Transport and thermoelectric properties of the LaAlO$_3$/SrTiO$_3$ interface

A. Jost, V. K. Guduru, S. Wiedmann, J. C. Maan, U. Zeitler, S. Wenderich, A. Brinkman, H. Hilgenkamp

Published 2014-07-28, updated 2015-03-30Version 2

The transport and thermoelectric properties of the interface between SrTiO$_3$ and a 26-monolayer thick LaAlO$_3$-layer grown at high oxygen-pressure have been investigated at temperatures from 4.2 K to 100 K and in magnetic fields up to 18 T. For $T>$ 4.2 K, two different electron-like charge carriers originating from two electron channels which contribute to transport are observed. We probe the contributions of a degenerate and a non-degenerate band to the thermoelectric power and develop a consistent model to describe the temperature dependence of the thermoelectric tensor. Anomalies in the data point to an additional magnetic field dependent scattering.