Abstract

Combinatorial substrate epitaxy (CSE) is used to investigate polymorph competition between metastable scrutinyite (α-PbO2) structured (s-) and stable rutile structured (r-) SnO2 during local epitaxial growth across orientation space on polycrystalline columbite (c-) CoNb2O6 substrates. Growth occurs in a grain-over-grain fashion, where individual grains of c-CoNb2O6 support the growth of individual grains of SnO2. Both metastable s-SnO2 and stable r-SnO2 crystals are observed, each growing on specific ranges of substrate orientations and each having a single specific orientation relationship (OR) with substrate grains on which it grew. s-SnO2 adopts the unit-cell over unit-cell OR that can be expressed as the alignment of primary eutactic planes: (100)s*[001]s*∥(100)c*[001]c* (where the * indicates the use of Pcnb setting). s-SnO2 grains grow on a slight majority of orientations and specifically on orientations inclined from the (010) pole of c*-CoNb2O6. r-SnO2 adopts an OR that can be expressed as the al...

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