Sm x Nd 1−x NiO 3 thin-film solid solutions with tunable metal–insulator transition synthesized by alternate-target pulsed-laser deposition
- 3 February 2003
- journal article
- research article
- Published by AIP Publishing in Applied Physics Letters
- Vol. 82 (5), 727-729
- https://doi.org/10.1063/1.1541116
Abstract
Thin-filmsolid solutions of Sm x Nd 1−x NiO 3 were synthesized on NdGaO 3 substrates by pulsed-laserdeposition using alternating NdNiO 3 and SmNiO 3 targets. The films were characterized by x-ray diffraction and variable-temperature four-probe conductivity measurements. The filmsgrow in the {100} pseudocubic direction. There is a nearly linear increase of the metal–insulator transition from 199 K for x=0 to 378 K for x=1, with the composition corresponding to x=0.6 displaying a transition near room temperature.This publication has 8 references indexed in Scilit:
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