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PHYSICAL REVIEW B
卷 84, 期 10, 页码 -出版社
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevB.84.104101
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- Korean government (MEST) [2009-0080567, 2010-0020416, 2009-0074218, 2009-0077249]
- Korean Federation of Science and Technology Societies
- National Research Foundation of Korea [2009-0074218, 2009-0077249] Funding Source: Korea Institute of Science & Technology Information (KISTI), National Science & Technology Information Service (NTIS)
We grew epitaxial SrRuO3 (SRO) films on SrTiO3 (STO) (001) substrates with SRO layer thicknesses (t) between 10 and 200 pseudocubic unit cells (uc). Using the square net of the cubic STO surface, we were able to epi-stabilize the tetragonal SRO phase at room temperature for ultrathin films with t <= 17 uc. On the other hand thicker films with t >= 19 uc have an orthorhombic crystal structure similar to that of bulk SRO at room temperature. With increasing temperature, the orthorhombic films undergo a structural transition to the tetragonal phase at T-OT. The value of T-OT and the orthorhombicity factor at room temperature are reduced with decreasing film thickness. We also observed half-order Bragg reflections, indicating that the tetragonal structure arises from the suppression of the tilt angle of RuO6 octahedra. The observed critical thickness around t(c) similar to 18 uc is much larger than the recent theoretical prediction (i.e., less than 2 uc) [J. He, A. Borisevich, S. V. Kalinin, S. J. Pennycook, and S. T. Pantelides, Phys. Rev. Lett. 105, 227203 (2010)]. This work thus demonstrates that the lattice symmetry mismatch at the interface plays an important role in determining the structural properties of perovskite films.
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