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O: Fachverband Oberflächenphysik
O 62: Poster: SrTiO3: A Versatile Material from Bulk Quantum Paraelectric to 2D Superconductor (joint session TT/KFM/MA/O)
O 62.7: Poster
Wednesday, March 20, 2024, 15:00–18:00, Poster E
Impact of a Si(001) substrate on the electronic reconstruction and two-dimensional electron gas formation at LaTiO3/SrTiO3(001) — •Andri Darmawan and Rossitza Pentcheva — Department of Physics, University of Duisburg-Essen
The two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) formed at oxide interfaces e.g. between the band insulator SrTiO3 and the Mott insulator LaTiO3 has attracted a lot of attention [1]. However, despite the high carrier density at the interface, the carrier mobility is lower compared to semiconductor materials. A strategy to overcome this shortcoming is the integration of the oxide system on a semiconductor substrate [2]. Based on density functional theory calculations with a Hubbard U term we modeled LaTiO3/SrTiO3(001) with and without a Si(001) substrate. We explore systematically the sample geometry and the effect of the termination to Si(001) on the electronic reconstruction at the LaTiO3/SrTiO3(001) interface. The comparison between the two systems indicates lower effective masses and consequently higher mobility of the 2DEG at LaTiO3/SrTiO3/Si(001).
Funding by DFG within CRC1242 and computational time at the Leibniz Supercomputer Center (project pr87ro) are gratefully acknowledged.
[1] A. Ohtomo et al., Nature 419, 378 (2002)
[2] E. N. Jin et al., APL Mater. 2, 116109 (2014)
Keywords: density functional theory; two-dimensional electron gas; oxide interfaces; silicon