. Two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 inteface with a potential barrier. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2016; 18:2104-11. [PMID: 26692230 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp06627a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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We present a tight binding description of electronic properties of the interface between LaAlO3 (LAO) and SrTiO3 (STO). The description assumes LAO and STO perovskites as sets of atomic layers in the x-y plane, which are weakly coupled by an interlayer hopping term along the z axis. The interface is described by an additional potential, U0, which simulates a planar defect. Physically, the interfacial potential can result from either a mechanical stress at the interface or other structural imperfections. We show that depending on the potential strength, charge carriers (electrons or holes) may form an energy band which is localized at the interface and is within the band gaps of the constitutent materials (LAO and STO). Moreover, our description predicts a valve effect at a certain critical potential strength, U0cr, when the interface potential works as a valve suppressing the interfacial conductivity. In other words, the interfacial electrons become dispersionless at U0 = U0cr, and thus cannot propagate. This critical value separates the quasielectron (U0 < U0cr) and quasihole (U0 > U0cr) regimes of the interfacial conductivity.
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- V A Stephanovich
- Institute of Physics, Opole University, ul. Oleska 48, 45-052 Opole, Poland.
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Scopigno N, Bucheli D, Caprara S, Biscaras J, Bergeal N, Lesueur J, Grilli M. Phase Separation from Electron Confinement at Oxide Interfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2016; 116:026804. [PMID: 26824560 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.116.026804] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/25/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Oxide heterostructures are of great interest for both fundamental and applicative reasons. In particular, the two-dimensional electron gas at the LaAlO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} or LaTiO_{3}/SrTiO_{3} interfaces displays many different properties and functionalities. However, there are clear experimental indications that the interface electronic state is strongly inhomogeneous and therefore it is crucial to investigate possible intrinsic mechanisms underlying this inhomogeneity. Here, the electrostatic potential confining the electron gas at the interface is calculated self-consistently, finding that such confinement may induce phase separation, to avoid a thermodynamically unstable state with a negative compressibility. This provides a robust mechanism for the inhomogeneous character of these interfaces.
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- N Scopigno
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
- ISC-CNR and Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Unità di Roma "Sapienza"
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des Matériaux, CNRS-ESPCI ParisTech-UPMC, PSL Research University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des Matériaux, CNRS-ESPCI ParisTech-UPMC, PSL Research University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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- Laboratoire de Physique et d'Étude des Matériaux, CNRS-ESPCI ParisTech-UPMC, PSL Research University, 10 Rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
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- Dipartimento di Fisica, Università di Roma "Sapienza", Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy
- ISC-CNR and Consorzio Nazionale Interuniversitario per le Scienze Fisiche della Materia, Unità di Roma "Sapienza"
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Nazir S, Cheng J, Yang K. Creating Two-Dimensional Electron Gas in Nonpolar/Nonpolar Oxide Interface via Polarization Discontinuity: First-Principles Analysis of CaZrO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructure. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2016; 8:390-399. [PMID: 26649746 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b09107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We studied strain-induced polarization and resulting conductivity in the nonpolar/nonpolar CaZrO3/SrTiO3 (CZO/STO) heterostructure (HS) system by means of first-principles electronic structure calculations. By modeling four types of CZO/STO HS-based slab systems, i.e., TiO2/CaO and SrO/ZrO2 interface models with CaO and ZrO2 surface terminations in each model separately, we found that the lattice-mismatch-induced compressive strain leads to a strong polarization in the CZO film and that as the CZO film thickness increases there exists an insulator-to-metal transition. The polarization direction and critical thickness of the CZO film for forming interfacial metallic states depend on the surface termination of CZO film in both types of interface models. In the TiO2/CaO and SrO/ZrO2 interface models with CaO surface termination, the strong polarization drives the charge transfer from the CZO film to the first few TiO2 layers in the STO substrate, leading to the formation of two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interface. In the HS models with ZrO2 surface termination, two polarization domains with opposite directions are in the CZO film, which results in the charge transfer from the middle CZO layer to the interface and surface, respectively, leading to the coexistence of the 2DEG on the interface and the two-dimensional hole gas (2DHG) at the middle CZO layer. These findings open a new avenue to achieve 2DEG (2DHG) in perovskite-based HS systems via polarization discontinuity.
