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MATERIALS CHEMISTRY AND PHYSICS
Volume 100, Issue 2-3, Pages 451-456Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.matchemphys.2006.01.041
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bicrystalline epitaxy; XRD psi scan; LaNiO3; oxide substrates
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LaNiO3 (LNO) thin films were deposited on (100) MgO, SrTiO3 (STO) and LaAlO3 (LAO) crystal substrates by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) under 20 Pa oxygen pressure at different substrate temperatures from 450 to 750 degrees C. X-ray diffraction (XRD), ex situ reflection high energy electron diffraction (RHEED) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) were employed to characterize the crystal structure of LNO films. LNO films deposited on STO and LAO at a temperature range from 450 to 700 degrees C exhibit high (0 0 1) orientation. XRD psi scans and RHEED observations indicate that LNO films could be epitaxially grown on these two substrates with cubic-on-cubic arrangement at a wide temperature range. LNO films deposited at 700 degrees C on MgO (100) substrate have the (110) orientation, which was identified to be bicrystalline epitaxial growth. La2NiO4 phase appears in LNO films deposited at 750 degrees C on three substrates. The epitaxial LNO films were tested to be good metallic conductive layers by four-probe method. (c) 2006 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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