| Issue |
EPL
Volume 81, Number 1, January 2008
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| Article Number | 17007 | |
| Number of page(s) | 5 | |
| Section | Condensed Matter: Electronic Structure, Electrical, Magnetic and Optical Properties | |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1209/0295-5075/81/17007 | |
| Published online | 22 November 2007 | |
Surface effects on oxide heterostructures
Institut für Physik, Universität Augsburg - 86135 Augsburg, Germany
Received:
3
August
2007
Accepted:
31
October
2007
We report on surface effects on the electronic properties of interfaces in epitaxial LaAlO3/SrTiO3 heterostructures. Our results are based on first-principles electronic structure calculations for well-relaxed multilayer configurations, terminated by an ultrathin LaAlO3 surface layer. On varying the thickness of this layer, we find that the interface conduction states are subject to almost rigid band shifts due to a modified Fermi energy. Confirming experimental data, the electronic properties of heterointerfaces therefore can be tuned systematically by alterating the surface-interface distance. We expect that this mechanism is very general and applies to most oxide heterostructures.
PACS: 73.20.-r – Electron states at surfaces and interfaces / 73.20.At – Surface states, band structure, electron density of states / 73.40.Kp – III-V semiconductor-to-semiconductor contacts, p-n junctions, and heterojunctions
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