Abstract
The authors introduce an emergent method to fabricate a few-nanometer-size columnar superlattice with a checkerboard pattern in inorganic spinels by harnessing the Jahn-Teller structural distortion. Transmission electron microscope images reveal that the fundamental building blocks are two types of long nanorods with the ∼4×4×70 nm3 size, which are alternatively stacked in a way that the cross sectional and side views show checkerboard and herringbone patterns, respectively. The authors discuss that the strain induced by the Jahn-Teller distortion causes this peculiar self-assembled nanostructure in the coherent mixture of two spinel phases. This pure solid state self-assembly can be implemented to fabricate heterogeneous nanostructures with practical functionalities.
Original language | English (US) |
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Article number | 233120 |
Journal | Applied Physics Letters |
Volume | 89 |
Issue number | 23 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 2006 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)