About 30 nm thick (001)-oriented (Sr0.25La0.75)CrO3 (SLCO) epitaxial thin films were grown by solid-source oxide molecular beam epitaxy on four different single-crystalline cubic or pseudo-cubic (001)-oriented oxide substrates: LaAlO3, (LaAlO3)0.3(Sr2AlTaO6)0.7, SrTiO3 and DyScO3, which result in lattice mismatch ranging from-2% to +1.7%. All the films are of high-quality, flat and strained by the substrates. By assessing the evolution of the out-of-plane lattice parameter as a function of the in-plane lattice parameter of the samples, we determine both the Poisson ratio (ν = 0.32) and the bulk lattice constant (ab = 3.876 Å) of SLCO. The Poisson ratio significantly differs from LaCrO3 (ν = 0.23) and the (SrxLa1-x)CrO3 solid solution appears to obey structural Vegard's law. Since SLCO is the only one p-type transparent conductive oxide of perovskite structure and has promising thermoelectric properties, integrating SLCO in heterostructures and devices is therefore of paramount importance, which confers on our results their strong interest. Besides, the method used here can be straightforwardly applied to other complex oxides.
High-quality thermoelectric La0.2Sr0.8TiO3 (LSTO) films, with thicknesses ranging from 20 nm to 0.7 μm, have been epitaxially grown on SrTiO3(001) substrates by enhanced solid-source oxide molecular-beam epitaxy. All films are atomically flat (with rms roughness < 0.2 nm), with low mosaicity (<0.1°), and present very low electrical resistivity (<5 × 10−4 Ω cm at room temperature), one order of magnitude lower than standard commercial Nb-doped SrTiO3 single-crystalline substrate. The conservation of transport properties within this thickness range has been confirmed by thermoelectric measurements where Seebeck coefficients of approximately –60 μV/K have been recorded for all films. These LSTO films can be integrated on Si for non-volatile memory structures or opto-microelectronic devices, functioning as transparent conductors or thermoelectric elements.
200 nm thick films of titanium tungsten (TiW) were cleaned by oxygen plasma and the resulting oxidized surfaces were functionalized by 3-aminopropylphosphonic acid (APPA), 3-ethoxydimethylsilylpropylamine (APDMES) or dopamine (DA) to form three different organolayers. The three resulting organolayers were characterized by X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Time-of-flight secondary ion mass spectrometry (ToF-SIMS) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. Stability of each organolayer was investigated. Our results suggested that the Si-O-Ti or Si-O-W bonds issued from the reactions of APDMES with surface oxidize TiW were rather labile whereas the catechol layer was less labile. The APPA layer was the most stable of all tested surface modifications.
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