TY  - JOUR
AU  - Meyer, R.
AU  - Waser, R.
AU  - Helmboldt, J.
AU  - Borchardt, G.
TI  - Cationic surface segregation in donor-doped SrTiO3 under oxidizing conditions
JO  - Journal of electroceramics
VL  - 9
SN  - 1385-3449
CY  - Dordrecht [u.a.]
PB  - Springer Science + Business Media B.V
M1  - PreJuSER-31698
SP  - 101 - 110
PY  - 2002
N1  - Record converted from VDB: 12.11.2012
AB  - The influence of high temperature oxygen annealing on (100) oriented donor-doped SrTiO3 single crystals was studied. Crystalline precipitates were found on the optical scale on surfaces of lanthanum-doped as well as niobium-doped specimens with donor concentrations above 0.5 at.%. The amount of the secondary phase increases with the doping level, oxidation temperature and oxidation time. EDX analyses of the crystallites reveal a SrOx composition.The formation of the observed secondary phase is discussed by means of the defect re-equilibration of the cation sub-lattice. In view of the point defect model for donor-doped perovskites, n-conducting SrTiO3 changes its compensation mechanism during an oxidation treatment from "electronic compensation" (N-D = n) to "self-compensation" (N-D = 2[V-Sr"]) by forming cation vacancies. Due to the favored Schottky-type disorder in perovskites, the formation of strontium vacancies is accompanied by a release of strontium from the regular lattice. Since the excess strontium is found to be situated at the surface in form of SrO-rich precipitates only, we propose the formation of strontium vacancies via a surface defect reaction and the chemical diffusion of strontium vacancies from the surface into the crystal as the most probable re-equilibration mechanism for the oxidation treatment of single crystals.The introduced mechanism is in contrast to an established model which proposes the formation of Ruddlesden-Popper intergrowth phases SrO.(SrTiO3)(n) in the interior of the crystal.
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