Title	Electronic and Structural Properties of LaNiO₃-Based Heterostructures [electronic resource] / by Jennifer Fowlie
Imprint	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019
Edition	1st ed. 2019
Connect to	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15238-3
Descript	XV, 101 p. 49 illus., 47 illus. in color. online resource

This thesis explores an amazing family of oxide compounds - the nickelates - known for their metal-to-insulator transition and, in the case of LaNiO3, to be a possible building block for designing a synthetic high Tc superconductor. Competition between various fascinating phases makes these materials very sensitive to external parameters and it is thus possible to dramatically tune their properties. This work on ultrathin LaNiO3 and the solid solution Nd1-xLaxNiO3 has important implications for the search for superconductivity in this class of materials

Introduction -- Perovskite Oxides -- Thin Film Physics -- The Nickelates -- Experimental Techniques -- Quantifying Octahedral Distortions in Perovskites -- Ultrathin LaNiO3 -- The Nd1−xLaxNiO3 Solid Solution -- Conclusions and Perspectives -- Bibliography