Electronic conductivity and structural distortion at the interface between insulators SrTiO3 and LaAlO3

Details Electronic conductivity and structural distortion at the interface between insulators SrTiO3 and LaAlO3 Electronic conductivity and structural distortion at the interface between insulators SrTiO3 and LaAlO3

2005-11-04

arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0511123v3

Physica Status Solidi A 203 (2006) 2209

Physics

Condensed Matter

Materials Science

Scientific paper

10.1002/pssa.200690015

When insulator LaAlO3 is grown by epitaxy onto a TiO2-terminated {100} surface of insulator SrTiO3, the resulting system has a metallic character. This phenomenon has been associated with an electrostatic frustration at the interface, as {100} surfaces of SrTiO3 are neutral while those of LaAlO3 are polar, but its microscopic mechanism is not quite understood. Here, we present a structural characterisation of this interface by aberration-corrected transmission electron microscopy. The unit cells at the interface appear elongated: we discuss this distortion in terms of electrostatic charge and extra carriers at the interface.

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