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PHYSICAL REVIEW MATERIALS
Volume 3, Issue 10, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevMaterials.3.100802
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- Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI)
- Canada First Research Excellence Fund (CFREF)
- Canadian Institute for Advanced Research (CIFAR)
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- NSERC
- National Research Council of Canada
- Canadian Institutes of Health Research
- Government of Saskatchewan
- Western Economic Diversification Canada
- University of Saskatchewan
- MPI-CPfS (Dresden)
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Hole-doped perovskite bismuthates such as Ba1-xKxBiO3 and Sr1-xKxBiO3 are well-known bismuth-based oxide high-transition-temperature superconductors. Reported thin bismuthate films show relatively low quality, likely due to their large lattice mismatch with the substrate and a low sticking coefficient of Bi at high temperatures. Here, we report the successful epitaxial thin film growth of the parent compound strontium bismuthate SrBiO3 on SrO-terminated SrTiO3 (001) substrates by molecular beam epitaxy. Two different growth methods, high-temperature codeposition or recrystallization cycles of low-temperature deposition plus high-temperature annealing, are developed to improve the epitaxial growth. SrBiO3 has a pseudocubic lattice constant approximate to 4.25 angstrom and an approximate to 8.8% lattice mismatch on SrTiO3 substrate, leading to a large strain in the first few unit cells. Films thicker than 6 unit cells prepared by both methods are fully relaxed to bulk lattice constant and have similar quality. Compared to high-temperature codeposition, the recrystallization method can produce higher quality 1- to 6-unit cell films that are coherently or partially strained. Photoemission experiments reveal the bonding and antibonding states close to the Fermi level due to Bi and O hybridization, in good agreement with density functional theory calculations. This work provides general guidance to the synthesis of high-quality perovskite bismuthate films.
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