Nature Communications (Nov 2020)

Strain-induced creation and switching of anion vacancy layers in perovskite oxynitrides

  • Takafumi Yamamoto,
  • Akira Chikamatsu,
  • Shunsaku Kitagawa,
  • Nana Izumo,
  • Shunsuke Yamashita,
  • Hiroshi Takatsu,
  • Masayuki Ochi,
  • Takahiro Maruyama,
  • Morito Namba,
  • Wenhao Sun,
  • Takahide Nakashima,
  • Fumitaka Takeiri,
  • Kotaro Fujii,
  • Masatomo Yashima,
  • Yuki Sugisawa,
  • Masahito Sano,
  • Yasushi Hirose,
  • Daiichiro Sekiba,
  • Craig M. Brown,
  • Takashi Honda,
  • Kazutaka Ikeda,
  • Toshiya Otomo,
  • Kazuhiko Kuroki,
  • Kenji Ishida,
  • Takao Mori,
  • Koji Kimoto,
  • Tetsuya Hasegawa,
  • Hiroshi Kageyama

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-19217-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Properties of perovskite oxides can be changed by manipulating anion-vacancy order patterns, but they are difficult to control. Here the authors show strain-induced creation and switching of anion vacancies in perovskite films in which the direction or periodicity of anion-vacancy planes is altered depending on the substrate employed.