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Phase transitions associated with competing order parameters in compressively strained SrTiO3 thin films

Yamada, Tomoaki  
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Wylie-Van Eerd, Benjamin
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Sakata, Osami
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2015
Physical Review B

(100)-epitaxial SrTiO3 thin films having biaxial compressive strains up to -1.60% were grown on lattice mismatched substrates. Two phase transitions induced by the coupled instabilities (antiferrodistortive and ferroelectric) in SrTiO3 were revealed in a common set of samples investigated at temperatures from 8 to 600 K by CuK alpha and synchrotron x-ray diffractions and by UV-Raman spectroscopy. It is shown that the in-plane compressive strain in SrTiO3 significantly increases the transition temperature between cubic and tetragonal-antiferrodistortive phases and furthermore precipitates a ferroelectric polar phase at lower temperatures. The strain-temperature phase diagram based on the measurements shows a cubic-to-antiferrodistortive transition temperature that is substantially higher than predicted within a phenomenological Landau-Ginsburg-Devonshire treatment. In contrast the transition to the ferroelectric polar phase is found to be close to the temperature predicted, with the consequence that there is no crossing of the two phase transitions for temperatures up to 600 K.

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DOI
10.1103/PhysRevB.91.214101
Web of Science ID

WOS:000355565000001

Author(s)
Yamada, Tomoaki  
Wylie-Van Eerd, Benjamin
Sakata, Osami
Tagantsev, Alexander K.
Morioka, Hitoshi
Ehara, Yoshitaka
Yasui, Shintaro
Funakubo, Hiroshi
Nagasaki, Takanori
Trodahl, H. J.  
Date Issued

2015

Publisher

Amer Physical Soc

Published in
Physical Review B
Volume

91

Issue

21

Article Number

214101

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REVIEWED

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September 28, 2015
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