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- Safdar Nazir
- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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- Department of NanoEngineering, University of California, San Diego , 9500 Gilman Drive, Mail Code 0448, La Jolla, California 92093-0448, United States
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Bednyakov PS, Sluka T, Tagantsev AK, Damjanovic D, Setter N. Formation of charged ferroelectric domain walls with controlled periodicity. Sci Rep 2015; 5:15819. [PMID: 26516026 PMCID: PMC4626787 DOI: 10.1038/srep15819] [Citation(s) in RCA: 71] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/13/2015] [Accepted: 09/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics were shown recently to possess metallic-like conductivity. Unlike conventional heterointerfaces, these walls can be displaced inside a dielectric by an electric field, which is of interest for future electronic circuitry. In addition, theory predicts that charged domain walls may influence the electromechanical response of ferroelectrics, with strong enhancement upon increased charged domain wall density. The existence of charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics is disfavoured by their high formation energy and methods of their preparation in predefined patterns are unknown. Here we develop the theoretical background for the formation of charged domain walls in proper ferroelectrics using energy considerations and outline favourable conditions for their engineering. We experimentally demonstrate, in BaTiO3 single crystals the controlled build-up of high density charged domain wall patterns, down to a spacing of 7 μm with a predominant mixed electronic and ionic screening scenario, hinting to a possible exploitation of charged domain walls in agile electronics and sensing devices.
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- Petr S Bednyakov
- Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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- Ceramics Laboratory, EPFL - Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1015 Lausanne, Switzerland
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Feng HJ, Yang K, Deng W, Li M, Wang M, Duan B, Liu F, Tian J, Guo X. The origin of enhanced optical absorption of the BiFeO3/ZnO heterojunction in the visible and terahertz regions. Phys Chem Chem Phys 2015; 17:26930-6. [PMID: 26403497 DOI: 10.1039/c5cp04389a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Optical absorption is improved for the BiFeO3/ZnO heterostructure prepared by a sol-gel process, especially, in the terahertz energy region. A dipole-corrected slab model is used to describe the bilayer film, and first-principles calculations agree with the experiments which present unambiguous explanation for the enhancement of the optical properties. Two-dimensional electrons in the ZnO side of the heterostructure are found to play an essential role in forming the photoinduced carriers and the enhancement of the absorption. The conducting layers tend to penetrate into the interface and decrease the band gap, leading to the transport of carriers through the interface to the BiFeO3 side. The photoinduced carriers can be separated by the ferroelectric domains in BiFeO3, and this mechanism makes the heterostructure an ideal candidate for BiFeO3-based ferroelectric photovoltaic cells.
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- Hong-Jian Feng
- School of Physics, State Key Lab Incubation Base of Photoelectric Technology and Functional Materials, and International Collaborative Center on Photoelectric Technology and Nano Functional Materials, Northwest University, Xi'an 710069, People's Republic of China.
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Chen C, Avila J, Frantzeskakis E, Levy A, Asensio MC. Observation of a two-dimensional liquid of Fröhlich polarons at the bare SrTiO3 surface. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8585. [PMID: 26489376 PMCID: PMC4639792 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9585] [Citation(s) in RCA: 106] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/23/2015] [Accepted: 09/08/2015] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The polaron is a quasi-particle formed by a conduction electron (or hole) together with its self-induced polarization in a polar semiconductor or an ionic crystal. Among various polarizable examples of complex oxides, strontium titanate (SrTiO3) is one of the most studied. Here we examine the carrier type and the interplay of inner degrees of freedom (for example, charge, lattice, orbital) in SrTiO3. We report the experimental observation of Fröhlich polarons, or large polarons, at the bare SrTiO3 surface prepared by vacuum annealing. Systematic analyses of angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy and X-ray absorption spectra show that these Fröhlich polarons are two-dimensional and only exist with inversion symmetry breaking by two-dimensional oxygen vacancies. Our discovery provides a rare solvable field theoretical model, and suggests the relevance of large (bi)polarons for superconductivity in perovskite oxides, as well as in high-temperature superconductors. A polaron is a quasiparticle formed through the strong interaction between an electron and the ions in a crystalline solid. Here, the authors observe Fröhlich polarons, formed by the coupling of electrons and long-wavelength optical phonons, in strontium titanate.
