Effects of multiple local environments on electron energy loss spectra of epitaxial perovskite interfaces

Autor: Robert A. Lawrence, Quentin M. Ramasse, Kristina M. Holsgrove, Daniel Sando, Claudio Cazorla, Nagarajan Valanoor, Miryam A. Arredondo
Přispěvatelé: Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Departament de Física, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. CCQM - Condensed, Complex and Quantum Matter Group
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Lawrence, R A, Ramasse, Q M, Holsgrove, K M, Sando, D, Cazorla, C, Valanoor, N & Arredondo, M A 2022, ' Effects of multiple local environments on electron energy loss spectra of epitaxial perovskite interfaces ', The Journal of Physical Chemistry C, vol. 126, no. 50, pp. 21453–21466 . https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06879
DOI: 10.1021/acs.jpcc.2c06879
Popis: The role of local chemical environments in the electron energy loss spectra of complex multiferroic oxides was studied using computational and experimental techniques. The evolution of the O K-edge across an interface between bismuth ferrite (BFO) and lanthanum strontium manganate (LSMO) was considered through spectral averaging over crystallographically equivalent positions to capture the periodicity of the local O environments. Computational techniques were used to investigate the contribution of individual atomic environments to the overall spectrum, and the role of doping and strain was considered. Chemical variation, even at the low level, was found to have a major impact on the spectral features, whereas strain only induced a small chemical shift to the edge onset energy. Through a combination of these methods, it was possible to explain experimentally observed effects such as spectral flattening near the interface as the combination of spectral responses from multiple local atomic environments.
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