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Engineering Interfacial Energy Profile By Changing The Substrate Terminating Plane In Perovskite Heterointerfaces, S. Roy, Alim Solmaz, John D. Burton, Mark Huijben, Guus Rijnders, Evgeny Y. Tsymbal, T. Banerjee

Evgeny Tsymbal Publications

Atomically engineered oxide heterointerfaces show a range of novel phenomena not present in their bulk form, thus providing an additional knob to tune the functional properties across such interfaces. Here we show that for an oxide Schottky interface between metallic SrRuO₃ and semiconducting Nb doped SrTiO₃ (Nb:STO) the terminating surface of the substrate plays a crucial role in determining the electronic transport across it. Interestingly this is achieved by engineering a monolayer of a charge-neutral SrO layer across the Schottky interface and not by the insertion of charged layers at the interface, as has been demonstrated earlier. These …