Pulsed laser deposition-induced reduction of SrTiO3 crystals Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • We report a generic method for fast and efficient reduction of strontium titanate (SrTiO 3 , STO) single crystals by pulsed laser deposition (PLD) of thin-films. The reduction was largely independent of the thin-film material deposited on the crystals. It is shown that thermodynamic conditions (450 C, 10 -7 torr, 10-60 min), which normally reduce STO (0 0 1) substrates to roughly 5 nm into a crystal substrate, can reduce the same crystals throughout their 500 m thickness when coupled with the PLD. In situ characterization of the STO substrate resistance during thin-film growth is presented. This process opens up the possibility of employing STO substrates as a back-gate in functional oxide devices. 2009 Acta Materialia Inc.

published proceedings

  • ACTA MATERIALIA

author list (cited authors)

  • Scullin, M. L., Ravichandran, J., Yu, C., Huijben, M., Seidel, J., Majumdar, A., & Ramesh, R.

citation count

  • 64

complete list of authors

  • Scullin, Matthew L||Ravichandran, Jayakanth||Yu, Choongho||Huijben, Mark||Seidel, Jan||Majumdar, Arun||Ramesh, R

publication date

  • January 2010