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Growth and Electrostatic/chemical Properties of Metal/LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterostructures
Published on: February 8, 2018
Enhanced surface-and-interface coupling in Pd-nanoparticle-coated LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures: strong gas- and
Haeri Kim1, Ngai Yui Chan2, Ji-yan Dai2
11] Department of Physics, Ewha Womans University, Seoul 120-750, Korea [2] Clean Energy Research Center, Korea Institute of Science and Technology (KIST), Seoul 136-791, Korea.
Abstract:
Pd nanoparticle (NP) coated LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) heterointerface exhibits more notable conductance (G) change while varying the ambient gas (N2, H2/N2, and O2) and illuminating with UV light (wavelength: 365 nm) than a sample without the NPs. Simultaneous Kelvin probe force microscopy and transport measurements reveal close relationships between the surface work function (W) and G of the samples. Quantitative analyses suggest that a surface adsorption/desorption-mediated reaction and redox, resulting in a band-alignment modification and charge-transfer, could explain the gas- and photo-induced conductance modulation at the LAO/STO interface. Such surface-and-interface coupling enhanced by catalytic Pd NPs is a unique feature, quite distinct from conventional semiconductor hetero-junctions, which enables the significant conductance tunability at ultrathin oxide heterointerfaces by external stimuli.
