Abstract
Thin films of CuCrO have been grown on AlO (001) substrates by oxygen plasma assisted molecular beam epitaxy. With a substrate temperature of 700°C or 750°C, the films showed an unanticipated (015) orientation but at a higher substrate temperature of 800°C the expected basal (001) orientation predominates. The optical absorption spectrum of CuCrO shows a direct allowed absorption onset at 3.18eV together with a weak peak at 2.0eV which is suppressed by Sn doping. This suggests that the low energy peak should be attributed to 3d→3d excitations associated with Cu defect states rather than excitations localised on Cr. Valence band X-ray photoemission spectra of (001) and (015) oriented CuCrO are compared with those obtained from polycrystalline samples.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 113718 |
Journal | Journal of Applied Physics |
Volume | 112 |
Issue number | 11 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2012 |
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