| Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5361654 | Applied Surface Science | 2009 | 4 Pages |
Abstract
We have studied the epitaxial growth of perovskite manganite LaMnO3 (LMO) on SrTiO3(1Â 0Â 0) in the excimer laser assisted metal organic deposition process. The LMO was preferentially grown from the substrate surface by the KrF laser irradiation. The study of amorphous LMO film thickness dependence on epitaxial growth under the excimer laser irradiation revealed that the photo-thermal heating effect strongly depended on the amorphous film thickness due to a low thermal conductivity of amorphous LMO: the ion-migration for chemical bond-forming at the reaction interface would be strongly enhanced in the amorphous LMO film with the large film thickness about 210Â nm. On the other hand, the photo-chemical effect occurred efficiently for the amorphous film thickness in the range of 35-210Â nm. These results indicate that the epitaxial growing rate was dominated by the photo-thermal heating after the photo-chemical activation at the growth interface.
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Authors
Tomohiko Nakajima, Tetsuo Tsuchiya, Masaki Ichihara, Hideaki Nagai, Toshiya Kumagai,