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Investigating domain structures and superdomains in ferroelectric PbTiO3 based heterostructures on DyScO3

APL Mater. 13, 021118 (2025)

This work focuses on the complex ferroelastic/ferroelectric domain structure in the prototypical ferroelectric PbTiO3 epitaxially strained on (110)o-oriented DyScO3…

Engineering Symmetry Breaking Interfaces by Nanoscale Structural-Energetics in Orthorhombic Perovskite Thin Films

ACS Nano 2025, 19, 10, 10126–10137

The atomic configuration of phases and their interfaces is fundamental to materials design and engineering. Here, we unveil a transition metal oxide interface, whose formation is driven by energetic…

Electron-Beam Writing of Atomic-Scale Reconstructions at Oxide Interfaces

Nano Lett. 2024, 24, 45, 14191–14197

The epitaxial growth of complex oxides enables the production of high-quality films, yet substrate choice is restricted to certain symmetry and lattice parameters, thereby limiting the technological…

Role of the coupling of the electronic transitions on the order of the metal-to-insulator phase transition in nickelates

APL Mater. 12, 081120 (2024)

Rare-earth nickelates (chemical formula RNiO3, R being a rare-earth cation) display a temperature-dependent metal-to-insulator transition (MIT) together with a breathing distortion of the…

Mapping orthorhombic domains with geometrical phase analysis in rare-earth nickelate heterostructures

Mundet et al. – APL Mater. 12, 031124 (2024)

Most perovskite oxides belong to the Pbnm space group, composed of an anisotropic unit cell, A-site antipolar displacements, and oxygen octahedral tilts. Mapping the orientation of the orthorhombic unit cell…

Structural study of nickelate based heterostructures

Varbaro et al. – APL Mater. 12, 031104 (2024)

Heterostructures consisting of SmNiO3 and NdNiO3 alternating layers with additional LaAlO3 spacer layers were grown and fully characterized by means of x-ray diffraction,…