Rare-earth nickelates RNiO3: thin films and heterostructures

S Catalano, M Gibert, J Fowlie, J Íñiguez… - Reports on Progress …, 2018‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This review stands in the larger framework of functional materials by focussing on
heterostructures of rare-earth nickelates, described by the chemical formula RNiO 3 where R …

Tuning perovskite oxides by strain: Electronic structure, properties, and functions in (electro) catalysis and ferroelectricity

J Hwang, Z Feng, N Charles, XR Wang, D Lee… - Materials Today, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Complex oxides, such as ABO 3 perovskites, are an important class of functional materials
that exhibit a wide range of physical, chemical, and electrochemical properties, including …

Polar metals by geometric design

TH Kim, D Puggioni, Y Yuan, L **e, H Zhou… - Nature, 2016‏ - nature.com
Gauss's law dictates that the net electric field inside a conductor in electrostatic equilibrium
is zero by effective charge screening; free carriers within a metal eliminate internal dipoles …

Ground-state oxygen holes and the metal–insulator transition in the negative charge-transfer rare-earth nickelates

V Bisogni, S Catalano, RJ Green, M Gibert… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
The metal–insulator transition and the intriguing physical properties of rare-earth perovskite
nickelates have attracted considerable attention in recent years. Nonetheless, a complete …

Structurally triggered metal-insulator transition in rare-earth nickelates

A Mercy, J Bieder, J Íñiguez, P Ghosez - Nature communications, 2017‏ - nature.com
Rare-earth nickelates form an intriguing series of correlated perovskite oxides. Apart from
LaNiO3, they exhibit on cooling a sharp metal-insulator electronic phase transition, a …

Nematic Ising superconductivity with hidden magnetism in few-layer 6R-TaS2

SB Liu, C Tian, Y Fang, H Rong, L Cao, X Wei… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
In van der Waals heterostructures (vdWHs), the manipulation of interlayer stacking/coupling
allows for the construction of customizable quantum systems exhibiting exotic physics. An …

Conductivity and Local Structure of LaNiO3 Thin Films

J Fowlie, M Gibert, G Tieri, A Gloter, J Íñiguez… - Advanced …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
A marked conductivity enhancement is reported in 6–11 unit cell LaNiO3 thin films. A
maximal conductivity is also observed in ab initio calculations for films of the same thickness …

Signatures of polarized chiral spin disproportionation in rare earth nickelates

J Li, RJ Green, C Domínguez, A Levitan… - Nature …, 2024‏ - nature.com
In rare earth nickelates (RENiO3), electron-lattice coupling drives a concurrent metal-to-
insulator and bond disproportionation phase transition whose microscopic origin has long …

[HTML][HTML] Synthesis of single-crystal La0. 67Sr0. 33MnO3 freestanding films with different crystal-orientation

Z Lu, J Liu, J Feng, X Zheng, L Yang, C Ge, K **… - APL Materials, 2020‏ - pubs.aip.org
We report the synthesis of single-crystal La 0.67 Sr 0.33 MnO 3 (LSMO) freestanding films
with different crystal orientations. By using pulsed laser deposition, water soluble perovskite …

Striped nanoscale phase separation at the metal–insulator transition of heteroepitaxial nickelates

G Mattoni, P Zubko, F Maccherozzi… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Nucleation processes of mixed-phase states are an intrinsic characteristic of first-order
phase transitions, typically related to local symmetry breaking. Direct observation of …