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arXiv 2004.02985cond-mat.mtrl-sci
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La(Cr0.2Mn 0.2Fe 0.2Co 0.2Ni 0.2)O3薄膜中无序键网络导致的非预期结晶均匀性

Unexpected crystalline homogeneity from the disordered bond network in La(Cr0.2Mn0.2Fe0.2Co0.2Ni0.2)O3 films

Matthew Brahlek, Alessandro R. Mazza, Krishna Chaitanya Pitike, Elizabeth Skoropata, Jason Lapano, Gyula Eres, Valentino R. Cooper, T. Zac Ward

摘要:

设计和理解钙钛矿氧化物的功能电子和磁性需要控制和调整底层晶格。在这里,我们报告的结构,包括氧和阳离子的位置,单晶,熵稳定的钙钛矿氧化物薄膜的La(Cr0.2Mn0.2Fe0.2Co0.2Ni0.2)O3生长在SrTiO 3(001)。母体材料的范围从斜方晶系(LaCrO 3、LaMnO 3和LaFeO 3)到菱方晶系(LaCoO 3和LaNiO 3),并且第一性原理计算表明这些结构图案在能量上几乎是简并的,并且应该是高度畸变的。尽管这种非凡的局部结构无序的B-位亚晶格,我们发现一个结构,具有意想不到的宏观晶体均匀性与明确的正交晶胞,其取向被证明是由应变和晶体结构的衬底上生长的薄膜(La0.3Sr0.7)(Al0.65Ta0.35)O3(LSAT)和NdGaO 3(110)的控制。此外,量化的原子位置内的单位细胞揭示,正交畸变是小的,接近LaCrO 3,这可能是由无序平均和平均离子半径的组合驱动。这是理解设计新的晶体图案和通过控制构型复杂性调节功能特性的规则的第一步。

英文摘要:

Designing and understanding functional electronic and magnetic properties in perovskite oxides requires controlling and tuning the underlying crystal lattice. Here we report the structure, including oxygen and cation positions, of a single-crystal, entropy stabilized perovskite oxide film of La(Cr0.2Mn0.2Fe0.2Co0.2Ni0.2)O3 grown on SrTiO3 (001). The parent materials range from orthorhombic (LaCrO3, LaMnO3 and LaFeO3) to rhombohedral (LaCoO3 and LaNiO3), and first principles calculations indicate that these structural motifs are nearly degenerate in energy and should be highly distorted site-to-site. Despite this extraordinary local configurational disorder on the B-site sublattice, we find a structure with unexpected macroscopic crystalline homogeneity with a clear orthorhombic unit cell, whose orientation is demonstrated to be controlled by the strain and crystal structure of the substrate for films grown on (La0.3Sr0.7)(Al0.65Ta0.35)O3 (LSAT) and NdGaO3 (110). Furthermore, quantification of the atom positions within the unit cell reveal that the orthorhombic distortions are small, close to LaCrO3, which may be driven by a combination of disorder averaging and the average ionic radii. This is the first step towards understanding the rules for designing new crystal motifs and tuning functional properties through controlled configurational complexity.

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