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تسجيل مستخدم جديدSelective control of oxygen sublattice stability by epitaxial strain in Ruddlesden-Popper films
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Oxygen-defect control has long been considered an influential tuning knob for producing various property responses in complex oxide films. In addition to physical property changes, modification to the lattice structure, specifically lattice expansion, with increasing oxygen vacancy concentrations has been reported often and has become the convention for oxide materials. However, the current understanding of the lattice behavior in oxygen-deficient films becomes disputable when considering compounds containing different bonding environments or atomic layering. Moreover, tensile strain has recently been discovered to stabilize oxygen vacancies in epitaxial films, which further complicates the interpretation of lattice behavior resulting from their appearance. Here, we report on the selective strain control of oxygen vacancy formation and resulting lattice responses in the layered, Ruddlesden-Popper phases, La1.85Sr0.15CuO4. We found that a drastically reduced Gibbs free energy for oxygen vacancy formation near the typical growth temperature for tensile-strained epitaxial LSCO accounts for the large oxygen non-stoichiometry. Additionally, oxygen vacancies form preferentially in the equatorial position of the CuO2 plane, leading to a lattice contraction, rather than the expected expansion, observed with apical oxygen vacancies. Since oxygen stoichiometry plays a key role in determining the physical properties of many complex oxides, the strong strain coupling of oxygen nonstoichiometry and the unusual structural response reported here can provide new perspectives and understanding to the structure and property relationships of many other functional oxide materials.
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