Giant reversible nanoscale piezoresistance at room temperature in Sr₂IrO₄ thin films

Layered iridates have been the subject of intense scrutiny on account of their unusually strong spin-orbit coupling, which opens up a narrow bandgap in a material that would otherwise be a metal. This insulating state is very sensitive to external perturbations. Here, we show that vertical compressi...

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Autores: Domingo Marimon, Neus|||0000-0002-5229-6638, López-Mir, Laura|||0000-0002-5279-8849, Paradinas, Markos|||0000-0003-1006-9506, Holy, Vaclav, Železný, Jakuv, Yi, Di, Suresha, Siriyara J., Liu, Jian|||0000-0003-4199-1296, Rayan Serrao, Claudy, Ramesh, Ramamoorthy, Ocal García, Carmen|||0000-0001-8790-8844, Martí Rovirosa, Xavier, Catalan, Gustau|||0000-0003-0214-4828
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2015
País:España
Institución:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositorio:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:212911
Acceso en línea:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/212911
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1039/c4nr06954d
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Anisotropic deformation
External perturbations
Insulating state
Orders of magnitude
Piezoresistance
Room temperature
Room-temperature resistivity
Spin-orbit couplings
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Sumario:Layered iridates have been the subject of intense scrutiny on account of their unusually strong spin-orbit coupling, which opens up a narrow bandgap in a material that would otherwise be a metal. This insulating state is very sensitive to external perturbations. Here, we show that vertical compression at the nanoscale, delivered using the tip of a standard scanning probe microscope, is capable of inducing a five orders of magnitude change in the room temperature resistivity of Sr₂IrO₄. The extreme sensitivity of the electronic structure to anisotropic deformations opens up a new angle of interest on this material, with the giant and fully reversible perpendicular piezoresistance rendering iridates as promising materials for room temperature piezotronic devices.