Thermal stability of 2DEG at amorphous LaAlO3/crystalline SrTiO3 heterointerfaces
- Title
- Thermal stability of 2DEG at amorphous LaAlO3/crystalline SrTiO3 heterointerfaces
- Authors
- 김진상; 강종윤; 장혜정; 백승협; 문선영; 문천우; 김태민; 최헌진; 장호원
- Keywords
- 2deg; Thermal stability; LaAlO3/SrTiO3; Heterointerface
- Issue Date
- 2016-04
- Publisher
- Nano Convergence
- Citation
- VOL 3, NO 7, 1-6
- Abstract
- At present, the generation of heterostructures with two dimensional electron gas (2DEG) in amorphous LaAlO3 (a-LAO)/SrTiO3 (STO) has been achieved. Herein, we analysed thermal stability of 2DEG at a-LAO/STO interfaces in comparison with 2DEG at crystalline LaAlO3 (c-LAO)/STO interfaces. To create 2DEG at LAO/STO interface, regardless of growing temperature from 25 to 700 °C, we found that environment with oxygen deficient during the deposition of LAO overlayer is essentially required. That indicates that the oxygen-poor condition in the system is more essential than the crystalline nature of LAO layer. 2DEG at a-LAO/STO interface is depleted upon ex situ annealing at 300 °C under 300 Torr of oxygen pressure, while that in c-LAO/STO interface is still maintained. Our result suggests that the LAO overlayer crystallinity critically affects the thermal-annealing-induced depletion of 2DEG at a-LAO/STO interface rather than the generation of 2DEG. We clearly provide that amorphous TiOx can efficiently prevent the thermal degradation of 2DEG at the a-LAO/STO interface, which gives a cornerstone for achieving thermal-stable 2DEG at a-LAO/STO interface.
- URI
- http://pubs.kist.re.kr/handle/201004/59424
- ISSN
- 21965404
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