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- Chaoyu Chen
- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline ANTARES, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, Gif surYvette 91192, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline ANTARES, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, Gif surYvette 91192, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline ANTARES, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, Gif surYvette 91192, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline ANTARES, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, Gif surYvette 91192, France
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- Synchrotron SOLEIL, Beamline ANTARES, L'Orme des Merisiers, Saint Aubin-BP 48, Gif surYvette 91192, France
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Sarantopoulos A, Ferreiro-Vila E, Pardo V, Magén C, Aguirre MH, Rivadulla F. Electronic Degeneracy and Intrinsic Magnetic Properties of EpitaxialNb: SrTiO3 Thin Films Controlled by Defects. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:166801. [PMID: 26550891 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.166801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/08/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report thermoelectric power experiments in e-doped thin films of SrTiO3 (STO) which demonstrate that the electronic band degeneracy can be lifted through defect management during growth. We show that even small amounts of cationic vacancies, combined with epitaxial stress, produce a homogeneous tetragonal distortion of the films, resulting in a Kondo-like resistance upturn at low temperature, large anisotropic magnetoresistance, and nonlinear Hall effect. Ab initio calculations confirm a different occupation of each band depending on the degree of tetragonal distortion. The phenomenology reported in this Letter for tetragonally distorted e-doped STO thin films, is similar to that observed in LaAlO3/STO interfaces and magnetic STO quantum wells.
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- A Sarantopoulos
- Centro de Investigación en Química Biológica y Materiales Moleculares (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782-Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Biológica y Materiales Moleculares (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782-Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Departamento de Física Aplicada, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
- Instituto de Investigacións Tecnolóxicas, Universidade de Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Microscopás Avanzadas, Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Fundación ARAID, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Laboratorio de Microscopás Avanzadas, Instituto de Nanociencia de Aragón, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50018 Zaragoza, Spain
- Departamento de Física de la Materia Condensada, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- Centro de Investigación en Química Biológica y Materiales Moleculares (CIQUS), Universidad de Santiago de Compostela, 15782-Santiago de Compostela, Spain
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Ehsan MA, Khaledi H, Pandikumar A, Huang NM, Arifin Z, Mazhar M. Dye sensitized solar cell applications of CdTiO3–TiO2 composite thin films deposited from single molecular complex. J SOLID STATE CHEM 2015. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jssc.2015.06.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Universal electronic structure of polar oxide hetero-interfaces. Sci Rep 2015; 5:14506. [PMID: 26411304 PMCID: PMC4585978 DOI: 10.1038/srep14506] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2015] [Accepted: 08/26/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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The electronic properties of NdGaO3/SrTiO3, LaGaO3/SrTiO3, and LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces, all showing an insulator-to-metal transition as a function of the overlayer-thickness, are addressed in a comparative study based on x-ray absorption, x-ray photoemission and resonant photoemission spectroscopy. The nature of the charge carriers, their concentration and spatial distribution as well as the interface band alignments and the overall interface band diagrams are studied and quantitatively evaluated. The behavior of the three analyzed heterostructures is found to be remarkably similar. The valence band edge of all the three overlayers aligns to that of bulk SrTiO3. The near-interface SrTiO3 layer is affected, at increasing overlayer thickness, by the building-up of a confining potential. This potential bends both the valence and the conduction band downwards. The latter one crossing the Fermi energy in the proximity of the interface and determines the formation of an interfacial band offset growing as a function of thickness. Quite remarkably, but in agreement with previous reports for LaAlO3/SrTiO3, no electric field is detected inside any of the polar overlayers. The essential phenomenology emerging from our findings is discussed on the base of different alternative scenarios regarding the origin of interface carriers and their interaction with an intense photon beam.
