X-ray scattering investigation of a SrTiO3(103) bicrystal interface
Synchrotron X-ray scattering has been employed to study the structure of a SrTiO3(103) bicrystal interface. The upper part of the bicrystal was thinned down to 25 mum in order to allow the X-ray beam to penetrate down to the interface. The X-ray energy was set to 15.7 keV, just below the Sr K edge,...
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Veröffentlicht in: | Philosophical magazine letters 1998-07, Vol.78 (1), p.51-57 |
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Zusammenfassung: | Synchrotron X-ray scattering has been employed to study the structure of a SrTiO3(103) bicrystal interface. The upper part of the bicrystal was thinned down to 25 mum in order to allow the X-ray beam to penetrate down to the interface. The X-ray energy was set to 15.7 keV, just below the Sr K edge, to minimize absorption and further to enhance the penetration. No superstructures were detected along the tilt direction but, surprisingly, satellites were seen in the \[010] direction perpendicular to the tilt direction in the neighbourhood of the (002) and (004) Bragg reflections. The spacing between the satellites was 0.02 reciprocal lattice units, which corresponds to a spacing of 195 A along the interface. The satellites were sharp with a width corresponding to a correlation length in excess of 2600 A. It is proposed that the satellites originate from sinusoidal modulations at the interface which arise from a 0.38o misalignment between the crystals and propagate from the interface deep into the bulk. |
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ISSN: | 0950-0839 1362-3036 |
DOI: | 10.1080/095008398178255 |