Anisotropy of infrared-active phonon modes in the monodomain state of tetragonal ${\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (110)
- Yazdi-Rizi, Meghdad Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Marsik, Premysl Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Mallett, Benjamin P. P. Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
- Bernhard, Christian Department of Physics and Fribourg Center for Nanomaterials, University of Fribourg, Switzerland
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2017
Published in:
- Physical Review B. - 2017, vol. 95, no. 2, p. 024105
English
With infrared (IR) and terahertz (THz) ellipsometry we investigated the anisotropy of the IR-active phonon modes in ${\mathrm{SrTiO}}_{3}$ (110) single crystals in the tetragonal state below the so-called antiferrodistortive transition at T∗=105 K. In particular, we show that the anisotropy of the oscillator strength of the so-called R mode, which becomes weakly IR active below T∗, is a valuable indicator of the orientation of the structural domains. Our results reveal that a monodomain state with the tetragonal axis (c axis) parallel to the [001] direction can be created by applying a moderate uniaxial stress of about 2.3 MPa along the [1-10] direction (with a simple mechanical clamp). The resulting splitting of the IR-active phonon modes is reported.
- Faculty
- Faculté des sciences et de médecine
- Department
- Département de Physique
- Language
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- English
- Classification
- Biological sciences
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- RERO DOC 287939
- DOI 10.1103/PhysRevB.95.024105
- Persistent URL
- https://folia.unifr.ch/unifr/documents/305373
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