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Kamerbeek AM, Högl P, Fabian J, Banerjee T. Electric Field Control of Spin Lifetimes in Nb-SrTiO_{3} by Spin-Orbit Fields. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:136601. [PMID: 26451572 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.136601] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/21/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We show electric field control of the spin accumulation at the interface of the oxide semiconductor Nb-SrTiO_{3} with Co/AlO_{x} spin injection contacts at room temperature. The in-plane spin lifetime τ_{∥}, as well as the ratio of the out-of-plane to in-plane spin lifetime τ_{⊥}/τ_{∥}, is manipulated by the built-in electric field at the semiconductor surface, without any additional gate contact. The origin of this manipulation is attributed to Rashba spin orbit fields (SOFs) at the Nb-SrTiO_{3} surface and shown to be consistent with theoretical model calculations based on SOF spin flip scattering. Additionally, the junction can be set in a high or low resistance state, leading to a nonvolatile control of τ_{⊥}/τ_{∥}, consistent with the manipulation of the Rashba SOF strength. Such room temperature electric field control over the spin state is essential for developing energy-efficient spintronic devices and shows promise for complex oxide based (spin) electronics.
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- A M Kamerbeek
- Physics of Nanodevices, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of Regensburg, 93040 Regensburg, Germany
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- Physics of Nanodevices, Zernike Institute for Advanced Materials, University of Groningen, Nijenborgh 4, 9747 AG Groningen, Netherlands
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Strong correlations elucidate the electronic structure and phase diagram of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface. Nat Commun 2015; 6:8239. [PMID: 26359206 PMCID: PMC4647855 DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9239] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/22/2015] [Accepted: 07/30/2015] [Indexed: 11/08/2022] Open
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The interface between the two band insulators SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 has the unexpected properties of a two-dimensional electron gas. It is even superconducting with a transition temperature, T(c), that can be tuned using gate bias V(g), which controls the number of electrons added or removed from the interface. The gate bias-temperature (V(g), T) phase diagram is characterized by a dome-shaped region where superconductivity occurs, that is, T(c) has a non-monotonic dependence on V(g), similar to many unconventional superconductors. Here, we report, the frequency of the quantum resistance-oscillations versus inverse magnetic field for various V(g). This frequency follows the same non-monotonic behaviour as T(c); a similar trend is seen in the low field limit of the Hall coefficient. We theoretically show that electronic correlations result in a non-monotonic population of the mobile band, which can account for the experimental behaviour of the normal transport properties and the superconducting dome.
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Shimada T, Wang J, Araki Y, Mrovec M, Elsässer C, Kitamura T. Multiferroic Vacancies at Ferroelectric PbTiO(3) Surfaces. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:107202. [PMID: 26382700 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.107202] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/30/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Multiferroics in nanoscale dimensions are promising for novel functional device paradigms, such as magnetoelectric memories, due to an intriguing cross-coupling between coexisting ferroelectric and (anti)ferromagnetic order parameters. However, the ferroic order is inevitably destroyed below the critical dimension of several nanometers. Here, we demonstrate a new path towards atomic-size multiferroics while resolving the controversial origin of dilute ferromagnetism that unexpectedly emerges in nanoparticles of nonmagnetic ferroelectric PbTiO(3). Systematic exploration using predictive quantum-mechanical calculations demonstrates that oxygen vacancies formed at surfaces induce ferromagnetism due to local nonstoichiometry and orbital symmetry breaking. The localized character of the emerged magnetization allows an individual oxygen vacancy to act as an atomic-scale multiferroic element with a nonlinear magnetoelectric effect that involves rich ferromagnetic-antiferromagnetic-nonmagnetic phase transitions in response to switching of the spontaneous polarization.
