TY - JOUR
KW - Thin films
KW - Perovskite
KW - Substrates
KW - Nanostructured materials
KW - Interfaces (materials)
KW - Interface charging
KW - Interface chemistry
KW - Z-contrast imaging
AU - Q Zhan
AU - R Yu
AU - S.P Crane
AU - H Zheng
AU - C Kisielowski
AU - Ramamoorthy Ramesh
AB - The structure and the interface chemistry of epitaxial BiFe O3 -Ni Fe2 O4 nanocomposite thin films on SrTi O3 (001) substrates were investigated using the Z -contrast imaging and the electron exit-wave reconstruction methods at the atomic scale. The results show that the Ni Fe2 O4 pillars are nonwetting with respect to the substrate and exhibit 111 facets at the surface. The interface between BiFe O3 and Ni Fe2 O4 lies in the 110 planes and is semicoherent. The atomic configuration of the interface, with the BiFeO layer bonding to the [Ni,Fe] O2 layer, was shown to have the maximized structure continuity and minimized interface charging. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
BT - Applied Physics Letters
DO - 10.1063/1.2364692
LA - eng
M1 - 17
N1 - cited By 111
N2 - The structure and the interface chemistry of epitaxial BiFe O3 -Ni Fe2 O4 nanocomposite thin films on SrTi O3 (001) substrates were investigated using the Z -contrast imaging and the electron exit-wave reconstruction methods at the atomic scale. The results show that the Ni Fe2 O4 pillars are nonwetting with respect to the substrate and exhibit 111 facets at the surface. The interface between BiFe O3 and Ni Fe2 O4 lies in the 110 planes and is semicoherent. The atomic configuration of the interface, with the BiFeO layer bonding to the [Ni,Fe] O2 layer, was shown to have the maximized structure continuity and minimized interface charging. © 2006 American Institute of Physics.
PY - 2006
T2 - Applied Physics Letters
TI - Structure and interface chemistry of perovskite-spinel nanocomposite thin films
VL - 89
SN - 00036951
ER -