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A number of recent studies indicate that the charge conduction of the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface at low temperature is confined to filaments which are linked to structural domain walls in the SrTiO$_3$ with drastic consequences for…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2021-08-25 M. S. Prasad , G. Schmidt

The crystal structure of bulk SrTiO$_3$(STO) transitions from cubic to tetragonal at around 105K. Recent local scanning probe measurements of LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ (LAO/STO) interfaces indicated the existence of spatially inhomogeneous…

We shed light on the interplay between structure and many-body effects relevant for itinerant ferromagnetism in LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ heterostructures. The realistic correlated electronic structure is studied by means of the (spin-polarized)…

Materials Science · Physics 2014-08-27 Frank Lechermann , Lewin Boehnke , Daniel Grieger , Christoph Piefke

We investigate the effect of oxygen vacancies and hydrogen dopants at the surface and inside slabs of LaAlO3, SrTiO3, and LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures on the electronic properties by means of electronic structure calculations as based on…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-05-03 I. I. Piyanzina , V. Eyert , Yu. V. Lysogorskiy , D. A. Tayurskii , T. Kopp

We report on the phase diagram of competing magnetic interactions at nanoscale in engineered ultra-thin trilayer heterostructures of LaTiO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$/YTiO$_{3}$, in which the interfacial inversion symmetry is explicitly broken.…

At the LaAlO$_3$-SrTiO$_3$ interface, electronic phase transitions can be triggered by modulation of the charge carrier density, making this system an excellent prospect for the realization of versatile electronic devices. Here, we report…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2019-09-30 A. E. M. Smink , B. Prabowo , B. Stadhouder , N. Gauquelin , J. Schmitz , H. Hilgenkamp , W. G. van der Wiel

The resistivity as a function of temperature, magnetic field and its orientation for atomically flat SrTiO3\LaAlO3 interfaces with carrier densities of ~3*10^13 cm^-2 is reported. At low magnetic fields superconductivity is observed below…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2010-03-26 M. Ben Shalom , C. W. Tai , Y. Lereah , M. Sachs , E. Levy , D. Rakhmilevitch , A. Palevski , Y. Dagan

Transport properties of the complex oxide LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface are investigated under high magnetic field (55T). By rotating the sample with respect to the magnetic field, the two-dimensional nature of charge transport is clearly…

We studied LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interfaces for varying LaAlO3 thickness by core-level photoemission spectroscopy. In Ti 2p spectra for conducting "n-type" interfaces, Ti3+ signals appeared, which were absent for insulating "p-type" interfaces. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-28 M. Takizawa , S. Tsuda , T. Susaki , H. Y. Hwang , A. Fujimori

Among the interfacial transport modulations to the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterostructure, mechanical strain has been proven to be an effective approach by growing the LAO/STO films on different substrates with varying lattice mismatches…

Materials Science · Physics 2016-07-12 Fang Zhang , Yue-Wen Fang , Ngai Yui Chan , Wing Chong Lo , Dan Feng Li , Chun-Gang Duan , Feng Ding , Ji Yan Dai

Epitaxial strain, layer confinement and inversion symmetry breaking have emerged as powerful new approaches to control the electronic and atomic-scale structural properties in complex metal oxides. Nickelate heterostructures, based on…

The LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface provides a unique platform for controlling the electronic properties of the superconducting semiconductor SrTiO3. Prior investigations have shown that two-dimensional superconductivity can be produced at the…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2011-02-08 Cheng Cen , Daniela F. Bogorin , Chung Wung Bark , Chad M. Folkman , Chang-Beom Eom , Jeremy Levy

Novel low dimensional quantum phenomena are expected at (110) LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) interfaces after the quasi two dimensional electron gas similar to that of (001) LAO/STO interfaces was found [G. Herranz et al., Sci. Rep. 2, 758 (2012)…

Understanding and manipulating properties emerging at a surface or an interface require a thorough knowledge of structure-property relationships. We report a study of a prototype oxide system, La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 grown on SrTiO3(001), by…

Strongly Correlated Electrons · Physics 2019-04-11 Lina Chen , Zhen Wang , Gaomin Wang , Hangwen Guo , Mohammad Saghayezhian , Zhaoliang Liao , Yimei Zhu , E. W. Plummer , Jiandi Zhang

First principles calculations reveal that adding a metallic overlayer on LaAlO3/SrTiO3(001) eliminates the electric field within the polar LaAlO3 film and thus suppresses the thickness-dependent insulator-to-metal transition observed in…

Materials Science · Physics 2012-03-23 V. G. Ruiz López , R. Arras , W. E. Pickett , R. Pentcheva

We investigate the effect of the laser parameters of pulsed laser deposition on the film stoichiometry and electronic properties of LaAlO_3/SrTiO_3 (001) heterostructures. The La/Al ratio in the LaAlO_3 films was varied over a wide range…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-06-15 H. K. Sato , C. Bell , Y. Hikita , H. Y. Hwang

In LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures, a commonly observed but poorly understood phenomenon is that of electron trapping in back-gating experiments. In this work, by combining magnetotransport measurements and self-consistent…

Diverse phenomena emerge at the interface between band insulators LaAlO3 and SrTiO3, such as superconductivity and ferromagnetism, showing an opportunity for potential applications as well as bringing fundamental research interests.…

Recently, an exciting discovery of orientation-dependent superconductivity was made in two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) at the interfaces of LaAlO$_3$/KTaO$_3$ (LAO/KTO) or EuO/KTaO$_3$ (EuO/KTO). The superconducting transition…

The ability to control materials properties through interface engineering is demonstrated by the appearance of conductivity at the interface of certain insulators, most famously the {001} interface of the band insulators LaAlO$_{3}$ and…