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- Takahiro Shimada
- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
- Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Wöhlerstraße 11, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
- Department of Engineering Mechanics, School of Aeronautics and Astronautics, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310027, China
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Wöhlerstraße 11, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
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- Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials IWM, Wöhlerstraße 11, 79108 Freiburg, Germany
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering and Science, Kyoto University, Nishikyo-ku, Kyoto 615-8540, Japan
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Gerhold S, Riva M, Wang Z, Bliem R, Wagner M, Osiecki J, Schulte K, Schmid M, Diebold U. Nickel-Oxide-Modified SrTiO 3(110)-(4 × 1) Surfaces and Their Interaction with Water. THE JOURNAL OF PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY. C, NANOMATERIALS AND INTERFACES 2015; 119:20481-20487. [PMID: 26617682 PMCID: PMC4642217 DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.5b06144] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/26/2015] [Revised: 08/11/2015] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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Nickel oxide (NiO), deposited onto the strontium titanate (SrTiO3) (110)-(4 × 1) surface, was studied using photoemission spectroscopy (PES), X-ray absorption near edge structure (XANES), and low-energy He+ ion scattering (LEIS), as well as scanning tunneling microscopy (STM). The main motivation for studying this system comes from the prominent role it plays in photocatalysis. The (4 × 1) reconstructed SrTiO3(110) surface was previously found to be remarkably inert toward water adsorption under ultrahigh-vacuum conditions. Nickel oxide grows on this surface as patches without any apparent ordered structure. PES and LEIS reveal an upward band bending, a reduction of the band gap, and reactivity toward water adsorption upon deposition of NiO. Spectroscopic results are discussed with respect to the enhanced reactivity toward water of the NiO-loaded surface.
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- Stefan Gerhold
- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
- CNISM
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Politecnico di
Milano, Piazza Leonardo
da Vinci 32, I-20133 Milano, Italy
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
- Swiss
Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5234 Villigen, Switzerland
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- MAX
IV Laboratory, Lund University, Ole Römers väg 1, 223 63 Lund, Sweden
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- MAX
IV Laboratory, Lund University, Ole Römers väg 1, 223 63 Lund, Sweden
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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- Institute
of Applied Physics, TU Wien, Wiedner Hauptstraße 8-10, 1040 Vienna, Austria
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Nie YF, Di Sante D, Chatterjee S, King PDC, Uchida M, Ciuchi S, Schlom DG, Shen KM. Formation and Observation of a Quasi-Two-Dimensional dxy Electron Liquid in Epitaxially Stabilized Sr(2-x)La(x)TiO4 Thin Films. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:096405. [PMID: 26371669 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.096405] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/20/2014] [Indexed: 06/05/2023]
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We report the formation and observation of an electron liquid in Sr(2-x)La(x)TiO4, the quasi-two-dimensional counterpart of SrTiO3, through reactive molecular-beam epitaxy and in situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy. The lowest lying states are found to be comprised of Ti 3d_{xy} orbitals, analogous to the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface and exhibit unusually broad features characterized by quantized energy levels and a reduced Luttinger volume. Using model calculations, we explain these characteristics through an interplay of disorder and electron-phonon coupling acting cooperatively at similar energy scales, which provides a possible mechanism for explaining the low free carrier concentrations observed at various oxide heterostructures such as the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface.
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- Y F Nie
- National Laboratory of Solid State Microstructures and College of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093, People's Republic of China
- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, via Vetoio, Coppito, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
- CNR-SPIN, Via Vetoio, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Department of Physical and Chemical Sciences, University of L'Aquila, via Vetoio, Coppito, L'Aquila I-67100, Italy
- CNR-ISC, Via dei Taurini, Rome I-00185, Italy
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- Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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- Laboratory of Atomic and Solid State Physics, Department of Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
- Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Ithaca, New York 14853, USA
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Kobayashi M, Yoshimatsu K, Sakai E, Kitamura M, Horiba K, Fujimori A, Kumigashira H. Origin of the Anomalous Mass Renormalization in Metallic Quantum Well States of Strongly Correlated Oxide SrVO_{3}. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:076801. [PMID: 26317738 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.076801] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/04/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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In situ angle-resolved photoemission spectroscopy (ARPES) has been performed on SrVO_{3} ultrathin films, which show metallic quantum well (QW) states, to unveil the origin of the anomalous mass enhancement in the QW subbands. The line-shape analysis of the ARPES spectra reveals that the strength of the electron correlation increases as the subband bottom energy approaches the Fermi level. These results indicate that the anomalous subband-dependent mass enhancement mainly arises from the quasi-one-dimensional character of confined V 3d states as a result of their orbital-selective quantization.
