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Nickelate heterostructures as a laboratory for many-body physics

Subject Area Experimental Condensed Matter Physics
Term from 2010 to 2020
Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 173750116
 
Final Report Year 2014

Final Report Abstract

We report on advances in PLD growth, charge transport, and atomic structure determination of epitaxially strained nickelate heterostructures. Multilayer and superlattice systems exhibit multiple components with possibly different distortions and several interfaces which makes their structural determination difficult. In our project we accurately obtained the space group, octahedral rotation pattern and local lattice parameters from epitaxially strained LaNiO3-La(X)O3 ( X= Ga, Al) nickelate heterostructures by a combination of synchrotron x-ray diffraction and aberration-corrected TEM. In addition, we determined the exact atomic arrangement of different types of interfaces occurring in a LNO/LAO superlattice grown on LSAO. First, the substrateoverlayer interface structure was determined to be La/SrO-La/SrO-AlO2-LaO-(Al,Ni)O2-LaO-NiO2-LaO with the top LaO layer of the substrate not containing any Sr ions. This was achieved through a combination of atomic EELS mapping and hybridization mapping of the oxygen K edge fine structure. During the project we developed an approach than enables us to obtain spatially and momentum resolved energy loss spectra from thin Nickelate layers using nano-beam electron diffraction combined with electron energy loss spectroscopy. The spatially resolved MREELS spectra enable the characterization of spectra peak characteristics and their dispersion for various directions in the Brillouin zone.

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