Enhanced surface diffusion through termination conversion during epitaxial SrRuO3 growth

Rijnders, Guus and Blank, Dave H.A. and Choi, Junghoon and Eom, Chang-Beom (2004) Enhanced surface diffusion through termination conversion during epitaxial SrRuO3 growth. Applied Physics Letters, 84 (4). pp. 505-507. ISSN 0003-6951

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Abstract:	During the initial growth of the ferromagnetic oxide SrRuO3 on TiO2-terminated SrTiO3, we observe a self-organized conversion of the terminating atomic layer from RuO2 to SrO. This conversion induces an abrupt change in growth mode from layer by layer to growth by step advancement, indicating a large enhancement of the surface diffusivity. This growth mode enables the growth of single-crystalline and single-domain thin films. Both conversion and the resulting growth mode enable the control of the interface properties in heteroepitaxial multilayer structures on an atomic level.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2004 American Institute of Physics
Faculty:	Science and Technology (TNW)
Research Group:	Inorganic Materials Science (IMS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/47722
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.1646463
Publisher URL:	http://link.aip.org/link/?APPLAB/84/505/1
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