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Ionic Liquid Gate-Induced Modifications of Step Edges at SrCoO2.5 Surfaces.

ABSTRACT: Intense electric fields developed during gating at the interface between an ionic liquid and an oxide layer have been shown to lead to significant structural and electronic phase transitions in the entire oxide layer. An archetypical example is the reversible transformation between the brownmillerite SrCoO2.5 and the perovskite SrCoO3 engendered by ionic liquid gating. Here we show using in situ atomic force microscopy studies with photothermal excitation detection, that allows for high quality measurements in the viscous environment of the ionic liquid that the edges of atomically smooth terraces at the surface of SrCoO2.5 films are significantly modified by ionic liquid gating but that the terraces themselves remain smooth. The edges develop ridges that we show, using complementary X-ray photoemission spectroscopy studies, result from the adsorption of hydroxyl groups. Our findings exhibit a way of electrically controlled surface modifications in emergent ionitronic applications.

SUBMITTER: Zhuang Y

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7467809 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jul

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Ionic Liquid Gate-Induced Modifications of Step Edges at SrCoO2.5 Surfaces.

Zhuang Yuechen Y Cui Bin B Yang Hao H Gao Fang F Parkin Stuart S P SSP

ACS nano 20200714 7

Intense electric fields developed during gating at the interface between an ionic liquid and an oxide layer have been shown to lead to significant structural and electronic phase transitions in the entire oxide layer. An archetypical example is the reversible transformation between the brownmillerite SrCoO2.5 and the perovskite SrCoO3 engendered by ionic liquid gating. Here we show using in situ atomic force microscopy studies with photothermal excitation detection, ...[more]

PMID: 32609490

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