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Oxygen vacancy-induced structural evolution of SrFeO$_{3-x}$ epitaxial thin film from brownmillerite to perovskite
- Source :
- Physical Review B 97, 075104 (2018)
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigated SrFeO$_{3-x}$ thin films on a SrTiO$_3$ (001) substrate prepared via pulsed laser epitaxy using an optical spectroscopy technique. The oxygen vacancy level ($x$) was controlled by post-annealing processes at different oxygen partial pressures. We achieved a brownmillerite(BM) structure at $x =$ 0.5 and observed the evolution of the crystal structure from BM into perovskite(PV) as the oxygen concentration increased. We observed the evolution of infrared-active phonons with respect to the oxygen concentration, which was closely related to the structural evolution observed via X-ray diffraction. We identified the phonons using the shell-model calculation. Furthermore, we studied temperature-dependent behaviors of the phonon modes of three representative samples: PV, and two BMs (BM$_{\mathrm{oop}}$ and BM$_{\mathrm{ip}}$) with different orientations of the oxygen vacancy channel. In the BM$_{\mathrm{oop}}$ sample, we observed a phonon mode, which exhibited an unusual red-shift with decreasing temperature; this behavior may have been due to the apical oxygen instability in the FeO$_6$ octahedron. Our results provide important information regarding the ionic conduction mechanism in SrFeO$_{3-x}$ material systems.<br />Comment: 18 pages, 7 figures
- Subjects :
- Condensed Matter - Materials Science
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- Database :
- arXiv
- Journal :
- Physical Review B 97, 075104 (2018)
- Publication Type :
- Report
- Accession number :
- edsarx.1808.06076
- Document Type :
- Working Paper
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevB.97.075104