TY - JOUR
T1 - Stimulating Oxide Heterostructures: A Review on Controlling SrTiO3‐Based Heterointerfaces with External Stimuli
AU - Christensen, Dennis Valbjørn
AU - Trier, Felix
AU - Niu, Wei
AU - Gan, Yulin
AU - Zhang, Yu
AU - Jespersen, Thomas Sand
AU - Chen, Yunzhong
AU - Pryds, Nini
PY - 2019
Y1 - 2019
N2 - Numerous of the greatest inventions in modern society, such as solar cells, display panels, and transistors, rely on a simple concept: An external stimulus is applied to a material and the response is then utilized. Oxides often exhibit a colorful palette of responses to external stimuli due to the close coupling between lattice, spin, orbital, and charge degrees of freedom. In particular, oxide heterostructures where oxide thin films are deposited on SrTiO3 have proven to be a fertile playground for material scientists, and a vast amount of interesting theoretical and experimental studies showcase the wide tunabilities of these heterostructures when subjected to external stimuli. Here, the authors review how the properties of SrTiO3‐based heterostructures can be changed by external stimuli using electric fields, magnetic fields, light, stress, particle bombardment, liquids, gases, and temperature. The application of a single stimulus or several stimuli combined often leads to unexpected changes in properties which can open up for designing new devices as well as expanding the boundaries of our understanding within fundamental science.
AB - Numerous of the greatest inventions in modern society, such as solar cells, display panels, and transistors, rely on a simple concept: An external stimulus is applied to a material and the response is then utilized. Oxides often exhibit a colorful palette of responses to external stimuli due to the close coupling between lattice, spin, orbital, and charge degrees of freedom. In particular, oxide heterostructures where oxide thin films are deposited on SrTiO3 have proven to be a fertile playground for material scientists, and a vast amount of interesting theoretical and experimental studies showcase the wide tunabilities of these heterostructures when subjected to external stimuli. Here, the authors review how the properties of SrTiO3‐based heterostructures can be changed by external stimuli using electric fields, magnetic fields, light, stress, particle bombardment, liquids, gases, and temperature. The application of a single stimulus or several stimuli combined often leads to unexpected changes in properties which can open up for designing new devices as well as expanding the boundaries of our understanding within fundamental science.
KW - 2DEG
KW - External stimuli
KW - Oxide
KW - SrTiO3-based heterointerfaces
KW - Thin filters
U2 - 10.1002/admi.201900772
DO - 10.1002/admi.201900772
M3 - Journal article
VL - 6
JO - Advanced Materials Interfaces
JF - Advanced Materials Interfaces
SN - 2196-7350
IS - 21
M1 - 1900772
ER -