Spontaneous Supercrystal Formation During a Strain-Engineered Metal-Insulator Transition.

Oleg Yu Gorobtsov, Ludi Miao, Ziming Shao, Yueze Tan, Noah Schnitzer, Berit Hansen Goodge, Jacob Ruf, Daniel Weinstock, Mathew Cherukara, Martin Victor Holt, Hari Nair, Long-Qing Chen, Lena Fitting Kourkoutis,Darrell G Schlom, Kyle M Shen, Andrej Singer

Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.)(2024)

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Mott metal-insulator transitions possess electronic, magnetic, and structural degrees of freedom promising next-generation energy-efficient electronics. A previously unknown, hierarchically ordered, and anisotropic supercrystal state is reported and its intrinsic formation characterized in-situ during a Mott transition in a Ca2RuO4 thin film. Machine learning-assisted X-ray nanodiffraction together with cryogenic electron microscopy reveal multi-scale periodic domain formation at and below the film transition temperature (TFilm ≈ 200-250 K) and a separate anisotropic spatial structure at and above TFilm. Local resistivity measurements imply an intrinsic coupling of the supercrystal orientation to the material's anisotropic conductivity. These findings add a new degree of complexity to the physical understanding of Mott transitions, opening opportunities for designing materials with tunable electronic properties.
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