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Quality control of epitaxial LiCoO2 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition

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Thin films of c-axis-oriented LiCoO2 were epitaxially grown by pulsed laser deposition (PLD). The ablation laser conditions greatly affect the crystal quality of the epitaxial LiCoO2 thin films. In addition, high-quality LiCoO2 thin films were found to grow without any impurity phases under relatively low oxygen partial pressure, although high pressure had been often selected to suppress the formation of Co3O4 with a lower valence state as an impurity. This result clearly indicates that the ablation laser conditions are an essential growth parameter, and that composition control is indispensable to grow high-quality complex compound thin films by PLD.

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  1. National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba, 305-0044, Japan

    T. Ohnishi, B. T. Hang, X. Xu, M. Osada & K. Takada

  2. Japan Science and Technology Agency, Core Research for Evolutional Science and Technology (JST-CREST), Saitama, 332-0012, Japan

    T. Ohnishi, M. Osada & K. Takada

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Ohnishi, T., Hang, B.T., Xu, X. et al. Quality control of epitaxial LiCoO2 thin films grown by pulsed laser deposition. Journal of Materials Research 25, 1886–1889 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1557/JMR.2010.0250

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