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Domain Structures of Epitaxial SrRuO3 Thin Films

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2011

J. C. Jiang
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
X. Pan
Affiliation:
Department of Materials Science and Engineering, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109
C. L. Chen
Affiliation:
Texas Center for Superconductivity and Department of Physics, University of Houston, Houston, TX 77204
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Abstract

The structural characteristics of SrRuO3 thin films deposited on a (001) SrTiO3 substrate by pulsed laser were studied by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and high-resolution TEM. TEM studies of cross-sectional specimens revealed the epitaxial growth of the films with the SrRuO3-(110) plane parallel to the SrTiO3-(001) plane. Two types of 90° rotational domain structures were observed in both cross-sectional and plan-viewing specimens. The in-plane orientations of these domains with respect to the substrate are either of SrRuO3-[110] // SrTiO3 - [100] and SrRuO3-[001] // SrTiO3-[010], or of SrRuO3-[110] // SrTiO3-[010] and SrRuO3-[001] // SrTiO3-[100].

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Copyright © Materials Research Society 1998

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