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Manipulating oxygen sublattice in ultrathin cuprates: A new direction to engineer oxides

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 February 2015

Debakanta Samal  and
Gertjan Koster
Debakanta Samal*
Affiliation:
Inorganic Materials Science Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
Gertjan Koster*
Affiliation:
Inorganic Materials Science Group, MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, 7500 AE, Enschede, The Netherlands
*
a)Address all correspondence to these authors. email: deb.samal2002@gmail.com
b)email: g.koster@utwente.nl
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Abstract

Atomic engineering of complex oxide thin films is now reaching a new paradigm: the possibility to control the cation coordination by oxygen anions. Here, we show two examples of stabilization of novel structural phases by manipulating the oxygen sublattices in complex Cu-based oxide thin films grown on SrTiO3: (i) epitaxial strain stabilization of a near cubic form of CuO and (ii) thickness-dependent structural transformation from bulk planar (polar) to chain-type (nonpolar) in SrCuO2 thin films that relieves the electrostatic instability. Experimental investigation on ultrathin CuO layer identifies the existence of an elongated (c/a ∼ 1.34) rocksalt-type CuO phase, pointing to metastable 6-fold coordinated Cu with the hole occupied in the 3dx2−y2 orbital. For ultrathin SrCuO2 layers, we demonstrate the possibility of moving oxygen ion from CuO2-plane to Sr-plane forming chain-type structure. X-ray absorption spectroscopy reveals preferential hole-occupation at the Cu-3d3z2−r2 orbital for chain-type structure unlike to the planar case. Our findings testify unique stabilization processes through atomic rearrangement and provide new insight into the experimental realization of novel cuprate-hybrids to look for exciting electronic properties.

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Journal of Materials Research , Volume 30 , Issue 4 , 28 February 2015 , pp. 463 - 476
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