Dynamics of the photoinduced insulator-to-metal transition in a nickelate film

The control of materials properties with light is a promising approach towards the realization of faster and smaller electronic devices. With phases that can be controlled via strain, pressure, chemical composition or dimensionality, nickelates are good candidates for the development of a new genera...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2018-09
Main Authors: Esposito, Vincent, Rettig, Laurenz, Bothschafter, Elisabeth M, Deng, Yunpei, Dornes, Christian, Huber, Lucas, Huber, Tim, Ingold, Gerhard, Inubushi, Yuichi, Katayama, Tetsuo, Kawaguchi, Tomoya, Lemke, Henrik, Ogawa, Kanade, Owada, Shigeki, Radovic, Milan, Ramakrishnan, Mahesh, Ristic, Zoran, Scagnoli, Valerio, Tanaka, Yoshikazu, Togashi, Tadashi, Tono, Kensuke, Usov, Ivan, Windsor, Yoav W, Yabashi, Makina, Johnson, Steven L, Beaud, Paul, Staub, Urs
Format: Article
Language:English
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Chemical composition
Electronic devices
Material properties
Organic chemistry
Phase transitions
X-ray diffraction
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Summary:The control of materials properties with light is a promising approach towards the realization of faster and smaller electronic devices. With phases that can be controlled via strain, pressure, chemical composition or dimensionality, nickelates are good candidates for the development of a new generation of high performance and low consumption devices. Here we analyze the photoinduced dynamics in a single crystalline NdNiO\(_3\) film upon excitation across the electronic gap. Using time-resolved reflectivity and resonant x-ray diffraction, we show that the pump pulse induces an insulator-to-metal transition, accompanied by the melting of the charge order. Finally we compare our results to similar studies in manganites and show that the same model can be used to describe the dynamics in nickelates, hinting towards a unified description of these photoinduced phase transitions.
ISSN:2331-8422