### Session H5: Focus Session: Interfaces in Complex Oxides - Polar Interfaces and Ferroelectrics

8:00 AM–11:00 AM, Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Room: 206A

Chair: Susanne Stemmer, University of California, Santa Barbara

Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.MAR.H5.3

### Abstract: H5.00003 : Characterization of extreme-concentration 2DEGs at the SrTiO$_{3}$/GdTiO$_{3 }$interface

8:24 AM–8:36 AM

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#### Authors:

Clayton Jackson
(UC Santa Barbara)

Pouya Moetakef
(UC Santa Barbara)

Tyler Cain
(UC Santa Barbara)

Siddharth Rajan
(Ohio State University)

James Allen
(UC Santa Barbara)

Susanne Stemmer
(UC Santa Barbara)

Heterostructures of Mott and band insulators exhibit unique interface properties, including two-dimensional electron gases (2DEGs) with extremely high sheet carrier densities due to the polarization discontinuity at the interface. Of paramount importance for the properties is the location, spatial extent and confinement of the 2DEG. Here, we study the 2DEG with carrier densities of 3x10$^{14}$ cm$^{-2}$ formed at GdTiO$_{3}$/SrTiO$_{3}$ interfaces grown by MBE. Using a self-consistent Schr\"{o}dinger-Poisson solver, we estimate the majority of the carriers are confined in a narrow region ($<$ 3 nm) at the SrTiO$_{3}$-side of the interface. Given the large and rapid spatial variation in charge density, experiments are needed to verify the assumptions underlying such models. We measure the admittance as a function of frequency at different fixed DC bias. To extract the carrier distribution in the depletion approximation, a distributed model is used to account for loss and series resistance effects. The resulting CV profile corresponds to a p-type layer. This is explained with a highly conductive space charge layer, resulting in significant depletion only in the p-type GdTiO$_{3}$. We report on the carrier distribution near the interface.

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