Infrared phonon spectroscopy of a compressively strained (001) SrTiO3 film grown on a (110) NdGaO3 substrate.
J Phys Condens Matter
; 23(4): 045901, 2011 Feb 02.
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Polarized infrared reflectivity was measured between 5 and 300 K on a 17 nm thick, 1.1% compressively strained epitaxial (001) SrTiO(3) film and the orthorhombic (110) NdGaO(3) substrate upon which it was grown. A strong in-plane infrared anisotropy of the NdGaO(3) substrate was observed and polar modes with B(1u)-and a mixture of B(2u) + B(3u)-symmetry were seen. At low temperatures three new modes arose in the 90-130 cm( - 1) range, which we assigned to 4f Nd electronic transitions. The in-plane SrTiO(3) film phonons showed strong stiffening compared to the phonon frequencies of bulk unstrained SrTiO(3), particularly the soft mode, and the in-plane phonon peaks were found to split. No anomalies were detected as a function of temperature in either the infrared response or lattice parameters of the compressively strained SrTiO(3) film, providing an absence of evidence for the out-of-plane ferroelectric phase transition predicted by theory.
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