Reproducibility and off-stoichiometry issues in nickelate thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

Rare-earth nickelates are strongly correlated oxides displaying a metal-to-insulator transition at a temperature tunable by the rare-earth ionic radius. In PrNiO3 and NdNiO3, the transition is very sharp and shows an hysteretic behavior akin to a first-order transition. Both the temperature at which...

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Main Authors: Daniele Preziosi, Anke Sander, Agnès Barthélémy, Manuel Bibes
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: AIP Publishing LLC 2017-01-01
Series:AIP Advances
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4975307