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- Masaki Kobayashi
- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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- Department of Physics, University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-0033, Japan
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- Photon Factory, Institute of Materials Structure Science, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK), 1-1 Oho, Tsukuba 305-0801, Japan
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Walker SM, Bruno FY, Wang Z, de la Torre A, Riccó S, Tamai A, Kim TK, Hoesch M, Shi M, Bahramy MS, King PDC, Baumberger F. Carrier-Density Control of the SrTiO3 (001) Surface 2D Electron Gas studied by ARPES. ADVANCED MATERIALS (DEERFIELD BEACH, FLA.) 2015; 27:3894-3899. [PMID: 26010071 DOI: 10.1002/adma.201501556] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/01/2015] [Revised: 04/29/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The origin of the 2D electron gas (2DEG)stabilized at the bare surface of SrTiO3 (001) is investigated. Using high-resolution angle-resolved photoemission and core-level spectroscopy, it is shown conclusively that this 2DEG arises from light-induced oxygen vacancies. The dominant mechanism driving vacancy formation is identified, allowing unprecedented control over the 2DEG carrier density.
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- Siobhan McKeown Walker
- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Diamond Light Source, Harwell Campus, Didcot, OX11 0DE, UK
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- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
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- Quantum-Phase Electronics Center, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, 113-8656, Tokyo, Japan
- RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, 351-0198, Wako, Japan
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- SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK
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- Department of Quantum Matter Physics, University of Geneva, 24 Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211, Geneva, Switzerland
- Swiss Light Source, Paul Scherrer Institute, 5232, Villigen, Switzerland
- SUPA School of Physics and Astronomy, University of St Andrews, KY16 9SS, St Andrews, UK
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Diez M, Monteiro AMRVL, Mattoni G, Cobanera E, Hyart T, Mulazimoglu E, Bovenzi N, Beenakker CWJ, Caviglia AD. Giant Negative Magnetoresistance Driven by Spin-Orbit Coupling at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Interface. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2015; 115:016803. [PMID: 26182114 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.115.016803] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/16/2015] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface hosts a two-dimensional electron system that is unusually sensitive to the application of an in-plane magnetic field. Low-temperature experiments have revealed a giant negative magnetoresistance (dropping by 70%), attributed to a magnetic-field induced transition between interacting phases of conduction electrons with Kondo-screened magnetic impurities. Here we report on experiments over a broad temperature range, showing the persistence of the magnetoresistance up to the 20 K range--indicative of a single-particle mechanism. Motivated by a striking correspondence between the temperature and carrier density dependence of our magnetoresistance measurements we propose an alternative explanation. Working in the framework of semiclassical Boltzmann transport theory we demonstrate that the combination of spin-orbit coupling and scattering from finite-range impurities can explain the observed magnitude of the negative magnetoresistance, as well as the temperature and electron density dependence.
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- M Diez
- Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, Netherlands
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, Netherlands
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- Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, Center for Extreme Matter and Emergent Phenomena, Utrecht University, Leuvenlaan 4, 3584 CE Utrecht, Netherlands
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- Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
- Department of Physics and Nanoscience Center, University of Jyväskylä, P.O. Box 35 (YFL), FI-40014 University of Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, Netherlands
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- Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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- Instituut-Lorentz, Universiteit Leiden, P.O. Box 9506, 2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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- Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Lorentzweg 1, 2628 CJ Delft, Netherlands
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Gor'kov LP. Antiferromagnetism of two-dimensional electronic gas on light-irradiated SrTiO3 and at LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2015; 27:252001. [PMID: 26020368 DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/25/252001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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To gain an insight into the origin of tunable two-dimensional (2D) electronic liquid at the interfaces of transition-metal oxides, we address properties of a conducting layer on the light-irradiated surfaces of SrTiO3; the energy spectrum of the latter is known and consists of the titanium dxz/dyz and dxy bands. Recently, Santander-Syro et al (2014 Nature Mater. 13 1085) revealed that the dxy bands actually comprise two chiral branches with the Kramers degeneracy at the zone center lifted in the absence of a magnetic moment. We suggest that interacting electrons on the irradiated SrTiO3 go over into a magnetic phase as the result of one of the instabilities of the 2D Fermi liquid with exchange interactions, and point out the concrete antiferromagnetic order parameter. Large energy scales of the order of Fermi energy ∼0.1 eV inherent in this mechanism warrant stability of the magnetic ground state against ever-present effects of disorder. Arguments are given that electrons at the irradiated SrTiO3 surface and at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces undergo a kind of first-order transformation into one and the same phase of the 2D electronic Fermi liquid with reduced magnetic symmetry.
