Controlling the Electronic, Structural, and Optical Properties of Novel MgTiO3/LaNiO3 Nanostructured Films for Enhanced Optoelectronic Devices

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2019-05-01

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Mazzo, T. M.
Macario, L. R.
Gorup, L. F.
Bouquet, V
Deputier, S.
Ollivier, S.
Guilloux-Viry, M.
Albuquerque, A. R.
Sambrano, J. R. [UNESP]
La Porta, F. A.

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Amer Chemical Soc

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This study systematically investigated the electronic, structural, and optical properties of MgTiO3 (MTO), LaNiO3 (LNO), and MgTiO3/LaNiO3 (MTO/LNO) nanostructured films grown on Si(100) substrates by the pulsed laser deposition method. The structural characterizations obtained by X-ray diffraction revealed a preferred (003) orientation for the MTO film, while the LNO film was polycrystalline. The diffraction peaks corresponded to a rhombohedral structure, which was confirmed by micro-Raman spectroscopy for both nanostructured films. The MTO/LNO heterostructure was polycrystalline and exhibited the diffraction peaks of both the MTO and the LNO phases. Additionally, the results revealed that the LNO films did not have a significant photoluminescence (PL) emission, while an intense broad infrared luminescence centered at 724 nm appeared for the MTO nanostructured film. Surprisingly, for the MTO/LNO heterostructure, the PL emission profile exhibited a dual-color emission with an intense broad luminescence in the blue region (maximum centered at 454 nm) and an intense near-infrared emission (maximum centered at 754 nm), respectively, mainly because of the effect of interface defects, which induced a significant change in the PL behavior. Therefore, our experimental results correlated with the theoretical simulations based on the periodic density functional theory formalism and contributed to a deeper understanding of the charge/energy transfer processes occurring in the MTO/LNO/Si interfaces, and toward the exploitation of the close relationship between the structure and properties of these new functional materials.

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perovskites, thin films, pulsed laser deposition method, optical properties, DFT calculations

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Acs Applied Nano Materials. Washington: Amer Chemical Soc, v. 2, n. 5, p. 2612-2620, 2019.