Abstract
We have grown epitaxial LaFeO3 thin films on different oxide substrates by molecular beam epitaxy and investigated them using transmission electron microscopy. The films reveal structural domains that strongly depend on the substrate material, substrate orientation, and the film thickness. On (001) perovskite substrates of SrTiO3 and LaAlO3, the long c-axis of the orthorhombic unit cell was found always to lie in-plane parallel to one of the <100> axes of the perovskite forming 90° rotational twins with the rotation axis parallel to the [110] axis of LaFeO3 and to the substrate normal. In contrast, MgO and MgAl2O4 substrates lead to the in-plane and the out-of-plane orientation of the c-axis and give rise to smaller domains. The results are discussed with respect to the correlation between the crystallographic and the antiferromagnetic structure of LaFeO3.
Dedicated to Professor Dr. Knut Urban on the occasion of his 65th birthday
Funding statement: We acknowledge stimulating discussion with E. E. Fullerton, F. Nolting, A. Scholl, J. Lüning, S. Raoux, J. Stöhr, A. Hoffmann, I. K. Schuller and T. Ramsvik. J. W. S. thanks P. Stadelmann for his help in JEMS simulation program. This work was supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation
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Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Professor Dr. Knut Urban 65 Years
- Basic
- Ordering processes and atomic defects in FeCo
- Atomic resolution electron tomography: a dream?
- Electron tomography of microelectronic device interconnects
- Aberration correction in electron microscopy
- Off-axis electron holography: Materials analysis at atomic resolution
- Determination of phases of complex scattering amplitudes and two-particle structure factors by investigating diffractograms of thin amorphous foils
- Prospects of the multislice method for CBED pattern calculation
- Electron energy-loss spectrometry for metals:some thoughts beyond microanalysis
- Quantitative assessment of nanoparticle size distributions from HRTEM images
- Quantitative microstructural and spectroscopic investigation of inversion domain boundaries in sintered zinc oxide ceramics doped with iron oxide
- Structural domains in antiferromagnetic LaFeO3 thin films
- Short-range order of liquid Ti72.3Fe27.7 investigated by a combination of neutron scattering and X-ray diffraction
- Extended interfacial structure between two asymmetrical facets of a Σ = 9 grain boundary in copper
- Dislocation imaging in fcc colloidal single crystals
- Applied
- Omega phase transformation – morphologies and mechanisms
- Mixed (Sr1 − xCax)33Bi24Al48O141 fullerenoids: the defect structure analysed by (S)TEM techniques
- Wetting of aluminium-based complex metallic alloys
- Annealing-induced phase transitions in a Zr–Ti–Nb–Cu–Ni–Al bulk metallic glass matrix composite containing quasicrystalline precipitates
- Special planar defects in the structural complex metallic alloys of Al–Pd–Mn and Al–Ni–Rh
- On the formation of Si nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy
- Self-induced oscillations in Si and other semiconductors
- Growth, interface structure, and magnetic properties of Fe/GaAs and Fe3Si/GaAs hybrid systems
- An investigation of improved titanium/titanium nitride barriers for submicron aluminum-filled contacts by energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy
- Radiation damage during HRTEM studies in pure Al and Al alloys
- Cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy at Mo/Si multilayer stacks
- Structural properties of the fiber –matrix interface in carbon-fiber/carbon-matrix composites and interfaces between carbon layers and planar substrates
- Microstructure and properties of surface-treated Timetal 834
- Notifications
- Personal
- Conferences
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Frontmatter
- Editorial
- Professor Dr. Knut Urban 65 Years
- Basic
- Ordering processes and atomic defects in FeCo
- Atomic resolution electron tomography: a dream?
- Electron tomography of microelectronic device interconnects
- Aberration correction in electron microscopy
- Off-axis electron holography: Materials analysis at atomic resolution
- Determination of phases of complex scattering amplitudes and two-particle structure factors by investigating diffractograms of thin amorphous foils
- Prospects of the multislice method for CBED pattern calculation
- Electron energy-loss spectrometry for metals:some thoughts beyond microanalysis
- Quantitative assessment of nanoparticle size distributions from HRTEM images
- Quantitative microstructural and spectroscopic investigation of inversion domain boundaries in sintered zinc oxide ceramics doped with iron oxide
- Structural domains in antiferromagnetic LaFeO3 thin films
- Short-range order of liquid Ti72.3Fe27.7 investigated by a combination of neutron scattering and X-ray diffraction
- Extended interfacial structure between two asymmetrical facets of a Σ = 9 grain boundary in copper
- Dislocation imaging in fcc colloidal single crystals
- Applied
- Omega phase transformation – morphologies and mechanisms
- Mixed (Sr1 − xCax)33Bi24Al48O141 fullerenoids: the defect structure analysed by (S)TEM techniques
- Wetting of aluminium-based complex metallic alloys
- Annealing-induced phase transitions in a Zr–Ti–Nb–Cu–Ni–Al bulk metallic glass matrix composite containing quasicrystalline precipitates
- Special planar defects in the structural complex metallic alloys of Al–Pd–Mn and Al–Ni–Rh
- On the formation of Si nanowires by molecular beam epitaxy
- Self-induced oscillations in Si and other semiconductors
- Growth, interface structure, and magnetic properties of Fe/GaAs and Fe3Si/GaAs hybrid systems
- An investigation of improved titanium/titanium nitride barriers for submicron aluminum-filled contacts by energy-filtered transmission electron microscopy
- Radiation damage during HRTEM studies in pure Al and Al alloys
- Cross-sectional high-resolution transmission electron microscopy at Mo/Si multilayer stacks
- Structural properties of the fiber –matrix interface in carbon-fiber/carbon-matrix composites and interfaces between carbon layers and planar substrates
- Microstructure and properties of surface-treated Timetal 834
- Notifications
- Personal
- Conferences