Soft x-ray spectroscopy of low-valence nickelates

M Hepting, MPM Dean, WS Lee - Frontiers in Physics, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Low-valence nickelates—including infinite-layer (IL) and trilayer (TL) compounds—are
longstanding candidates for mimicking the high-temperature superconductivity of cuprates …

Negative charge transfer energy in correlated compounds

RJ Green, GA Sawatzky - Journal of the Physical Society of Japan, 2024 - journals.jps.jp
In correlated compounds containing cations in high formal oxidation states (assigned by
assuming that anions attain full valence shells), the energy of ligand to cation charge …

RENiO3 Single Crystals (RE = Nd, Sm, Gd, Dy, Y, Ho, Er, Lu) Grown from Molten Salts under 2000 bar of Oxygen Gas Pressure

YM Klein, M Kozłowski, A Linden, P Lacorre… - Crystal Growth & …, 2021 - ACS Publications
The electronic properties of transition-metal oxides with highly correlated electrons are of
central importance in modern condensed-matter physics and chemistry, both for their …

X-ray spectroscopy of the rare-earth nickelate : study

M Winder, A Hariki, J Kuneš - Physical Review B, 2020 - APS
We present a computational study of resonant inelastic x-ray scattering (RIXS) and x-ray
absorption in a representative rare-earth nickelate LuNiO 3. We study the changes in the …

Experimental Observation of Monoclinic Distortion in the Insulating Regime of SmNiO3 by Synchrotron X-ray Diffraction

F Serrano-Sánchez, F Fauth, JL Martínez… - Inorganic …, 2019 - ACS Publications
RNiO3 (R= rare-earth element) perovskite materials are well-known to exhibit characteristic
metal–insulator transitions. The structural distortion increases as the R member becomes …

Oxygen Hole Character and Lateral Homogeneity in PrNiO2+δ Thin Films

K Fürsich, R Pons, M Bluschke, RA Ortiz, S Wintz… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Using x-ray absorption spectroscopy with lateral resolution from the submillimeter to
submicrometer range, we investigate the homogeneity, the chemical composition, and the …

Advances in Structural and Morphological Characterization of Thin Magnetic Films: A Review

P Aich, C Meneghini, L Tortora - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
The present review places emphasis on a comprehensive survey of experimental
techniques to probe the structural and morphological features at the nanoscale range in thin …

Effects of reduced dimensionality, crystal field, electron-lattice coupling, and strain on the ground state of a rare-earth nickelate monolayer

R Chavez Zavaleta, S Fomichev, G Khaliullin, M Berciu - Physical Review B, 2021 - APS
Motivated by the potential for cupratelike superconductivity in monolayer rare-earth nickelate
superlattices, we study the effects of crystal field splitting, lattice distortions, and strain on the …

Control of the metal-insulator transition in thin films through the interplay between structural and electronic properties

YE Suyolcu, K Fürsich, M Hepting, Z Zhong, Y Lu… - Physical Review …, 2021 - APS
Heteroepitaxy offers a new type of control mechanism for the crystal structure, the electronic
correlations, and thus the functional properties of transition-metal oxides. Here we combine …

On the magnetic structure and magnetic behaviour of the most distorted member of the series of RNiO 3 perovskites (R= Lu)

F Serrano-Sánchez, MT Fernández-Díaz… - Dalton …, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The crystal structure of LuNiO3 perovskite has been examined below RT and across TN=
125 K by neutron powder diffraction. In this temperature region (2–298 K), well below the …