Self‐Formed, Conducting LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Micro‐Membranes

Publication date: 1 Nov 2020

JournalSource: LEGACY

The discovery of 2D conductivity at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 interface has been linking, for over a decade, two of the major current research fields in materials science: correlated transition‐metal‐oxide systems and low‐dimensional systems. Notably, despite the 2D nature of the interfacial electron gas, the samples are 3D objects with thickness in the mm range. This prevented researchers so far from adopting strategies that are only viable for fully 2D materials, or from effectively exploiting degrees of freedom related to strain, strain gradient and curvature. Here a method based on pure strain engineering for obtaining freestanding LaAlO3/SrTiO3 membranes with micrometer lateral dimensions is demonstrated. Detailed transmission electron microscopy investigations show that the membranes are fully epitaxial and that their curvature results in a huge strain gradient, each layer showing a mixed compressive/tensile strain …

Origin
Advanced Functional Materials
Legacy ID
fd5994daa7aa311389ae4d2108e094a4
Biblio references
Volume: 30 Issue: 45 Pages: 1909964