LaAlO₃/SrTiO₃ Heterointerface: 20 Years and Beyond

Abstract

This year marks the 20th anniversary of the discovery of LaAlO3/SrTiO3 (LAO/STO) oxide heterointerfaces. Since their discovery, transition metal oxide (TMO) interfaces have emerged as a fascinating and fast‐growing area of research, offering a variety of unique and exotic physical properties which has provided a strong impetus for the rapid advances and actualization of oxide electronics. This review revisits the fundamental mechanisms accounting for the two‐dimensional (2D) conducting interfaces, and how new models proposed to better account for the unique interfacial effects. Recent breakthroughs in the theoretical and experimental domains of oxide interfaces are also discussed including the detection and investigation of 2D quasiparticle. Moving beyond the well‐known LAO/STO interface, this review delves into other systems where unconventional interfacial superconductivity, interfacial magnetism, and spin polarization are dealt with in greater detail. In terms of device applications, this review proceeds with a treatment on the recent developments in domains including field effect transistors and freestanding heterostructure membranes. By emphasizing the opportunities and challenges of integrating oxide interfaces with existing technologies, the review will end off with an outlook projecting the progress and the trajectory of this research domain in the years to come.

Second-order charge and spin transport in LaO/STO system in the presence of cubic Rashba spin orbit couplings

“…In particular, large second-order responses for the charge current have been experimentally observed in the 2DEG at the interface of the LaAlO 3 /SrTiO 3 (LaO/STO) heterostructure [8][9][10]. The LaO/STO system [11] is an archetypal example of a transition metal oxide (TMO) system and a promising candidate material for spintronics applications because of the strong SOC at its interface, which gives rise to a large (first-order) spin-to-charge conversion efficiency [12][13][14]. (A recent review on Rashba-like physics in condensed matter systems is [15], while three recent reviews on spin-charge conversion and related spin phenomena in TMO systems are [16,17], and [18]. )…”