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Growth and Electrostatic/chemical Properties of Metal/LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures
Published on: February 8, 2018
A systematic study of ideal and double layer reconstructions of ABO3(001) surfaces (A = Sr, Ba; B = Ti, Zr) from
N Iles1, F Finocchi, K Driss Khodja
1Institut des Nanosciences de Paris (INSP), Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6 and CNRS UMR 7588, Campus de Boucicaut, Paris, France. Nadia.Iles@insp.jussieu.fr
Abstract:
We conducted a comparative study of various reconstructions for the (001) surfaces of SrTiO(3), BaTiO(3), SrZrO(3) and BaZrO(3) perovskites through calculations within the density functional theory. The atomic structure, the thermodynamic stability and the charge distribution of ideal AO or BO(2) terminations, as well as the so-called AO or BO(2) double layer reconstructions were analysed, and it was found that of all the BO(2) double layer reconstructions the most stable are the (2 × 2) and the (√2 × √2) ones. This is mainly due to stress release through the formation of long B-chains. On Ti-based perovskites, these double layer reconstructions were found to be thermodynamically stable, which was not the case for Zr-based perovskites, for which AO terminations dominated most of the stability domain. We also found that the BO(2) double layer reconstructions are accompanied by a substantial charge redistribution, with an almost neutral surface plane. This charge redistribution has important consequences for the reactivity and the behaviour of the electric field close to the surface.
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