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Surface- and strain-tuning of the optical dielectric function in epitaxially grown CaMnO<inf>3</inf>
Imbrenda, D Yang, D Wang, H Akbashev, AR Kasaei, L Davidson, BA Wu, X Xi, X Spanier, JE
Imbrenda, D
Yang, D
Wang, H
Akbashev, AR
Kasaei, L
Davidson, BA
Wu, X
Xi, X
Spanier, JE
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2016-02-22
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10.1063/1.4942374
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© 2016 AIP Publishing LLC. We report a strong thickness dependence of the complex frequency-dependent optical dielectric function ϵ ̃ ( ω ) over a spectral range from 1.24 to 5 eV in epitaxial CaMnO3(001) thin films on SrTiO3(001), LaAlO3(001), and SrLaAlO4(001). A doubling of the peak value of the imaginary part of ϵ ̃ ( ω ) and spectral shifts of 0.5 eV for a given magnitude of absorption are observed. On the basis of experimental analyses and first-principles density functional theory calculations, contributions from both surface states and epitaxial strain to the optical dielectric function of CaMnO3 are seen. Its evolution with thickness from 4 to 63 nm has several regimes. In the thinnest, strain-coherent films, the response is characterized by a significant contribution from the free surface that dominates strain effects. However, at intermediate and larger thicknesses approaching the bulk-like film, strain coherence and partial strain relaxation coexist and influence ϵ ̃ ( ω ).
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