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Description
Title
Engineering Band Structures in Correlated Oxides
Author(s)
Zhai, Xiaofang
Issue Date
2008
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Eckstein, James N.
Department of Study
Physics
Discipline
Physics
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Physics, Condensed Matter
Language
eng
Abstract
The electronic structure of short period digital superlattices of two different phases depends strongly on the superlattice architecture. We have fabricated digital superlattices of super cells consisting of N layers of LaMnO3 and N layers of SrTiO 3, N=1, 2, 3, 8, and measured their optical conductivities to probe the way in which the electronic structure depends on N. We found the valence band structure systematically changes, as N decreases, from bulk like band gaps to interface modified band gaps. The temperature dependence of the derived Mn Jahn-Teller/Mott gap in large period superlattices is completely different from the small period, suggesting different spin ordering states reside in them. The electronic structure of two parent materials are coherently blended at the interface, and the spin ordering is strongly modified. This method of producing meta materials is a promising new way of material engineering.
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