Physics – Condensed Matter – Materials Science
Scientific paper
2009-10-14
Physical Review B 80:155457, 2009.
Physics
Condensed Matter
Materials Science
8 pages, 5 figures
Scientific paper
10.1103/PhysRevB.80.155457
A detailed spectroscopic and structural characterization of ultrathin cobalt oxide films grown by O-assisted molecular beam epitaxy on a-Al2O3(0001) single crystals is reported. The experimental results show that the cobalt oxide films become progressively more disordered with increasing thickness, starting from the early stages of deposition. Low energy electron diffraction patterns suggest that the unit cell remains similar to that of a-Al2O3(0001) up to a thickness of 17 A, while at larger thicknesses a pattern identified with that of Co3O4(111) becomes visible. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy reveals sudden changes in the shape of the Co 2p lines from 3.4 to 17 A cobalt oxide thickness, indicating the transition from an interfacial cobalt oxide layer towards [111]-oriented Co3O4. In particular, the absence of characteristic satellite peaks in the Co 2p lines indicates the formation of a trivalent, octahedrally coordinated, interfacial cobalt oxide layer during the early stages of growth, identified as the Co2O3 corundum phase.
Altman E. I.
Henrich V. E.
Prabhakaran Dharmalingam
Vaz C. A. F.
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