Local-electrostatics-induced oxygen octahedral distortion in perovskite oxides and insight into the structure of Ruddlesden–Popper phases

Youngjae Hong, Pilgyu Byeon, Jumi Bak, Yoon Heo, Hye-Sung Kim, Hyung Bin Bae and Sung-Yoon Chung ()
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Youngjae Hong: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Pilgyu Byeon: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Jumi Bak: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Yoon Heo: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Hye-Sung Kim: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Hyung Bin Bae: KAIST Analysis Center, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology
Sung-Yoon Chung: Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology

Nature Communications, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-10

Abstract: Abstract As the physical properties of ABX3 perovskite-based oxides strongly depend on the geometry of oxygen octahedra containing transition-metal cations, precise identification of the distortion, tilt, and rotation of the octahedra is an essential step toward understanding the structure–property correlation. Here we discover an important electrostatic origin responsible for remarkable Jahn–Teller-type tetragonal distortion of oxygen octahedra during atomic-level direct observation of two-dimensional [AX] interleaved shear faults in five different perovskite-type materials, SrTiO3, BaCeO3, LaCoO3, LaNiO3, and CsPbBr3. When the [AX] sublayer has a net charge, for example [LaO]+ in LaCoO3 and LaNiO3, substantial tetragonal elongation of oxygen octahedra at the fault plane is observed and this screens the strong repulsion between the consecutive [LaO]+ layers. Moreover, our findings on the distortion induced by local charge are identified to be a general structural feature in lanthanide-based An + 1BnX3n + 1-type Ruddlesden–Popper (RP) oxides with charged [LnO]+ (Ln = La, Pr, Nd, Eu, and Gd) sublayers, among more than 80 RP oxides and halides with high symmetry. The present study thus demonstrates that the local uneven electrostatics is a crucial factor significantly affecting the crystal structure of complex oxides.

Date: 2021
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