Thickness Dependent Properties in Oxide Heterostructures Driven by Structurally 
Induced Metal-Oxygen Hybridization Variations

Liao, Zhaoliang; Gauquelin, Nicolas; Green, R. J.; Macke, Sebastian; Gonnissen, Julie; Thomas, Sean; Zhong, Zhicheng; Li, Lin; Si, Liang; Van Aert, Sandra; Hansmann, Philipp; Held, Karsten; Xia, Jing; Verbeeck, Johan; Van Tendeloo, Gustaaf; Sawatzky, George A.; Koster, Gertjan; Huijben, Mark; Rijnders, Guus

doi:10.1002/adfm.201606717

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Thickness Dependent Properties in Oxide Heterostructures Driven by Structurally Induced Metal-Oxygen Hybridization Variations

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Green, R. J.
Physics of Correlated Matter, Max Planck Institute for Chemical Physics of Solids, Max Planck Society;

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Liao, Z., Gauquelin, N., Green, R. J., Macke, S., Gonnissen, J., Thomas, S., et al. (2017). Thickness Dependent Properties in Oxide Heterostructures Driven by Structurally Induced Metal-Oxygen Hybridization Variations. Advanced Functional Materials, 27(17): 1606717, pp. 1-9. doi:10.1002/adfm.201606717.

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Thickness-driven electronic phase transitions are broadly observed in different types of functional perovskite heterostructures. However, uncertainty remains whether these effects are solely due to spatial confinement, broken symmetry, or rather to a change of structure with varying film thickness. Here, this study presents direct evidence for the relaxation of oxygen-2p and Mn-3d orbital (p-d) hybridization coupled to the layer-dependent octahedral tilts within a La2/3Sr1/3MnO3 film driven by interfacial octahedral coupling. An enhanced Curie temperature is achieved by reducing the octahedral tilting via interface structure engineering. Atomically resolved lattice, electronic, and magnetic structures together with X-ray absorption spectroscopy demonstrate the central role of thickness-dependent p-d hybridization in the widely observed dimensionality effects present in correlated oxide heterostructures.