Heteroepitaxial growth and electronic structure of LaVO$_{3}$ films on SrTiO$_{3}$

In perovskite transition metal oxides, a relatively small variation in lattice constants allows the study of heteroepitaxial growth for a wide range of materials combinations. Recently, perovskite oxides have been extensively studied to understand their growth dynamics on an atomic scale, and to investigate their physical properties. The growth behavior of films can strongly depend on the terminating layer of the substrate surface. In this study, we investigated the growth dynamics and physical properties of heteroepitaxial LaVO$_{3}$ films grown on SrTiO$_{3}$. In particular, we found optimal growth conditions to obtain two-dimensional growth of atomically flat epitaxial LaVO$_{3}$ films.