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Abstract
Ultrafast time-domain thermoreflectance (TDTR) is utilized to extract the through-plane thermal conductivity (ΛLSCO) of epitaxial La0.5Sr0.5CoO3− δ (LSCO) of varying thickness (<20 nm) on LaAlO3 and SrTiO3 substrates. These LSCO films possess ordered oxygen vacancies as the primary means of lattice mismatch accommodation with the substrate, which induces compressive/tensile strain and thus controls the orientation of the oxygen vacancy ordering (OVO). TDTR results demonstrate that the room-temperature ΛLSCO of LSCO on both substrates (1.7 W m−1 K−1) are nearly a factor of four lower than that of bulk single-crystal LSCO (6.2 W m−1 K−1). Remarkably, this approaches the lower limit of amorphous oxides (e.g., 1.3 W m−1 K−1 for glass), with no dependence on the OVO orientation. Through theoretical simulations, origins of the glass-like thermal conductivity of LSCO are revealed as a combined effect resulting from oxygen vacancies (the dominant factor), Sr substitution, size effects, and the weak electron/phonon coupling within the LSCO film. The absence of OVO dependence in the measured ΛLSCO is rationalized by two main effects: (1) the nearly isotropic phononic thermal conductivity resulting from the imperfect OVO planes when δ is small; (2) the missing electronic contribution to ΛLSCO along the through-plane direction for these ultrathin LSCO films on insulating substrates.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 1704233 |
Journal | Advanced Functional Materials |
Volume | 27 |
Issue number | 47 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Dec 15 2017 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2017 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim.
Keywords
- nanoscale epitaxial LSCO
- oxygen vacancies
- perovskite
- thermal conductivity
- time-domain thermoreflectance
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