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Rosa Luca Bouwmeester
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2021
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The material BaBiO$_{3}$ is known for its insulating character. However, for thin films, in the ultra-thin limit, metallicity is expected because BaBiO$_{3}$ is suggested to return to its undistorted cubic phase where the oxygen octahedra breathing mode will be suppresse as reported recently. Here, we confirm the influence of the oxygen breathing mode on the size of the band gap. The electronic properties of a BaBiO$_{3}$ thickness series are studied using textit{in-situ} scanning tunneling microscopy. We observe a wide-gap ($E_textrm{G}$~$>$ 1.2 V) to small-gap~($E_textrm{G}$~$approx$ 0.07 eV) semiconductor transition as a function of a decreasing BaBiO$_{3}$ film thickness. However, even for an ultra-thin BaBiO$_{3}$ film, no metallic state is present. The dependence of the band gap size is found to be coinciding with the intensity of the Raman response of the breathing phonon mode as a function of thickness.
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