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- L P Gor'kov
- NHMFL, Florida State University, 1800 East Paul Dirac Drive, Tallahassee, FL 32310, USA. L.D. Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics of the RAS, Chernogolovka 142432, Russia
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Xie Y, Cao HY, Zhou Y, Chen S, Xiang H, Gong XG. Oxygen Vacancy Induced Flat Phonon Mode at FeSe /SrTiO3 interface. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10011. [PMID: 26067548 PMCID: PMC4464289 DOI: 10.1038/srep10011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2015] [Accepted: 03/25/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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A high-frequency optical phonon mode of SrTiO3 (STO) was found to assist the high-temperature superconductivity observed recently at the interface between monolayer FeSe and STO substrate. However, the origin of this mode is not clear. Through first-principles calculations, we find that there is a novel polar phonon mode on the surface layers of the STO substrate, which does not exist in the STO crystals. The oxygen vacancies near the FeSe/STO interface drives the dispersion of this phonon mode to be flat and lowers its energy, whereas the charge transfer between STO substrate and FeSe monolayer further reduces its energy to 81 meV. This energy is in good agreement with the experimental value fitted by Lee et al. for the phonon mode responsible for the observed replica band separations and the increased superconducting gap. The oxygen-vacancy-induced flat and polar phonon mode provides clues for understanding the origin of high Tc superconductivity at the FeSe/STO interface.
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- Yun Xie
- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructure, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructure, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructure, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- Key Laboratory of Polar Materials and Devices (MOE), East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructure, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Surface Physics, Key Laboratory for Computational Physical Sciences (MOE), Collaborative Innovation Center of Advanced Microstructure, Department of Physics, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China
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Mechanical writing of n-type conductive layers on the SrTiO3 surface in nanoscale. Sci Rep 2015; 5:10841. [PMID: 26042679 PMCID: PMC4455303 DOI: 10.1038/srep10841] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/18/2015] [Accepted: 05/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The fabrication and control of the conductive surface and interface on insulating SrTiO3 bulk provide a pathway for oxide electronics. The controllable manipulation of local doping concentration in semiconductors is an important step for nano-electronics. Here we show that conductive patterns can be written on bare SrTiO3 surface by controllable doping in nanoscale using the mechanical interactions of atomic force microscopy tip without applying external electric field. The conductivity of the layer is n-type, oxygen sensitive, and can be effectively tuned by the gate voltage. Hence, our findings have potential applications in oxide nano-circuits and oxygen sensors.
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Du Y, Peng HY, Mao H, Jin KX, Wang H, Li F, Gao XY, Chen W, Wu T. Evolution of the SrTiO3-MoO3 Interface Electronic Structure: An in Situ Photoelectron Spectroscopy Study. ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES 2015; 7:11309-11314. [PMID: 25964994 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b01698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Modifying the surface energetics, particularly the work function of advanced materials, is of critical importance for a wide range of surface- and interface-based devices. In this work, using in situ photoelectron spectroscopy, we investigated the evolution of electronic structure at the SrTiO3 surface during the growth of ultra-thin MoO3 layers. Because of the large work function difference between SrTiO3 and MoO3, the energy band alignment on the SrTiO3 surface is significantly modified. The charge transfer and dipole formation at the SrTiO3-MoO3 interface leads to a large modulation of work function and to apparent doping in SrTiO3. The measured evolutions of electronic structure and upward band bending suggest that the growth of ultra-thin MoO3 layers is a powerful tool with which to modulate the surface energetics of SrTiO3, and this surface engineering approach could be generalized to other functional oxides.
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- Yuanmin Du
- †Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- ‡, Advanced LSI Technology Laboratory, Corporate Research and Development Center, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki 212-8582, Japan
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- ⊥Department of Physics, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou 310036, PR China
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- #Department of Applied Physics, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi'an 710072, PR China
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- †Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- †Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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- ∇Shanghai Institute of Applied Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai 201800, PR China
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- †Materials Science and Engineering, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Thuwal 23955-6900, Saudi Arabia
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