Topotactic oxidation of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates reveals new structural family: oxygen-intercalated layered perovskites
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| author | Segedin, Dan Ferenc Kim, Jinkwon LaBollita, Harrison Taylor, Nicole K. Baek, Kyeong-Yoon Sung, Suk Hyun Turkiewicz, Ari B. Pan, Grace A. Jiang, Abigail Y. Bambrick-Santoyo, Maria Schwaigert, Tobias Kim, Casey K. Tenneti, Anirudh Grutter, Alexander J. Muramoto, Shin N'Diaye, Alpha T. Baggari, Ismail El Walko, Donald A. Zhou, Hua Brooks, Charles M. Botana, Antia S. Schlom, Darrell G. Mundy, Julia A. |
| author_facet | Segedin, Dan Ferenc Kim, Jinkwon LaBollita, Harrison Taylor, Nicole K. Baek, Kyeong-Yoon Sung, Suk Hyun Turkiewicz, Ari B. Pan, Grace A. Jiang, Abigail Y. Bambrick-Santoyo, Maria Schwaigert, Tobias Kim, Casey K. Tenneti, Anirudh Grutter, Alexander J. Muramoto, Shin N'Diaye, Alpha T. Baggari, Ismail El Walko, Donald A. Zhou, Hua Brooks, Charles M. Botana, Antia S. Schlom, Darrell G. Mundy, Julia A. |
| contents | Layered perovskites such as the Dion-Jacobson, Ruddlesden-Popper, and Aurivillius families host a wide range of correlated electron phenomena, from high-temperature superconductivity to multiferroicity. Here we report a new family of layered perovskites, realized through topotactic oxygen intercalation of La_{n+1}Ni_{n}O_{3n+1} (n=1-4) Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate thin films grown by ozone-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. Post-growth ozone annealing induces a large c-axis expansion - 17.8% for La_{2}NiO_{4} (n=1) - that monotonically decreases with increasing n. Surface X-ray diffraction coupled with Coherent Bragg Rod Analysis reveals that this structural expansion arises from the intercalation of approximately 0.7 oxygen atoms per formula unit into interstitial sites within the rock salt spacer layers. The resulting structures exhibit a spacer layer composition intermediate between that of the Ruddlesden-Popper and Aurivillius phases, defining a new class of layered perovskites. Oxygen-intercalated nickelates exhibit metallicity and significantly enhanced nickel-oxygen hybridization, a feature linked to high-temperature superconductivity. Our work establishes topotactic oxidation as a powerful synthetic approach to accessing highly oxidized, metastable phases across a broad range of layered oxide systems, offering new platforms to tune properties via spacer-layer chemistry. |
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| spellingShingle | Topotactic oxidation of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates reveals new structural family: oxygen-intercalated layered perovskites Segedin, Dan Ferenc Kim, Jinkwon LaBollita, Harrison Taylor, Nicole K. Baek, Kyeong-Yoon Sung, Suk Hyun Turkiewicz, Ari B. Pan, Grace A. Jiang, Abigail Y. Bambrick-Santoyo, Maria Schwaigert, Tobias Kim, Casey K. Tenneti, Anirudh Grutter, Alexander J. Muramoto, Shin N'Diaye, Alpha T. Baggari, Ismail El Walko, Donald A. Zhou, Hua Brooks, Charles M. Botana, Antia S. Schlom, Darrell G. Mundy, Julia A. Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity Layered perovskites such as the Dion-Jacobson, Ruddlesden-Popper, and Aurivillius families host a wide range of correlated electron phenomena, from high-temperature superconductivity to multiferroicity. Here we report a new family of layered perovskites, realized through topotactic oxygen intercalation of La_{n+1}Ni_{n}O_{3n+1} (n=1-4) Ruddlesden-Popper nickelate thin films grown by ozone-assisted molecular-beam epitaxy. Post-growth ozone annealing induces a large c-axis expansion - 17.8% for La_{2}NiO_{4} (n=1) - that monotonically decreases with increasing n. Surface X-ray diffraction coupled with Coherent Bragg Rod Analysis reveals that this structural expansion arises from the intercalation of approximately 0.7 oxygen atoms per formula unit into interstitial sites within the rock salt spacer layers. The resulting structures exhibit a spacer layer composition intermediate between that of the Ruddlesden-Popper and Aurivillius phases, defining a new class of layered perovskites. Oxygen-intercalated nickelates exhibit metallicity and significantly enhanced nickel-oxygen hybridization, a feature linked to high-temperature superconductivity. Our work establishes topotactic oxidation as a powerful synthetic approach to accessing highly oxidized, metastable phases across a broad range of layered oxide systems, offering new platforms to tune properties via spacer-layer chemistry. |
| title | Topotactic oxidation of Ruddlesden-Popper nickelates reveals new structural family: oxygen-intercalated layered perovskites |
| topic | Materials Science Strongly Correlated Electrons Superconductivity |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.10262 |