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| author | Nathwani, Lucy S. Ruperto, Anne Vallipuram, Ashvini Jiang, Abigail Y. Pan, Grace A. Segedin, Dan Ferenc Turkiewicz, Ari B. Brooks, Charles M. Mason, Jarad A. Song, Qichen Mundy, Julia A. |
| author_facet | Nathwani, Lucy S. Ruperto, Anne Vallipuram, Ashvini Jiang, Abigail Y. Pan, Grace A. Segedin, Dan Ferenc Turkiewicz, Ari B. Brooks, Charles M. Mason, Jarad A. Song, Qichen Mundy, Julia A. |
| contents | Perovskite oxides display correlated electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties that can be further tuned in the thin-film limit, making them contenders for next-generation electronics. Measuring thermal transport in thin films is challenging, because traditional techniques are dominated by the substrate. Here, frequency-domain thermoreflectance (FDTR) of an epitaxial NdNiO$_3$ thin film reveals a sharp change in out-of-plane thermal conductivity across the metal-insulator transition. Complementary frequency-domain photoreflectance (FDPR) reveals a large change in ambipolar diffusivity of photoexcited carriers. While the in-plane electrical resistance shows large hysteresis, out-of-plane thermal and charge transport shows negligible hysteresis. We attribute this discrepancy to anisotropy in the percolation of nanoscale domains across the transition as the film thickness approaches the domain length scale. We establish FDTR and FDPR as sensitive probes of quantum material phase transitions and highlight NdNiO$_3$ for thermal control and memory applications. |
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| publishDate | 2026 |
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| spellingShingle | Observation of microscopic domain effects in the metal-insulator transition of thin-film NdNiO$_3$ Nathwani, Lucy S. Ruperto, Anne Vallipuram, Ashvini Jiang, Abigail Y. Pan, Grace A. Segedin, Dan Ferenc Turkiewicz, Ari B. Brooks, Charles M. Mason, Jarad A. Song, Qichen Mundy, Julia A. Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics Perovskite oxides display correlated electrical, magnetic, and thermal properties that can be further tuned in the thin-film limit, making them contenders for next-generation electronics. Measuring thermal transport in thin films is challenging, because traditional techniques are dominated by the substrate. Here, frequency-domain thermoreflectance (FDTR) of an epitaxial NdNiO$_3$ thin film reveals a sharp change in out-of-plane thermal conductivity across the metal-insulator transition. Complementary frequency-domain photoreflectance (FDPR) reveals a large change in ambipolar diffusivity of photoexcited carriers. While the in-plane electrical resistance shows large hysteresis, out-of-plane thermal and charge transport shows negligible hysteresis. We attribute this discrepancy to anisotropy in the percolation of nanoscale domains across the transition as the film thickness approaches the domain length scale. We establish FDTR and FDPR as sensitive probes of quantum material phase transitions and highlight NdNiO$_3$ for thermal control and memory applications. |
| title | Observation of microscopic domain effects in the metal-insulator transition of thin-film NdNiO$_3$ |
| topic | Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.21405 |