Abstract
Here, we report an abnormal lattice reconstruction of LaAlO3 in the LaAlO3/SrTiO3 two-dimensional electron liquid heterostructure using the layer-by-layer pulsed laser deposition. We found that the lattice structure change of the top LaAlO3 layer is at the picometer level and is mainly controlled by the oxygen vacancies with an abnormal dependence on the oxygen background pressure. The lattice of the LaAlO3 film expands with more oxygen vacancies grown with high oxygen pressure and collapses with less oxygen vacancies grown with low oxygen pressure. The in situ monitoring of reflective high energy electron diffraction shows the lattice change coincident to the layer-by-layer deposition period change, revealing a non-equilibrium correlation between the lattice and the deposition environment, instead of the commonly assumed equilibrium correlation.
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