Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Local-electrostatics-induced oxygen octahedral distortion in perovskite oxides and insight into the structure of Ruddlesden–Popper phases

  • Youngjae Hong,
  • Pilgyu Byeon,
  • Jumi Bak,
  • Yoon Heo,
  • Hye-Sung Kim,
  • Hyung Bin Bae,
  • Sung-Yoon Chung

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25889-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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The authors observe two-dimensional shear faults in five different perovskite-type materials and detailed structures of more than 80 oxides and halides to elucidate an electrostatic origin for Jahn–Teller-type tetragonal distortion of oxygen octahedra.