Physics – Condensed Matter – Strongly Correlated Electrons
Scientific paper
2008-12-19
Phys. Rev. B 79, 024424 (2009)
Physics
Condensed Matter
Strongly Correlated Electrons
31 pages, 10 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.79.024424
Epitaxially strained LaCoO3 (LCO) thin films were grown with different film thickness, t, on (001) oriented (LaAlO3)0.3(SrAl0.5Ta0.5O3)0.7 (LSAT) substrates. After initial pseudomorphic growth the films start to relieve their strain partly by the formation of periodic nano-twins with twin planes predominantly along the <100> direction. Nano-twinning occurs already at the initial stage of growth, albeit in a more moderate way. Pseudomorphic grains, on the other hand, still grow up to a thickness of at least several tenths of nanometers. The twinning is attributed to the symmetry lowering of the epitaxially strained pseudo-tetragonal structure towards the relaxed rhombohedral structure of bulk LCO. However, the unit-cell volume of the pseudo-tetragonal structure is found to be nearly constant over a very large range of t. Only films with t > 130 nm show a significant relaxation of the lattice parameters towards values comparable to those of bulk LCO.
Adelmann Peter
Arac E.
Dieterle L.
Eder Robert
Eyert Volker
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