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Sub-unit cell engineering of CrVO superlattice thin films
Claudio Bellani, Simon Mellaerts, Wei-Fan Hsu +13
Ordered corundum oxides introduce new prospects in the field of functional oxides thin films, complementing the more widely studied class of ABO perovskites. In this work, we t…
Tunable and Persistent Macroscopic Polarization in Nominally Centrosymmetric Defective Oxides
D. -S. Park, N. Pryds, N. Gauquelin +8
Introducing symmetry breaking in materials enables the emergence of functionalities. This can be microscopically and macroscopically driven by applying external stimuli such as mec…
Coexistence of high electron-mobility, unpaired spins, and superconductivity at high carrier density SrTiO-based interfaces
Thor Hvid-Olsen, Christina H. Christoffersen, Damon J. Carrad +6
The band-structure of SrTiO-based two-dimensional electron gasses (2DEGs), have been found to play a role in features such as the superconducting dome, high-mobility t…
Improving the Accuracy of Temperature Measurement on TEM samples using Plasmon Energy Expansion Thermometry (PEET): Addressing Sample Thickness Effects
Yi-Chieh Yang, Luca Serafin, Nicolas Gauquelin +2
Advances in analytical scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) and microelectronic mechanical systems (MEMS) based microheaters have enabled in-situ materials characteriza…
Automated detection and mapping of crystal tilt using thermal diffuse scattering in transmission electron microscopy
Mauricio Cattaneo, Knut Müller-Caspary, Juri Barthel +6
Quantitative interpretation of transmission electron microscopy (TEM) data of crystalline specimens often requires the accurate knowledge of the local crystal orientation. A method…
Imaging the suppression of ferromagnetism in LaMnO by metallic overlayers
Bart Folkers, Thies Jansen, Thijs J. Roskamp +7
LaMnO (LMO) thin films epitaxially grown on SrTiO (STO) usually exhibit ferromagnetism above a critical layer thickness. We report the use of scanning SQUID microscopy (SSM…
Pattern Formation by Electric-field Quench in Mott Crystal
Nicolas Gauquelin, Filomena Forte, Daen Jannis +10
The control of Mott phase is intertwined with the spatial reorganization of the electronic states. Out-of-equilibrium driving forces typically lead to electronic patterns that are…
High-strain-induced local modification of the electronic properties of VO thin films
Yorick A. Birkhölzer, Kai Sotthewes, Nicolas Gauquelin +8
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) is a popular candidate for electronic and optical switching applications due to its well-known semiconductor-metal transition. Its study is notoriously chall…
Induced Giant Piezoelectricity in Centrosymmetric Oxides
D. -S. Park, M. Hadad, L. M. Rimer +11
Piezoelectrics are materials that linearly deform in response to an applied electric field. As a fundamental prerequisite, piezoelectric material must possess a non centrosymmetric…
On the resistance minimum in LaAlO/EuLaTiO/SrTiO heterostructures
N. Lebedev, Y. Huang, A. Rana +4
In this paper we study LaAlO/EuLaTiO/SrTiO structures with nominally x = 0, 0.1 and different thicknesses of the EuLaTiO layer. We observe t…
Coupling charge and topological reconstructions at polar oxide interfaces
T. C. van Thiel, W. Brzezicki, C. Autieri +11
In oxide heterostructures, different materials are integrated into a single artificial crystal, resulting in a breaking of inversion-symmetry across the heterointerfaces. A notable…
Optical versus electron diffraction imaging of Twist-angle in 2D transition metal dichalcogenide bilayer superlattices
S. Psilodimitrakopoulos, A. Orekhov, L. Mouchliadis +7
Atomically thin two-dimensional (2D) materials can be vertically stacked with van der Waals bonds, which enable interlayer coupling. In the particular case of transition metal dich…
Wide field of view crystal orientation mapping of layered materials
A. Orekhov, D. Jannis, N. Gauquelin +10
Layered materials (LMs) are at the centre of an ever increasing research effort due to their potential use in a variety of applications. The presence of imperfections, such as bi-…
Two-dimensional electron systems in perovskite oxide heterostructures: Role of the polarity-induced substitutional defects
Shih-Chieh Lin, Cheng-Tai Kuo, Yu-Cheng Shao +17
The discovery of a two-dimensional electron system (2DES) at the interfaces of perovskite oxides such as LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 has motivated enormous efforts in engineering interfacial…
Efficient charge modulation in ultrathin LaAlO-SrTiO field-effect transistors
A. E. M. Smink, B. Prabowo, B. Stadhouder +4
At the LaAlO-SrTiO interface, electronic phase transitions can be triggered by modulation of the charge carrier density, making this system an excellent prospect for the re…
Stabilization of the perovskite phase in the Y-Bi-O system by using a BaBiO buffer layer
Rosa Luca Bouwmeester, Kit de Hond, Nicolas Gauquelin +3
A topological insulating phase has theoretically been predicted for the thermodynamically unstable perovskite phase of YBiO. Here, it is shown that the crystal structure of t…
Diluted Oxide Interfaces with Tunable Ground States
Yulin Gan, Dennis Valbjørn Christensen, Yu Zhang +14
The metallic interface between two oxide insulators, such as LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO), provides new opportunities for electronics and spintronics. However, due to the presence of mu…
Influence of stoichiometry on interfacial conductance in LaAlO/SrTiO grown by 90 off-axis sputtering
Chunhai Yin, Dileep Krishnan, Nicolas Gauquelin +2
We report on the fabrication of conducting interfaces between LaAlO and SrTiO by 90 off-axis sputtering in an Ar atmosphere. At a growth pressure of 0.04 mbar the inter…
Berry phase engineering at oxide interfaces
D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, T. C. van Thiel +10
Geometric phases in condensed matter play a central role in topological transport phenomena such as the quantum, spin and anomalous Hall effect (AHE). In contrast to the quantum Ha…
Depth-resolved resonant inelastic x-ray scattering at a superconductor/half-metallic ferromagnet interface through standing-wave excitation
Cheng-Tai Kuo, Shih-Chieh Lin, Giacomo Ghiringhelli +18
We demonstrate that combining standing-wave (SW) excitation with resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) can lead to depth resolution and interface sensitivity for studying orbi…
Atomic-scale identification of novel planar defect phases in heteroepitaxial YBaCuO thin films
Nicolas Gauquelin, Hao Zhang, Guozhen Zhu +2
We have discovered two novel types of planar defects that appear in heteroepitaxial YBaCuO (YBCO123) thin films, grown by pulsed-laser deposition (PLD) either with…
Synthesis of high-oxidation Y-Ba-Cu-O phases in superoxygenated thin films
H. Zhang, N. Gauquelin, C. McMahon +3
It is known that solid-state reaction in high-pressure oxygen can stabilize high-oxidation phases of Y-Ba-Cu-O superconductors in powder form. We extend this superoxygenation conce…
Formation of a conducting LaAlO / SrTiO interface studied by low energy electron reflection during growth
A. J. H. van der Torren, Z. Liao, C. Xu +4
The two-dimensional electron gas occurring between the band insulators SrTiO and LaAlO continues to attract considerable interest, due to the possibility of dynamic control…
Spin-orbit semimetal SrIrO in the two-dimensional limit
D. J. Groenendijk, C. Autieri, J. Girovsky +10
We investigate the thickness-dependent electronic structure of ultrathin SrIrO and discover a transition from a semimetallic to a correlated insulating state below 4 unit cells…