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Fig. 1. RHEED patterns with the electron beam incident along
the [110] azimuth of the (001)SrTiO3 substrate for
(a) the bare etched (001)SrTiO3 substrate at ~ 640
°C during exposure to 2 ? 105 Torr of ozone, (b)(d)
during deposition of the Bi2Ti3O10
perovskite sheets showing the
ap to ap to
ap transition in the surface periodicity (with concomitant
disappearance of half-order streaks), and (e)(f) during the
deposition of the Bi2O2 planes where the
faded half-order streaks (e) could result from bismuth adatoms
reordering on the surface. First
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Fig. 2. Four-circle x-ray diffraction scans of a 1000 Å
thick (001)-oriented Bi4Ti3O12 film grown
on (001)SrTiO3. (a)
-2
scan indicating that the c axis of the film is 32.6 ± 0.1
Å. The substrate peaks are marked by an asterisk (*).
(b) Azimuthal scan (
-scan)
of the 117 reflections indicating that the in-plane lattice
constants of the Bi4Ti3O12
film are a
b
5.50
± 0.04Å. First citation
in article
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Fig. 3. An AFM image of the surface of a 1000 Å thick Bi4Ti3O12 film grown on (001) SrTiO3. First citation in article
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Fig. 4. HRTEM micrographs of a Bi4Ti3O12 thin film with the electron beam parallel to the [100] direction. (b) is an enlarged image from the middle of (a). The Bi2O2 double layers are indicated by the white double arrows, while the three perovskite sheets are indicated by the black arrows. First citation in article