Growth experiments show significant differences in the crystallization of ultrathin CaTiO3 layers on polycrystalline Pt surfaces. While the deposition of ultrathin layers below crystallization temperature inhibits the full layer crystallization, local epitaxial growth of CaTiO3 crystals on top of specific oriented Pt crystals occurs. The result is a formation of crystals embedded in an amorphou...

An investigation into the phase stabilities of CaTiO3 under high pressure was conducted using first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. We have identified three candidate structures of CaTiO3, Pbnm, Pm3m and Cmcm, respectively. Our results demonstrate that a phase transition from orthorhombic (Pbnm) to cubic (Pm3m) is impossible for CaTiO3 under high pressure at ambient ...

Compounds with ABO3 structure, such as perovskite family, have been intensively investigated. This interest is because the potential of technological applications of these materials in several fields due to the diversity of their physical properties [1]. Among the compounds that present this kind of structure, calcium titanate (CaTiO3) has interesting semiconductor properties, often explored du...

We report on the synthesis and structural characterization of novel semiconducting heterostructures composed of cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (QDs) attached onto the surfaces of novel high-surface area, porous rare-earth-ion doped alkaline earth titanate micron-scale spherical motifs, i.e. both Eu-doped and Pr-doped CaTiO3, composed of constituent, component nanoparticles. These unique m...

In vitro dissolution behaviors of CaTiO3 thin films deposited with ion beam assisted deposition (IBAD) and sputter-deposition techniques were investigated using Rutherford backscattering spectrometry (RBS) and Auger electron spectroscopy (AES). In vitro test was carried out by immersion in a simulated body fluid at 37 C for 5, 24, and 888 h. The dissolution of titanium ions from CaTiO3 film was...

The origin of the functional properties of complex oxide superlattices can be resolved using time-resolved synchrotron x-ray diffraction into contributions from the component layers making up the repeating unit. The CaTiO3 layers of a CaTiO3/BaTiO3 superlattice have a piezoelectric response to an applied electric field, consistent with a large continuous polarization throughout the superlattice...

Using radio frequency sputtering, CaTiO3 layers with varying thicknesses and deposition temperatures are deposited on different bottom electrodes. On elevated temperatures, the CaTiO3 layer growth and therefore the properties like crystallinity and leakage current depend strongly on the morphology and lattice constant of the bottom layer. With the use of temperature stable bottom electrodes, wh...

There are ample experimental evidences indicating that the ferroelastic domain walls of incipient ferroelectrics, such as SrTiO3 and CaTiO3, are polar. The emergence of such interfacial polar order at a domain wall is exciting and believed to arise from the coupling between a primary order parameter, such as a strain or an antiferrodistortive (AFD) order parameter, and polarization. There have ...

Above-bandgap femtosecond optical excitation of a ferroelectric/dielectric BaTiO3/CaTiO3 superlattice leads to structural responses that are consequence the screening strong electrostatic coupling between component layers. Time-resolved x-ray free-electron laser diffraction shows response includes net lattice expansion consistent with depolarization-field driven by photoexcited charge carriers....

The dc electric-field dependence of dielectric constant in the paraelectrics, KTaO3 single crystals, CaTiO3 and (Ln1/2Na1/2)TiO3 (Ln5La and Nd! ceramics is studied at cryogenic temperatures in the dc electric-field range 0–60 kV/cm. The results indicate that KTaO3 possesses a high tunability K$5@e(E0)2e(E)#/e(E0) 5;50%% at 20 kV/cm, and low dielectric loss tan d (;0.003); while CaTiO3 and (Ln1/...