Suppression of Near-Fermi Level Electronic States at the Interface in a LaNiO3/SrTiO3 Superlattice

A. M. Kaiser, A. X. Gray, G. Conti, J. Son, A. Greer, A. Perona, A. Rattanachata, A. Y. Saw, A. Bostwick, S. Yang, S.-H. Yang, E. M. Gullikson, J. B. Kortright, S. Stemmer, and C. S. Fadley
Phys. Rev. Lett. 107, 116402 – Published 9 September 2011

Abstract

Standing-wave-excited photoemission is used to study a SrTiO3/LaNiO3 superlattice. Rocking curves of core-level and valence band spectra are used to derive layer-resolved spectral functions, revealing a suppression of electronic states near the Fermi level in the multilayer as compared to bulk LaNiO3. Further analysis shows that the suppression of these states is not homogeneously distributed over the LaNiO3 layers but is more pronounced near the interfaces. Possible origins of this effect and its relationship to a previously observed metal-insulator-transition in ultrathin LaNiO3 films are discussed.

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  • Received 2 July 2011

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevLett.107.116402

© 2011 American Physical Society

Authors & Affiliations

A. M. Kaiser1,2,3, A. X. Gray1,2, G. Conti1,2, J. Son4, A. Greer1,2, A. Perona1,2, A. Rattanachata1,2, A. Y. Saw1,2, A. Bostwick5, S. Yang6, S.-H. Yang7, E. M. Gullikson6, J. B. Kortright2, S. Stemmer4, and C. S. Fadley1,2

  • 1Department of Physics, University of California, Davis, California 95616, USA
  • 2Materials Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 3Peter-Grünberg-Institut PGI-6, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany
  • 4Materials Department, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
  • 5Advanced Light Source, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 6Center for X-Ray Optics, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, California 94720, USA
  • 7IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, California 95120, USA

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Vol. 107, Iss. 11 — 9 September 2011

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