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Title
Thickness dependent properties in oxide heterostructures driven by structurally induced metal-oxygen hybridization variations
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Abstract
Thickness-driven electronic phase transitions are broadly observed in different types of functional perovskite heterostructures. However, uncertainty remains whether these effects are solely due to spatial confinement, broken symmetry, or rather to a change of structure with varying film thickness. Here, this study presents direct evidence for the relaxation of oxygen-2p and Mn-3d orbital (p-d) hybridization coupled to the layer-dependent octahedral tilts within a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 film driven by interfacial octahedral coupling. An enhanced Curie temperature is achieved by reducing the octahedral tilting via interface structure engineering. Atomically resolved lattice, electronic, and magnetic structures together with X-ray absorption spectroscopy demonstrate the central role of thickness-dependent p-d hybridization in the widely observed dimensionality effects present in correlated oxide heterostructures.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Advanced functional materials. - Weinheim
Publication
Weinheim : 2017
ISSN
1616-301X
DOI
10.1002/ADFM.201606717
Volume/pages
27 :17 (2017) , 9 p.
Article Reference
1606717
ISI
000400449200011
Medium
E-only publicatie
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UAntwerpen
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Research group
Project info
Interfacing Oxides (IFOX).
ESTEEM 2 - Enabling science and technology through European electron microscopy.
Exploring electron vortex beams (VORTEX).
Revealing the source of emergent properties in complex oxides via direct imaging of charge/orbital/spin ordering.
Bringing light atoms to light: precise characterization of light-atom nanostructures using transmission electron microscopy.
Complex hetero-nanosystems: three-dimensional characterisation down to the atomic scale.
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Affiliation
Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Web of Science
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Last edited 02.10.2024
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