Direct imaging of structural changes induced by ionic liquid gating leading to engineered three-dimensional meso-structures

Bin Cui; Peter Werner; Tianping Ma; Xiaoyan Zhong; Zechao Wang; James Mark Taylor; Yuechen Zhuang; Stuart S. P. Parkin

doi:10.1038/s41467-018-05330-1

Nature Communications (Aug 2018)

Direct imaging of structural changes induced by ionic liquid gating leading to engineered three-dimensional meso-structures

Bin Cui,
Peter Werner,
Tianping Ma,
Xiaoyan Zhong,
Zechao Wang,
James Mark Taylor,
Yuechen Zhuang,
Stuart S. P. Parkin

Affiliations

Bin Cui: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
Peter Werner: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
Tianping Ma: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
Xiaoyan Zhong: Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
Zechao Wang: Beijing National Center for Electron Microscopy, Laboratory of Advanced Materials and Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Tsinghua University
James Mark Taylor: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
Yuechen Zhuang: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics
Stuart S. P. Parkin: Max Planck Institute for Microstructure Physics

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05330-1
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Local and reversible oxidation is used to exploit the very different properties of oxygen and vacancy ordered oxides. Here the authors directly image and make use of anisotropic migration velocities of oxygen in SrCoO x to create 3D meso-structures of those two phases by ionic liquid gating.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
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