Investigating oxides by electrochemical projection of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram onto a single sample

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Autori principali: Stangl, Alexander, Schmid, Alexander, Riaz, Adeel, Krammer, Martin, Nenning, Andreas, Buzi, Fjorelo, Wilhelm, Fabrice, Chiabrera, Francesco, Baiutti, Federico, Tarancón, Albert, Fleig, Juergen, Badel, Arnaud, Burriel, Mónica
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author Stangl, Alexander
Schmid, Alexander
Riaz, Adeel
Krammer, Martin
Nenning, Andreas
Buzi, Fjorelo
Wilhelm, Fabrice
Chiabrera, Francesco
Baiutti, Federico
Tarancón, Albert
Fleig, Juergen
Badel, Arnaud
Burriel, Mónica
author_facet Stangl, Alexander
Schmid, Alexander
Riaz, Adeel
Krammer, Martin
Nenning, Andreas
Buzi, Fjorelo
Wilhelm, Fabrice
Chiabrera, Francesco
Baiutti, Federico
Tarancón, Albert
Fleig, Juergen
Badel, Arnaud
Burriel, Mónica
contents The oxygen stoichiometry is an essential key to tune functional properties of advanced oxide materials and thus has motivated numerous studies of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram, with the aim to determine and control structural, electronic, ionic, electrochemical and optical properties, as well as thermodynamic quantities such as the oxygen storage capacity, among others. Here, a novel approach is developed, which allows to project a broad range of oxygen chemical potentials onto a single thin film sample with unprecedented control via electrochemical polarization. Therefore, a specifically designed electrochemical cell geometry is deployed, resulting in a well-defined, linear, 1D in-plane oxygen concentration gradient, independent of variations in the materials electrical resistivity, whose endpoints can be flexibly controlled via the external pO2 and applied overpotential. This allows for an unparalleled study of materials properties as a continuous function of the oxygen content using spatially resolved tools (spectroscopic, diffraction, microscopy, local electrical probes, etc.) and thereby greatly reduces experimental efforts while also avoiding sample-to-sample variability, multi-step treatments, sample evolution effects, etc. This work presents the proof-of-concept of in-plane oxygen gradients, based on spatially resolved ex/in situ and novel fixed-energy X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES), X-ray diffraction, ellipsometry and electrical resistivity measurements in hyper-stoichiometric La2NiO4+δ and sub-stoichiometric (La,Sr)FeO3-δ thin films. It thereby demonstrates the readiness and wide applicability of this innovative approach, which can be highly relevant for fundamental as well as applied research.
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spellingShingle Investigating oxides by electrochemical projection of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram onto a single sample
Stangl, Alexander
Schmid, Alexander
Riaz, Adeel
Krammer, Martin
Nenning, Andreas
Buzi, Fjorelo
Wilhelm, Fabrice
Chiabrera, Francesco
Baiutti, Federico
Tarancón, Albert
Fleig, Juergen
Badel, Arnaud
Burriel, Mónica
Materials Science
The oxygen stoichiometry is an essential key to tune functional properties of advanced oxide materials and thus has motivated numerous studies of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram, with the aim to determine and control structural, electronic, ionic, electrochemical and optical properties, as well as thermodynamic quantities such as the oxygen storage capacity, among others. Here, a novel approach is developed, which allows to project a broad range of oxygen chemical potentials onto a single thin film sample with unprecedented control via electrochemical polarization. Therefore, a specifically designed electrochemical cell geometry is deployed, resulting in a well-defined, linear, 1D in-plane oxygen concentration gradient, independent of variations in the materials electrical resistivity, whose endpoints can be flexibly controlled via the external pO2 and applied overpotential. This allows for an unparalleled study of materials properties as a continuous function of the oxygen content using spatially resolved tools (spectroscopic, diffraction, microscopy, local electrical probes, etc.) and thereby greatly reduces experimental efforts while also avoiding sample-to-sample variability, multi-step treatments, sample evolution effects, etc. This work presents the proof-of-concept of in-plane oxygen gradients, based on spatially resolved ex/in situ and novel fixed-energy X-ray absorption near edge spectroscopy (XANES), X-ray diffraction, ellipsometry and electrical resistivity measurements in hyper-stoichiometric La2NiO4+δ and sub-stoichiometric (La,Sr)FeO3-δ thin films. It thereby demonstrates the readiness and wide applicability of this innovative approach, which can be highly relevant for fundamental as well as applied research.
title Investigating oxides by electrochemical projection of the oxygen off-stoichiometry diagram onto a single sample
topic Materials Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.09559