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Electrical and structural properties of ABO3/SrTiO3 interfaces

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 May 2012

A. Kalabukhov ,
T. Claeson ,
P.P. Aurino ,
R. Gunnarsson ,
D. Winkler ,
E. Olsson ,
N. Tuzla ,
J. Börjesson ,
Yu.A. Boikov  and
I.T. Serenkov
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A. Kalabukhov
Affiliation:
Dept. Microtechn. and Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. Techn., 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden Skobeltsyn Inst. Nuclear Physics, Dept Physics, Moscow State Univ., 119899 Moscow, Russia
T. Claeson
Affiliation:
Dept. Microtechn. and Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. Techn., 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
P.P. Aurino
Affiliation:
Dept. Microtechn. and Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. Techn., 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
R. Gunnarsson
Affiliation:
Dept. Microtechn. and Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. Techn., 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
D. Winkler
Affiliation:
Dept. Microtechn. and Nanosci. (MC2), Chalmers Univ. Techn., 41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
E. Olsson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers Univ. Techn., SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
N. Tuzla
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers Univ. Techn., SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
J. Börjesson
Affiliation:
Department of Applied Physics, Chalmers Univ. Techn., SE-41296 Gothenburg, Sweden
Yu.A. Boikov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
I.T. Serenkov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
V.I. Sakharov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
M.P. Volkov
Affiliation:
Ioffe Physico-Technical Institute Russian Academy of Sciences, 194021 St. Petersburg, Russia
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Abstract

Electrical transport and microstructure of interfaces between nm-thick films of various perovskite oxides grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) on TiO2- terminated SrTiO3 (STO) substrates are compared. LaAlO3/STO and KTaO3/STO interfaces become quasi-2DEG after a critical film thickness of 4 unit cell layers. The conductivity survives long anneals in oxygen atmosphere. LaMnO3/STO interfaces remain insulating for all film thicknesses and NdGaO3/STO interfaces are conducting but the conductivity is eliminated after oxygen annealing. Medium-energy ion spectroscopy and scanning transmission electron microscopy detect cationic intermixing within several atomic layers from the interface in all studied interfaces. Our results indicate that the electrical reconstruction in the polar oxide interfaces is a complex combination of different mechanisms, and oxygen vacancies play an important role.

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laser ablationthin filmmicrostructure
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MRS Online Proceedings Library (OPL) , Volume 1454: Symposium HH – Nanocomposites, Nanostructures and Heterostructures of Correlated Oxide Systems , 2012 , pp. 167 - 172
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Copyright © Materials Research Society 2012

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