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Salvinelli G, Drera G, Giampietri A, et al. Layer-Resolved Cation Diffusion and Stoichiometry at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface Probed by X-ray Photoemission Experiments and Site Occupancy Modeling. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015;7(46):25648-57doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b06094.
Salvinelli, G., Drera, G., Giampietri, A., & Sangaletti, L. (2015). Layer-Resolved Cation Diffusion and Stoichiometry at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface Probed by X-ray Photoemission Experiments and Site Occupancy Modeling. ACS applied materials & interfaces, 7(46), 25648-57. https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b06094
Salvinelli, Gabriele, et al. "Layer-Resolved Cation Diffusion and Stoichiometry at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface Probed by X-ray Photoemission Experiments and Site Occupancy Modeling." ACS applied materials & interfaces vol. 7,46 (2015): 25648-57. doi: https://doi.org/10.1021/acsami.5b06094
Salvinelli G, Drera G, Giampietri A, Sangaletti L. Layer-Resolved Cation Diffusion and Stoichiometry at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface Probed by X-ray Photoemission Experiments and Site Occupancy Modeling. ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Nov 25;7(46):25648-57. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b06094. Epub 2015 Nov 11. PMID: 26559612.
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ACS Appl Mater Interfaces. 2015 Nov 25;7(46):25648-57. doi: 10.1021/acsami.5b06094. Epub 2015 Nov 11.

Layer-Resolved Cation Diffusion and Stoichiometry at the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 Heterointerface Probed by X-ray Photoemission Experiments and Site Occupancy Modeling.

ACS applied materials & interfaces

Gabriele Salvinelli, Giovanni Drera, Alessio Giampietri, Luigi Sangaletti

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  1. Interdisciplinary Laboratories for Advanced Materials Physics (I-LAMP) and Dipartimento di Matematica e Fisica, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore , via dei Musei 41, 25121 Brescia, Italy.

PMID: 26559612 DOI: 10.1021/acsami.5b06094

Abstract

The layer-resolved cation occupancy for different conducting and insulating interfaces of LaAlO3 (LAO) thin films on SrTiO3 (STO) has been determined by angle-resoled X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (AR-XPS). Three STO interfaces with LAO have been considered, namely, a conducting interface with a 5 unit cell (u.c.) LAO layer, an insulating interface with a 5 u.c. LAO layer, and an insulating interface with a 3 u.c. LAO layer. Considering inelastic and elastic scattering processes in the transport approximation, the core-level signal attenuation has been modeled on the basis of Monte Carlo calculations of the electron trajectories across the heterostructures. Different effects involving cation stoichiometry and diffusion through the interface have been considered to interpret data. Beyond a mere abrupt interface modeling, the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterojunction is shown to host cation diffusion processes within 3-4 unit cells in the bulk layer, along with a clear Sr substoichiometry, an issue so far virtually neglected in the analysis of these systems. The present results show the capability of the AR-XPS modeling to explore element-sensitive properties at the oxide interfaces, matching and completing the information that can be provided by probes based on electron microscopy or X-ray scattering.

Keywords: LaAlO3; SrTiO3; cation interdiffusion; heterointerfaces; intermixing; oxides; photoemission

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